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Now therefore, I, Henry Hermann Lahman,
Chairman of the County Council of
Westland, in exercise and pursuance of
all the powers vested in and delegated
to me in this behalf, do hereby
grant unto Card Brothers protection for a
track following New River Valley from
mouth of Cock-a-bulla Creek to mouth of
Maori Creek at AM line (a distance of about
five and a half miles), and I do hereby
authorise the collection of the undermentioned
tolls. The track to be maintained to the
satisfaction of the County Engineer, and the
protection to cease on 31st December, 1872.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this
first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two.

H. H. LAHMAN.

SCHEDULE.

For each horse ridden or driven ... s. d.
... 1 0
For each head of cattle ... 0 6
For sheep, pigs, or goats, each ... 0 1

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, July 1, 1872.

THE Chairman of the County Council
directs it to be notified for general
information, that

JOHN HENRY LA MOTH RALFE, Esq.,
has been declared duly elected as a Member
of the County Council for the Okarito
Electoral District, in the room of Michael
Scanlan, Esq., resigned.

A. E. TENNANT,
County Secretary.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, July 1, 1872.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant
to the provisions of the 67th section
of “The County of Westland Act, 1868,”
the County Council will meet for the despatch
of business at the Supreme Court House,
Hokitika, at the hour of noon, on Wednesday,
the 10th day of July instant.

A. E. TENNANT,
County Secretary.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, 8th June, 1872.

In accordance with the request of the Hon.
the Colonial Secretary, the following
Copies of Despatches from the Right Hon.
the Secretary of State for the Colonies are
hereby published for general information.

A. E. TENNANT,
County Secretary.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
25, of the 22nd May, 1872.]

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street,
19th February, 1872.

Sir,—I transmit to you for your information,
a copy of a Circular Despatch on the
subject of Public Nuisances, which I have
this day addressed to the Governors of Colonies,
where the Local Government is not
responsible to the Legislature.

I have, &c.,

KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

Copy of a Despatch from the Right Hon. the
Earl of Kimberley to Governor Sir G. F.
Bowen, G.C.M.G.

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street,
19th February, 1872.

Sir,—I transmit to you, for your information,
a copy of Instruction to Inspectors of
Nuisances issued by Mr. Des Vœux, the
Administrator of St. Lucia, in view of a
threatened epidemic.

I also transmit to you a copy of some
Observations by the Medical Officer of the
Local Government Board, in this country, on
these Instructions.

I wish you to consider whether, even
without the immediate motive of a threatened
epidemic, it would not be desirable to take
similar steps, with such variations as the local
circumstances and law may require.

I have, &c.,

KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

Instructions for Inspectors of Nuisances
appointed under the Provisions of the
Ordinance No. 1, of 27th January, 1854.

I. Inspect carefully every street, house,
and lot in the of, and report upon
each (giving names of owner and occupier)
as to its sanitary condition, taking note sepa-
rately of all things likely to be injurious to
health, especially—1. Water stagnating under
houses; or—2. In the immediate neighbour-
hood of houses. 3. Foul privies, stables,
drains, and cesspools. 4. Dung-heaps. 5.
Pigs. 6. Rank vegetation. 7. General
want of cleanliness, whether in houses or
yards.

II. Inform owners and occupiers of the
danger incurred from the above causes, and