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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Names. Districts.
James Gordon Allan, Esq. ... Wellington.
Alfred Rogers, Esq. ... Marlborough.
Henry Adams, Esq. ... Nelson.
Samuel Munckley South, Esq. ... Westland.
Thomas Smith Duncan, Esq. ... Canterbury.
Alfred William Smith, Esq.. ... Otago.
Thomas Morell Macdonald, Esq. Southland.
CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Featherston Local Board By-laws.

IN pursuance of the seventy-third clause of "The
Local Boards Act," the Commissioners of the
Featherston Local District, at meetings held on the
23rd day of October, 1876, and 6th day of November,
1876, adopted the following:--

1. The Board may make such provision as it shall
   think fit for the periodical removal from every
   dwelling-house or other tenement as aforesaid, within
   the district, at the expense of the owner or occupier
   thereof, of any nightsoil, dung, ashes, slops, filth,
   refuse, or rubbish of any kind.

2. Any person guilty of the following offences,
   omissions, or neglect within the district shall, on
   being convicted of any such offence, neglect, or
   omission, be liable to pay any penalty not exceeding
   five pounds (£5) :-

   1. Throwing or sweeping any glass, filth, dirt,
      rubbish, orange-peel, or other matter of a
      similar nature, upon or into any street, chan-
      nel, footway, court, alley, or public place
      whatsoever.
   2. Leading or riding any horse or other animal,
      or drawing, wheeling, or driving any cart, car-
      riage, sledge, truck, barrow, or other thing
      upon or along any footpath, unless permitted
      by the Board to do so.
   3. Burning any shavings, straw, or other
      material upon any footpath, channel, surface
      drain, or carriage road, without such permis-
      sion as aforesaid.
   4. Drawing or trailing any timber or other
      material upon any footpath or carriage road.
   5. Allowing nightsoil or other offensive matter
      to be spilt or otherwise cast on or upon any
      road, street, footway, public place, or thorough-
      fare.
   6. Leaving any inflammable materials or
      matter in any public street or place, or on any
      open space near any building, without such
      permission as aforesaid.
   7. Opening any drain or sewer, or removing
      the surface of any footway or carriage road,
      without authority to do so.
   8. Neglecting to clean any private yard, way,
      passage, avenue, water-closet, privy or drain, or
      chimney, when ordered to do so, by which
      neglect a nuisance by offensive smell or other-
      wise is caused.
   9. Furiously or negligently riding or driving
      through any public street, place, or thorough-
      fare.
   10. Making any cellar, door, or other opening
       from the footpath of any street or public
       thoroughfare, without the consent or in ac-
       cordance with the directions of the Commis-
       sioners.
   11. Any person placing any obstruction upon
       any street line, whereby life or limb is likely
       to be endangered.
   12. Any person driving any vehicle whatso-
       ever, or riding any animal, and, when meeting
       any other vehicle or animal, not keeping on
       the left or near side of the street, or, when
       passing any other vehicle or animal going in
       the same direction, not going or passing, or
       not allowing any person desirous so to do to
       pass when practicable, on the right or off side
       of such vehicle or animal, with the exception
       of a horse or other animal being led.
   13. Any driver of any horse or vehicle injuring
       any person or property whatsoever by negli-
       gence, or by driving on the wrong side of the
       road, or by being away from his horse and
       cattle, so as to be unable to have the full
       control over them.
   14. Any person turning loose any horse or
       cattle upon any public street, or allowing any
       animal or animals to wander on any public
       street or thoroughfares within the district.
   15. Any person leaving upon any public street
       or thoroughfare any plough, barrow, cart, or
       other vehicle, without any horse harnessed
       thereto, unless in consequence of some acci-
       dent having occurred.
   16. Any person having any iron, timber, or
       boards laid across any vehicle going along
       any street or thoroughfare, so that neither
       end should project more than two feet
       beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle.
   17. Any person destroying, damaging, pollut-
       ing, or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice,
       pipe, pump, water-closet, or fountain.
   18. Any person suffering or allowing any
       waste or impure water or other matter to
       remain in any cellar or place within any
       building or premises in the district, or allow-
       ing any waste or impure water or other
       matter to run or flow from any such building
       or premises upon or over, or be on any
       carriage road or footway, or other place,
       whether public or private, within the district;
       or shall allow the contents of any water-closet,
       privy, or cesspool, or soak therefrom, so as to
       be offensive.
   19. Keeping any disreputable house or house
       of ill-fame, or having the control or manage-
       ment of the same, or being a reputed occupier
       or an inmate of any such house.
   20. When any building materials, rubbish, or
       other things are laid, or any hole made in the
       street or footway, whether the same be done
       by order or authority of the Board or not,
       the person causing such materials or things
       to be laid, or such hole to be made, shall, at
       his own expense, cause a sufficient light to be
       fixed in a proper place upon or near the same,
       and continue such light every night from sun-
       set to sunrise while such materials or hole
       remain; and such person shall cause, at his
       own expense, such materials or other things,
       and such hole, to be sufficiently fenced and
       closed until such materials or other things are
       removed, or the hole filled up or otherwise
       made secure; and every such person who
       fails so to light, fence, or enclose such
       materials or other things, or such hole, shall
       for every such offence forfeit a sum not ex-
       ceeding ten pounds, and a further sum not
       exceeding forty shillings for every day while
       such default is continued.

3. That no slaughter-house be allowed within
   the district.

4. That no beast, pig, or sheep be allowed to
   be slaughtered within the district where the
   same may be deemed a nuisance.

5. That the footpaths in the township be
   nine feet wide.

6. That all verandahs erected over footpaths