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VICE of Otago, instituted the "Otago Roads Ordinance 1865," it is amongst other things enacted, that, until otherwise provided, pursuant to the provisions of the said Ordinance, there should be sixty-one Districts, which should be named as specified in the Schedule to the said Ordinance annexed, marked B: And it is also by the said Ordinance provided that it should be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the Otago General Road Board, from time to time, by proclamation in the Gazette, to alter, vary, diminish, or enlarge the boundaries of any or all of such districts, and to increase the number of districts by forming and naming new districts.

And whereas it is expedient to form two new Road Districts to be named respectively the Meadow Bank Road District, and the Ahuriri Road District:

Now, therefore, I, Thomas Fraser, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Otago General Road Board, do hereby proclaim and declare that the area bounded as described in the first Schedule hereto, shall, from the day of the date hereof, be constituted a Road District, and shall be named the Meadow Bank Road District; and that the area bounded and described in the second Schedule hereto shall, from the day of the date hereof, be constituted a Road District, and shall be named the Ahuriri Road District.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Meadow Bank Road District comprises all that area situate in the Moeraki Survey District; bounded towards the north by block 7, Moeraki Survey District, and Blue Mountain Road District; towards the east by Bushy Road District; towards the south by Hawksbury Survey District; and towards the west by the western boundary of block 5, Moeraki Survey District aforesaid.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Ahuriri Road District comprises all that area situate in blocks 3, 4, 7, 9, and 10, Glenomaru Survey District; bounded on the north by a line proceeding from the north-west corner of section 1, block 10, Glenomaru District, due east to the East Clutha Hundred; thence in a south-easterly direction along the south-western boundary of the said East Clutha Hundred to the Native Reserve; thence due south to the southern boundary of block 4, Glenomaru District; thence westerly to the south-western corner of the said block; thence in a north-westerly direction over Trig. stations L and J, and along the ridge to a point due south of the western boundary of section 1, block 10, aforesaid; and thence due north to the starting point.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago this tenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

T. FRASER,
Deputy-Superintendent.

GEORGE M’LEAN,
Provincial Secretary.

MEADOW BANK ROAD DISTRICT.—Election of Local Board of Road Trustees.—In pursuance of the Otago Roads Ordinance 1865, and the Otago Roads Ordinance 1865 Extension and Amendment Ordinance, I hereby convene a meeting of the persons liable to be rated for roads in the above-named district, such meeting to be held at the School-house, Palmerston, within the said district, on Saturday, 21st August, 1869, at 12 o’clock noon, for the purpose of electing a Local Board of Road Trustees to serve for the year ending June, 1870.

T. FRASER,
Deputy-Superintendent.

NOTE.—The attention of ratepayers is specially directed to the 9th, 10th, and 11th Clauses of the “Otago Roads Ordinance 1865” for mode of procedure at electoral meetings.

Dunedin, 10th August, 1869.

PROCLAMATION

Of His Excellency the Governor having assented to certain Ordinances of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago.

By His Honor Thomas Fraser, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS in the Twenty-fifth Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago the Bills next hereinafter mentioned were passed by the said Council—(that is to say):

A Bill shortly intituled the “Port Chalmers Reserves Management Ordinance 1869”:

A Bill shortly intituled the “Milton Reserves Management Ordinance 1869”:

A Bill shortly intituled the “North Tuakitoto District Road Ordinance 1869”:

A Bill shortly intituled the “Oamaru Dock Trust Ordinance 1869”:

A Bill shortly intituled the “Education Reserves Management and Leasing Ordinance 1869”:

A Bill shortly intituled the “Roads Diversion Ordinance 1869”:

And whereas the said Bills were severally presented to the Superintendent of the Province of Otago for the assent of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand thereto, and the said Superintendent did upon the said several Bills being so presented to him as aforesaid, declare that he reserved the same respectively for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon: And whereas the said several Bills have since been laid before His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, and he has been pleased to assent to the same.

Now therefore, I, Thomas Fraser, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said several Bill before-mentioned, that is to say—the “Port Chalmers Reserves Management Ordinance 1869,” the “Milton Reserves Management Ordinance 1869,” the “North Tuakitoto District Road Ordinance 1869,” the “Oamaru Dock Trust Ordinance 1869,” the “Education Reserves Management and Leasing Ordinance 1860,” and the “Roads Diversion Ordinance 1869,” have been laid before His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, and that His Excellency has assented to the same.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, in the said Province, this tenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

THOMAS FRASER,
Deputy-Superintendent.

Council Chambers, August 9th, 1869.

CORPORATION OF CROMWELL.

EXTRAORDINARY VACANCIES.—I hereby give notice that the nomination of Mayor, and two Councillors, will take place in the Council Chamber,