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the road; or, when passing any vehicle or animal going in the same direction, not going or passing, or not allowing any person desirous so to do, to pass when practicable on the right or off side of such animal or vehicle. Or,

7. Riding upon any cart, dray, waggon, or other carriage without having and holding proper and sufficient reins; or, being the owner or hirer of any such cart, dray, waggon, or other carriage, allowing an incompetent person to have charge of the animal or animals drawing the same. Or,

8. Driving any cart, dray, waggon, or truck without the name and residence of the owner thereof being painted in a legible and permanent manner on the right or off side thereof in letters of at least one inch in length. Or,

9. Being the driver of any vehicle injuring any person or any property whatever, by negligence, or by driving on the wrong side of the road, or being away from the horse or cattle drawing such vehicle so as to be unable to have full control thereof. Or,

10. Acting as driver, or having the sole charge of more than one vehicle on any road. Or,

11. Leaving upon any road any plough, harrows, cart, or other vehicle or implement without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, except in consequence of some accident having occurred. Or,

12. Slaughtering or skinning any beast upon any road, permitting any skin or carcase to remain there, or leaving any dead beast upon any road. Or,

13. Leaving any iron, timber or boards, article or thing laid across any vehicle going along any road, so that either end shall project more than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle. Or,

14. Discharging any firearms or fireworks, or playing at any game upon any road. Or,

15. Blasting any rock, stone, or timber, upon or near any road without permission in writing from the Board. Or,

16. Fishing from the North-East Harbor, Beach Road, or bridge crossing Anderson’s Bay;

shall, on being convicted thereof, be liable to pay a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.

The foregoing Bye-Laws and Regulations were made by the District Board and Ratepayers of the District of the peninsula, at a meeting of the Board held on Saturday, the second day of January, 1875, when the common seal of the Board was, by order of a majority of the members present, whose names are hereunder written, affixed hereto.

ALEXANDER STUART, Chairman.
W. HOOPER.
JOHN MATHIESON.
W. M. FRASER.
WILLIAM BURKE.
ROBERT INGLIS.
WILLIAM STEWART.
CHARLES HUNTER.

I approve of the foregoing Bye-Laws and Regulations.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
19th January, 1875. 1—£2 4s.

BYE-LAW of the Portobello Road District, duly made in pursuance of the powers and provisions contained in the “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871,” the “Otago Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1872,” the “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871, Amendment Ordinance, 1874,” and the “Highway Boards Empowering Act, 1871,” and passed at a meeting of the Portobello Road Board held in the Portobello Road District, on the 28th day of December, 1874, entitled, “Bye-law to provide for the order and good government of the Portobello Road District:”

“If any horses or any cattle be at any time found straying or trespassing on any formed street, district road, or footpath under the control of the Road Board, with or without any person in charge thereof, the owner of every such horse or cattle shall, on conviction, forfeit for every such horse or head of cattle a sum not exceeding two shillings and sixpence.

JOHN McCARTNEY,
Chairman.

(L.S.) The common seal of the Portobello Road Board was hereunto affixed by the Chairman of the Board in the presence of

W. A. WILSON,
W. DICKSON, Jun.,
Members of the Portobello Road Board.

I approve of the foregoing Bye-Law.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.
Dunedin, 1st February, 1875. 1—12s.

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given to the Voters of the West Taieri River District that the annual general meeting for the election of a board of conservators for the district will be held in the Drill Shed, Outram, on Wednesday, the 10th February, 1875, at six o’clock, p.m.

JAMES SHAND, Chairman.
West Taieri, 20th January, 1875. 2—6s 6d

AUCTIONEER’S LICENSE.

A Meeting will be held at the Provincial Government Offices, Dunedin, at noon on Thursday, 18th February, 1875, to consider the application of GEORGE FREDERICK MARTIN, of Invercargill, for an Auctioneer’s License.

CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF OAMARU.

AUCTIONEERS’ LICENSES

NOTICE is hereby given, that pursuant to the directions of His Honor the Superintendent, Auctioneers’ Licenses for the year ending, 13th January, 1876, have been issued by me to the following persons, viz.:-

NEIL FLEMING, Tyne Street
HENRY CONNELL, Tyne Street
ARTHUR HAY MAUDE, Tyne Street
SAMUEL E. SURIMSKI, Tyne Street.

E. W. ROXBY,
Collector of the Corporation of the Town of Oamaru.
1—8s

SUPREME COURT CIRCUIT SITTING.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Circuit Court sitting of the Supreme Court for the despatch of criminal and civil business will be holden in the Court House, at Lawrence, on Tuesday, the 16th day of March next, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon; at which time and place all persons bound by recognizances or otherwise to appear as prosecutors, plaintiffs, defendants, or witnesses are required to give their attendance.

EDWARD FRAS WARD,
Registrar.
Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, February 1, 1875.
19th January, 1875. 1—£2 4s.

TENDERS wanted for Contract No. 2 Masonry, Provincial Government Museum; also, for Concrete and Wooden Building for Dissecting House, &c.

Tenders to be in the Government tender box by noon on Tuesday, 9th inst.

DAVID ROSS,
Architect, Princes Street.

NOTICE TO FENCE.

To the Occupiers of Section 23, Block I., Akatore.

TAKE NOTICE that I desire that the boundary or dividing fence between Sections 37 and 23, Block I., Akatore, be put up at once, or within a month from date, said fence to consist of posts, with four wires, and double ditch.