[Provincial Government Notice]

In the open air otherwise than by blacksmiths, plumbers, and other mechanics or tradesmen, necessary for the purposes of their trades, and then only on obtaining the consent of the Municipal Council, and producing to the said Council a certificate in writing from their neighbours within a circle of one hundred feet of the place where the fire is intended to be made, that they do not object to the same or that the applicants’ premises are beyond that distance separated from any neighbour.

It shall not be lawful to stack any hay, corn, or straw in the open air within the said town at a less distance than 50 feet clear from any house, stable, or other building; and in every case where it is stacked in the open air, it shall be so fastened and secured that it shall not be liable to be blown about with the wind, nor shall there be any loose portions strewed about the said stack.

Hay and straw may be kept contiguous to any stable provided that it is in a house with a roof, and surrounded on all sides with close walls.

It shall not be lawful to smoke pipes or cigars in any warehouse, store, stable, store for hay or straw, or in any place where goods liable to ignition are kept, nor to use a naked light, or to throw down any lucifer or match, whether lighted or not, or any lighted cigar or ashes from any pipe in any similar situation.

For every offence against any provision of these Bye-Laws the offender shall, upon conviction, be liable to and shall pay any penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

Passed by the Council of the Incorporated Town of Milton, the third day of May, 1867.

James Elder Brown,
Mayor.

R. P. Jones,
Town Clerk.

The foregoing Bye-Laws having been laid before the Provincial Council of this Province for fourteen days, have been submitted to me for confirmation, and it having been certified to me that none of the said Bye-laws are repugnant to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865,” or to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” or to the general spirit and intendment of the laws in force within the Colony and the Province, I do hereby, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, confirm the said Bye-laws.

As witness my hand at Dunedin, this 7th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

(L. S.)

James Macandrew,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

A Special Meeting of the Education Board will be held at the Government Office, Dunedin, upon Wednesday, the 19th day of June, 1867, at 12 o’clock noon, for the despatch of business.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.

Notice is hereby given, that a Sitting of this Court will be holden at the Court House, Dunedin, on Tuesday, the 25th day of June instant, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of hearing Appeals from Wardens’ Courts.

Robert Chapman,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 7th June, 1867.

WRECK OF THE STEAMER “SOUTH AUSTRALIAN.”

I hereby give notice that Mr. T. H. Zierk has no authority from me to incur any expenses on my account for the recovery of any part of the wreck of the above-mentioned vessel, or of any goods, wares, or merchandise to which I may be entitled in consequence of my purchase at auction of the said wreck; and that I will not be responsible for any debts which may be contracted by him on that or any other account.

Dated the 11th day of June, 1867.

Joseph Samuel.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.—The Partnership hitherto existing between James Fergusson, Melbourne, and John Mitchell, Dunedin, has been dissolved by mutual consent, from the 31st March last. The business here will be carried on as formerly by John Mitchell on his own account, under the firm of Fergusson and Mitchell, Stationers, Account Book Manufacturers, Engravers, Lithographers, and Printers, Dunedin. J. M. will pay all debts due and receive same.

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