APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 425

KAIPOI COURTHOUSE AND STABLE CONTRACT.

Accepted.
Greig and Hunter, Christchurch .. .. 848 7 8

Declined.
Forbes and Wadey, Rangiora .. .. 913 0 0
A. Swanston, Christchurch.. .. .. 969 0 0
W. B. Scott, Christchurch .. .. .. 981 7 0
James Butt, Kaiapoi .. .. .. 1,034 17 5
Boyd and Keir, Rangiora .. .. .. 1,074 7 2
P. Hyndham, Christchurch .. .. .. 1,084 0 0
W. Bowen, Christchurch .. .. .. 1,103 13 6
J. and W. Jamieson, Christchurch .. .. 1,130 7 1
A. Hurrell, Christchurch .. .. .. 1,163 10 0

CUSTOMHOUSE CONTRACT, GREYMOUTH.

Accepted.
Boyd and Hillman, Hokitika .. .. 460 19 5

Declined.
Arnott and Seabrook, Greymouth .. .. 549 10 6

MANNERS STREET LOCK-UP CONTRACT, WELLINGTON.

Accepted.
Arthur A. Compton, Wellington .. .. 55 5 0

Declined.
James Edwards, Wellington .. .. 56 10 0
W. B. Rountree, Wellington .. .. 59 8 6
Gray and Seamer, Wellington .. .. 66 1 6
Charles Taylor, Wellington .. .. 69 16 7
W. C. Watson, Wellington .. .. 84 11 10½
D. McLean, Wellington .. .. 88 0 0

POLICE COTTAGE, MERCURY BAY, CONTRACT.

Accepted.
Thomas Bell, Auckland .. .. .. 197 18 0

Declined.
E. Wrigley, Auckland .. .. .. 227 0 0
John Aiken, Auckland .. .. .. 228 15 0

Additional By-law for New Zealand Railways.

THE New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” do hereby make the following by-law (in addition to by-laws published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 89, of 26th October, 1882), that is to say:—

BY-LAW.

No person delivering or receiving goods or passengers to or from any part of a railway, or any siding connected therewith, or to or from any engine, vehicle, or machine working upon such railway or siding, shall obstruct or place any impediment in the way of shunting, moving, or working any engines, vehicles, or machines upon such railway or siding.

The owner or agent or other person having charge of each shoot, gangway, crane, or other appliance used for or in connection with such receipt or delivery of goods or passengers shall place a person in control of the same, whose duty it shall be to prevent such gangway, shoot, crane, or other appliance from obstructing or impeding the shunting, moving, or working aforesaid.

Every person offending against or committing a breach of the provisions of the foregoing by-law shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding £10.

The common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners was hereunto affixed, this eighteenth day of April, (L.S.) one thousand eight hundred and ninety, in the presence of

JAMES McKERROW,}
J. P. MAXWELL,} Railway
W. M. HANNAY,} Commissioners.

Additional Land taken in the Town of Gore for Purposes of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway.

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway, to take further land in the Town of Gore, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on us by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in that behalf, do hereby notify and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Otago; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 4564, deposited in the office of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

Given under the common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of (L.S.) April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

JAMES McKERROW,}
J. P. MAXWELL,} Railway
W. M. HANNAY,} Commissioners.

Rainfall for February, 1890.

Meteorological Office, Colonial Museum, Wellington, 22nd April, 1890.

THE following is the rainfall for the month of March, 1890:—

J. HECTOR,
Director.