THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

2. Horses or light-wheeled vehicles will not be
   allowed to enter upon the bridge within fifteen
   minutes, drays within thirty minutes, and cattle and
   sheep or pigs within one hour of the advertised time
   of arrival and departure of any train from the
   Ashburton Railway Station.
3. Horsemen or wheeled vehicles will not be
   allowed to travel at a greater rate than six miles an
   hour across the bridge.
4. Traction engines, or engines employed in agri-
   culture or flax-dressing, or any other purpose, will
   not be permitted on the bridge otherwise than on the
   goods wagons in use on the railways.
5. No greater weight than two tons gross on any
   one pair of wheels with tires less than five inches
   wide will be permitted to cross the bridge.
6. The restrictions provided in clause 2 for adver-
   tised trains shall be in force with respect to special
   trains, but any authorized officer of the Railway
   Department may, at his discretion, relax any of such
   restrictions as the case may require.
7. Any person or persons entering upon the bridge
   within the prohibited hours, or resisting the gate-
   keepers in the execution of their duties, will be subject
   to the penalty hereinafter mentioned.
8. Any person in a state of intoxication will not
   be permitted to enter upon the bridge whilst in such
   condition.
9. Any person offending against any of these
   regulations will be liable to a penalty not exceeding
   ten pounds.
10. So far as applicable the general by-laws and
    regulations for the time being respectively in force
    and affecting the traffic on the New Zealand railways
    shall extend and apply to the Ashburton Bridge.

IRWIN C. MALING,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointment of Resident Magistrate's Court for
Ridings in the Hutt County, pursuant to 47th
Section of "The Counties Act, 1876."

NORMANBY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested
in me by the forty-seventh section of "The
Counties Act, 1876," I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby appoint the Resident Magis-
trate's Court named in the first column of the
Schedule hereto to be the Resident Magistrate's
Court for the ridings in the Hutt County named in
and set opposite to such Courts respectively in the
second column of the said Schedule, to which any
person who considers himself aggrieved by his own
name or that of any other person being entered on
or omitted from the roll of such ridings respectively,
or by the number of votes allotted to him or to any
other person thereon being more or fewer than that
to which he or such other person is entitled under
the said Act, may apply for relief.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Resident Magis-
trate's Court.

Names of Ridings.

Resident Magistrate's Court,
Wellington.

For the Ridings of Wainuio-
mata, Porirua, Horokiwi,
and Karori.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this eighteenth day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight.

J. BALLANCE.

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Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint

JOHN REYNOLDS WILLCOX

to be the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and
Deaths, and also Vaccination Inspector, for the Dis-
trict of Balclutha.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1878.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful
tenderers is published for general information.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Public Works.

KINGSTON WHARF CONTRACT OF THE WINTON
AND KINGSTON RAILWAY.

John Whittaker, Dunedin Accepted. ... ... 2,668 3 0
J. B. Blair, Dunedin Declined. ... ... 2,679 0 0
Topham and Angus, Invercargill ” ... ... 3,320 9 5
M. Hughes and Co. ” ... ... 4,479 7 6

Commissioner of Railways for the North Island
appointed.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 27th April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
promote

JOHN LAWSON, Esq.,

to be Commissioner of Railways for the North
Island, from the 11th instant.

J. MACANDREW.

Annual Sheep Report.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 17th April, 1878.

THE following report, by the Inspector of Sheep
for the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, is
published for general information.

J. MACANDREW.

Sheep Inspector's Office,
Napier, 11th April, 1878.

SIR,-I have the honor to furnish my report for the
current year, and enclose for publication sheep
returns of 1st May, 1877, which show a very satis-
factory increase of 102,489 over those of the previous
year. The enclosed returns comprise 713,600 ewes,
648,246 wethers, and 14,311 rams; being a total of
1,376,157 sheep, over six months old, in the Provin-
cial District of Hawke's Bay, on 1st May, 1877, as
against 671,416 ewes, 588,546 wethers, and 13,706
rams, or a total of 1,273,668 in May, 1876; and I
expect the returns of next month will reach one and
a half million sheep in this district at the present
time. Since the date of my last report no sheep
have been introduced overland to Hawke's Bay; and
with the exception of three cargoes of merino ewes,
numbering 4,089, the imports have been limited as
usual to sheep for stud purposes, and comprise, in
addition to the above, 481 long-wool rams, 222 long-
wool ewes, 254 merino rams, and 444 merino ewes;
making a total of 5,490 sheep during the past twelve
months. The exports during the same period coast-
wise and overland to neighbouring provincial dis-
tricts amount to about 78,000, and about 200,000
have been absorbed by provincial consumption and