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PARTNERSHIP.—We beg to intimate that we have
admitted Mr. Thomas Septimus Harrison as a
partner in our business of Importers and Warehousemen, as from the 23rd day of July last, and that the style
of the firm will continue as heretofore.

Ross and Glendining.
Dunedin, 28th August, 1867.

GENERAL ROAD BOARD DEPARTMENT.—
Regulations for Supplementing Local Road
Boards, &c.—The following Regulations—for supplementing Rates raised by Local Road Boards and Works
proposed to be carried out by Private Subscriptions,
having been approved by the General Road Board,
are now published for general information:—

1. Any Local Board desirous of availing itself of the
   money or subsidy voted by the Provincial Council of
   the Province of Otago, must give notice in form at-
   tached to that effect to the Chairman of the General
   Road Board, and state approximately the amount it is
   estimated will be raised.

2. The money or subsidy allowed to any such Local
   Road Board, will be at the rate of two pounds for
   every one pound raised by a rate not exceeding one
   shilling in the pound, or one shilling an acre.

3. Upon the Treasurer of any Local Board, or other
   authorised person, paying from time to time to the
   Provincial Treasury of Otago the amounts raised by
   rates by such Board, credit will be given for the same,
   together with two pounds additional for every one
   pound so paid in.

*Note.—It is understood that the amount thus credited
will be applied solely to the payment of expenditure
which may be incurred on works undertaken by the
Local Board.

4. Payments will be made according to the progress
   of the Works, upon vouchers signed by two Local
   Inspectors (who must have been approved by the General
   Road Board) and the Treasurer of the Local Board,
   and counter-signed by the Inspector of Works, to be
   appointed by the Government.

5. Every payment into the said Treasury by a Local
   Board must be of a sum not less than twenty (20)
   pounds, and be also accompanied by a statutory declaration that the money was raised by rates collected for
   the year under which such subsidy is claimed.

6. The Government shall have the right to examine
   all books, accounts, and other documents, of asking for
   verified copies or statements of the same, of inspecting
   works, and of approving or disapproving of the same,
   but there will be no desire to interfere with the exercise
   of local control except when really necessary.

7. In all cases, returns of expenditure and of the
   works executed must be furnished to the said Government, immediately after the completion of such works,
   or sooner, from time to time as the said Government
   may require.

Works carried out by subscription.

8. When it is desired to secure a subsidy to supplement local subscriptions for constructing any works,
   an application in form annexed must be submitted to
   the Superintendent together with an approximate estimate of the proposed work, and the advantages likely to
   arise therefrom.

9. When the road or roads, bridge or bridges, or
   other works proposed is or are situated within a Road
   District, such statement must be forwarded to the said
   Superintendent through the Local Board of such
   district.

10. The Government will, without unnecessary delay,
    decide whether it is prepared to assist in carrying out
    such work, and, if willing, to what extent it will grant
    a subsidy on the sum raised.

11. Upon the sum so raised by subscription being
    paid into the Provincial Treasury, credit will be given
    for the same together with the amount granted by the
    Government, to assist the carrying out of the intended
    work or works.

12. Payments will be made in accordance with the
    Rules laid down in clauses 3 and 4, hereinbefore recited.
    The conditions of the sixth Clause, hereinbefore cited,
    are also applicable to this Clause.

*Form referred to in Section 1.

........................ Road District

Amount to be subsidised ...

How to be raised,
By rate or subscription,

Description of Work,

Contract or day Work,

Name of Treasurer of Local
Board,

Names of two Local Inspectors,

Nearest Post Office,

........................ Clerk of Local Board.

The Chairman of the General Road Board, Dunedin.

(From the New Zealand Gazette.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th August, 1867.

It is hereby notified that the Netherlands Minister
having nominated

JOHN JOHNSTON, Esq.,
of Wellington to be Consul-General, in New Zealand,
for the Netherlands, His Excellency the Governor has
been pleased to accept such nomination provisionally.

E. W. STAFFORD.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, August 12 (No. 44.))

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, the tenth
day of August, 1867.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Mining Companies Limited
Liability Act, 1865,” it is among other things
enacted that the Governor in Council, may from time
to time, appoint in and for each Mining District, some
proper person to be Official Agent in and for such
District:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and
with the advice of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby appoint

HENRY JOHN COPE, Esq.,
of Clyde, in the Province of Otago, to be Official Agent,
subject to the provisions contained in the said Act, in
and for the Mining District of the Otago Gold Field.

FORSYTH GORRIE,
Clerk of the Executive Council.