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Dunstan Times, Issue 206, 7 April 1866, Page 2

Tlie new bye laws of the City of Dunedin contain a clause prohibiting the ringing of bells in the streets for the purpose of crying or calling any matter or tiling whatever, under a penalty of one pound for every such offence. Another bye-law provides for the restraining or suppressing of houses of ill-fame. Keepers or persons having ehai'ge of such tire subject to a fine of £lO for every offence An information can be preferred at the instance of the Inspecior of Nuisances, or by two householders, resident in the ntighborhood of such house of ill fame and repute. The "Provincial Government Gazette" of the 28th ult. contains a proclamation by His Honor the Superintendent declaring Queenstown an incorporated town. The newly-created municipality is divided into two wards, North "Ward and South Ward. The " Daily Times " says that petroleum has been struck at Taranaki by the party of miners engaged in boring for the

The same "Gazette" contains the new regulations for depasturing stock upon lands within proclaimed goldfields, or over which no pastoral lease or license exists, or upon (Joldlic.lds Reserves comprised within the districts of Maimlierilda, Clyde, Arrow, Upper Shotover, Waitahuna, and Queenstown, that (is to say) 1. Every holder of a miner's right or of a business l'csnce shall be entitled to run two head of great cattle or horses free of A charge. 2. All other cattle running in the before-mentioned lands shall be assessed and paid for annually at the following rates, viz. : —For every head of large cattle, 2s. 6d. ; for every horse, 2s. 6d. ; for every head of small cattle, Cd. 3. Every person desirous of running cattle on the said lands shall first deposit with the Warden of the district an application in writing for a Depasturing license, which license the Warden is hereby authorised to grant in the form hereinafter mentioned; and any person depositing any such application shall pay therewith a fee of 2s. 6d. 6. Any person infringing these regulations by rlem'-frurinf cattle on the before mentioned lands "without" a license, or depasturing cattle iu excess of the number for which any such license has been issued, will be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten pounds (£10) for the first offence, and Twenty pounds for the second or subsequent offence, as provided by sections 3of the "Gold Fields Act, 1852." 5. A list of the Depasturing Licenses issued, and of the names of the licensees, with the quantity and description of stock which each person ■is authorised to deposture shall be posted up in the Warden's Oihee, so that it can be inspected at any time by the public. I The next sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Extended Jurisdiction Court will ! lie held at the Court-house, Clyde, before ' Mr. Wilson Grey, on Monday, the 14th of

Way nez.'i. The " "West Coast Times " of Monday reports that on Wednesday lust a miner named John M'ClenienU loft the Auckland rush to transact bussnoss in Hokitika. .There is no doubt ho reached town safely, .'or the same evening he was soon at the theatre, but since then has not been heard of. It is feared that after leaving the Theatre lie must have left town on his way homewards, and in attempting to cross one of the creeks, have been swept ■->ut to soa and drowned. During the last few days a considerable number of miners have returned from Okarita to their old haunts up the Grey, | ■mil we are glad to hear that the ru.-h southwards is almost entirely stopped. I fc'ivnn several intelligent miners with •whom ■we have conversed, we hear that the state Jof affairs at Okarita is anything but s.iti.-- | factory, and that hundreds of men are wan dering about, to pet in anywhere I all the ground worth hanclli.ig,having been taken up. A reaction had already commenced, and there was rs much conversa tion at Okarita about the Grey, as there was here about Okarita. Some good been received from the Little j Grey, the population at which place is inI creasing, and some exed'eut ground has recently been opened. From the TwelveMile and Arnold.'the report* ;;re satis- | factory. The beach claims Nor.h and South continue to yield rich returns, and the condition of mining affairs in the Grey ; district gcnerlaly, is such as to inspire in- | creased confidence.