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INCENDIARISM.

Maliciously Setting Fire to Two Stacks of Hay, a Barn and Chaff House.

£200 REWARD

And a Free Pardon to an Accomplice.

WHEREAS on the night of Sunday, the 4th of May instant, Two Stacks of Hay, a Barn and Chaff House, containing Hay, situate at Glencluoy Station, near Athol, Southland District, the property of Joseph Rogers, Esquire, J.P., were destroyed by fire: And whereas at an inquest held at the Athol Hotel, Athol, on the 6th instant, to inquire as to the origin of the said fire, the Jury returned the following verdict — “That the said fire was caused by some person or persons, to the Jurors unknown, feloniously, wilfully, maliciously, with intent then and there to injure the said Joseph Rogers:” And whereas Mr Rogers has offered a reward of One Hundred Pounds for the detection of the originator of the fire: Notice is hereby given, that a reward of One Hundred Pounds (supplemental to that offered by Mr Rogers), will be paid by the Provincial Government of Otago to any person who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the person or persons by whom the said fire was caused; and His Excellency the Governor will be advised to grant a Free Pardon to an Accomplice, not being the person who actually caused the fire, as shall give such information as shall lead to a like result.

T. K. WELDON,
Commissioner of Police.

21st May, 1873.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 50, August 14, 1873.)
Appointing Quarantine Stations.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Public Health Act, 1872,” it is amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by an order notified by Proclamation in the Gazette, appoint certain stations within or near any harbour or place within New Zealand for the performance of quarantine under the Third Part of the said Act, where all vessels liable to quarantine, and the crews, passengers, and persons on board thereof, shall perform the same: And whereas it is expedient that the places hereinafter particularly mentioned should be appointed Quarantine Stations, for the purposes in the said Act mentioned:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me for that purpose, do by this Proclamation order and appoint that the places named and described in the Schedule hereto shall be, and the same are hereby appointed to be, stations for the performance of quarantine under the Third Part of “The Public Health Act, 1872:”

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

PORT CHALMERS.

The whole of the Island situated in Otago Harbour, in the Colony of New Zealand, known as Quarantine Island; together with all that area, estimated to contain two hundred and ten (210) acres, more or less, being part of Otago Harbour. Bounded—towards the North-north-west, by a line extending from Acheron Head to Quarantine Point, forty-six (46) chains; thence by a line due South, forty-six (46) chains; thence by a line in a West-south-westerly direction, forty-six (46) chains; thence by a line due North, forty-six (46) chains, to the starting point.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Office of the Minister of Justice,
Wellington, 9th August, 1873.

HIS EXCELLENCY the Governor has been pleased to appoint

LOUIS WILLIAM BUSCH, Esq., Mayor of Naseby;
PETER CUNNINGHAM, Esq., Mayor of Milton;
EDWARD HERBERT, Esq., Mayor of Lawrence; and
THOMAS SLATER PRATT, Esq., Mayor of West Hawksbury, Otago,

to be Justices of the Peace under “The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865.”

JOHN BATHGATE.

Coroner resigned.

Office of the Minister of Justice,
Wellington, 7th August, 1887.

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

VINCENT PYKE, Esq.,

of his appointment as a Coroner within the Colony.

JOHN BATHGATE.

Deputy Harbour Master appointed.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 8th August, 1873.

HIS EXCELLENCY the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN ORKNEY

to be Deputy Harbour Master for the Port of Dunedin.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.