WILLIAM ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

Order in Council at the Provincial Government Buildings, Christchurch, the 24th day of March, 1869.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867," it is among other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, as may become necessary, to make such regulations as to the Governor seems expedient for prohibiting or restricting from time to time for any period which the Governor thinks necessary, fishing in any river or stream in which young salmon, salmon fry, or spawn, or young trout, trout fry, or spawn is placed or deposited, or at the mouth or entrance of any such river or stream :

And whereas by Section 12 of the said Act the Governor may by Order in Council under his hand, and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent or the Provincial Executive of any Province, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council by the said Act :

And whereas the said Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand delegated to the Executive Government of the Province of Canterbury all the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by the said Act exercisable within the said Province :

And whereas young trout have been placed in the upper part of the River Avon, in the said Province, and in its tributaries ; and whereas it is expedient for the protection of the said trout to prohibit fishing in a portion of the said river and in its tributaries :

Now therefore His Honor WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the said Province in this behalf, doth hereby make the following Regulation :—

No person shall without the consent in writing of the Superintendent, or in his absence of the Provincial Secretary, fish in that part of the River Avon from its source to the Colombo street Bridge, in the City of Christchurch, or in the tributaries of the said River, and any person infringing this Regulation shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds, or to such portion only of such penalty as the Justices before whom such penalty is sought to be recovered shall think fit.

A. BLAKISTON,
Clerk to Executive Council.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned, William Makin and Benjamin Bulmer, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

Dated this Twelfth day of February, 1869.

WILLIAM MAKIN,
B. BULMER.

Witness—
A. C. COTTRELL,
Solicitor, Christchurch.

The business will in future be carried on by B. Bulmer.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, April 2, 1869.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following reserve, temporarily, under the 19th clause of the Waste Lands Regulations, viz. :—

No. 1054, in red.—Twenty-eight acres, more or less, situate in the Christchurch District, bounded on the north-westward by the road forming the south-eastern boundary of section 1656 ; on the north-eastward by section 6754 ; on the south-westward by section 8776 ; and on the south-eastward by the road forming the southern boundary of the latter section—For a Rifle Range.

EDWD. JOLLIE,
Secretary for Public Works.

Office of the Commissioners of the Public Debts Sinking Funds,
Wellington, February 25, 1869.

THE Commissioners for the Public Debts Sinking Funds, appointed by “The Public Debts Sinking Funds Act, 1868,” hereby give notice that all moneys heretofore by law payable to the Trustees of the Sinking Funds of any of the Loans hereinunder mentioned are now payable by the said Act to the Commissioners aforesaid, and may be paid to either of the undermentioned persons, who are authorised by the Commissioners to receive and to give receipts for the same : that is to say—

For the Sinking Funds of the Auckland Loan, the Hon. Dr. Pollen, Auckland.

For the Sinking Funds of the Otago Loans, A. R. C. Strode, Esq., Dunedin ; and

For the Sinking Funds of all other Loans, James Clark Gavin, the Secretary to the Commissioners.

By order of the Commissioners,
JAMES C. GAVIN,
Secretary to the Commissioners.