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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

IN THE MATTER OF A BILL INTITULED "AN ACT
TO AUTHORIZE 'THE CHRISTCHURCH GAS,
COAL, AND COKE COMPANY, LIMITED,' TO
BREAK UP STREETS AND BRIDGES, AND TO
LAY DOWN AND PLACE PIPES, CONDUITS, AND
SERVICE PIPES, AND TO MAKE AND CONSTRUCT
OTHER WORKS FOR SUPPLYING THE CITY OF
CHRISTCHURCH AND SUBURBS WITH GAS."

NOTICE is hereby given, that application is in-
tended to be made at the next Session of the
General Assembly of New Zealand for leave to bring
in a Bill to authorize "The Christchurch Gas, Coal,
and Coke Company, Limited," incorporated under
the provisions of "The Joint Stock Companies Act,
1860," to break up streets and bridges, and to lay
down and place pipes, conduits, and service pipes,
and to make and construct other works for supplying
the City of Christchurch and Suburbs with Gas, and
for other purposes relating thereto, and to the
objects for which the said Company has been es-
tablished.

Copies of the Bill will be deposited in the Private
Bill Office, on or before the commencement of the
Session.

It is intended to apply for the following powers
on behalf of the Company, that is to say-

The Company, under such superintendence as is
hereafter specified, may open and break up
the soil and pavement of the several streets
and bridges within the limits of this Act, and
may open and break up any sewers, drains, or
tunnels within or under such streets and
bridges, and lay down and place within the
same limits pipes, conduits, service pipes, and
other works, and from time to time repair,
alter, or remove the same; and also make any
sewers that may be necessary for carrying off
the washings and waste liquids which may
arise in the making of the gas; and for the
purposes aforesaid may remove and use all
earth and materials in and under such streets
and bridges, and may in such streets erect
any pillars, lamps, and other works, and do
all other acts which the Company shall from
time to time deem necessary for supplying
gas within the limits hereinafter mentioned,
doing as little damage as may be in the execu-
tion of the power hereby granted, and making
compensation for any damage which may be
done in the execution of such powers.

That the Company may from time to time enter
into any contract with any person for lighting
or supplying with gas any public or private
buildings, or for providing any person with
pipes, burners, meters, and lamps, and for the
repair thereof; and may also from time to
time enter into any contract with the Christ-
church City Council, Road Board, or other
persons having the control of any of the
streets within the limits aforesaid, for light-
ing the same or any of them with gas, and for
providing such Council, Road Board, or persons
with lamps, lamp-posts, burners, and pipes
for such purpose, and for the repairs thereof,
in such manner and upon such terms as shall
be agreed upon between the Company and the
said Council, Road Board, or other persons.

That the Company may let for hire any meter
for ascertaining the quantity of gas consumed
or supplied, and any fittings for the gas, for
such remuneration in money as shall be agreed
upon between the Company and any person
to whom the same may be so let, and such
remuneration shall be recoverable in the same
manner as the rents or sums due to the
Company for gas, and such meters and fittings
shall not be subject to distress for rent of the
premises where the same may be used, nor to
be taken in execution under any process or
proceeding of a Court of Law or Equity, or in
bankruptcy against the person in whose pos-
session the same may be.

That the Clerk, Engineer, or other Officer duly
appointed for the purpose by the Company,
may at all reasonable times enter any build-
ing or place lighted with gas supplied by the
Company in order to inspect the meters,
fittings, and works, for regulating the supply
of gas, and for the purpose of ascertaining the
quantity of gas consumed or supplied; and if
any person hinder such Officer as aforesaid
from entering and making such inspection as
aforesaid, at any reasonable time, he shall for
every such offence forfeit to the Company a
sum not exceeding five pounds.

That if any person supplied with gas neglect to
pay the rent due for the same to the Company,
the Company may stop the gas from entering
the premises of such person, by cutting off
the service pipe, or by such means as the
Company shall think fit, and recover the rent
due from such person, together with the
expense of cutting off the gas and the cost of
recovering the rent by action in any Court of
Law of competent jurisdiction.

That in all cases in which the Company are
authorized to cut off and take away the
supply of gas from any house, building, or
premises under the provisions of this Act, the
Company, their agents, or workmen, after
giving forty-eight hours' previous notice, in
writing, to the occupier, or if no occupier
then after leaving such notice on any portion
of the premises, may enter into such house,
building, or premises between the hours of
nine in the forenoon and four in the after-
noon, and remove and carry away any pipe,
meter, fittings, or other works the property of
the Company.

The Company may make bye-laws or regula-
tions, provided the same shall not be repugnant
to this Act, or to "The Municipal Corpora-
tions Act, 1867," or to any bye-law or regula-
tion which may now or hereafter be made
thereunder, or to any Road Board Act or
Ordinance of the General Assembly or of the
Province of Canterbury, or to any bye-law or
regulation which may now or hereafter be
made thereunder respectively, and may impose
any penalty not exceeding the sum of five
pounds for the breach of any bye-law or
regulation of the Company.

The limits within which such Gas Works as afore-
said are intended to be made extend to and include
all lands lying within a radius of five miles from the
centre of the Market Place, in the City of Christ-
church, in the Province of Canterbury.

Such Gas Works as aforesaid are intended to be
made and maintained in and through the City of
Christchurch and portions of the Avon, Riccarton,
Templeton, Spreydon, Halswell, and Heathcote Road
Boards Districts.

The works for the manufacture of gas are erected
on a certain parcel of land containing by admeasure-
ment one acre, more or less, being part of the rural
section No. 176, on the Map of the Chief Surveyor
of the Province of Canterbury, commencing at a
point on the western boundary of the said section,
distant seven chains thirty links or thereabouts from
the north-western corner thereof, running thence
along the said boundary northerly a distance of two
chains, thence at a right angle easterly a distance of