noon in the office of the Town Board, Invercargill, for the purpose of electing three legally qualified persons who shall be members of the Town Board of Invercargill, in the room of W. B. Scandrett, James Greive, and William Garthwaite, whose seats have become vacant under the provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid:
And I hereby appoint J. C. Hunter, Esq., of Invercargill Returning Officer to preside at the said meeting; and in the event of a poll being demanded, I hereby appoint the polling to take place in the Office of the said Board on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of August current.

J. A. R. Menzies,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 1st August, 1864.

THE subjoined bye-laws, passed by the Wardens of Invercargill and Jacob’s River Hundreds, have received the sanction of the Waste Land Board.

Walter H. Pearson,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Invercargill, 15th July, 1864.

INVERCARGILL HUNDRED.

1. That no cattle of any description be depastured on the Invercargill Hundred without a license: Provided always that working bullocks and horses of bona fide travellers, when on their journey, if turned out to graze, be not considered trespassers if not left longer than two nights in the same neighbourhood.

2. That no sheep, or small cattle of any description, be depastured on the Invercargill Hundred.

3. That no entire horse or bull be depastured on the Hundred, without special written permission of the Wardens.

4. That all license holders do register their brands, or the brands on their cattle, or horses, together with a description of them, within two months from the date of the election of the Wardens, with the Warden living nearest.

5. That all owners of cattle on the Hundred, do give notice in writing to the nearest Warden, before removing cattle from off the Hundred.

6. That all cattle brought on the Hundred, be reported to the nearest Warden, within forty-eight hours after arriving on the Hundred.

7. That each license holder be entitled to depasture ten head of large cattle, together with their offspring, not exceeding twelve months in age, for every section of one hundred acres in his occupation...

8. That the penalty for any breach of the foregoing bye-laws be any sum not exceeding five pounds sterling, to be recovered in a summary manner, according to the 67th Clause of the Land Regulations.

JACOB’S RIVER HUNDRED.

1. That no cattle of any description be depastured on the Jacob’s River Hundred without a license: Provided always that working bullocks and horses of bona fide travellers, when on their journey, if turned out to graze, be not considered trespassers if not left longer than two nights in one place.

2. That no sheep be depastured on the Jacob’s River Hundred.

3. That no entire, horse or bull, be depastured on the Jacob’s River Hundred, without special written permission of the Wardens.

4. That all license holders do register their brands, or the brands on their cattle, or horses, together with a description of them, within two months from the date of the election of the Wardens, with the Warden living nearest.

5. That all owners of cattle on the Hundred, do give notice in writing to the nearest Warden, before removing cattle from off the Hundred.

6. That all cattle brought on the Hundred, be reported to the nearest Warden, within twenty-four hours after arriving on the Hundred.

7. That no person shall be allowed to depasture more than one head of cattle, for every four acres of land, occupied by him in Jacob’s River Hundred.

8. That the penalty for any breach of the foregoing bye-laws be any sum not exceeding five pounds sterling, to be recovered in a summary way, according to the 67th clause of the Land Regulations.

9. That all stray cattle be impounded.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, July 9, 1864.)

A PROCLAMATION
Bringing the “Savings Bank Act, 1858,” into Operation at Invercargill.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.

IN exercise of the power in me vested by the “Savings Bank Act, 1858,” I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the...