PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3222, 13 November 1867, Page 3

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

A Provincial Government Gazette was published last night, and contained a public notification to the effect that the Auckland Municipal Police Act, 1866, will be brought in force, from and after the 11th instant, within the limits of the Town of Shortland, and comprise all those lands, bounded on the west by the sea, on the south-west and south by the Waiwhakaurunga Creek to the Church Missionstation on the east by a line on a bearing of north 37- west from the Church Mission-station, to the Karaka stream, and on the north by the Karaka ■tream to the sea. The Highways Act is declared to be in operation in the district of Kaukapakapa, and the first meeting of thfe electors appointed to take place at the residence of Mr. Andrew Bonar, Kaukapakapa, on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of November instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. The chairman of the annual meeting of the electors of the East Tamaki highway district has notified to the Superintendent the names of the undermentioned gentlemen, elected highway trustees for the district :— Daniel Bailey, Robert Bent, John McGechie, Henry Smeed, John G. Styak. The Superintendent* powers under the 4th, otb, and 9th sections of the Thistle Act, 1858, ate delegated to the trustees of the Otahuhu highway district. „ It is notified for general information that application has been made, under the provisions of the fourth clause of the Slaughter-house Act, 1866, by Mr. William Walters to the Superintendent, for the grant of a private slaughter-house license to his premises near the Harp of Erin. Notice is given that the run described below has baen claimed by William Butler:— "Situation, Mangonni. Boundaries : Bounded on the north by the road from Mangonui to Oruru ; on the east by the Mangouui harbour; on the south by native land; on the west by the farms of William Butler, Norton Butler, and Stephen Wrathall, jun., exclusive of all lands of European and native proprietary within the before-mentioned boundaries. Estimated extent: 4,000 acres. Number and description of stock upon the run (to commence with) : 20 head of cattle and 200 sheep." By virtue of the authority vested in the Superintendent by the Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1867, he has appointed the undermentioned gentlemen to be emigration agents for the province of Auckland :— Messrs. Ridgway and Son*, London ; Hugh Pollen, 15, Eden Quay, Dublin ; John Dyer, Queen's Square, Belfast; Charles M. Hepburn, Glasgow; F. W. Errington Glanworth, County Middlesex, Canada W. ; Alexander A. Smith, Bosanquet, Canada West ; W. H. Mare, St. John's, Newfoundland ; John McKinnon, County of Sydney, Nova Scotia ; R. Cheeseman, Lowth, England ; W. Meicklejohn, Prince Edward's Island ; F. J. Mullens, Bergedorf, Hamburg ; Robert Gilfillan, Macquarie Place, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Messrs. Gordon and Crotch, Melbourne, Victoria ; Henry Best, Hobart Town, Tasmania.

«' Wh»t news to-day ?" said a Brisbane merchant to his friend lately. '' What news !" responded the other— "nothing, only fchiDgs grow better— people are getting on their legs again. 1 ' "On their legs !" eaidthefirs^, " I don't see now you can make that out." •' Why, yes," replied the other, " folks that used to ride are "obliged to walk now ; is not that setting on their legs again ?" A Stbjlnok Bibd.— The Hobart Town Mercury MTS • " Mr. Hiuey, the taxidermist, has received a specimen of a somewhat rare bird, the Scythrops, which was shot reoently in the Huon district, and which has just been set up by him. Of this bird only one species ii known, which is proper to New Holland. It is as large as a crow, whitish, with a grey mantle. It has a large and thick bill, with two slight ridges longitudinally on each sidej; the tail is very beautiful, and extended peculiarly in the form of a fan. According to Cagsell, this bird utters a piercing and almost terrific cry. The birds are teen morning and evening usually in Paris. They are of a wild and fierce character, and oannofc be tamtd. Their appearanoe and ories are said to be a pur* indication of approaching wind or ■torm."