Further information and copies of the Act may be obtained from the chairman (R. B. Martin), or from the undersigned, at the office of the Trustees, Temple Chambers, Princes street, Dunedin.

J. S. WEBB,
Dunedin, Dec. 13, 1872.
Clerk to the Board of Trustees.
5t—65s.

THOMAS STANBROOK, of Clyde, having paid to me the sum of fifty pounds, I hereby give notice that I have by direction of his Honor the Superintendent issued to him an Auctioneer’s License.

(R.S.) RICHARD POOLE,
Collector for the Corporation of Clyde.
Town Clerk’s Office,
Clyde, 31st December, 1872.

DUNEDIN WATER WORKS COMPANY.

ABSTRACT of Receipts, Expenditure and Balances for the year ending December 31st, 1872.

Dr. £ s. d.
Bank of Australasia ... 229 14 3
Works and plant ... 49,770 5 9
Dividend account ... 3,534 10 5
Repairs and maintenance ... 158 3 8
Charges ... 121 15 8
Advertising, printing and stationery ... 45 1 6
Petty cash ... 1 0 3
Bank of Australasia, rate account ... 615 11 5
Rent account ... 89 10 0
Cartage account ... 6 16 8
Debentures interest ... 1,200 0 0
Directors’ fees ... 208 8 6
Law charges ... 27 13 8
Charges of management ... 817 10 3
Bank of Australasia, No. 2 account ... 23 9 6
Interest account, new works ... 500 0 0
Charges account ... 5 10 0
Charges of management ... 185 7 0
Bank of Australasia, No. 2 rate account ... 752 19 9
New works and plant ... 13,990 17 8
Repairs and maintenance, new works ... 54 15 11
Works under Act 1871 ... 2,775 5 11
Law charges under Act 1871 ... 45 5 8
Bank of Australasia ... 133 6 6

Cr.
Share capital ... 35,000 0 0
Debentures account ... 15,000 0 0
H. H. Kitchener ... 5,000 0 0
Provincial Government ... 250 0 0
Transfer fees ... 3 15 0
Revenue account, 1871 ... 1,440 0 6
Water rate, No. 2 account ... 2,821 14 4
New share capital account ... 9,000 0 0
Water rate ... 3,760 2 8
Bank of Australasia, No. 3 account ... 1,775 11 7
Share capital under Act 1871 ... 1,045 0 0
Water rate, No. 3 account ... 150 15 10
Robert Wilson ... 50 0 0

75,296 19 11

Dunedin, January 21, 1873.

We have examined the foregoing accounts, compared them with the vouchers and bank passbooks, and find them correct.

C. H. STREET,
HENRY P. MORSE, } Auditors.
THOMAS DICK, Secretary.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 2, January 9, 1873.)

Medical Practitioners and Householders to give notice of Dangerous Diseases.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th January, 1873.

The following sections of “The Public Health Act 1872,” are published for general information; and the particular attention of householders and others affected thereby is invited to their provisions.

JOHN HALL.

17. It shall be the duty of every medical practitioner who shall attend upon or give medical or surgical advice to or about any person suffering from small-pox, cholera, or other highly infectious or contagious disease dangerous to the people, to give notice forthwith after he shall have commenced so to attend or give such advice to the Local Board of the district within which such person so suffering then is, and every medical practitioner neglecting to give such notice shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

18. When a householder knows that a person within the house occupied by him is taken sick of small-pox, cholera, or any other highly infectious or contagious disease dangerous to the people, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the Local Board of the district in which he dwells. If he refuses or neglects to give such notice, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

Justice of the Peace appointed.

Office of the Minister of Justice,
Wellington, 6th January, 1873.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS ARCHIBALD FRASER, Esq.,
of Hawea Lake Station, Otago, to be Justice of the Peace for the Colony.

JOHN BATHGATE.

BALANCE SHEET of the Naseby Cemetery for the Year ending 1872.

Receipts.

£ s. d.
Jan. To balance, Bank New South Wales ... 13 8 6
... Opening graves ... 1 0 0
Mar. Opening graves ... 2 0 0
Apr. 1 section of ground ... 2 2 0
June Opening graves ... 3 0 0
July 2 sections of ground ... 4 4 0
Aug. Opening graves ... 2 0 0
Sept. Opening graves ... 1 0 0
Oct. Opening graves ... 2 0 0
Nov. Opening grave ... 1 0 0
Dec. Opening graves ... 2 0 0

Expenditure.

Jan. By Kirby, sexton ... 1 0 0
Mar. 13 Wilson, printing ... 4 0 0
21 Geo. Clarke, clearing paths ... 6 10 0
Kirby, sexton ... 2 0 0
June Kirby, sexton ... 3 0 0
July S. W. Busch, stationery ... 0 10 0
Kirby, sexton ... 2 0 0
Aug. Wilson, printing ... 0 10 0
Kirby, sexton ... 2 0 0
Sept. Kirby, sexton ... 1 0 0
Kirby, repairing fence ... 2 5 0
Oct. Kirby, sexton ... 1 0 0
Nov. Kirby, sexton ... 2 0 0
Dec. 31 Balance in Bank ... 0 2 0
Cash in hand of Treasurer ... 6 0 0

£33 14 6

Aug. 1873. To cash, Bank New South Wales ... 5 17 6
... in Treasurer’s hand ... 0 2 0

£5 19 6

Dunedin, January 14, 1873.

John Brunner, Hon. Sec.
Audited and found correct,
WALTER INDER,
JAMES BROWN.

Mount Ida, 14th Jan., 1873.

Signed before me, this fourteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three (1873).

WILLIAM GUNNELL, J.P.

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