Borough, if the same be not placed under the roof or cover within two and a half chains from any building or street; also that no hay, corn, straw, or other produce of an inflammable nature shall be kept in any building, except the same be thoroughly enclosed, and no fire shall be allowed under the same roof unless in a properly constructed fire-place, and securely partitioned off in accordance with Building Regulations.

IV.—REGULATION FOR REMOVAL OF NUISANCES AND RUBBISH.

1. That no person shall throw or lay, or cause to be thrown or laid, any night-soil upon any street, road, or way, or any place within the Borough, except at the following place (that is to say):—"Below the edge of the cliff and between the point next north of the reserve for the Government Landing Shed, and a line due north magnetic from the westernmost point of section No. 735, Rhodes’ Town." Nevertheless any person having a garden containing not less than one-eighth of an acre of land may use night-soil thereon, provided no public nuisance be committed thereby.

2. That no person shall be allowed to remove any night-soil except between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

3. That no person shall throw or lay, or cause to be thrown or laid, any ashes, dust, dirt, rubbish, offal, dung, soil, blood, house-slops, or annoyance, on the carriageway, footway, or on any street or roadway, or other public place within the Borough, except at the following place, (that is to say):—Below the edge of the cliff, and between the point next north of the reserve for the Government Landing Shed, and a line due north magnetic from the westernmost point of section No. 135, Rhodes’ Town.

Passed by the said Council this Tenth Day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

[L.S.]

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, June 7, 1869.

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

No. 288, in red.—One thousand two hundred and eighty acres (more or less), situate on the north bank of the Rakaia; bounded on the south by the Rakaia; on the east by the Ferry Reserve No. 96 in red), and a line in continuation of the western boundary thereof; on the west by a line at right angles to the river; and on the north by a line parallel to and distant one mile from the river.—For railway purposes.

No. 317, in red.—All that tract of land, being a strip of land half a mile wide, as marked on the plan of the Railway Commissioners, and coloured green thereon, dated 6th February, 1864, extending from the thirty-first mile peg to section No. 5800—For road, railway, and telegraph purposes.

No. 318, in red.—All that tract of land, being half a mile wide, on each side of the present Railway Reserve, as marked on the plan of the Railway Commissioners, dated 6th February, 1864, extending from the northern bank of the Ashburton to the southern bank of the Orari.—For road, railway, and telegraph purposes.

No. 349, in red.—All that tract of land, one mile wide, lying between the Rivers Rangitata and Orari, the centre line of the same being a right line drawn from a point on the northern bank of the Rangitata aforesaid, one mile above McDonald’s crossing, to a point on the western side of the south Railway Reserve, about thirty chains to the southward of Trig. station 4 (save and except the freehold land), as the same is more particularly delineated on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the rural land in the Timaru District—For road, railway, and telegraph purposes.

No. 350, in red.—All that tract of land, one mile wide, lying between the Rivers Ashburton and Rangitata, the centre line of the same being a right line drawn from the south-western corner of section 4854 on the South Road to a point on the northern bank of the Rangitata aforesaid, one mile above McDonald’s crossing, save and except the freehold land, and the reserve for railway purposes, numbered 318 (in red), as the same is more particularly delineated and described on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the runs between the Rivers Ashburton and Rangitata before mentioned—For road, railway, and telegraph purposes.

No. 339, in red.—All that tract of land, one mile wide, extending from the southern bank of the Orari to section No. 5961, being bounded on the eastward by the South Road; and on the westward by a line eighty chains distant from and parallel to that road.—For railway purposes.

No. 406, in red.—One thousand acres, more or less, on either side of the Harper River, commencing at a point at the foot of the sheep range, on the southern side of the Lake Selfe Valley, the same being sixty chains east of the Harper; following westerly along the foot of the sheep range, and a line in continuation of the same, a distance of one hundred