DUNEDIN AND PORT CHALMERS RAILWAY

Time Table for October, 1873.

Passenger and goods trains will leave Dunedin and Port Chalmers respectively, calling at Intermediate Stations, as under:—

*This train calls at Pelichet Bay only.

FARES:

To and from Port Chalmers:

Dunedin, to and from Pelichet Bay:

SUNDAY TRAINS:

Return Tickets, 2s 6d.

By order,
D. ROLFE,
General Manager.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 55, September 15, 1873.)

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th September, 1873.

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

GEORGE LUMSDEN, Esq.,
of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace under "The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865."

JOHN BATHGATE.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 55, September 25, 1873.)

Fixing Annual Rate to be charged for Sluice-heads of Water, under "The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872."

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of September, 1873.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby make the following Regulations:—

Regulations.

1. From and after the making of these Regulations there shall be imposed on the holders of licenses for water races, as hereinafter mentioned, an annual rent of two shillings and sixpence for every sluice-head of water.

2. These Regulations shall apply and extend to licenses for water races lawfully held, occupied, and used at the date of the passing of "The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872," or which may have been issued subsequently thereto, and are now in force respectively; and shall also extend to such licenses as may hereafter be issued under the said Act.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Registration and Returning Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1873.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM LAWRENCE SIMPSON, Esq.,
to be Registration and Returning Officer for the election of Members of the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Dunstan, vice Vincent Pyke, Esq., resigned.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Provincial Returning Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1873.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES PILLANS MAITLAND, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for Provincial Elections for the Electoral Districts of Milton, Matau, and Waihola, in the Province of Otago.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th September, 1873.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS COOP, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Mount Benger, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 30th day of November, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 48, of 11th December, 1865, vice J. B. Barton, Esq., resigned.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Member of General Assembly elected.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1873.

The Clerk of the Writs has received a Return to the Writ issued by him on the 26th day of July, 1873, 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 under-mentioned gentleman has been duly elected Member for such District, viz.:

For the District of Wakatipu.

VINCENT PYKE.

G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

(From the New Zealand Gazette No. 60 October 9, 1873.)

Fixing Sittings of District Court, Otago Gold Fields.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir James Fergusson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, during the months of November and December next, shall be held as follows:—

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Naseby on the second Wednesday in November next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Clyde on the Monday next after the second Wednesday in November next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Queenstown on the Monday second after the second Wednesday in November next.