MISSING PERSON.

ENQUIRIES have been made at the Immigration Office, Dunedin, for one Archibald Watson, who sailed from Glasgow for Otago in the ship "Robert Henderson" in the year 1860. Any information respecting the above will be gladly received at the above office. Letters await him.

COLIN ALLAN,
Immigration Officer.

Price 2s. 6d., with Supplement.

THE Otago Roads Ordinances, 1871, 1872, 1874, and 1875,

with notes indicating the several sections amended or repealed and a supplement.

The usual discount to the trade.

N.B. The supplement may be obtained gratis by any person who has purchased the Ordinances.

JOHN LOGAN,
Provincial Government Storekeeper.

COLLECTION of the Licensing Laws in operation in the Province of Otago, N.Z.,

embracing the Licensing Ordinance of the Provincial Council, and the Licensing Acts of the General Assembly, with Notes and Memoranda. Pp. 68.

Price, 2s 6d. The usual allowance to trade.

NOTICE.

CLERKS to District Road Boards are requested to furnish the Provincial Secretary with the names and post addresses of Clerks and Chairmen forthwith.

[Extract from the New Zealand Gazette, Thursday, February 17th, 1876.]

Defining Closed Season for Rock Oysters in Stewart Island.

(L.S.)
Normanby, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Oyster Fisheries Act Amendment Act, 1874," it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, declare any natural oyster bed to be closed against dredging for any period to be stated in such Proclamation.

And whereas it is expedient that the natural oyster beds at Port Adventure, in Stewart Island, should be temporarily closed:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the natural oyster beds at Port Adventure, in Stewart Island, shall be closed against dredging for a period of three years from the twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

H. A. ATKINSON.

SCHEDULE.

PROVINCE OF OTAGO, STEWART ISLAND DISTRICT.

Comprising the whole of Stewart Island, together with its adjacent islands, including the water frontage around the said islands for a distance of two miles from the shores thereof.

[Extract from the New Zealand Gazette, Thursday, February 17th, 1876.]

Closing Oyster Beds, Stewart Island.

(L.S.)
Normanby, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Oyster Fisheries Act, 1866," it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, declare any natural oyster bed to be closed against dredging for any period to be stated in such Proclamation.

And whereas it is expedient that the natural oyster beds at Port Adventure, in Stewart Island, should be temporarily closed:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the natural oyster beds at Port Adventure in Stewart Island shall be closed for taking or catching rock oysters within the boundaries of the district defined in the Schedule hereto during the consecutive months commencing on the first day of December in each year and ending on the thirty-first day of March in each year; and it shall not be lawful to take or catch for sale any rock oysters within the said boundaries during the period aforesaid.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

H. A. ATKINSON.

TIMBER REGULATIONS, SOUTHLAND, OTAGO.

Passed by the Waste Lands Board on 3rd February, 1876, in accordance with the provisions of "Southland Waste Lands Amendment Acts, 1867 and 1875."

Hand Sawyers, Wood Cutters, &c.

1. Applications for timber licenses shall be made at the Land Office, Invercargill.

2. Each application shall state the particular purpose for which the license is required, and the reserve in which the timber is to be cut, and on its being granted by the Waste Lands Board the applicant shall immediately pay the prescribed fees to the Receiver of Land Revenue and obtain a license.

3. The area granted by such license shall be confined to the bush named in the application, the locality and extent being fixed by the Board, and shall extend only to the lands of the Crown which have been or hereafter may be appropriated for "Timber Reserves," in accordance with the provisions of "The Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865, Amendment Acts, 1867 and 1875."

   Any licensed person cutting timber beyond the limit of his license will be considered as unlicensed, and prosecuted accordingly.

4. A fee of five pounds will be charged for a license for twelve months for each hand sawyer, whether felling, cutting, sawing, or drawing timber for sale; and no license shall be granted for a shorter term than six months, the annual license to date from and after the first of January, and the half-yearly ones from and after the first of July in each year—each terminating on the 31st of December same year. In no case shall the charge be less than for half-a-year.

5. An annual fee of two pounds shall be paid by any settler cutting firewood for domestic use, but not for sale.

6. Licenses may be issued to settlers, and others cutting firewood for sale, at 20s. per 20 cords.

7. Licenses may be issued for splitting timber for fencing purposes, for private use or for sale, at 20s. per 500 pieces.

8. No tree is to be cut or log or wrought timber drawn out of the bush or disposed of without a special license for the purpose, the fee under such special license being five shillings each log or tree of one foot and upwards, and two shillings and sixpence for each tree below one foot in diameter, nor shall