PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Roads Ordinance, 1869," it is amongst other things enacted that if at any time previous to the first day of August in any year, a majority of the Ratepayers of any portion of a district described in Schedule B to the said Ordinance, should petition the Superintendent that a portion of the district to be specified in such petition should be formed into a separate district, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent in Council by proclamation to be inserted in the Government Gazette, and one newspaper circulating in the district, to declare that such part of the district mentioned in the said petition should be a road district.

And whereas a petition signed by a majority of Ratepayers within a portion of the Geraldine district, being a district described in the Schedule B to the said Ordinance, was duly forwarded to the Superintendent pursuant to the said Ordinance, and it was thereby prayed that the portion of the Province therein mentioned might be formed into a separate district.

Now, therefore, I, William Rolleston, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise and execution of the powers vested in me by the said Ordinance, do hereby declare that the portion of the said Province hereinafter described, and heretofore comprised in the district, shall henceforth be a road district under the name of the Raukapuka District, that is to say that portion of the Province bounded on the north by the Ashburton District, on the west by the Mount Peel District, on the south by the southern bank of the Opihi river, and on the east by the Main South Road to section 5961; thence following the northern boundary line of 5961 and 11,526, and a line in continuation of the same to the eastern boundary of section 9031, thence following the eastern and north-western boundaries of the latter section to the Geraldine road; thence following that road south-easterly to the road running through section 7319; thence following the latter road by Trig. pole 5, and through section 3275 to the north-eastern corner of section 7462; thence following the eastern boundary of section 7462 to the south-east corner thereof; thence following a straight line to the south-west corner of section 13,741; and from thence following the road forming the western boundary of that section to the River Opihi, before mentioned.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this twenty-third day of November, One thousand eight hundred and seventy.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

BY-LAW.—GORSE FENCES.

A Bye-Law of the Council of the Borough of Lyttelton, made under "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

In pursuance of the 186th Clause of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," the Council of the Borough of Lyttelton ordain as follows:—

It shall not be lawful for any person, not being expressly exempted from the operation of this Bye-law as hereinafter provided, to make, keep, or continue any fence of brushwood or gorse within the Borough; and every person who shall make such fence, and every owner or occupier of any premises who shall suffer such fence to remain thereon more than seven days after notice from the Council to remove the same shall forfeit, on conviction, a sum not exceeding five pounds.

If any person shall apply to be exempted from the operation of this Bye-law in respect of any fence or part thereof, and it shall appear to the Council that such fence is not dangerous to any premises, the Council may grant such exemption in such form as the Council may appoint, and may thereafter withdraw the same wholly or in part: Provided that the Council shall appoint limits, and may from time to time alter or extend the same, within which no such exemption shall be granted.

If gorse shall be found on any road adjoining any private land the Council may by notice in writing require the occupier of such land to remove the gorse from the whole width of such road, or from the half thereof next to his land, as the Council may deem just and expedient, and every person who shall fail to comply with such notice within ten days from delivery thereof shall forfeit on conviction a sum not exceeding five pounds, and in every such case a further sum not exceeding five shillings for every day after any such conviction during which such gorse shall continue.

All the Bye-Laws or Regulations, or parts of Bye-Laws or Regulations, if any, heretofore in force in and for the said Borough of Lyttelton, which are inconsistent with or repugnant to the said provisions, or in any respect deal or purport to deal with the said provisions, are hereby repealed.