PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand entitled "The Canterbury Temporary Mining Reserves Act, 1869," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Canterbury, by Proclamation, to temporarily reserve from sale any lands in which he shall have good reason to believe that precious metals exist: Provided that no such reservation shall continue in force beyond the end of the Session of the Provincial Council next after the issue of such Proclamation:

Now, therefore, I, William Rolleston, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, by virtue of the powers enabling me in that behalf, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land described in the Schedule hereto.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this 4th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

Six hundred and forty acres (more or less), situate on Run No. 216 in the Upper Waimakariri Country, having eighty chains frontage to the West Coast road, and extending easterly one mile in a rectangular block south of and adjoining Section No. 9303, including a portion of Homestead Pre-emptive Right and Improvement Pre-emptive Right A on the run above mentioned.

TIMARU BOROUGH COUNCIL.

NOTICE.

From and after this date, the public place of deposit of Night-Soil, Offensive Matter, or Rubbish shall be as follows: that is to say: Into the shoot erected by the Timaru Borough Council on the edge of the cliff, in front of Section No. 355, Rhodes’ Town, being part of Rural Section No. 730, Timaru district, and not as heretofore, and described in the Provincial Government Gazette, Vol. XVI., No. 25.

By order of the Timaru Borough Council,
EDWIN HENRY LOUGH,
Town Clerk.

Town Clerk’s Office,
Timaru, December 28, 1869.

STAMP DUTIES.

SOME MISAPPREHENSION appearing to exist as to the use of Impressed and Adhesive Stamps, and as to the Instruments to which Adhesive Stamps may be affixed, the public is informed that—

All Instruments liable to Stamp Duty should be written on parchment or paper previously stamped by the Commissioners with an Impressed Stamp; but the Instruments under-mentioned, and no others, may instead be stamped with Adhesive Stamps by the persons making or signing such Instruments: provided the Stamps are affixed at the time of making or signing the Instrument:—

• Agreements under hand only.
• Agreements comprised in letters.
• Bills of Lading.
• Cheques on Banks or Bankers.
• Drafts or Orders for the payment of money when liable to the duty of one penny only.
• Policies of Insurance.
• Receipts for Money paid.

None of the Instruments above specified can, after they are made or signed, be stamped by the persons making or signing them.

Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes drawn out of but payable within the Colony, must be stamped by the holder with an Adhesive Stamp or Stamps; but such Stamps must be affixed before presentation of such Bill for acceptance, and before indorsement, transfer, negotiation, or payment.

All other Instruments requiring to be stamped after execution must be stamped by the Commissioners: but the Commissioners are prohibited from so stamping any Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, or other Note, Draft, or Order for the payment of money.

All Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Drafts, and Orders drawn within the Colony must be written upon paper previously stamped by the Commissioners with an Impressed Stamp; except such Drafts or Orders as are liable to the duty of one penny only. These last, and no others, may be stamped with an Adhesive Stamp.

Impressed Stamps are obtainable at all Stamp Offices, and of all Postmasters acting as Official Distributors of Stamps.

C. T. BATKIN,
Secretary.

Office of the Commissioner of Stamp Duties,
Wellington, 1st January, 1870.

CHRISTCHURCH:
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the Lyttelton Times Office, Gloucester Street, by William Reeves, Official Printer for the time being to the said Government.