SEPT. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1745

9. No person shall keep, or allow or suffer or permit to be kept, swine or pigs on any allotment of land less than half an acre in extent, and no pig-sty or receptacle for pig-swil shall be allowed within 90 ft. of any dwellinghouse, or 50 ft. of any road or by-way.

10. Whenever a contract shall be subsisting and in force between the Otahuhu Road Board and a contractor, providing for the removal by such contractor of nightsoil, the occupier of every dwelling situated within the prescribed area shall employ the services of such nightsoil contractor for the removal of all faecal and other matter deposited in any privy or water-closet situated on such premises, and shall pay to the said contractor- such sum or sums, quarterly or oftener, as may be specified in any contract made by the Board in this behalf. Every person who shall violate or fail to observe this provision shall on conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 for each such offence.

11. In case of default of payment as stipulated in the last-preceding section, such sum or sums in default shall be recoverable summarily from the occupier or owner of such premises in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

12. Every person who causes or permits to run from any manufactory or other establishment for the boiling or preparing of any animal matter, or any brewery, slaughterhouse, butcher’s shop, or any dunghill or other receptacle, or from any inn or building whatsoever, into or upon any street, public or private, or any footway or channel, and every occupier of any land or premises who causes or permits to run from such land or premises into or upon any such street, footway, or channel, any offensive liquid or matter shall, for every day during which any such liquid or matter shall so run, forfeit a sum not exceeding £5.

13. Any person breaking, or failing or neglecting to comply with, the above by-laws Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, or any of them, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 for each offence.

Passed by the Road Board of the said Otahuhu Road District by special orders of the 25th day of August, 1898, and of the 14th day of August, 1899.

The common seal of the said body corporate was hereto affixed by special order.

TOM C. P. WHITELEY,
Chairman.
WM. L. LOCKHART,
Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above by-laws were passed by special order of the Road Board of the Otahuhu Road District on the 25th day of August, 1898, and the 14th day of August, 1899, all the requirements of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” having been duly complied with.

Dated this 26th day of August, 1899.
WM. L. LOCKHART,
Clerk, Otahuhu Road Board.

Special Order made by the Parihaka Road Board, County of Taranaki.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1899.

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

J. CARROLL.

PARIHAKA ROAD BOARD.

Special Order.

THAT, to secure the repayment of a loan of £2,500, raised under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of draining, forming, bridging, and metalling the Upper Kina Road from the Main South Road to the Wiremu Road, a special rate of 3½d. in the pound be made and levied over the following lands: viz., Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, Subdivisions 1 and 2 of Section 15, Subdivisions 1, 2, and 3 of Section 16, Subdivisions 1 and 2 of Section 39, and Subdivisions 3, 4, 14, and 15 (Ngatihara), Block 6; Subdivisions 5, 6, and 7, Block 3; Subdivisions 16, 17, and 18, Block 7; and half of each of Subdivisions 8, 9, 19, and 20, Block 3; and half of each of Sections 25 and 26, Block 5: all of which is situated in the Opunake Survey District, and constituting the Upper Kina Special Rating District. Such rate to be an annually recurring rate for twenty-six years, payable in one instalment on the 1st January in each year.

T. McGLOIN,
Chairman.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed, and recorded in the minute-book of the Parihaka Road Board, at an ordinary meeting held on the 24th day of July, 1899.
EDWIN R. MORGAN,
Clerk, Parihaka Road Board.

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Special Order made by the Waimata Road Board, County of Cook.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1899.

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

J. CARROLL.

A SPECIAL ORDER made by the Waimata Road Board at a Special Meeting held on Wednesday, the 23rd August, 1899.

RESOLVED, That on the earliest possible date—viz., the gazetting thereof—the number of members of the Waimata Road Board be reduced from nine to five.

I certify that the common seal of the inhabitants of the Waimata Road District has been affixed hereto this 23rd day of August, 1899.
E. B. MARTIN,
Clerk, Waimata Road Board.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order has been made in accordance with law, and that all the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” have been complied with.
E. B. MARTIN,
Clerk, Waimata Road Board.

Dated at Waimata Valley, Gisborne, this 23rd day of August, 1899.

Notice to Mariners, No. 30 of 1899.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th September, 1899.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Hydrographer to the United States Navy Department, Washington, D.C., are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

674. SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN.—TONGA ISLANDS.—NON-EXISTENCE OF CERTAIN OUTLYING DANGERS.—REEF REPORTED EASTWARD OF NOMUKA GROUP.

WITH reference to Notice to Mariners No. 5 (110) of 1899, further information has been received respecting the following reported dangers in the vicinity of the Tonga or Friendly Islands, which have been searched for unsuccessfully by Captain A. M. Field, R.N., H.B.M. surveying-vessel “Penguin”:

(1.) North Star Reef, marked on the H.O. charts in latitude 20° 47′ S. and longitude 174° 30′ W., was reported by Captain Sir Everard Home, Bart., R.N., of H.B.M.S. “North Star,” in 1844. On 6th August in that year the “North Star” left Tongatabu in the evening under double-reefed topsails and foretopmast-stay sail, and shortly after midnight the foresail was set. At about twenty minutes to 1 a.m. on 7th August breakers were seen on the lee beam, and the helm was put down, but the vessel struck on a reef and was carried over it into deep water. A cast of 7 fathoms was obtained.

The area in the vicinity of this reported danger has been carefully sounded over for five days, and it is believed that the “North Star” must have struck on the reefs at the south-east side of the bank on which the Nomuka group of islands are situated, or in (approximately) latitude 20° 34′ S., longitude 174° 36′ W., as no danger was discovered excepting in this position. The discrepancy in all probability arose from an insufficient allowance for leeway when under such easy sail as double-reefed topsails and foretopmast-stay sail.

(2.) Dangers on Nomuka Bank.—The southern and eastern sides of the Nomuka Bank have been recently defined by H.B.M.S. “Penguin,” and a line of dangers discovered extending in a southerly direction from Telekitonga Island for a distance of 11½ miles to latitude 20° 35′ S., longitude 174° 36′ W. Eastward of these dangers the depths increase rapidly to over 100 fathoms. As parts of these dangers break in the manner described by the captain of the “North Star,” there can be little doubt that that vessel struck hereabouts.

(3.) Sandbank in Latitude 19° 52′ S., Longitude 174° 7′ W.—Captain A. M. Field also made a careful search for the sandbank marked in the above position on the H.O. charts, occupying three days in sounding the locality and examining the ground for a distance of thirty miles eastward of the Haapai Group. No sign of any danger or of breaking water was discovered, the depth increasing gradually from the Haapai Group to 1,500 fathoms.