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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 33, 12 August 1867, Page 199

Proposed Route op the Duke of Edinburgh ix H.M.S. Galatea. —The route as at present arranged to be taken by the Duke of Edinburgh, in visiting tin? colonies, is as follows':— C 1 Leaving Gibraltar on the Ist of June, his Royal Highness would proceed, in rotation to Madeira. Rio, Cape, Western Australia, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Lvi-hane, Hobar: Town, Wellington, Auckland, and Tahiti The Galatea, it is thought, may arrive at Wellington about Christmas, and after visiting other parts, leave New Zealand in February or March, reaching England about July IS6S.” It is probable that the* route, so far as Hew Zealand is concerned, will undergo alteration, and that his Highness will first visit Auckland, proceeding southwards, calling at Wellington, Canterbury, &c.

The Local Government Act, 1867 It was our intention to have presented our readers with an. outline of this Act, but upon a more extended examination we fear that we should fail in making such a digest interesting to our readers. It i.soniething rather formidable, c -veriog as it does S 7 dost ly printed pages, besides 10 pages of analysis. Yfe must therefore content ourselves wit-li indicating something of its. nature. It is divided into 21 parts besides the preliminary and explanatory portion. The title declares it to be an Act to establish road districts, ar.d generally to provide lor the administration of local affairs within the limits of townBhips. Part 1 directs how districts are to be brought under the operation of this Act, and provides for the constitution of districts under the Act upon the peti tion of not less than ten inhabitants of Buch district holding rateable property if unopposed by an equal or greater number. Parr 2 relates to council, boards, & a., the number of councillors, their qualifications, Ac. Part 3 contains the qualifications of voters, their rights, the const ruction and revision of the roll. Part 4 relates to elections; how to be carried out, Ac. Part 6 refers to the election of chairman, Ac., of board; Part 0, contracts; Part 10, ’ appointment and removal of officers, their salaries, Ac.; Part 11 provides for balancing, keeping, auditing,. Ac., of board accounts ; Part 12, notices, advertisements of legal proceedings ; Part 13, the enactment of bye-laws; Part 14,■ of what the revenue shall consist; Part 15, the levying of rates, appeals against rates and mode of recovery ; Part IG, the endowment of boards from the ordinary revenue and from land sales ; Part 17 relates to loans and special rates for permanent works ; Part IS gives power to take land for permanent wo; ks and method of procedure ; Part 19 provides for the maintenance oi roads, bridges, Ac., the leasing of tolls, Ac. Part 20 gives power to provide markets and regulate proceedings at markets ; Part 21 contains miscellaneous provisions as to sewerage, lighting, water, the establishment of hospitals or asylums, the recovery of penalties, settlement of disputes, Ac., Ac - Some of the special provisions of the Act will call for particular notice on a future occasion.

Caution. —As some of our outlying settlers, believing in the old maxim that a man’s house is his castle, may suppose that they would be justified in forcibly ejecting an unwelcome intruder from their premises should he refuse to go when requested, we must inform them that they would be so far mistaken if the said intruder should happen to be of the Maori race, as to subject themselves to a penalty of £d, the said fine to be paid to the intruder. Such, in fact, was the decision of the Resident Magistrate at Waimate (Auckland) a short time since, in a case beard before him, Mr Nieman having been so fined, with costs, for forcibly ejecting a Maori woman named Heni, to whom the £ne:was.paid»