GENERAL ROAD BOARD.

A MEETING of the Board will be held in the
Provincial Secretary’s Office, Dunedin, on Friday,
15th January, 1864, at noon.

J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago,
Chairman of the Board.

LICENSED CARRIAGE ORDINANCE, 1862.

THE following Section of the above-named
Ordinance is published for general information—

1. From and after the 1st day of January,
   it shall not be lawful for any person to keep any carriage used
   or employed as a common or public carriage, unless
   such person shall have a license in force so to do
   granted to him under the authority of this Ordinance,
   nor, unless, the several particulars directed to be
   painted on every such carriage, shall be painted
   thereon.

2. Every coach, waggon, van, cart or other carriage, or
   vehicle used, employed, or let out for the purpose
   of carrying passengers, parcels and packages and
   every coach, waggon, van, cart, other carriage, or
   vehicle used or employed, or let out for the purpose
   of carrying only parcels, packages and goods for hire to
   or from different parts in the Province of Otago,
   shall be deemed and taken to be a common or public
   carriage within the meaning of this Ordinance.

THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
has been appointed Inspector of Carriages.

THE PROVINCIAL TREASURER
has been duly authorised to issue Licenses under this
Ordinance.

A sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds Sterling is the
penalty for using a carriage as a common public carriage
without a License.

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 64, December
16, 1863.

Colonial Defence Office.

• Auckland, 14th Dec., 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
direct the publication of the following Sailing
Directions for the Waikato River.

T. RUSSELL.

Sailing Directions for the Waikato River, New Zealand.

When near the Waikato, do not shut in Oruarangi
Point (a point 3’ Southward of the entrance) until the
Fairway Beacons are in one, bearing N.E. by E. ½ E.
Easterly (Magnetic); then proceed over the Bar, with
them in line (see view). When just over the Bar, the
water will deepen 5 or 6 feet; keep the marks on until
the sandy cliffs on the South Head is about to shut in,
when steer for Putataka. When the Mission House is
touching a yellow cliff on the West side of Putataka,
see that the small black beacons are still open, to avoid
the five-foot bank to Northward of Channel.

If wishing to bring up to the Eastward of Putataka,
anchor so as to swing clear of a four-foot rock E. by
N., 1 cable from the point, and the shoal water to the
Northward of the Channel. If vessel is 150 feet long,
she must moor, but can lie at single anchor to the
North-West of the Point. The tide is less to the
Eastward of the Point.

In going out from Putataka, steer down for the
mouth of the river, keeping the black beacons open to
avoid the 5 feet bank.

Bring the Fairway beacons in line when the Sandy
Cliff is about to open itself, and proceed across the bar.
Keep the marks on until Oruarangi Point is well open,
when you are clear of the breakers at the entrance.

The least water on the Bar, with the Fairway beacons
in line, is 12 feet 6 inches at low water spring
tides; but there is 10 feet a short distance to the
Northward, and 11 feet the same to the Southward,
so that the marks should not be opened much.

The Beacons when in line are in the middle of an
easily recognised gully, as shown in the view.

The Eastern Beacon is on White-shell summit. The
Western one ½ mile S.W. by W. ½ W. from it on a
little mound.

The spits at the entrance appear to have shifted since
Capt. Drury surveyed the Waikato, as the present
Fairway magnetic bearing differs 4° or nearly half a
point from the old one.

JNO. G. BOULTON, R.N.,
Master’s Asst. and Asst. Surveyor.

From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 66, December
23, 1863.

Delegation of the Governor’s powers under the “Gold-fields Act, 1862,” to the Superintendent of Otago.

By His Excellency, Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight, Commander of the most
Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty’s Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c.

WHEREAS by Section 19 of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
“The Gold-fields Act, 1862,” it is enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, from
time to time to constitute for any Gold-field, or for any
part thereof, Wardens’ Courts for the administration
of Justice therein, and to appoint Wardens as Judges
of such Courts, with power to act alone or with Assessors
or Juries, and in such manner and to exercise all
or any of the powers thereinafter mentioned as the
Governor shall think fit to direct:

And whereas, by the 5th Section of an Act of the
General Assembly, intituled “The Gold-fields Act
Amendment Act, 1863,” it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and
the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to
delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to
such other person as the Governor may deem fit, and
under such restrictions as he shall think fit, all or any
of the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor
in Council, by Section 19 of the said Act, and to alter
or revoke by said delegation:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in pursuance
of the power and authority for this purpose in
me vested, do hereby delegate unto

JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Esq.,
as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, all the
powers vested in me by the 19th Section of “The
Gold Fields Act, 1862,” to have, hold, and exercise
within the Province of Otago the said powers hereby
given the said John Hyde Harris, so long as he shall
continue and remain Superintendent of the said Province,
and no longer, and to have, hold, and exercise
such powers subject to the Regulations hereunder
written, namely:—

THOS. DICK,
Provincial Secretary.