Forms of Returns of Stock may be had at the Land Offices, Dunedin, Invercargill, Queenstown, Clyde, Naseby and Lawrence.

Sanctioned on behalf of the Waste Land Board.
WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 25th Feb., 1873.

[Republished from Gazette dated 27th August, 1873, in consequence of the words “on the understanding that none of the provisions apply to sold land though unoccupied” having been printed in the Gazette. See page 326, lines 14, 16, and 16, from commencement.]

BYE-LAWS passed by the Wardens of the Winton Hundred.

1. That no person be allowed to depasture more than fifteen head of cattle to every hundred acres occupied by him or her, and any person depasturing more than fifteen head of cattle shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds.

2. That any person depasturing stock on the Hundred who shall not have taken out a depasturing license, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, and the cattle may be impounded.

3. All stock over the age of six months depastured on the Hundred shall be branded with the registered brand of the owners thereof; and unbranded stock above the age of six months found on the Hundred may be impounded to be dealt with according to law.

4. No bull over the age of nine months, or entire horse over the age of twelve months, shall be allowed to depasture on the Hundred without the permission in writing of the Wardens, or a majority of them, and any person turning out any bull or entire horse without having such permission, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds.

5. All persons depasturing stock on the Hundreds shall furnish to the Wardens, on or before a day to be fixed by them by advertisement in one of the local papers, a return showing the numbers, brands, and description of all stock above the age of six months depastured on the Hundred by each of them; and in the event of any person bringing more stock on the Hundred, shall make a like return within fourteen days from the time of bringing said stock, and whosoever shall make a false return or shall fail to make such return, shall pay any sum not exceeding five pounds, and the cattle be liable to be impounded.

6. Any person disturbing or harassing stock depasturing on the Hundred, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds; provided always that a holder of a depasturing license within the Hundred, or any person duly authorised in his or her behalf, may drive such stock for the purpose of collecting such as belong to him or her, and for the free and legitimate use of his or her right of pasturage within the Hundred; but in the event of its being necessary for such purpose to drive any stock a greater distance than half a mile, the person so driving such stock must take them to the nearest available stockyard and there separate his own from those of other persons, and return the latter to the place from whence they were driven, and failing to do so, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds.

7. Any person removing stock beyond the boundary of the Hundred other than those belonging to him, or for the removal of which he shall not have an authority, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds.

8. That no sheep be allowed to be depastured on the Hundred; and any person depasturing sheep on the Hundred shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds.

9. Any stock not being the property of or which are not branded with the registered brand of the holder of the license under which they are depastured, or which are depastured on the Hundred, in contravention of any bye-law duly passed, may be impounded, and the owner or custodian of such cattle may be proceeded against for trespass, and shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds.

All or any of the acts authorised by these bye-laws may be done by any of the Wardens or other persons duly appointed by them or authorised in their behalf.

The above bye-laws have been approved of and passed by us, this twenty-first day of February, 1873.

WILLIAM CUTHLIFFE, Chairman.
ALEXANDER GERARD.
RALPH SWALE.
GEORGE CROSBIE.
JOHN BLANCHFIELD.

NOTICE TO INTEND APPLICANT

Sanctioned on behalf of the Waste Land Board.
WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 26th Feb., 1873.

OTAGO WASTE LANDS ACT 1872.

Section LXV., Sub-section 1.

Tenth Schedule.

District of Naseby, 25th Aug., 1873.
To the District Land Officer at Naseby.

HEREBY give notice that I intend to construct a water race for irrigation, sheeptwashing, fellmongery, boiling down establishment, turning water-wheel, and supplying water to my house, commencing at a point in the Otekaike river, about one mile above my present home station house, and terminating in my English grass paddock, about half-a-mile below my house.

The length of such water race is about 1½ mile or thereabouts, and its intended course is northward. The mean depth and breadth of such water race is 2 feet depth and 3 feet breadth, and it is capable of carrying 6 heads of water.

Signature and address (in full) of Applicant—
ROBERT CAMPBELL,
Otekaike.

Any person objecting to the issue of a License to the above-named Applicant, must lodge his objection in writing at my office within fourteen clear days from the date hereof.

H. W. ROBINSON,
District Officer.
Naseby, Sept. 6, 1873.

IMPOUNDED

On the 5th day of September, 1873, by Mr. John Turnbull:

One black gelding, branded D off shoulder; one bay mare, like C near shoulder, owner unknown; for trespassing on the Taipo paddock, damaging seed oats, for which 2s 6d each is claimed; and in default of being released, the above horses will be sold at the Public Pound at Oamaru, on Friday, the third day of October, 1873, at 12 o’clock noon.

FREDERICK COLLIS,
Poundkeeper of the Oamaru Pound.

NOTICE

THE Peninsula Road Board intend, at their meeting on Saturday, the 4th October, to levy a general Road Rate for the year 1873-74 of one shilling per pound on the full net annual value of all property within the district. The statement of the proposed Rate will be deposited for inspection at the respective schoolhouse of each subdivision on and after Saturday, the 20th inst.

WILLIAM HAY,
Clerk to Road Board.
Peninsula, September 13, 1873.

NORTH-EAST VALLEY ROAD DISTRICT.

Ratepayers are hereby notified that a General Rate of one shilling (1s.) in the £, was made by the Board on the 6th September, for the year ending June, 1873. Any objections to the valuation will be heard and decided as per Highway Boards Empowering Act, part No. 3.

HUGH McFADYEN,
Clerk to the Board.
15th Sept., 1873.

NOTICE.

The Seaside District Road Board having made a general district rate of One Shilling in the pound for the current year ending June, 1874, the Rate Book may be seen at the house of the undersigned, and parties considering themselves aggrieved by the said assessment, in respect of any error, omission, or surcharge, are hereby required to attend and state the same at a meeting of the Board, to be held in the house of Mr. Graham, Boat Harbor, on the 14th October, 1873, at 2 p.m.

ALLAN CAMERON,
Collector.
Boat Harbor, 6th Sept., 1873.
2t—12s.