THE GAZETTE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2241, 11 February 1897, Page 10

THE GAZETTE.

| A proclamation appears in the Gazette de- ! fining the altered boundaries of the Southland i and Wallace Counties, as agreed to by mutual content. A new regulation is gazetted under the Fac- | tories Aot providing for a minimum air space ; fur each person of 250 cubic feet in daytime and 400 cubic feet »fc night, but if the electric | light ii used tho Utter may bo diminished by a i permit from the inspector. j Regulations are alto gazetted for the disposal j of lands acquired under the Lands for Settle- , merit Act j Tbe holding area of land for settlers in the > Peaks Village Horueate&d, Canterbury, is incrcHsed to 100 acres. A list of local bodies appointed to hare authority to take poll in the licensing districts is gazetted. The sale of deer in the Wellington Acclimatisation district is prohibited for thrco ye»r#. A list of the districts into which th« colony has been djyided for the purposes of old age pensions — 73 in number — is gazetted, a'oug with tbe regulations for the receipt of claims, the time for which is extended .to Apiil 30.' The Public Trustee gives notice to claim % section of land in the township of Lincoln which once belonged to the late Mr J. E. Fitzgorald, who was believed to have sold it, and whose heirs disclaim ownership. Pastoral leases in Blarlborougb, covering over . 400,000 acres, will be offered on Fabrn*ry 25. The arrivals in the colony during the year ended December 31 were 17,236, and the departure! were 15,764. The population on . December 31 was estimated at 754,016, inclusive of Maoris.