be forwarded at such periods and intervals as the promoters and the Minister may agree upon. A final account, showing the cost of the works, shall on their completion be forwarded through the District Engineer to the Minister, and the final balance shall be paid on this account in the proportion above stated. Always provided that the proposed manner of carrying out the works, either by contract or otherwise, shall have been previously approved by the Minister.

10. The promoters of any undertaking to which money may be advanced, shall, before the issue of any loan to them, give to the Minister a valid security, including a lien or mortgage to cover the amount of loan over the works and property proposed to be constructed; and all deeds necessary shall be prepared and completed at the expense of the promoters.

11. No money shall be paid towards the construction of any water race, dam, or reservoir until the promoters of the same shall have duly registered themselves under the Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, or the Joint Stock Companies Act.

12. The rate of interest to be paid by the promoters of any undertaking coming under these Regulations shall be seven pounds per centum per annum, payable quarterly from the date of the advance.

13. The capital sum borrowed shall be repaid out of the profits of the undertaking in the same proportion as the amount of money advanced by the Government bears to the paid-up capital of the Company, or in such other proportion as the Minister may determine.

14. In the foregoing, the term “Minister” shall mean the Minister for Public Works or the Minister acting for him for the time being; and the terms “Engineer-in-Chief,” “Assistant Engineer-in-Chief,” and “District Engineer,” shall mean the officers appointed under those designations by the said Minister.

W. GISBORNE,
Minister Acting for the Minister for Public Works.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1872.

Note.—These Regulations supersede those published in Gazette No. 1, of 6th January, 1872.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th September, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

RICHARD EDWARD FIELD, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Hamilton, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 11th day of January, 1871, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 2, of 12th day of January, 1871, vice Henry Aldborough Stratford, Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1872.

IT is hereby notified for general information that T. DANIEL, Esq.,

has been appointed Immigration Officer at Riverton.

J. D. ORMOND.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 5th September, 1872.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a Return to the Writ issued by him on the 7th day of August, 1872, for the Election of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives of New Zealand for the Electoral District hereinafter specified; and by the indorsement on such Writ it appears that the undermentioned gentleman has been duly elected Member for such District, viz.:

For the District of Caversham :

WILLIAM ALEXANDER TOLMIE,

of Anderson’s Bay, freeholder.

G. S. COOPER,

Clerk of the Writs.

(From the New Zealand Gazette.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th September, 1872.

IT is hereby noticed, that, in conformity with clause 3 of “The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865,” the name of the under-mentioned person has been sent to this Office by the Town Clerk as having been re-elected Mayor of Balclutha :—

JOHN McNEILL, Esq.

HENRY SEWELL.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 16th September, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES CORSE, Esq.,

of Cromwell, Otago, to be Justice of the Peace for the Colony.

HENRY SEWELL.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1872.

ENQUIRIES having been made respecting a person named GEORGE PRIOR MARABELLO, who left San Francisco in 1858 for Australia, and in 1862 left Melbourne for New Zealand, where he is supposed to have served in the local Forces, —any one who can give any information respecting him is requested to communicate with this office.

G. S. COOPER,

Under-Secretary.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by MILLS, DICK and CO., of Stafford Street, Printers to the Provincial Government for the time being.