Council Bye-Laws

Council, to be called the Public Works and Finance Committees, and to consist of four members each, inclusive of the Mayor, and of which said Committees he shall be Chairman, and the quorum of such Committees shall be three: Provided, nevertheless, that the Finance Committee shall have power to add to their number; and that the Council at any time be at liberty to fill up occasional vacancies and appoint substitutes when members cannot attend.

27.—Every motion for the appointment of Select Committees shall contain the names of the Councillors proposed to serve on such Committees.

28.—The Town Clerk shall convene every Committee at any time when ordered by the Council, or when he shall deem it necessary, and also on the written order of any two members of such Committee, and the Standing Orders of the Council shall be observed in Committees of the whole Council, except the rule limiting the number of times of speaking.

29.—The salary or allowance attached to all offices at the disposal of the Council shall be fixed by the members before proceeding to the election, and all elections to offices at the disposal of the Council shall be effected as the Council may determine.

30.—No member of the Council, nor any officer of the same, shall be received as surety for any officer appointed by the Council, or for any work to be done for the Council, and in all cases in which security for the due and faithful performance of any duty or contract is required, the expense of preparing such security shall be borne by the party giving the same.

31.—The Town Clerk shall have the charge of the Common Seal of the Corporation, and shall be responsible for the safe custody of the same.

32.—Any one or more of the Standing Orders of the Council may be suspended pro tempore, in case of emergency, provided that at least three-fourths of the members present shall deem such suspension necessary, but not otherwise.

Passed by the Council of the City of Dunedin the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

WILLIAM MASON, Mayor.
HENRY P. MORSE, 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 this twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

(L.S.)
JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

Taken at Dunedin, for the Month of May, 1867.

Lat. 45° 52' 11" S. Long. 170° 31' 7" E.
Altitude above Sea, 550 feet.

Barometer (reduced to 32° Fah. and sea level):
Mean atmospheric pressure for month ... 30.086 inches
Highest pressure ... 30.687 inches
Lowest pressure ... 29.627 inches
Range for month ... 1.060 inches

Temperature in Shade:
Approx. mean temperature for month ... 48.1 Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ... 53.8 Fah.
Mean minimum temperature ... 42.3 Fah.
Mean daily range of temperature ... 11.5 Fah.
Highest maximum temperature (recorded on 4th) ... 68.0 Fah.
Lowest minimum temperature (on 11th) ... 33.0 Fah.

Extreme range for the month ... 35.0 Fah.

Terrestrial Radiation:
Maximum (on 5th) ... 45
Minimum (on 12th) ... 27
Mean for month ... 35

Mean degree of humidity (Saturation, 100):
(Observations at 9.30 a.m.) ... 81.2
Mean elastic force of vapour ... 0.253 inches
Mean temp. of dew point ... 40.7 Fah.
Total rainfall on 13 days ... 3.354 inches
Greatest rainfall in one day (the 22nd) ... 1.710 inches
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast, 10) ... 6

Wind:
Mean velocity per day for month ... 222 miles
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on 15th) ... 650 miles

Number of days on which the wind blew from each point at 9.30 a.m.:
N. N.E. E. S.E. S. S.W. W. N.W. Calm.
0 1 0 0 1 5 10 0 14

Remarks: Gales from W. occurred on 9th, and from the 13th to 16th. Snow fell on 10th. Fog prevailed on 4th, 21st, and 28th. The results noted, where the dates are given, were recorded at the morning observations, and therefore occurred during the previous 24 hours.

HENRY SKEY.

CITY OF DUNEDIN.—REVISION COURT

The Court for the Revision of the Citizens’ Lists, year 1867-8, will sit at the Corporation Offices, Maclaggan-street, on Thursday, 11th July instant, at noon; when it will be necessary for all Claimants to be in attendance.

Objections will be taken to the names of all Ratepayers in arrear being retained on the Roll.

J. M. MASSEY,
Town Clerk.

City Council Chambers,
Dunedin, 1st July, 1867.

NOTICE

The Partnership hitherto subsisting between Samuel Henchliffe and John Mellor, trading together as Storekeepers at Dry Bread and Tinker’s Gullies, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

4th May, 1867.

SAMUEL HENCHLIFFE.
JOHN MELLOR.

Witness: John Cole Chapple.

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

In the matter of the Petition of SAMUEL HOWARD, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, hotelkeeper, a Debtor; and in the matter of the Debtors and Creditors’ Act, 1862, and the Debtors and Creditors’ Acts Amendment Act, 1865 and 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given, that his Honor Mr. Justice Chapman has accepted the Petition of the above-named Insolvent, and has appointed Monday, the fifth day of August, 1867, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for hearing the said Petition.

Dated at Dunedin, the twenty-eighth day of June, 1867.

SMITH & DEMPSEY,
Solicitors for the said Petitioner.

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

In the matter of the Petition of JOHN CARGILL, EDWARD BOWES CARGILL, and GEORGE M’LEAN, all of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, New Zealand, merchants, carrying on business together in co-partnership under the firm or style of “Cargills and M’Lean,” creditors to the extent of not less than fifty pounds of John Gray, of Dunedin aforesaid.