general information, under the 191st Clause of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

A. E. TENNANT,
Chief Clerk.

BYE-LAW OF THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF GREYMOUTH, MADE UNDER SECTION 186 OF "THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1867."

IN PURSUANCE OF SECTION 186 OF "THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1867," THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF GREYMOUTH ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS :—

First. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep, or permit or suffer to be kept, on his or their premises, any offal, refuse, decayed substance, stagnant water, or any offensive matter or thing from which any stench shall arise, or from which any drainage, leakage, soakage, shall arise or take place, so as to be a cause of offence or nuisance to the occupiers or owners of the adjoining land, or to any other person.

Second. It shall be lawful for the Inspector of Nuisances, or any other officer of the said Council, on their behalf duly authorised, at all reasonable hours of the day, to enter into and upon the premises of any person or persons upon whose premises any such cause of offence or nuisance shall arise, lie, or exist, and to give notice in writing to the occupier, or, if there be none, then to the owner of such premises, to remove any such cause of offence, or otherwise to abate the same. And if such occupier or owner do not, within three days after the service of such notice, comply with the same, such occupier or owner on whom the said notice shall be served shall be liable to forfeit a sum not exceeding £5 (Five Pounds), to be recovered in a summary way before any Justice of the Peace, in the manner provided by "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1866." And it shall be lawful for any Resident Magistrate, or any two Justices of the Peace, to order such cause of offence to be removed, or such nuisance to be abated, by the said Inspector of Nuisances, or by the said Officer, and that the expense thereof shall be paid by such occupier or owner, as the case may be: Provided that in the event of there being no known resident occupier or owner resident within the Borough it shall be sufficient to post the said notice on the premises where the cause of offence or nuisance exists.

Passed by the Council of the Borough of Greymouth, this twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

JOSEPH KILGOUR, Mayor.

JOHN A. WHALL, Town Clerk.

Hokitika, 4th January, 1870.

PURSUANT to Section 13 of "The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868," I hereby publish, for general information, Bye-Laws Nos. 6, 7, and 8, of the Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board, under the powers delegated to me in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor.

C. HOOS,
Governor’s Delegate.

BYE LAW No. 5.

At a Meeting of the Mining Drainage Board of the District of Jones’s Flat, begun and holden at Ross, in the said District, on the 7th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, it is enacted by the said Drainage Board as follows :—

That is to say—

The Mining Drainage Board of the District of Jones’s Flat, did expend the sum of ninety-five pounds, seventeen shillings, and five pence halfpenny in preliminary expenses, for and on behalf of the said Drainage District; and for the purpose of equalising the said sum as aforesaid between the holders of the drainage area on Jones’s Flat, and all such areas as may from time to time hereafter be applied for, to the Mining Drainage Board as aforesaid.

It shall be lawful for the said Mining Drainage Board to demand and receive a proportionate sum as may by the said Mining Drainage Board be determined on, in liquidation of such preliminary expenses as aforesaid, before any such drainage area—to any person or persons applying for the same—be granted.

JOSHUA GIBSON, Chairman.

J. D. WATSON,

F. W. MORGAN,

T. TURMAN.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by the 13th clause of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to authorise the construction by private enterprise of any road, bridge, wharf, ferry, or other public work, for the use and benefit of the public, and to permit the occupation for a limited period of sites for the same, and to provide for the payment of such tolls for a limited period by all persons using the same as he shall deem reasonable :

And whereas, by the 109th section of the said Act, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to such person as the