any other wilful act whereby such water may be wasted, and for imposing penalties for breaches of such Bye-laws. Provided the surveyor or other person appointed for that purpose by the Company, may, between the hours of nine o’clock in the forenoon and four o’clock in the afternoon, enter into any house or premises supplied, with water by the Company, in order to examine if there be any waste or misuse of such water; and if such surveyor or other person at any such time be refused admittance into such dwelling-house or premises for any of the purposes aforesaid, or be prevented from making such examination as aforesaid, the Company may turn off the water supplied by them from such house or other premises: And provided that no penalty greater than ten pounds shall be imposed by any such Bye-law for the breach thereof.

Bye-law No. 8.—As it is essential to the protection of the interest of the consumers of water as well as of the Water Works Company, that all plumbers’ work connected with the supply of water to houses and tenements shall be well and soundly executed, and that the Water Works Company shall possess a full and satisfactory knowledge of the state of the undertaking in all its departments, it is announced that no plumber or other workman will be allowed to do or perform any work connected with the supply of water till he shall have been admitted, enrolled, and published by the Water Works Company as "an authorized Water Works Plumber," and shall have entered into a written engagement to conform to and comply with the rules and regulations of the Company in relation to the construction and management of the works and fittings to which such rules and regulations shall from time to time apply; and all responsible Master Plumbers, on expressing their willingness to comply with such rules and regulations, will be admitted immediately on signing an undertaking to that effect. If, at any time afterwards any such plumber shall be found guilty of wilfully breaking or evading the said rules or regulations, either by himself or his workmen, or shall refuse to communicate any information required of him in regard to superintendence, any work done by himself or his workmen, or on his responsibility, his name shall be erased from the list of "authorized Plumbers," and will be forthwith advertised as having been so struck off.

9. No person is to be employed in or about the Water Works, or any pipe or apparatus connected therewith, who has not been admitted an "authorised Plumber," or whose name shall have been struck off the list as aforesaid.

10. Any person, not being an "authorised Plumber," who shall do or perform any plumber’s work connected with the supply of water, shall forfeit and pay for each offence the sum of two pounds ten shillings.

By order—
THOMAS DICK,
Secretary.

Dunedin, December 17, 1872. 50s

(From the New Zealand Government Gazette, dated 21st November, 1872, No. 62)

As to Publication of "Gazette."

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th November, 1872.

IN future, the day for the regular publication of the New Zealand Gazette will be Thursday in each week.

All Proclamations and other notices intended for publication must be sent to the Under Secretary not later than Noon the previous day.

JOHN HALL.

[Justices of Peace appointed.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 7th November, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has this day been pleased to appoint

JOHN LEACH BUTTERWORTH, Esq., of Dunedin,

and

to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony.

JOHN HALL.

Resignation of a Justice of the Peace.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 13th November, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

JAMES HUTCHISON, Esq.

of Waikawa Station, Otago, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace.

JOHN HALL.

Inquiries for Missing Person.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th November, 1872.

INQUIRIES having been made respecting a person named William Duthy, aged 40; height, 5 feet 4 inches; hair dark brown, whiskers brown, fair complexion, hazel eyes, rather round shoulders; lived in Edgeware Road, Paddington, London, before coming to the Colony, which was by the ship "Ardbeg," in August, 1864; is a Tentmaker by trade, and was last heard of in Auckland in 1867. Any one who can give any information respecting him is requested to communicate with this office.

By command,
G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 64, December 5, 1872.)

Registrar of Births; Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN FRANCIS GARVEY, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Nokomai and Switzers, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 25th day of June, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 35, of 29th June, 1868, vice George Bailey, Esq., resigned.

G. M. WATERHOUSE,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the Districts set opposite their names, as the same are defined in proclamation of the 18th day of November, 1872, and published in this Gazette:

JOHN KEEN, Esq., Palmerston.

JOSEPH CROCOME, Esq., Waikouaiti.

G. M. WATERHOUSE,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick and Co., Stafford street, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.