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owner of such cattle shall forfeit for every head of such cattle a sum not exceeding twenty shillings, and if such cattle shall by reason of having been so found at large have been impounded by the Council, the amount of such penalty and the costs, if adjudged respectively before the release or sale of such cattle, shall be added to the pound fees and charges payable in respect of such cattle, and the amount thereof or such lesser amount (if any) as after the sale of the cattle may remain in the hands of the poundkeeper shall be paid over by him accordingly, and if the proceeds of any sale of such cattle shall not be sufficient after paying the lawful fees and charges aforesaid to satisfy such penalty and costs, or if such penalty and costs shall have been adjudged after the release or sale of the cattle, the same or so much as remains unpaid, shall and may be recovered from the owner of the cattle in like manner as other penalties and costs adjudged by Justices are by law to be recovered; and if in the case of any information under this Regulation the owner be not known, then the provisions of the last preceding Regulation so far as necessary to the adjudicating Justice jurisdiction shall apply.

3. It shall not be lawful to break in any horse or other animal in any street, whether public or private, or in any public place save such public places as from time to time may be appointed by some Regulation of the Council in that behalf, which the Council are hereby authorised to make; or by locking the wheels of any cart or other vehicle, or otherwise to test or try any horse or animal so as to obstruct or injure any street or public place, and any person offending against this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

Bye-Law No. V.
Regulation for Drains, &c.

1. Whosoever being supplied with water by the Council from any waterworks or pumps of or belonging to, or under the control or management of the Council, or having access to any such waterworks or pumps for the taking of water therefrom, shall wilfully or negligently suffer any water to run to waste from any pipe or conduit from or by which he shall be so supplied, or to which he shall have such access, shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

2. Whosoever shall obstruct or damage any culvert, sewer, or drain belonging to or under the control of the Council, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds, and shall pay to the Council by way of compensation for any such damage such further sum, not exceeding ten pounds, as the convicting Justice shall order.

Bye-Law No. VI.
Regulation for Foul Chimneys, &c.

1. Every person who wilfully sets or causes to be set on fire any chimney, flue, smoke-vent, or stove-pipe, herein called in common “chimney,” shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall exempt the person so setting or causing to be set on fire any chimney from liability to be informed against or prosecuted before any Criminal Court for such act as an indictable offence.

2. If any chimney accidentally catch or be on fire, the person occupying or using the premises in which such chimney is situated, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings: Provided always that such forfeiture shall not be incurred if such person prove to the satisfaction of the Justice before whom the case is heard that such fire was in no wise owing to the omission, neglect, or carelessness, whether with respect to cleansing such chimney or otherwise, of himself or his servant.

Bye-Law No. VII.
Regulation for Setting Fire to Inflammable Material within Town Boundary.

1. Every person who wilfully sets fire to any inflammable matter whatsoever in the open air, without having given notice in writing to the occupiers of the land adjoining to the land upon which such matter shall be, and also to the Town Clerk of his intention so to do, or within twenty-four hours after giving the last given of such notices, between the hours of four in the afternoon of any day, and eight in the morning of the following day shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

Bye-Law No. VIII.
Regulations for Pedlars and Hawkers.

1. If any person trading, or carries on business within the town boundary, as a pedlar or hawker, without having first obtained a license, he shall forfeit and pay on conviction for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds; and every person trading or carrying on such business as aforesaid within the said town shall be deemed and taken to be unlicensed, unless he shall prove to the contrary by the production of his license or otherwise.

2. Every person licensed to trade or carry on business as a pedlar or hawker within the town boundary who shall not comply with any Regulation made by the Council under the powers given them for the regulation and conduct of pedlars and hawkers, shall forfeit and pay on conviction for every such offence any sum not exceeding forty shillings.

3. Any person desirous of carrying on the trade or business of a pedlar or hawker within the town boundary must pay a license fee of £1 1s., on the receipt of which the Town Clerk is hereby empowered to issue to such applicant a license under the seal of the Corporation. All licenses from the day of issue will remain in force for twelve months, but will only apply to the person in whose name they are issued.

Passed by the Town Council of West Hawksbury, this eleventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

(L.S.) JOHN SMITH, Mayor.
A. H. GILL, Town Clerk.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.—The Partnership hitherto subsisting between John Bernard Ludwig Luks and George William Luks, trading under the style and firm of Luks Brothers, hotel and storekeepers, has been dissolved this day by mutual consent.

The business from this date will be carried on by said J. B. L. Luks, who will pay and collect all accounts due by and to the late firm.

Waihemo, this first day of September, 1869.

J. B. L. LUKS,
G. W. LUKS.

Witness to signatures—
THOMAS ROBERTSON.

3t. 243.

THE undersigned, MATTHEW WILLIAM HAWKINS, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, accountant, hereby make application to register “The Rough-Ridge Quartz Mining Company” registered under the provisions of “The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act 1865,” and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true in every particular, namely:—

1. The name and style of the Company is “The Rough-Ridge Quartz Mining Company, Registered.”

2. The place of operations is at Rough-Ridge, in the mining district of Mount Ida, in the Province of Otago.

3. The nominal Capital of the company is £7,200, in one thousand two hundred shares of £6 each.

4. The amount already paid up is £6,000, the whole being allotted in partly paid-up shares.

5. The name in full of the Manager is Matthew William Hawkins.

6. The office of the company is at Dunedin.