Dec. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1489

able at the office of the Board in one instalment on the 1st day of July in each year.

SCHEDULE.

Tokomaru Valley Road, forming, metalling, &c., £2,000.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made on the 4th day of October, and confirmed on the 1st day of November, 1890.

JOHN DAVIES,
Chairman.

13th December, 1890.

THAT a special and annually-recurring rate for twenty-six years of twenty-sixteenths of a penny in the pound on the value of all sections comprised in No. 2 Special District, namely, part 316, part 317, part 318, part 319, part 320, part 333, part 358, Arawaru Survey District, within the Wirokino Road District (excluding Crown and Native lands within the meaning of “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882”), be now struck for the purpose of paying interest and other annual charges on a loan of £150 for the purpose of making the district road, as per Schedule hereto; and shall be payable at the office of the Board in one instalment on the 1st day of July in each year.

SCHEDULE.

Bell’s Road, clearing and forming, £150.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made on the 4th day of October, and confirmed on the 1st day of November, 1890.

JOHN DAVIES,
Chairman.

13th December, 1890.

Result of Polls for Proposed Loans, Mauriceville Road District, County of Wairarapa North.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1890.

THE following notices, received from the Chairman of the Mauriceville Road Board, are published in accordance with “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

W. R. RUSSELL.

DRYER’S ROCK ROAD EXTENSION AND WANGAEHU ROAD.

RESULT of poll taken on the 8th December, 1890, upon a proposal to borrow £1,600, under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of constructing Dryer’s Rock Road Extension and Wangaehu Road:—

Number of ratepayers on special roll 11, representing 13 votes; 7 ratepayers, representing 9 votes, voted for the proposal; 4 votes unrecorded. I therefore declare the proposal carried.

GUNDER GUNDERSEN,
Chairman.

MOUNT MUNRO ROAD.

RESULT of poll taken on the 9th December, 1890, upon a proposal to borrow £300, under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of acquiring land for, felling, and forming Mount Munro Road:—

Number of ratepayers on special roll 3, representing 3 votes; 1 ratepayer, representing 1 vote, voted for the proposal; and 2 ratepayers, representing 2 votes, against it. I therefore declare the proposal not carried.

GUNDER GUNDERSEN,
Chairman.

Mauriceville, 10th December, 1890.

By-law made by Heathcote Road Board, County of Selwyn.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1890.

THE following special order, making a by-law passed by the Heathcote Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

W. R. RUSSELL.

HEATHCOTE ROAD BOARD.—A By-law to prevent Nuisances, Obstructions, and Damage in Public or Private Roads or Streets and in Public Thoroughfares or Places in the Heathcote Road District.

WHEREAS under section 126 of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” Road Boards are empowered to make by-laws for the good government of road districts: Notice is hereby given that the following by-law will come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1891:—

Interpretation.

Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number, and the word person shall include both males and females.

Definition of barbed wire.

For the purpose of this by-law barbed wire shall be taken to include wire manufactured of any material and of any size or shape, and after any design, having attached thereto spikes, barbs, or needles, or having sharp-edged or sharp-pointed material attached thereto.

Barbed wire in fences prohibited.

1. No owner, tenant, or occupier of, or other person having an interest in, land immediately adjacent to a public or private road or street, or public thoroughfare, or public place in the said road district shall erect, cause to be erected, or allow to stand, and notwithstanding the same may have been erected prior to the coming into force of this by-law, a barbed-wire fence, or a fence in which barbed wire is used to serve as a dividing-fence between such his land and any such public or private road or street, or public thoroughfare, or public place.

Penalty for breach of by-laws.

2. Every person guilty of any breach of, or any offence under this by-law, shall be liable for such offence to any penalty not exceeding £5 as the Court inflicting the same shall in its discretion think fit; 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 such offence shall be continued.

Signed and sealed with the common seal of the said Heathcote Road Board, this 9th day of October, 1890, by the Chairman of the said Board.

A. MORTON OLLIVIER, Chairman.

W. T. C. MILLS, Clerk to the Board.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of a special order made by the Heathcote Road Board.

W. T. C. MILLS, Clerk to the Board.

Discontinuance of Nominations for Assisted Passages.

Immigration Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1890.

IT is hereby notified for public information that, on and after this date, no further nominations for assisted passages will be accepted.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Immigration.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE WANGANUI VOLUNTEER DISTRICT

to frank letters, telegrams, and parcels on business connected with the New Zealand Rifle Association, for a period of nine months only.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Postmaster-General.

Notice to Mariners, No. 42 of 1890.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 12th December, 1890.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Local Marine Board, Newcastle, New South Wales, is published for general information.

THOS. FERGUS,
(For the Minister having charge of the Marine Department.)

THE dredge “Newcastle” has completed the first cutting in the North Channel, which is about 100ft. wide, giving a depth of 20ft., low-water spring tides, with the leading-light towers on South Breakwater in line, nothing to the northward, or No. 10 crane on with the old chimney of the hydraulic enginehouse.

On and after this date the dredge “Newcastle” will commence the second cutting to the eastward of the North Harbour buoy. Masters of vessels navigating this channel will pass to the northward of the dredge during the time this work is in progress.

All vessels passing the dredge must exercise the greatest caution.

HENRY NEWTON,
Harbourmaster.

Harbour Office,
Newcastle, 26th November, 1890.

Notice to Mariners, No. 43 of 1890.

KAIPARA HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 17th December, 1890.

THE leading-marks for the entrance to Kaipara are now as follow, namely:—

Two beacons on hill about half a mile to the north and west of the lighthouse on North Head, and one beacon on