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Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 455, 12 December 1868, Page 3

RETURN TICKETS FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, AT REDUCED RATES. rriHE Melbourne, Adelaide, and Now X Zealand Steam Shipping Company's fine and favorite steamers will leave as under — A L H A M ,B R A , 1000 tons, John M'Lkan, Esq., Commander, For NELSON, WELLINGTON", LYTTELTON, DUNEDIN, BLUFF HARBOR, And MELBOURNE, On or about TUESDAY, the 15th INSTANT. OME 0 , 1000 tons, Hugh Mackik, Esq., Commander, For MELBOURNE DIRECT, transhipping to Sydney and Adelaide, ON AN EARLY DATE, With gold and passengers. Return Tickets will be granted at Reduced j Rates, with liberty to remain one month at any port, affording :\ splendid opportunity for visiting friends at the Christmas time. Passengers conveyed on board free of charge. For Freight or Passage, apply to D. GIRDWOOD and CO., Agents, Mawhera Quay, CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. STEAM TO SYDNEY DIRECT. THE Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Co. 'a Steamship' LORD ASHLEY, H. Worsp, Commander, Will be despatched for SYDNEY DIRECT On SUNDAY NEXT, 13th INST., With Gold and Passengers. Passengers conveyed on board free of charge. For freight or passage, apply to G. W. MOSS, Agent, Albert street, STEAM-TUG PERSEVERE rriHE above-named Steameris prepared to X carry Passengers and Cargo, and TOW VESSELS in and out of the River as per agreement. D. GIRDWOOD and CO., Agents, Mawhera Quay. STE4.M-TUG DISPATCH, THE Grey River Steam Tug Company's powerful Double-Engine (Steamer DISPATCH, prepared to Tow Vessels in and out of thu river as per agreement, to bo arranged on application to G. W. MOSS, Manager, Albert street. f^i A U T I O N . The following Clauses of "The Weights and Measures Act, of 1568," are published for general information : — Clause I.— The Short Title of this Act shall be " The Weights and Measures Act, 1868 ;" and it shall come into operation on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. Clause 45. — If any person use or have in his possession any weight or measure other than those authorised by this Act or some aliquot part thereof or which has not been marked as aforesaid, or which (not being in the possession of a seller- of weights and measures for the purposes of sale only) has not been stamped as aforesaid except as hereinbefore excepted or which is found to ba ight or otherwise unjust or if any person use or have in his possession any false or imperfect scales balance steelyard beam or other weighing machine he shall on conviction forfeit any sum not exceeding ten pounds and any contract bargain or sale made by any such unstamped weights and measures or such false or imperfect scales balance steelyard beam or weighing machine shall be wholly null and void and every such light unjust or unstamped weight or measure or false or imperfect scales balance steelyard beam or weighing machine shall on being discovered by any Justice or Inspector of Weights and Measures be seized and on conviction of the person using or possessing the same shall be forfeited. Clause 47. — If any person wilfully obstruct resist hinder or oppose any Inspector of Weights and Measures in the execution of | his office or if any person selling conveying or carrying by weight or measure refuse to produce and deliver his weights measures scales balances steelyards beams or- other weighing machines to such Inspector or to any Justice he shall on conviction forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding ten pounds. ROWLAND DAVIS, \ Inspector. TO LET— The Verandah Cottage, in Tainui street, lately occupied by Mr Davies, of the Bank of N.ew Zealaud. Apply to " C. HAMMOND, Mawhera Quay. TO LET— Shop and Two Rooms, situated in Boundary street. Apply to H. H. Lahman, Albert street. rpO LET— That new four-roomed Cottage, I situated on Smith's Terrace, formerly occupied by Mr S. Jago. Apply office of this paper. UNCAN M'NAB, Esq.— A Canadian paper for you at this office.