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Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, August 1, 1864.

THE following extracts from the “Crown Lands Act, 1862,” and the additional Land Regulations of the Province of Wellington, 1855, relating to the penalties imposable for unlawfully intruding upon or occupying Crown Bush Lands, are published for general information.

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE B.

Rates payable.

In every block which shall be set apart for the site of a township for agricultural or small farm settlements, a reserve shall be made of bush land of not less than one twentieth of the whole extent of bush land within the limits of such block; or if there be no bush land thereon, then a sufficient reserve shall be made from the bush land outside such block and most convenient thereto, the timber in which reserve shall be exclusively used in common by the resident occupiers of the land in the block for consumption thereon, but not for sale to any persons not occupiers; and any other persons felling or removing timber from such reserve shall be proceeded against as is by law provided in respect to trespassers on Crown land.

In case any person at any time heretofore shall have unlawfully intruded upon or occupied, or shall hereafter unlawfully intrude upon or occupy any Crown Lands, every such person shall pay be liable to Her Majesty for the use and occupation of such land during such unlawful occupation, such sum of money as shall be fixed by the Commissioner for the Province, not exceeding the sums specified, namely—

For every acre of land upon which timber or underwood shall be unlawfully cut, the rate of payment shall be any sum to be fixed as aforesaid not exceeding £40 per acre, and so in proportion for any quantity more or less, and in addition thereto a sum not exceeding the sum of £2 for each tree cut of whatever kind whose girth in any part shall be 30 inches in diameter or upwards.

NOTICE.

Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, August 4, 1864.

THE following Heads of Departments are required to furnish the Provincial Treasurer with half-yearly returns of the various articles they may have in charge, in the shape of Provincial Stores—indicating those that are serviceable, unserviceable, or unfit for use—

The Chief Provincial Surveyor
The Provincial Engineer
The Harbour Master and Pilot
The Gaoler
The Sergeant-major of Police

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, August 8, 1864.

THE following notice and letter are published for general information.

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

MOORING, WESTERN PORT.

The accompanying Notice respecting a Mooring which has been laid down at Western Port is published for the information of Navigators and others.

JAS. G. FRANCIS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
WESTERN PORT.

Masters of vessels frequenting Western Port are hereby informed that a mooring buoy, colored red, and secured by 20 fathoms of 1¼-inch chain and a 17-cwt. anchor, has been laid down in 7 fathoms water in the narrows between Davis and Moody Point, for the use of vessels loading there.

CHARLES FERGUSON,
Chief Harbor Master,
Department of Ports and Harbors,
Williamstown, 6th July, 1864.

Superintendent’s Office,
Picton, 27th July, 1864.

SIR,—In reply to your letter dated June 8, 1864, relative to a proclamation issued by me under the “Diseased Cattle Act 1861,” a report was current here that Pleuro-pneumonia was raging throughout the Province of Hawke’s Bay, and likewise at Greenpoint in the Province of Wellington.

Being now satisfied that the reports above mentioned were unfounded, I have taken steps to have the proclamation to which Your Honor called my attention rescinded, so far as regards Hawke’s Bay.

I have, &c.,
THOMAS CARTER,
Superintendent.

His Honor the Superintendent,
Hawke’s Bay.

Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, August 9, 1864.

THE following extract from the “New Zealand Government Gazette,” is re-published for general information.

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Rock in Hawke’s Bay.

The Harbour-Master at Napier has reported to the Marine Board that he has discovered a rock in Hawke’s Bay having a depth of only 12½ feet of water at low water—spring tides. He gives the following bearings:—

From rock to east end of Ahuriri Bluffs, by E.
From rock to west point of Bluff S.W. by S.
From rock to Cape Kidnappers S.E. by E.

The above bearings place the rock on the inner or southern portion of the shoal marked in Capt. Drury’s charts with 4¼ and 4 fathoms on it bearing N. by W. from Ahuriri Bluff, about five cable lengths distant.

A buoy has been placed ten fathoms north of the rock, by keeping outside of which vessels will clear the shoal east of the Bluff.

CHARLES SHARP,
President Marine Board.

[ Printed by JAMES WOOD, for the Hawke’s Bay Provincial Government, at the “HAWKE’S BAY HERALD” Office, Tennyson st., Napier. ]