of the Acclimatisation Society, at Invercargill, and for every
license a fee of twenty shillings will be charged.

3. No license shall authorize any person other than the
   person named therein to fish, and that only with rod and
   line.

4. Any person fishing without a license, or otherwise than
   as above, or any person who shall, on demand of any person
   holding and showing a license, or on the demand of any
   ranger, police officer, or constable, fail to produce and show
   to such person, ranger, police officer, or constable his license,
   shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

5. All trout not exceeding seven inches in length taken by
   any person fishing as aforesaid shall be immediately returned
   alive to the river or stream; and any person convicted of in-
   fringing this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not
   exceeding twenty pounds sterling, and his license shall
   thereupon become void.

6. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish or use any net
   or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any
   lake, river, or stream in the Counties of Fiord and Wallace,
   and of Southland to the west of the Mataura River; and all
   persons offending against this regulation shall be liable to a
   penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

7. Any person who puts, throws, or places, or allows to be
   put, thrown, or placed, into any lake, river, or stream in the
   said counties, any dynamite or other explosive substance, or
   any matter or liquid deleterious to fish, shall be liable to a
   penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

8. These regulations shall come into force as from the
   date hereof.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twelfth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-five.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
Colonial Secretary.

Conditions for Trout-fishing in Otago.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him
by "The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867," His Excellency
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby
make the following regulations for the District of Otago:—

1. Any holder of a license may fish with rod and line for
   trout in all the rivers and streams into which trout have
   been placed within and forming the boundaries of the fol-
   lowing district, from the first day of October, one thousand
   eight hundred and eighty-five, to the thirty-first day of
   March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, both
   inclusive, namely,—

All that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded
on the East and South by the ocean, from Shag Point to the
mouth of the Mataura River; on the West and South-west
by the Mataura River; on the North-west by Lake County;
and on the North, North-west, and North-east by the Coun-
ties of Westland and Waitaki.

2. Licenses to fish in the above-described district will be
   issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Otago Accli-
   matisation Society at Dunedin, and for every license a fee of
   twenty shillings will be charged.

3. No license shall authorize any person other than the
   person named therein to fish, and that only with rod and
   line, and between the hours of midnight on Sunday and
   midnight on Saturday in each week.

4. Any person fishing without a license, or any person who
   shall, on demand of any person holding and showing a
   license, or on demand of any ranger, police officer, or con-
   stable, fail to produce and show to such person, ranger,
   police officer, or constable his license, shall be liable to a
   penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

5. All trout not exceeding eight inches in length taken by
   any person fishing as aforesaid shall be immediately re-
   turned alive to the water; and any person convicted of
   infringing this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not
   exceeding twenty pounds sterling, and his license shall
   thereupon become void.

6. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish or use any net
   or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any
   river or stream within the above-described district; and all
   persons offending against this regulation shall be liable to a
   penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

7. Any person who puts, throws, or places, or allows to be
   put, thrown, or placed, into any river or stream in the said
   district, any dynamite or other explosive substance, or any
   matter or liquid deleterious to fish, shall be liable to a
   penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

8. These regulations shall come into force as from the day
   of the date hereof.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this sixteenth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-five.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Conditions for Trout-fishing in Nelson.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him
by "The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867," His Excellency
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby
make the following regulations for the Provincial District
of Nelson:—

1. Any holder of a license as hereinafter mentioned may
   fish with rod and line for trout in each river or stream in
   the Provincial District of Nelson which flows into Blind Bay,
   from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred
   and eighty-five, to the twenty-eighth day of February, one
   thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, both inclusive, but
   only between the hours of five o'clock in the morning and
   ten o'clock in the evening.

2. Licenses to fish with rod and line in the said waters
   will be issued under the hand of the Secretary of the Nelson
   Acclimatisation Society at Nelson, and for every license a
   fee of ten shillings will be charged.

3. No license shall authorize any person other than the
   person named therein to fish, and that only with rod and
   line.

4. Any person fishing without a license, or any person who
   shall, on demand of any person holding and showing a license,
   or on the demand of any ranger, police officer, or constable,
   fail to produce and show to such person, ranger, police officer,
   or constable his license, shall be liable to a penalty not ex-
   ceeding twenty pounds.

5. All trout not exceeding seven inches in length taken by
   any person fishing as aforesaid shall be immediately returned
   alive into the water; and any person convicted of infringing
   this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
   twenty pounds sterling, and his license shall thereupon be-
   come void.

6. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish or use any net
   or other engine, instrument, or device for taking fish in any
   lake, river, or stream within the above district; and all
   persons offending against this regulation shall be liable to a
   penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

7. Any person who puts, throws, or places, or allows to be
   put, thrown, or placed, into any lake, river, or stream in the
   said district, any dynamite or other explosive substance, or
   any matter or liquid deleterious to fish, shall be liable to a
   penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

8. These regulations shall come into force as from the
   date hereof.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this sixteenth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-five.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th September, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point the under-mentioned gentlemen to be the
Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and
Deaths for the districts respectively set opposite their
names:—

Name. District
JOHN REYCRAFT .. .. .. Rakaia.
JOHN PATERSON .. .. .. Palmerston.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Arrangements for First Elections, &c., Town District of
Ormondville, County of Waipawa.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th September, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

SAMUEL JOHNSON
to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of
Commissioners of the Town District of Ormondville, as
constituted under "The Town Districts Act, 1881;" also to
appoint Saturday, the 24th day of October, 1885, to be the
time, and the Courthouse, Ormondville, to be the place, for
holding such first elections; also to appoint Saturday, the
31st day of October, 1885, at noon, to be the time, and the
said Courthouse, Ormondville, to be the place, at which the
first meeting of the Commissioners of the said town district
shall be held.

P. A. BUCKLEY.