THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 353

2 acres, being part of Accommodation Section "13"
on plan of the said district. Bounded-Northward
and Westward by public roads; Eastward and South-
ward by other parts of same section. (Adams and
Kingdon, Solicitors.)

Caveat in each case must be lodged within one
calendar month from the date of publication of this
notice in the Gazette.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 29th day of May, 1874, at the Lands
Registry Office, Nelson.

286 SAMUEL KINGDON,
District Land Registrar.

In the matter of a Bill intituled "An Act to
authorize 'The Lyttelton 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 Borough of Lyttelton 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 Lyttelton 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 Borough
of Lyttelton and suburbs with gas and for other pur-
poses relating thereto and to the objects for which
the said Company has been established.

Copies of the Bill will be deposited in the Ex-
aminer's 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
hereinafter specified may open and break up the
soil and pavement of the several streets bridges
and wharves within the limits of this Act and
may open and break up any sewers drains or
tunnels within or under such streets bridges and
wharves 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 wash-
ings and waste liquids which may arise in the
making of the gas and for the purposes afore-
said 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 men-
tioned doing as little damage as may be in the
execution 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 Lyttelton Borough
Council Road Board or other persons having the
control of any of the streets within the limits
aforesaid for lighting 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 executions under
any process or proceeding of a Court of Law or
Equity or in bankruptcy against the person in
whose possession 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 building 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 con-
sumed or supplied and if any person hinders
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 juris-
diction.

That in all cases in which the Company are author-
ized 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' pre-
vious 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 afternoon
and remove and carry away any pipe meter
fittings or other works the property of the Com-
pany.

When any consumer leaves the premises where gas
has been supplied to him without paying to the
Company the gas rent due from him the Com-
pany shall be entitled to require from the next
tenant payment of the arrears accruing since the
meter shall have been last taken by the Com-
pany if such next tenant shall consume any gas
without having first given to the Company
twenty-four hours' notice of his intention to
do so.

Every person supplied with gas by the Company
who wilfully suffers any pipe meter or other gas
fitting to be out of repair so that the gas is
wasted shall for every such offence forfeit to the
Company any sum not exceeding five pounds
over and above the loss which the Company
sustain by reason of such waste.

The Company may make by-laws or regulations
provided the same shall not be repugnant to
this Act or to "The Municipal Corporations Act
1867" or to any by-law or regulation that 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