PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT. GAZETTE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3320, 7 March 1868, Page 3

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT. GAZETTE.

A Provincial Government Gazette was published yMterday, containing a notification that the Superintendent hud osserved the Auckland and Drury Railway Act, 1368, for the signification of, the, Governor '• pleasure thereon ; and that he- had assented, on behalf of the Governor, to the Auckland Salt- Water Bath Company Lease Act, 1868> and the Hospital Endowment Empowering Act, 1868. Notice is also given of the prorogation of the Provincial Council. Another Gazette ■ was issued yesterday evening proclaiming the town of Shortland to be a slaughterhouse district, and defining the boundaries. The premises situated at ' Karaka Creek, erected by Mr. William Walters, of Auckland, and the premises situated at Waiwhaka-urunga, erected by Messrs. George ' MoLeod and Struan Robertson, are to be respectively public slaughterhouses for the said district within the meaning 1 of the Act. "' '- ' ' The following land has been reserved for a publio stockyard at the Weiti :— All that piece or parcel of land' situated in the parish of Okura, in the county of Eden, and being allotment No. 24, bounded on the north-east by a, road 100 links wide, 6531iqks; on the east by allotment No. 25, 345 links ; on i the south by the southern boundary of the Weiti tojWnship, 650 , links ; on the went and south- weit, by allotment No. 23 aforesaid, 280 links and 290 links ; vnd ojathe nortb-.west by a road 100 links wide,; 175 link* aod 253 link«. , . , ' ,irThe amended boundaries of the Pukekohe i highway district are published. , r ' • . The Highways Act, 1867, is brought into operation in the districts, of the North Shore and Maketu, and the firatijneetings of the electors are to take place at the residence of Mr. Smith, at Stokes's , Point,, on Monday, the 16th day of March initant, at twelve, o'clock noon'; and at . the Presbyteria* ' Church, Ramarama, Great South Road, on the same day and hour. , > u ! _'lh« Superintendent's powers under the fourth} fifth, and ninth sections of the Thistle Act, 1358, are delegated to the Highway Trustees of the { Wairoa district. , - • ' Mr. Joseph Gane has been elected as a Highway' Trustee for the Utahuhu district, in the room of Mr. James P. King, rt signed ; and Mr. J. S. Mellsophas been appointed collector and secretary to the Waiuku Highway Board. Mr. Hoberfc McVeagh has been, appointed ferryman at Cambridge, in the place of William Murphy, resigned. [ ' Crown grants, in favour of persons whose names are given, are now ready for delivery at the office of the .Registrar of Deeds, High-street, Auckland, i The assessment list for the Papatoetoe Highway Djstriot, at Is. per acre, is given ; and for the Hunua Highway District, at 3d. per acre ; for the district of Paparoa (parish of Pakuranßa),; at 3d. per acre; for the Kaukapakapa District, at 3d. per acre. Objections to the above assessments are to be heard by the trustees of the respective districts as follow { — Papatoetoe, at the Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu, on the 7th April, from 3 to 4 p m.; Hunua, at the Papakura Hotel j, . Paparoa (Pakuranga), at the School-room, Howiok, on the 13th March, at 3 p.m.; Kaukapakapa, at, the premises of Mr. Andrew Bonar, on Saturday, 21st March, at 2 ,p.m. The following tenders for provincial works have been accepted : — Ereotion of Court-house, and Cos*" torn-house, Shortland, Thompson and. Constable,; Napier-street, Auckland, £329 ss. j erection '4ft lock-up, Sbortland, John Britton, Auckland,, carting scoria ash from Mount Smart to between sth mile-post and Han's Bridge, James Miller, Otahuhu, Is. 9d. per cubic yard ; carting .scoria ash from Otahuhu Mountain to between Han's Bridge and J3th mile • post, William Abaolum, Otahuhu, Is. 9d. per cubic yard ; carting scoria a§h from Donovan's mountaip to between 13th mile-post and Swing-Swang Creek, John Lupton, New. North Road, 3s. 3d. per cubic yard ; carting scoria, , ash from Mount bmart to between the. Royal Oak, Hotel and, Princes-street, Onehunga, aqd also to the new wharf, W. D. Bush, Otahuhu, 2s. per cubic yard; ereotion of bridge over the Papakura stream, P. Donovan, jun., jOp«hunga, repairs to, Otahuhu bridge,' W. Sutherland, Otahuhu, £26 lOi, . : :