Aug. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1209

painting on, or otherwise defacing, any building or house, or any wall, fence, lamp-post, or gate, without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof, or Council:

(12.) Defacing any house, building, wall, fence, gate, or place, by writing or placarding thereon any profane or obscene language:

(13.) Blasting any rock, stone, or timber in or near any public road, without permission of the Council:

(14.) Leaving any dead beast on any road or public place, or on any private property within fifty yards of any road, whereby an offensive smell is created:

(15.) Throwing any nightsoil, carrion, or offensive matter into any stream, watercourse, or open drain, or any animal, with the intention of drowning it, into any such stream, watercourse, or open drain:

(16.) Allowing the contents of any privy or cesspit to soak therefrom so as to be offensive, or allowing any privy to remain in full view from any public road or thoroughfare:

(17.) Carrying on business of a blood-boiler, bone-boiler, fellmonger, soap-boiler, tallow- or glue-melter, tripe-boiler, or any other noxious or offensive business, trade, or manufacture, unless licensed or permitted by the Council to do so:

(18.) Discharging any firearms, or letting off any fireworks, without permission of the Council.

4. Any person furiously or negligently riding or driving on any public road or thoroughfare shall be guilty of an offence.

5. Any person riding on any cart, dray, wagon, or other vehicle without having and holding proper and sufficient reins, or without some competent person having charge of the animal or animals drawing the same, and any person driving any vehicle whatsoever or riding any animal, and, when meeting any other vehicle or animal, not keeping on the left or near side of the road, or, when passing any 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, shall be guilty of an offence.

6. The driver of every cart, dray, wagon, or other vehicle, which shall, during the hours after sunset of any day and before sunrise of the following day, be in any road within the county, shall keep a light attached to or suspended from the off or right side of such vehicle, so as to be plainly visible to the driver of any dray, wagon, or other vehicle proceeding along or through such road in a contrary direction to that in which such first-mentioned vehicle shall be directed; and every driver who shall fail to comply with this section shall be guilty of an offence.

7. Every person guilty of an offence under these by-laws shall be liable for such offence to a penalty not exceeding £5, and in every case where such offence shall be a continuing one to a further penalty not exceeding £5 for every day or part of a day during which offence shall be continued.

As to Trees, &c., overhanging Roads.

8. If the occupier of any land within the county shall permit or suffer any part of any tree or shrub growing upon such land to overhang any part of any public way or place therein, he shall be guilty of an offence; and the Inspector of Nuisances shall be at liberty, without any notice to such occupier, to cut away and remove any such part of any such tree or shrub.

9. Every person who wilfully allows any furze or gorse hedge to remain untrimmed, after having received one month’s notice to trim or cut the same, shall be guilty of an offence; and the Inspector of Nuisances shall be at liberty to cut away or remove any such part of any such tree or hedge.

As to Horses and Cattle straying on Roads.

10. Any person turning loose any horse or horses or any cattle upon any county road, or allowing any animal or animals to wander on any county road or thoroughfare within the county, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this by-law, and shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay a sum of 2s. per head.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of By-laws No. 2 of the Hutt County Council.

JOHN CHEW,
Chairman.

The seal of the Hutt County was hereunto affixed on this 8th day of July, 1884, in the presence of—Wm. Jones, Clerk, Hutt County Council.

Extracts from Minutes of 8th July, 1884, of Hutt County Council.

Resolved, That this Council doth hereby adopt the by-laws relative to offences and straying of horses and cattle on roads, and as to trees, gorse, and other shrubs overhanging roads, within the Hutt County, numbered from 1 to 10, and that they be sealed with the seal of the Council, and come into force on the date of gazetting.

I, William Jones, Clerk, Hutt County Council, do hereby certify that, as required by section 33, “Counties Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1882,” all necessary steps have been taken by this Council for carrying into effect the resolutions of the 13th May last, in the matter of adopting by-laws relative to offences and straying of horses and cattle, and as to trees, gorse, and other shrubs overhanging roads, within the Hutt County, numbered from 1 to 10; and that the said by-laws were finally adopted at a meeting held on Tuesday, the 8th July, 1884.

WM. JONES,
Clerk, Hutt County Council.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1884.

THE following notices of Road Board elections are published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

THOMAS DICK.

Remuera Road District, County of Eden:
James Marshall Lennox.
James Russell.

Whakatane Road District, County of Whakatane:
George Simpkins, jun.
George Simpkins, sen.
Eugene Eivers.
Robert Wilkin.
Daniel McGarvey.
Frederick Swindley.

Castlepoint Road District, County of Wairarapa East:
Subdivision No. 7—
John Harvey.

Taitapu Road District, County of Akaroa:
Robert Forbes.
Thomas Leatham.
John Mangles.
John George Mundy.
Robert Rainoy.

New River Road District, County of Wallace:
Heddon Bush Subdivision—
Charles Coster.
John Cowie.
John Walker.

Waianiwa Subdivision—
Alfred Beaven.
George McLeod.
William Ronald.

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSURY, Govt. Printer, Wellington.