Aug. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 893

Special Order made by the Papakura Road Board, County of Hawke’s Bay.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1891.

THE following special order, made by the Papakura Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT it be a special order of this Board that the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” be adopted generally in the Papakura Road District.

I certify that the accompanying resolution, passed as a special order by this Board, was moved at a meeting held on the 20th June, 1891, and confirmed at a meeting held on the 25th instant, and that the provisions of section 75 of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” have been strictly complied with.

W. WATERHOUSE,
Clerk.

Taradale, 28th July, 1891.

Special Order made by the Manawatu Road Board, County of Oroua.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1891.

THE following special order, made by the Manawatu Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER.—MANAWATU ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of the Manawatu Road Board, under the powers contained in “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” to raise the following loan, under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the construction of the following works in Wards 2 and 3 respectively of the Manawatu Road District: To form and metal from cross-road adjoining Sections 595 and 596 to cross-road known as continuation of Roberts’s Line; and to form, a distance of 57 chains, along Sections 590, 591, 592; and then to fell road-line and form and metal along the following sections—581, 569, 1523, 582, 1522, 568; and to form and metal, a distance of 75 chains, towards Oroua River, along railway-line of road: £550.

For the purpose of providing interest and other annual charges on a loan of £550, for the construction and metal-ling of Newberry Line and adjoining lines, to make a special rate of ten-sixteenths of a penny in the pound on the rateable value of the following properties, viz., 595, 596, 588, 589, part 590, 591, 592, 578 to 581, 1523, 1524, 582, 583, 1522, 567, 568, 569, 570 to 577, 1521, inclusive, Manawatu Road District. Such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for a period of twenty-six years, and shall be payable at the office of the Board in two instalments, viz., on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each year.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed by the Manawatu Road Board, at a meeting held on the 14th April, 1891.

GEORGE J. SCOTT,
Clerk.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office.
Wellington, 31st July, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

The INSPECTORS OF STOCK

to frank letters and parcels on the public service.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

The CHIEF CLERK, AUDIT OFFICE,

to frank letters, telegrams, and parcels on the public service.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1891.—Notice No. 18.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd August, 1891.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Henry Hayward.

The Reverend Theodore Albert Meyer.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Transfer of Post Offices to Auckland District.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 3rd August, 1891.

IT is hereby notified for general information that, from and after the 1st proximo, the sub-post-offices at Rotorua, Rotoiti, and Awahou, now in the Thames Postal District, will be transferred and placed under the control of the Chief Postmaster, Auckland.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

By-laws and Regulations under which the Rakaia Railway-bridge may be used for Ordinary Traffic (in substitution of Regulations previously issued).

THE New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” do hereby make the following by-laws for regulating the traffic on and over the Rakaia Bridge, which said bridge forms part of the Hurunui and Bluff Railway, and is used both for ordinary and railway traffic; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers, do revoke all by-laws and regulations in force at the date hereof authorising or regulating traffic on and over the said bridge.

SCHEDULE.

1. Horses not driven in harness or led by bridle or halter, and cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, mules, and donkeys, must have a man behind them; and cattle, sheep, and horses in mobs must have a man before them as well as one behind.

2. Horses or light-wheeled vehicles will not be allowed to enter upon the bridge within twenty minutes, drays within thirty minutes, and cattle and sheep or pigs within one hour, of the time that any train is due on the bridge.

3. Horsemen or wheeled vehicles shall not travel faster than six miles an hour.

4. Traction-engines are not allowed to cross the bridge unless loaded on railway wagons.

5. No portable engine, combine, elevator, reaper and binder, or such travelling or portable machine which exceeds 11ft. in width (all of which are hereinafter included in the term “machine”), shall be taken over the bridge except under the following conditions:—

(a.) The owner or person in charge thereof shall obtain from the Railway Stationmaster at Rakaia or Dunsandle a permit authorising the passage of the machine over the bridge, accompanied by the bridge-keeper.

(b.) Before such permit is issued, the person applying for the same shall state correctly the description, weight, number of wheels, breadth of tires, and width of the machine, together with the name and address of the owner thereof, which particulars shall be entered in the permit.

(c.) The permit is to be given to the bridge-keeper, and the machine shall not be allowed to enter upon the bridge if the description in the permit does not agree with the machine, nor unless accompanied by the bridge-keeper.

(d.) Every precaution shall be taken against fire or other damage to the bridge or railway, as required by the bridge-keeper; and speed shall be a uniform rate not exceeding two miles per hour.

(e.) The owner of any machine shall be liable to the Railway Commissioners for any damage done to the bridge or railway during its transit.

6. No greater load than 1½ tons gross per wheel with tires less than 5in. broad shall be taken over the bridge; and no load over 2 tons per wheel shall pass over except under the regulations for machines; and loads greater than 2½ tons per wheel are entirely prohibited from crossing over the bridge.

7. Any authorised officer of the Railway Department may, at his discretion, relax any of the restrictions in clause 2, as the case may require.