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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 32, 5 March 1873, Page 3

JVew Advertisements. FOR NAPIER. T hTIL>. <V. ‘ OOM E RANG,’ Captain Chbisp, will return from Auckland on or about the 10th March ; and is expected to proceed at once to Napier. ’ For freight or passage apply to G. E. READ, Agent.

DOG NUISANCE ACT. Session I, No. 4, 1854. NOTICE is hereby given that on and after the 17th instant the above Act will be strictly enforced in this district. The following sections of the Act are published for general information: — 6. If any dog, upwards of three months old, shall be at large (whether with or without his owner) on any highway or on unenclosed land, without a ticket issued for the then current year affixed to him, the owner of such dog shall forfeit for every such offence any sum not exceeding twenty shillings. The proof that any dog is less than three months old shall, in any proceeding under tliis Act, lie on the owner of such dog. 13. Any person who shall permit any bulldog or mastiff, or a mongrel of either of the same, or any other dog which shall be known to be dangerous, or to have bitten or injured any person, or any cattle or other property (whether such dog shall have a “ Dog Ticket ” affixed to him or not) to go at large without a muzzle securely fixed upon the mouth of every such dog, so as to prevent the same from biting or injuring any person, or any cattle or other property, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding forty shillings; and any such dog so at large may bo forthwith seized and killed by any constable. 14. If any dog shall on any highway or on any unenclosed place rush at or attack any person, or any cattle, whereby the life or limbs of any person shall be endangered, or any cattle or other property injured, the owner of such dog shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds, without prejudice to any claim for the damage done by such dog. 20. The owner of anv dog shall for the purpose of this Act be deemed to be the person upon whose premises such dog may be kept, or the person in whose care such dog may temporarily be, whether loose or confined. Any person wishing to obtain tickets can now do so on application to the undersigned on any day between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., except Saturdays or Sundays, at the Militia Office, Gisborne. THOMAS E. SHIRLEY, Sergeant A.C.

POVERTY BAY HIGHWAY BOARD. EATE COLLECTQE. ME. JOHN DEUMMOND, C.E., has <en authority to COLLECT ALL EATES due to the Poverty Bay Highway Board. JAS. WOODBINE JOHNSON, Acting Chairman Poverty Bay Highway Board. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. A Branch of this BANK will be opened at Gisborne on the 11th March, in the temporary premises next to the Albion Hotel. D. L. MURDOCH. Inspector. FENCING NOTICE. To A Holmes, G. Spence, M. Hannon, A Parnell, Robert Thelwall, and — Fraser, or other, the owner or owners of Town Sections —Nos. 184,185, 188, 189, 190, and 193, in the Township of Gisborne. FTtAKE NOTICE, that I, the undersigned. J- MATTHEW HALL, intend erecting a dividing FENCE between,my Land in the mid Township, and the above-named Sections, in conformity with the Fencing Act of the Provincial Council of the province of Auckland. Session IL, No. 5, and I hereby require you to assist in erecting the said dividing FENCE within thtbty-okb days from thia date, other* wise I shall proceed to erect the same, and call upon you for payment of one-iialf the Cost of erecting or making the whole of such dividing Ife-ce. StATrHicw HALL Gisborne, March 1,1873.