The line of the block has been kept well away from the coal reserve at Coal Creek, reported on some time ago by Captain Hutton. Regarding the settlers on the road between Coal Creek and Roxburgh it may be mentioned that their back country is in no way interfered with.

Run No. 247.—The 23,000 acres cancelled on this run consist of 8,000 acres of hard gravelly plain, and 15,000 acres of mountain country. The plain is from 1,250 to 1,400 feet above sea level, and the mountainous part rises from these levels up to the summit ridge, 3,150 to 3,350ft. The block has a frontage to the Taieri River of four and a half miles, and extends back to the summit of Rough Ridge, a distance of from six to seven miles. This is excellent pastoral country, but it is too hard and dry for agriculture. Even if it were suitable for agriculture its position away from any market, and lying many miles off the main road, would preclude profitable cultivation on any scale. The natural destiny of the Upper Taieri Plain and district, of which the block forms a part, is pasturage, and to this purpose it will be devoted for generations to come.

JAMES M'KERROW,
Chief Surveyor.

PROCLAMATION.

PROTECTION OF ANIMALS ACT, 1873.

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

WHEREAS by the “Protection of Animals Act, 1873,” it is provided that no game shall be hunted, shot, taken, or killed in any province until the same shall have been proclaimed as open for that purpose by proclamation in that behalf to be made and published in the Gazette; and no game shall be hunted, shot, taken, or killed except within a consecutive period not exceeding three months of any year to be fixed by the Superintendent by proclamation as aforesaid, between the 1st day of May and the 31st day of June, both inclusive in any year, and only between the hours of sunrise and sunset:

Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, under and by virtue of the powers and authority vested in me by the said Act, and of every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim all that area of land, bounded on the north by Shag River, on the west by the Main North Road, on the east by the ocean, and on the south by the Waikouaiti River; and also that area of land comprised within the Waihola and North Tokomairiro Hundreds, as open for coursing hares between the hours of sunrise and sunset, as and from the date of this proclamation to the 31st of July next. And the sum of £1 shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer by every person obtaining a licence to course hares on the area hereby declared open.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, this 23rd day of May, 1876.

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

PROCLAMATION

Appointing a certain Road in the Glenledi Road District to be a Main District Road.

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

WHEREAS by the “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871,” it is provided that upon the application of the Road Board of any road district the Superintendent may from time to time, if it shall seem fit so to do, by proclamation appoint that any roads or parts of roads, whether within or upon the boundary of such district, shall be main roads or main district roads:

And whereas the Road Board for the Glenledi road district have applied to me, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, to appoint the road hereinafter described to be a main district road:

Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf vested in me by the said “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871,” do hereby appoint the following road situate within or upon the boundary of the Glenledi road district aforesaid to be a main district road (that is to say) :—

All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement seventeen (17) acres and twenty-eight (28) poles more or less, being a new road situate in Block VII, Akatore Survey District, commencing at a road line situate between section numbered 14, block I, and 26, block VII, Akatore; bounded towards the north and north-east by parts of sections numbered 26, 24, 25, 21, 14, 13, and 10, fourteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-five (14,855) links more or less, and a road line one hundred and sixty-nine and four-tenths (169.4) links; towards the south-east by other part of said section numbered 10, nine hundred and forty-four (944) links; again towards the north-east by other part of section numbered 10, nine hundred and twenty-one (921) links; again towards the south-east by a road line one hundred and five and five-tenths (105.5) links; towards the south-west by other part of said section numbered 10, eight hundred and fifty-one (851) links, and a road line one hundred and four and six-tenths (104.6) links; towards the north-west by other part of section numbered 10, seven hundred and sixty-six (766) links, and a road line one hundred and thirteen (113) links; again towards the south and south-west by other parts of said sections numbered 10, 13, 14, 21, 25, and 26, fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty (15,480) links more or less, and towards the west by a road line one hundred and forty-nine (149) links.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this 16th day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

(L.S.)
J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION.

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

I, JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Otago in this behalf by the “Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1865,” and of the powers vested in me as Superintendent of the province of Otago, hereby proclaim and declare that all those roads and all those portions of roads in the Province of Otago, mentioned and referred to in the said “Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1865,” and particularly described in the schedule hereto, shall from and after the day of date hereof cease to be public roads or thoroughfares, and shall no longer form part of the public roads in the several road districts in the Province of Otago mentioned in the schedule to the said Ordinance.