and the Harbour Master shall retain control over all Jetties, so far as these Acts, Ordinances, and Regulations will apply.

9. The lessee must keep all the property under lease in thorough repair.

10. No offices to be erected on any Jetty, except by permission of the Government, save sentry-box for the Night Watchman.

11. All Jetties to be clean swept every Saturday afternoon.

12. The Government shall be entitled to the free and sole use of any Jetty at any time, for the purpose of receiving distinguished visitors, or for any other public purpose.

13. The Landing Steps at all Jetties shall be open to the public, and no charge shall be made for watermen’s boats plying to and from said Landing places.

14. The Jetty Dues shall be at the following rates, on all goods shipped or landed, and shall be paid by the master or owner of the vessel:

    Coals
    Bricks
    Lime
    Wooden Posts and Rails
    Salt
    Sawn Timber
    Stone

    } 6d., per ton of 40 ft. or 20 cwt.

Firewood, 1s. per cord; Wool, 6d. per bale; Horses, 1s.; Cattle, 9d.; Sheep, 1d.; Pigs, 2d. per head; Immigrants’ and Passengers’ Luggage free; all other goods at the rate of 1s. per ton. Vessels under 40 tons register shall be allowed four, and vessels above that tonnage shall be allowed six, working days to load and unload at the Jetties, as the case may be; and any vessel remaining longer at any Jetty shall be charged one penny per registered ton per day.

15. All lamps must be kept properly burning from sunset till sunrise.

16. The lessee must keep on each Jetty, if required by the Harbour Master, a Notice Board, placed to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, containing the Scale of Charges, and any other Jetty or Harbour Regulations which the Harbour Master may deem necessary.

17. The leases shall contain the foregoing conditions and other usual and necessary clauses of a lease.

The following sums were collected at Jetty-street Jetties and Stuart-street Jetty, Dunedin, during the year 1864, clear of expenses of collecting. The other Jetties have been free hitherto. There is a slight alteration in the mode in which the dues are to be levied under the lease from that which existed during 1864. The expense of collecting was £625.

JETTY DUES.—Jetty-street Jetty, ... 1999 10 3
Stuart-street Jetty, ... 552 11 5
WEIGHBRIDGES.—Jetty-street, ... 104 16 6
Stuart-street, ... 89 5 0
JETTY-STREET JETTY.—Water, ... 29 14 3

By order of His Honor the Superintendent.

JAMES PATERSON,
Provincial Secretary.

17th January, 1865.

AUCTIONEER’S LICENSE.—In accordance with Section 8 of the “Auctioneers’ Ordinance, 1863,” a Special Meeting will be held at the Provincial Secretary’s office, Dunedin, upon Thursday, the 16th day of February, 1865, at two o’clock p.m., to consider the application of Frank Alfred Orbell, of Dunedin. The usual certificate is signed by George M’Lean, D. S. Lyell, A. Carrick, John Stephenson, Ed. M’Glashan, John Jones.

JAMES PATERSON,
Provincial Secretary.

NOTICE.—WAKARI TOLL.

THE Lessee of the Wakari Toll is authorised to collect Tolls on and after the 1st day of February, 1865, at the Check Toll Bar, near the Shepherds’ Arms, Wakari Road.

H. J. MILLER,
Secretary for Public Works.

24th January, 1865.

SALE OF TOLLS.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Tolls authorised to be collected at the Toll Gate on the Anderson’s Bay Road, at the South-Eastern Boundary of the Town Belt, for 8 months, from 1st March, 1865, will be exposed for Sale by Public Auction, at the Public Works Office, Dunedin, at noon of Monday, the 20th day of February next.

H. J. MILLER,
Secretary of Public Works.

17th January, 1865.

RATES OF TOLL TO BE TAKEN.

(1.) For every horse or other beast drawing any coach chariot landau barouche chaise phaeton curricle car gig or any such like carriage—one shilling.

(2.) For every horse or other beast (but two oxen or neat cattle to count as one horse) drawing any waggon wain or other such like carriage—one shilling. When the tire of each wheel is four inches broad or upwards—ninepence.

(3.) For every horse or other beast drawing any cart or dray on two wheels—sixpence.

(4.) For every horse mule or ass laden or unladen and not drawing—sixpence.

(5.) For every drove of horses mules or asses unladen and not drawing—threepence for every head.

(6.) For every drove of oxen cows or neat cattle the sum of three shillings and fourpence per score and so in proportion for any greater or less number.

(7.) For every drove of calves swine goats sheep or lambs the sum of tenpence per score and so in proportion for any greater or less number.

A MEETING of the General Road Board will be held in the Government Buildings, Dunedin, on Tuesday first, the 7th February proximo, at 12 o’clock noon, for the despatch of business.

JOHN W. JAGO,
Clerk to the Board.

Dunedin, 31st January, 1865.

TO THE INHABITANTS OF OTEPOPO.

NOTICE is hereby given, that in pursuance of the provisions of the “Education Ordinance, 1864,” a public meeting of the owners and occupiers of land and householders in the district of Otepopo and vicinity, will be held in the temporary school-house there, upon Monday, the 13th day of February, 1865, at half-past six o’clock p.m., to consider and declare whether the said locality shall be formed into an Educational District under the “Education Ordinance, 1864,” and to elect a School Committee for the current year.

By Order of the Education Board,

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

HIGH SCHOOL, DUNEDIN.

THE High School will be re-opened upon Tuesday, the 7th day of February 1865.

FEES—£2 10s. per quarter, payable in advance.

It is earnestly requested that all the pupils be entered upon the first day of the session.

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.