Severn to Tees-street, which will make a shorter road
into the south-east portion of the town than going round
by Severn-street. A portion of the Esplanade has been
cleared of flax, preparatory to the plantation of plots of
trees, &c., which will assist in ornamenting the town.
Several temporary drains have been made to carry off
storm water, &c. Lamps have been erected in the most
requisite places. A pound has also been put up. It is
also the intention of the Council to establish a complete
system of drainage, and to afford assistance to the establishment of a fire brigade. A weighbridge is also
being erected.

I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
James Dougherty, Clerk General Road Board

MOKORETA HUNDRED.—Bye-laws passed at a
meeting of the Wardens, 12th March, 1867.

1. No diseased cattle shall be placed upon the Hundred to be depastured thereon.

2. No cattle from any diseased district, or which
   shall have been driven through any diseased district,
   shall be put upon the Hundred until the owner or person in charge of the same shall have produced to the
   Wardens a certificate from a duly qualified Inspector to
   the effect that such cattle are free from the disease
   called Pleuro-pneumonia, and satisfactory evidence that
   they have been free from that disease during the preceding six months.

3. No entire animal over the age of six months shall
   be depastured upon the Hundred without the consent
   in writing of the Wardens, or a majority of them.

4. If it shall appear to the Wardens, or a majority of
   them, that any animal of a dangerous or vicious character is depastured upon the Hundred, and if upon giving
   notice to that effect to the owner or person in charge of
   the same, either by delivering such notice personally, or
   by leaving the same at his usual place of residence, such
   owner or person in charge of such animal shall not
   remove such animal within forty-eight hours after the
   delivery of such notice, it shall be lawful for the Wardens to impound such animal, to be dealt with according
   to law.

5. Any unbranded cattle over the age of six months
   may be impounded to be dealt with according to law.

6. Every person depasturing cattle upon the unfenced
   pasture lands within the Hundred, shall furnish the
   Wardens with a return showing the number, sex, description, and brands of all and every beast depastured
   by him thereon, or failing to make such return as aforesaid within two days after placing such beast upon the
   Hundred, or at any subsequent time, within seven days
   after receiving notice so to do from the Wardens, or
   making a false return, shall be liable to the penalty
   hereinafter provided.

7. Any cattle not being the property, 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, to be dealt with according to law, and
   the owner or custodian thereof shall be held to be liable
   to a penalty for trespass.

8. No person shall set fire to the herbage or grass
   upon the Crown Lands within the Hundred, without
   the consent in writing of the majority of the Wardens.

9. No person shall disturb or harass cattle lawfully
   depasturing upon the Hundred, provided always that
   any person holding a license to depasture cattle within
   the Hundred, or any person duly authorised by him may
   drive such cattle for the purpose of collecting such as
   may belong to him, and for the legitimate use of his
   right of pasturage within the Hundred, but in case it
   should be 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 cattle from those of other persons, and return the latter to the place from whence they were
   driven.

10. No person shall remove cattle beyond the
    boundary of the Hundred other than those belonging
    to him or for the removal of which he shall have due
    authority.

11. And whereas by a regulation duly passed by the
    Wardens, under the provisions of Section one hundred
    and three of the “Otago Waste Lands Act, 1866,” it is
    provided that “no holder of a license to depasture
    cattle upon the unfenced pasture lands within the
    Mokoreta Hundred shall be entitled to depasture a
    greater number than two head of great cattle, or ten
    head of small cattle, for every acre of land which he
    shall own or occupy, without the consent in writing of
    the Wardens:” It is hereby provided that it shall be
    lawful for the Wardens if they see fit to grant permission in writing to any such license holder so to depasture any number of cattle, upon payment to them
    by way of assessment of the sum of five shillings for
    every head of great cattle, and one shilling for every
    head of small cattle so depastured during the current
    year by such license holder in excess of the number
    which he shall be entitled to depasture as above
    provided.

12. No person shall allow any swine belonging to
    him or under his charge to wander at large upon the
    Hundred without the consent in writing of the Wardens.

13. All assessments for the current year on cattle
    depastured within the Hundred shall be paid within
    fourteen days after the publication of these Bye-laws
    in the Government Gazette of the Province, or within
    seven days after any such cattle shall have been placed
    upon the Hundred, if so placed subsequent to such
    publication.

14. Any person offending against any of the foregoing
    Bye-laws, shall forfeit any sum not exceeding five pounds for every such offence.

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

J. A. H. Menzies, Chairman.
Alfred Douglas,
Hugh McLeod, } Wardens.

Sanctioned by the Waste Land Board, 3rd April,
1867.

W. H. Cutten,
Chief Commissioner.

12th March, 1867.

ANNUAL ELECTIONS LOCAL BOARDS, 1867-8

The undermentioned Road Districts not having
complied with the terms of the “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1865,” in their elections of Local Boards of
Road Trustees for year ensuing: Notice is hereby given
that meetings for the election of Local Boards of Road
Trustees are appointed to be held as under—

Pine Hill, at the house of Mr. M’Tadyn, on Tuesday,
16th July, at 7 o’clock p.m.

North-East Valley, at School-house, on Wednesday,
the 17th July, at 5 o’clock p.m.

Clevedon, at Mr. M’Gregor’s, on Thursday, the 18th
July, at 3 o’clock p.m.

Lovels Brook, at Mr. F. Twiss’, on Thursday, the
18th July, at 3 o’clock p.m.

Stoney Creek, at the house of Mr. J. Bryce, on
Friday, the 19th July, at 3 o’clock p.m.

Waitahuna West, at the house of Mr. John Buchanan,
on Friday, the 19th July next, at 12 o’clock.

Chalfont, at the house of Mr. Charles Campbell, on
Thursday, the 18th inst., at 12 o’clock.

Chelsea, at the house of Mr. Bromley, on Friday, the
19th inst., at 12 o’clock.

James Dougherty,
Clerk General Road Board.

General Road Board Office,
July 2, 1867.