Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 5, 11 March 1891, Page 48

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1891, pages 311, 312, and 316.) Regulations for Deer-shooting, Otago.

ONSLOW, Governor. IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and “ The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1881,” His Excellency William Ilillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby notify that deer (bucks or stags only) may be shot and killed within the boundaries of the Otago Acclimatisation Society’s district, subject to the following regulations and restrictions, namely:— Regulations. 1. Licenses to shoot and kill deer (bucks or stags only) in the Otago Acclimatisation Society’s district, except within the area hereinafter described, will be issued under the hand of the Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society, and for every such license a fee of £2 sterling will be charged. The said Chief Postmaster is hereby appointed and authorised to issue and sign the said licenses.

2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to kill bucks or stags only between the days of the 7th March, 1891, and the 30th April, 1891. 3. No hind or fawn will be allowed to be killed on any pretext whatever, and no dogs will be allowed to accompany either the licensee or any attendant he may have with him. 4. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Postmaster of the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer;

such notice to be posted, or delivered, or telegraphed three clear days before such date. 5. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorising any person to sell any deer or portion thereof. 6. No deer shall be shot within an area containing about 24,800 acres in one block, being parts of the Mid-Hawea, Longslip, Lower Hawea, and Lindis Districts ; and plans of which area will be issued by the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society to persons to whom licenses to shoot deer are granted. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one. P. A. BUCKLEY, Colonial Secretary.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Timaru District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 2nd March, 1891. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap point

Sergeant-Major William Thorner Mason to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under “ The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Timaru.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Clerks of Licensing Committees appointed,

Department of Justice, Wellington, 4th March, 1891. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be the Clerks of the Licensing Committees for the districts set opposite their names respectively:— Clerk. District. Constable Nixon Scott .. .. Aratapu. Constable William Bulford .. Karioi. Constable Henry Salmon .. Waimate. W. P. BEEVES. Clerks of Resident Magistrates' Courts appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, 4th March, 1891. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint William Jesse Reeve to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Pahiatua, from the 9th instant, vice Constable C. Cooper; and

Constable William Pool to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Kaitangata, from the 16th instant, vice Constable A. Christie. W. P. REEVES.

Police Gaolers appointed

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch), Wellington, 2nd March, 1891. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the persons hereafter named to be Police Gaolers at the places respectively stated after their names : Sergeant Henry Green, Naseby, vice Richard Willis, transferred. Constable Richard Patterson, Reef ton, vice James Slattery, transferred. W. P. REEVES.

Sale of Unclaimed Property. Police Department (Commissioner’s Office), Wellington, 3rd March, 1891. THE unclaimed property described hereunder, and now in the possession of the police at the stations named, will, unless previously claimed, be sold by public auction, at the respective police-offices, on Saturday, the 28th instant, at noon, in accordance with the Police Regulations:— Auckland : Brooch and sundries.

Wanganui : Two swags, containing clothing and sundries. Wellington : Silver watch, ladies’ waterproof cloak and cape, gold ring set with small pearls and garnets, macintosh coat, and sundries. Dunedin : Ladies’ black-cloth jacket. Oamaru : Scarf-pin, brooch, boys’ ulster, swag, and tin trunk uontaining sundries. Invercargill: Silver brooch and sundries.

A. HUME, Commissioner of Police