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be recovered was necessarily and properly expended.

6. Provided always that no greater sum shall be recovered under the provisions of this Ordinance, in respect of the making or repairing of any such fence, than the sum of ten shillings per chain in country districts, and twenty-five shillings per chain in the town of Dunedin.

7. In the construction of this Ordinance, the term "sufficient fence" shall be deemed and taken to include all fences of the description in the schedule hereunto annexed; and the word "tenant" shall be taken to include any person actually occupying any land, whether under or by virtue of a legal title thereto or otherwise.

Passed the Provincial Council this twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five years.

ROBT. CHAPMAN,
Clerk of Council.

Assented to on behalf of the Governor, at Dunedin, the ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

1. A bank not less than four feet six inches high, substantially formed, with turf on both sides, and having a ditch not less than four and a half feet wide on each side of such bank.

2. Any fence formed of posts and one or more rails or wires, with or without a bank, the upper rail or wire being not less than four feet six inches high from the surface of the ground, the space or opening betwixt the upper rail or wire and that immediately below it not to be more than fourteen inches, the space betwixt the lower rail and the surface of the ground or bank being not more than ten inches, and all intermediate spaces being not more than one foot—the posts not being more than nine feet apart, and for wires than seven feet apart—the posts to be not less than twelve square inches in thickness, and the rails if round not less than three inches thick, and if split not less than one and a half inches thick and four inches broad—the rails to be either firmly mortised in or double nailed, and the wires either passing through the posts or firmly fixed with staples.

3. Any paling fence of four and a half feet high with posts and two rails of the above dimensions, and having split or sawn timber not less than half an inch thick placed perpendicular and well nailed to both rails, there being not more than five inches of opening betwixt each perpendicular piece of timber.

4. A stone or brick wall, or thick set thorn or brier hedge, not less than four and a half feet high, or where deficient of that height if surmounted by a pailing or wire fence such as above described, to the height of four feet six inches, and the lower rail of which being not higher than the top of the growing thorns or briers.

And, Secondly—The Footpath from the wooden bridge, south end of Dunedin, on the road leading to Caversham, &c., along by and above high water mark to Section No. 8, Block 7, Town District, (Suburban) having been well and sufficiently made and completed for the use and accommodation of foot passengers, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in pursuance of the "Footpath Ordinance," passed in the year 1847, do hereby declare the same to be Public Footpaths within the meaning of the foresaid Ordinance.

Given under my hand at Government House, Dunedin, this twelfth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

N.B.—By the "Footpath Ordinance" it is enacted that "If any person shall wilfully run, draw, or drive any truck, wheelbarrow, cart, or carriage whatsoever, or shall wilfully ride, lead, or drive any horse, or any horned or neat cattle, on any such public Footpath as aforesaid, every person so offending shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding Twenty Shillings, to be recovered in a summary way."

"If any person who shall be found running, drawing, or driving any truck, wheelbarrow, cart, or carriage, or who shall be found riding, leading, or driving any horse, or any horned or neat cattle, upon any such Footpath as aforesaid, shall continue so to do, after being warned to the contrary by any constable or other person, every person so offending shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of Five Pounds, to be recovered in a summary way."

NOTICE

A PUBLIC MEETING will be held within the Council Hall, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 31st day of May current, to take measures for promoting contributions in the Province of Otago to the Patriotic Fund in behalf of the Widows and Orphans of British Sailors and Soldiers engaged in the war with Russia. The Chair will be taken by the Sheriff, A. C. Strode, Esq., at half-past 12 o'clock noon.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

Superintendent's Office,
Dunedin, 1st May, 1855.

HEREBY NOTIFY that I have appointed MR. ALEXANDER GORDON, of Warepa, to be Inspector of Sheep for the Clutha District under the Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, Session I. No. 11.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

NOTICE

The following Footpaths, that is to say,—

Firstly.—The Footpath commencing at the wooden bridge in Section No. 44, Block 16, Dunedin; along by and above high water mark to a point where the said footpath angles towards Leith Street, running through a portion of Sections Nos. 39 and 40, Block 22, and thence along Leith Street to the point where it reaches the Moat, opposite Section No. 55, Block 22.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Co-partnership hitherto carried on by the Undersigned as Merchants in Dunedin was Dissolved by mutual consent upon the 28th day of February last, in as far as regards Mr. Thomas John White.

JAMES MACANDREW & Co.
Dunedin, 10th May, 1855.