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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 101

cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, mules, and donkeys, must
have a man behind and before them.
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 Ash-
burton 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 and portable engines employed
in agriculture, flax-dressing, or other purposes may
pass over the bridge on their own wheels, provided
they have no fewer than four travelling wheels with
tires not less than five inches broad; the boiler must
be empty, and all fire must be drawn at least half a
mile distant from the bridge.
5. No greater weight than three tons gross on any
one pair of wheels with tires less than five inches
broad 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 sub-
ject 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.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By-laws and Regulations under which the Rakaia
Bridge will be open for Ordinary Traffic (in substi-
tution of Regulations previously issued).

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of October, 1880.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
it is, among other things, provided that the
Governor in Council may from time to time make,
alter, or revoke by-laws and regulations for regu-
lating the traffic on roads and bridges used both for
ordinary and railway traffic:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand,
in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authori-
ties vested in him for that purpose, and by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said colony, doth hereby make the by-laws and
regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto for
regulating the traffic on the Rakaia Bridge, and
which said bridge forms part of the railway from
Amberley to the Bluff, and is used both for ordinary
and railway traffic; and in further pursuance and
exercise of the said powers and authorities, and with
the like advice and consent, doth revoke all by-laws
and regulations in force at the date hereof author-

izing or regulating traffic on, along, or across the
said bridge.

SCHEDULE.

1. All horses crossing the bridge which are not
   driven in harness, or led by bridle or halter, and all
   cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, mules, and donkeys, must
   have a man behind and before them.
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 Rakaia
   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 and portable engines employed
   in agriculture, flax-dressing, or other purposes may
   pass over the bridge on their own wheels, provided
   they have no fewer than four travelling wheels with
   tires not less than five inches broad; the boiler must
   be empty, and all fire must be drawn at least half a
   mile distant from the bridge.
5. No greater weight than three tons gross on any
   one pair of wheels with tires less than five inches
   broad 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 sub-
   ject 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 Rakaia Bridge.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rehearing of Claim under Native Land Act.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of October, 1880.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fifty-eighth section of "The
Native Land Act, 1873" (hereinafter referred
to as "the said Act"), it is enacted that, upon the
application of any persons interested in any Native
land who may feel themselves aggrieved by the
decision of the Native Land Court in respect thereof,
the Governor in Council may order a rehearing of
any matter heard and decided under the provisions
of the said Act, within such a period of time from the
publication of the decision and memorial of owner-
ship, in manner in the said Act required, as may be
limited in such order; and, upon such order being
made, all proceedings theretofore taken by the Court
in such matter shall be annulled, and the case shall
commence de novo, and shall proceed in manner pro-
vided by the said Act: Provided that no application
for a rehearing shall be entertained if it be made