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separating Holmes' Gully from Port Levy: following the latter ridge northward to the west, head of Pigeon Bay; thence along the sea to the starting point.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this 26th day of August, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

R. J. S. HARMAN,
Deputy Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury intituled "The Canterbury Sheep Ordinance, 1872," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for sheep landed at the Port of Lyttelton to be driven to a distance not exceeding twenty miles from the port before being dressed as provided by the said Ordinance, if they shall be so driven for the purpose of being dressed at some place specially appointed for the purpose by the Superintendent by notice in the Provincial Government Gazette:

Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, do hereby, for the purpose aforesaid, proclaim and appoint the sheep dipping apparatus and enclosure erected by the Provincial Government at the Addington railway station, being a place within twenty miles from the said Port of Lyttelton to be a place to which sheep landed in Lyttelton may be driven to be dressed, in accordance with the terms of the thirty-first clause of the above-recited Ordinance.

Given under my hand at Christchurch this 1st day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Treasury,
Christchurch, August 26th, 1874.
PURSUANT to the provisions of "The Auctioneers' Ordinance," Session III, No. 3, I hereby give notice that the undermentioned persons have taken out Auctioneers' Licenses for the period ending 30th June, 1875, viz :—

JOSEPH HENRY BENNETT, Christchurch
HUGH BENNETTS, Christchurch.
EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Treasurer.

NOTICE.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 1, 1874.
HIS HONOR the Superintendent directs it to be notified that any person bringing newly-landed sheep to be dipped at the Government Dip at the Addington Station, will be required to give at least twenty-four

hours' notice of his intention of so doing; and that every day for which such person shall delay to bring the sheep to be so dipped, after the time which shall have been appointed by him for so doing, he will be liable to a charge of two guineas.

It is also further notified that the Chief Inspector of Sheep has been authorised to make the following charges, viz. :

For any number of sheep under twenty, a sum of twenty shillings.
For twenty and up to one thousand, one shilling per head.
Above one thousand, sixpence per head.
EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 4, 1874.
HIS HONOR the Superintendent directs it to be notified that in pursuance of the powers vested in him by "The Lunatics Act, 1868," he has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD WILLIAM SEAGER,
to be Clerk of the Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum.

EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

RETURN of BIRTHS, MARRIAGES and DEATHS in the Christchurch District, for the month ending 31st August, 1874.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, Sept. 2, 1874.
HIS HONOR the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserves temporarily under the 19th clause of the Waste Lands Regulations, viz. :—

No. 1714, in red—Five acres more or less situate in the Ashburton district, taking frontage of five chains to the South road and railway reserve and extending back south-easterly 10 chains in a rectangular block N.E. of and adjoining section 21220. For a gravel pit.

No. 1715, in red—Five acres, more or less, situate in the Ashburton district, taking frontage of five chains to the