THE GAZETTE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 243, 26 September 1872, Page 6

THE GAZETTE.

By the last mail we have received a batch of Gazettes, in which appear the following notifications :—: —

The Governor has assented to the following Ordinances passed by the Provincial Council during its last session: The Lawrence Athenreum and Mining Institute Reserves Management, Oamaru Hospital Reserve Management, Dunedin Manse Reserve, Donstan Racecourse Reserve, Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance Amendment, Otago Local ' Revenues, Lawrence Reserves Management, Balclutha Reserves Management, Invercargill -Education Reserve, Invercargill Athenseum Reserve Management Ordinance Amendment, Southland EducationßeserveEducation, Education Reserves Jacob's River Hundred Sale Ordinance, and the Riverton Reserves Management. His Excellency has also confirmed the recommendation of the Provincial Council to set aside a grant of land not exceeding 10,000 acres for works in connection with the completion of the Oreti and Invercargill railway. Letters of naturalisation have been issued in favor of Otto Frederichs, of Dunedin, laborer ; Sam Chew Lain, of Lawrence, hotelkeeper ; J. J. Knoch, Dunedin, laborer ; Julius Hyman, Dunedin, hotelkeeper; Joseph Kiihtze, Alexandra, brewer j Thomas Ching Sins, Lawrence, agent. The following appointments are made :—: — Henry Orbell, Esq., Waikouaiti, W. H. Oatler, Esq., Benmere, to be J.P.s; L. W. Smyth, Tokomairiro, and E. Morton, Tuapeka, to be Inspectors of Weights and Measures for their respective districts ; J. P. Maitland and H. W. Robinson to be Auditors of the Courts of Law Trust Accounts for the Clutha and Otago Goldfields respecively ; Mr F. A. Monckton, to be Coroner for Invercargill. vice Mr Hodgkinson. resigned ; T. Daniel, to be Immigration Officer at Riverton.

New Water Supply Regulations are published in the Gazette of the 31st ult.

The following Order in Council relating to telegrams is published. Telegrams will be transmitted in the following order of priority : — Telegrams of the General or Provincial Government marked urgent — General Government telegrams having precedence ; telegrams relative to the arrest of criminals or persom accused, or the discovery or prevention of crime ; telegrams relating to cases of pressing emergency, such as accident, sickness, or death, may be transmitted in priority to any others. Subject to the above exceptions, all telegrams will be transmitted in the order in which they may be received by the officers of the department. In order to prevent a monopoly of the line by any one company or individual, when several telegrams are presented for transmission about the same time, and any one of these telegrams is of considerable length, then no officer shall transmit more than two hundred words of any such telegram at one time.