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return as aforesaid, within twenty-four hours after turning out any such beast, or making a false return, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding £5.

7. The Wardens, or a majority of them, may at any time call upon the license holders, or any license holder, to make a return showing the number, description, sex, age, colour, and brands of stock depastured upon the Hundred belonging to them, him, or her, or in their, his, or her custody; and any license holder neglecting or refusing to make such return within one week after having been required by notice in writing to make such return, or making a false return, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding £5.

8. Any cattle not being the property of or in the custody of a license holder, or being the property, or in the custody of a license holder, but depastured on the Hundred in contravention of any Bye-laws duly passed, may be impounded, and the owner or custodian of such cattle may be proceeded against for trespass, and shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding £5.

[Nothing herein contained shall prejudice the right of the Waste Land Board, or the Commissioner of Crown Lands to proceed against such trespassers for the recovery of the penalty of £50 imposed by the 76th clause of the “Waste Lands Regulations” for the illegal occupation of Crown Lands.]

9. Any person who shall set fire to the herbage or grass upon the Crown Lands within the Hundred, without the consent, in writing, of the Wardens, or a majority of them, previously obtained, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding £5, but such consent of the Wardens will not protect any person from the consequence of any loss or damage which may be sustained by any person by reason of the carelessness with which such burning of the Hundred may be performed.

10. Any person disturbing or harrassing cattle depastured within the boundaries of the Hundred shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding £5, provided always that the holder of a depasturing license within the Hundred, or any person duly authorised in his behalf, may drive such cattle for the purpose of collecting such as may belong to him, and for the free and legitimate use of his right of pasturage within the Hundred, but in the event of its being necessary for such purpose to drive any cattle belonging to any other person a greater distance than half a mile, the person so driving such cattle must take them to the nearest available stockyard, and there separate his own from those of other persons, and return the latter to the place from which they were driven, and failing so to do, will be liable to the penalty of any sum not exceeding £5 for every such offence. Any person removing cattle beyond the boundary of the Hundred, other than those belonging to him, or for the removal of which he shall have due authority, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding £5.

11. All, or any of the acts authorised by these Bye-laws, to be done by the Wardens, or a majority of them, may be done by any ranger or other person duly appointed by them, or authorised in that behalf.

W. H. Cutten,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 17th March, 1863.

(From New Zealand Gazette, March 5, 1863.)

POSTAL.

Money Order Branch.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 26th Feb., 1863.

NOTICE is hereby given that Money Orders will be issued on and after the 1st of March next, at any Money Order Office in New Zealand, for the transmission of money to the Colony of South Australia.

Commission will be charged on Money Orders issued at the following rates. For any sum

Not exceeding £5 .......... 1 0
Above £5 and not exceeding £10 .......... 2 0

No single Order will be issued for a greater amount than £10.

Full information as to Forms, &c., will be supplied to the public on application at any Money Order Office.

READER WOOD,
For the Postmaster-General.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, March 11, 1863.

EXTRACT OF ADVERTISEMENTS from the “Provincial Government Gazette,” of this date.

DATE WHEN TENDERS ARE TO BE LODGED.

At 12 Noon,
Shed at Oamaru .................. 31st March.

By Order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.