WM. ROLLESTON,

SUPERINTENDENT.

Order in Council, at the Provincial Government Buildings, Christchurch, the 25th day of April, 1872.

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 to 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, exerciseable within the said Province:

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

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, fish in the River Heathcote from its source to Wilson’s Bridge; 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.

This Regulation shall not apply to the catching of whitebait with nets.

A. BLAKISTON,
Clerk to Executive Council.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that the following Tolls will be charged at the Waimakariri Gorge Ferry:—

Foot Passengers ... Sixpence
Horsemen ... One Shilling
Two-wheel Drays (empty) ... One shilling and sixpence
Four-wheel Drays (empty) ... Two shillings and sixpence
Two-wheel Drays (loaded) ... Two shillings and sixpence
Four-wheel Drays (loaded) ... Four shillings
Light Vehicles ... One shilling and sixpence
Sheep, Pigs, and Goats, per head ... One penny
Horned Cattle and Horses ... Fourpence

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

April 18, 1872.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, April 20, 1872.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Deed of Dedication under the provisions of “The Diversion of Roads Ordinance, Session XI, No. 3.”

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT I, Joseph Dransfield, of Lyttelton, in the Province of Canterbury, in New Zealand, Merchant, being seized in fee simple of THAT PART of Rural Section numbered 1083 on the Map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury, setting out the Rural Lands in the Mandeville District, commencing at the south-eastern corner of the said section; running thence westerly along the southern boundary of the said section to the south-western corner thereof; thence northerly along the western boundary of the said section about three chains seventy links; thence easterly parallel with the said southern boundary of the said section to the eastern boundary thereof; and thence southerly along the said eastern boundary to the commencing point, and delineated and coloured Green in the plan in the margin hereof (subject to a certain agreement for the sale of the said section to John Armstrong, of Kaiapoi, in the said Province, farmer), IN CONSIDERATION of the sum of FIFTEEN POUNDS to me paid (the receipt whereof I do hereby admit and acknowledge), DO (at the request of the said John Armstrong), hereby dedicate. AND I, the said JOHN ARMSTRONG, IN CONSIDERATION of the sum of TEN SHILLINGS to me paid (the receipt whereof I do hereby admit and acknowledge), DO hereby dedicate and confirm the said land to the public TO THE INTENT that the same may for ever hereafter be used as a Public Highway to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.