NOTICE.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled, the "Cemeteries Ordinance, 1856," is is, among other things, enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, from time to time, to acquire, reserve, and appropriate, for the purposes of a Burial Ground or Cemetery, any land, in any locality or localities, within a convenient distance from the Town of Dunedin, and to authorise any such land to be enclosed, made, and formed, into a Burial Ground or Cemetery; and that, from and after any time to be fixed by the Superintendent, and published in the Provincial Government Gazette, such land shall be open and used for such purposes under such regulations as may from time to time be made by the Superintendent, or other competent authority.

Now therefore I, the Superintendent, do hereby notify that I have reserved, appropriated, and authorised to be enclosed, for the purposes of a Burial Ground or Cemetery, that enclosed portion, consisting of about 4½ acres of the General Cemetery Reserve at Little Paisley, in or near Dunedin; and that, from and after the 1st day of April 1858, the said enclosed portion of land shall be open and used for the purpose of a Burial Ground or Cemetery, under such regulations as may be made as aforesaid.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, March 13, 1858.

Now therefore I, the Superintendent aforesaid, do hereby notify that I have fixed, and do hereby fix, the 31st day of March 1858, as the date after which it shall not be lawful to bury, or to permit, or suffer, to be buried, in the before-mentioned Burial Ground or Cemetery, any Corpse or Coffin, except in so far as before-mentioned; and that any person, after the said 31st day of March 1858, contravening the aforesaid enactment shall be liable to the penalty therein set forth.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, March 18, 1858.

And it is thereby provided that nothing therein contained shall prevent the interment within the limits of the before-mentioned Burial Ground or Cemetery, to be circumscribed as therein enacted, of the Corpse or Coffin of any person who stood in the following degrees of relationship to any person whose Corpse shall have been buried therein at any time prior to the passing of the said Ordinance; that is to say, the Corpse of any Husband, or Wife, or Parent, of any person whose Corpse shall have been so buried.

Custom House, Bluff Harbour,
February 8, 1858.

IN accordance with the Proclamation issued by His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, dated at Auckland on the 16th day of December 1857, to appoint stations or places for the performance of Quarantine, by vessels bound to the several Harbours of New Zealand, I hereby appoint, for the Port of Bluff Harbour,

• To the northward of the Spit which divides the Northern from the Western Channel, in the North Channel, and abreast of the Custom House. For New River,
• On the western side of the River between Bombay Rock and the Lower Stock-yard.

A. J. ELLES,
Sub-Collector.

Printed for the Provincial Government by D. CAMPBELL, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.