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Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4204, 18 January 1879, Page 6 (Supplement)

Government Notices. hubunui-o-banGi cart bridge, 'county wajbabapa east. County Offices, Masterton, Dec. 23,1878. 1 '1 It f BITTEN TENDEES will be received at i W this office up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 15th January, 1879, for the above contract. They mnst be addressed to the Chairman, Wairarapa hast County, Masterton, and marked oh tbe outside, " Tender for Hnrunmoi rangi Cart Bridge Contract" Plans and spedfications may be seen at the Public Works Office, Auckland, Christchnrch, Dunedin, and Welling, ton; and at the County Council Offices, Masterton. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any ' Telegraph Office by NOON of the same date, provided that written tenders in dne form are lodged at any of the abovenamed offices by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some bank in the town where the tender is lodged; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for twenty-one days, and to be in favor of the Chairman of the Wairarapa East County only, and not to bearer or order. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. „ . G. BEETHAM, CfliaJrman. THE SHEEP ACT, 1878. THE following Clauses are published for general information: — BETURN OF'SHEEP TO BE FURNISHED ANNUALLY TO INSPECTOR. Clause 21. Every owner of sheep shall, between the first and thirtieth day of June in every year, deliver or cause to be delivered to the Chief Inspector, a written return, in the form 'provided in Schedule A, of the number of sheep and lambs of each sex; exceeding three months old owned,by him on the thirty-first day of May preceding, specifying in such return the ear-marks and brands upon snch sheep. Every person refusing or neglecting, to deliver or cause to be delivered Buch return as aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. The Chief Inspector shall, in the month of July in every year, transmit to the Colonial Treasurer a statement, compiled from the returns furnished in pursuance of this section, of the whole number of sheep and lambs within his district. REMOVAL OF SHEEP FROM ONE DISTRICT TO ANOTHER. Clause 40. It shall hot be lawful for any person to introduce by land any sheep from a clean district into any other district, or from an infected district into an infected district, unless he shall hold a clean certificate for snch sheep, and unless he Bhall have given to the Inspector of the district into which they are to be introduced at least previous notice of his intention so to introduce them, stating in Buch notice the number of such sheep, and the point at which and the day on which it is intended they shall, cross the boundary of the district. Every person offending against the provisions of this section shall be liable to a pen*lty of not less than ten pounds nor exceeding one hundred pounds. NOTICE TO BE GIVRN BEFORE MUSTERING SHEEP. First section of Clause 57. Every occupier of anr run exceeding five hundred acres in extent and not substantially fenced, who shall muster his flock or flocks for either of the purposes of dipping or dressing, or cutting and tailing, or ear-marking, or shearing.or removal from the run, shall, twenty-four hours'at least before yarding the same, give personal notice to the occupiers of all tbe adjoining runs of his intentdoni so to yard his sheep. SHEEP INFECTED WITH LICE. : 68. If any Inspector shall be satisfied that any sheep in a district are infected with lice he shall take such steps in the matter as to him shall seem best for the cleansing'of such sheep, for which purpose he'shall, and may, if the sheepowner neglects to cleanse his sheep, exercise all the powers granted to him by this Act, as if the said sheep were infected with scab, and shall : have power to declare them infected sheep; and all sheepowners and other persons shall, if the Inspector shall have declared ■ . the sheep: .to be infected sheep, be liable, in respect;of. sheep 'infected with lice, in ; tha same manner as if such sheep were infected with scab. P. B. BOULTON, Chief Inspector of Sheep. Office of Inspector of Sheep, Christchurch, Jan. 3, 1879. MOUNT HUTT SEVERED.FROM, SOUTH BAKAIA BOAD DISTBICT. (1.5.) NORMANBY, Governor. A PBOCLAMATION. WHEREAS a majority of the ratepayers of that portion of the South Rakaia Road District described hereinnnder have, pursuant to ( the seventh section of the Ordinance of the Province of Canterbury intituled " The Canterbury Roads Ordinance, 1872," petitioned His Excellency the Governor that such portion should be severed from the aforesaid district, and formed into a separate road district: And whereas the County Council of the Ashburton County have, by resolution, pursuant to the second Section of "The Canterbury Roads Ordinance Amendment Act, 1877," recommended the prayer of the said petition: Now, therefore I, George Augustus Constantino, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in mc by the said Ordinance and Act, and by " The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," do hereby proclaim and declare that the portion of the aforesaid South Rakaia Road District described hereunder is severed from the aforesaid district, and is hereby constituted a separate district under the said Ordinance by the name of "Ihe Mount Hutt District," and I do hereby appoint the twenty-ninth-day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sflventy-nipe, for the first election of members of the said district. SCHEDULE. Commencing at a point on the south-west side of tbe River Rakaia, the same being in line with the south-eastern boundary of Section 7305; thence north-westerly, following up the said river to its confluence .with Cascade Glen; thence Bouth-westerty, following up Cascade Glen, the western branch thereof, and the south-eastern boundary of Run 460, Class 3, to- the north branch of the Biver Ashbnrton; thence southeasterly, following down the said river to the south-west corner of. Bun 698, Class 3; thence easterly, following the southern boundary thereof to the south-west boundary of Run 701, Class 3; thence southeasterly, following the south-east boundaries of Buns 701, Class 3, and 199, Class 3, to the southernmost corner of the latter run; thence north-easterly along the southeast boundary ; thereof to the westernmost corner of Bun 739, Class 3; thence south-easterly, following the south-west boundaries of said Bun 739, Class 3 tothe point of its intersection by the line of road leading from the Rakaia to the Ashburton ; by Anthony Thompson's ; thence easterly, fol» lowing-that road to its .junction with the'road forming the south-east boundary of Section 27070 f thence north-easterly, following the latter road to its junction with the road northeast of Section 23437; thence north-westerly along the last-mentioned road' to its junction with tiie "road separating Sections 15597 and 17969; and from thence returning north-easterly along the Bame, and a line in continuation of the south-east boundary of Section 7305 to the commencing point Given under tbe hand of his Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantino, Marquiß of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave,- Viscount Normanby, _ and B -ron Mulgrave, of Mnlgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave, cf Now Ross, in the County of Wexford, in tho Peerage of Ireland ; a member of her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Connoil; Knight Grand Cross of the Mo:-t Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and St. George; Governor and •Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, aud Vice-Admiral of the -same; and-issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty T third day of December, in the year of oar Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy. aght ' G. S. WHITMOBE. Gon Save the Qtjbbkl -■■ Board and Residence. 1.0. G.T. Ijodge*b Temperance Hotel High street. TO MEET THE TIMES I Board and Lodging Seduced to 17s, 18s, an Xl per week. BedaandMoata.leeach. Btabjmg Free. B LIGH'S CANTEBBUBY EESTAUSANT. Papanni road, near Post-office. MEALS AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAT BOABD AND LODOINGS Ma. 18a* and JO. 9* week, __ 8 Beds and MeaJ*,lß«*eh. H