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OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

( PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY )

VOL. XIX. Wednesday : May 26, 1875. No. 964

PROCLAMATION.

Fixing amount of License Fee to be paid by every person taking out a license to kill cock pheasants during the months of June and July, 1875.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by section 17th of the "Protection of Animals Act, 1873," it is provided that every license to take, kill, or pursue game shall be in the form in the second Schedule to this Act, and shall be issued by the Superintendent of the Province in which the person requiring the same shall reside or desire to exercise such license, upon payment of such sum, not exceeding fifty shillings, as may be fixed from time to time by the Superintendent by notification in the Provincial Government Gazette, to the Treasurer of such Province, and shall be signed by the Superintendent or Treasurer, and dated on the day when the same was actually issued, and shall be in force during the period specified in the license:

Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers and authority vested in me by the said section of the said Act, and every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the sum of fifty shillings shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer by every person obtaining a license in the form in the second Schedule to the above Act, entitling such person to take, kill, or pursue cock pheasants, between the hours of sunrise and sunset, during the season of the months of June and July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, within all that area lying between the Waitaki River and Catlin's River, and ten miles back from the sea coast.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, this 18th day of May, 1875.

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.
(L.S.)

[The following is published for general information.]

NO Person shall take, kill or pursue, or use any dog, gun, net, or other engine, for the purpose of taking, killing, or pursuing any Game, until such person shall have taken out a license to kill game under this Act, and paid the duty hereby made payable thereon; and if any person shall offend against the provisions of this Section, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.—Section 16 of the "Protection of Animals Act, 1873."

The above License can be obtained at the Provincial Treasury, Dunedin, where above license fees will be received, and license issued.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

IN conformity to the 29th section of the "Gold Fields Act 1866," and to the Regulations made under that Act and the Gold Fields Acts Amendment Acts of 1867, 1868, and 1869, for the granting of leases for gold mining purposes within the Province of Otago, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a lease for gold mining purposes of Crown Lands to the applicant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against granting such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing and lodged with the Warden at Cromwell, on or before the 18th day of June, 1875.

Copy of the application made, and plans annexed may be seen at the Warden's Office at Cromwell.

Given under my hand at Dunedin, this 18th day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy five.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

James Marshall, on behalf of the Star of the East