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Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, September 23, 1872.

HIS Honor the Deputy-Superintendent directs it to be notified that

JAMES RESTON

has been appointed to be Gaoler of the Public Gaols situated at Addington and Timaru.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, October 3, 1872.

HIS Honor the Deputy-Superintendent directs it to be notified that

JOHN LAMBIE, JUNIOR, of Doyleston,

has been duly elected a Member of the Board of Conservators for the North Rakaia District, in the place of the Rev. W. J. G. Bluett.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Treasury,
Christchurch, Canterbury, N.Z.,
September 26, 1872.

PURSUANT to the provisions of "The Auctioneers’ Ordinance, Session III., No. 3," I hereby give notice that the under-mentioned person has taken out an Auctioneers’ License for the term ending 30th June, 1873:-

CHARLES WESLEY TURNER, Christchurch.

J. BESWICK,
Provincial Treasurer.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, October 3, 1872.

HIS Honor the Deputy-Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserve, temporarily, under the 19th clause of the Waste Lands Regulations, viz.:-

No. 1381 (in red).—All that tract of land half-a-mile wide, situate in the Ashburton and Timaru Districts, extending from the south bank of the River Hinds to the south bank of the River Orari, west of and adjoining Reserve No. 1371 (in red), save and except the land purchased and finally reserved to date—For line of railway.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

RETURN of BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS in the Christchurch District, for the Month ending 30th September, 1872 :—

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, September 28, 1872.

THE following Deed of Dedication is published in accordance with the provisions of "The Diversion of Roads Ordinance, Session XI., No. 3," for general information.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that I, Joseph Dransfield, of Lyttelton, in the Province of Canterbury, in New Zealand, Merchant, being seized in fee simple of that part of Rural Section numbered 1083 on the Map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury, setting out the rural lands in the Mandeville District, commencing at the south-eastern corner of the said section; running thence westerly along the southern boundary of the said section to the south-western corner thereof; thence northerly along the western boundary of the said section about three chains seventy links; thence easterly parallel with the said southern boundary to the eastern boundary of the said section; and thence southerly along the said eastern boundary to the commencing point, and delineated and coloured "green" on the plan in the margin hereof (subject to a certain agreement for the sale of the said section to John Armstrong, of Kaiapoi, in the said Province, farmer), in consideration of the sum of Fifteen Pounds to me paid (the receipt whereof I do hereby admit and acknowledge), do (at the request of the said John Armstrong), hereby dedicate; and I, the said John Armstrong, in consideration of the sum of Ten Shillings to me paid (the receipt whereof I do hereby admit and acknowledge), do hereby dedicate and confirm the said land to the public, TO THE INTENT that the same may for ever hereafter be used as a public highway to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

(Signed) JOSEPH DRANSFIELD [L.S.]

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-named Joseph Dransfield, in the presence of us,

(Signed) J. DRANSFIELD,
Merchant, Wellington.

(Signed) H. J. PILCHER,
Clerk, Wellington.

(Signed) JOHN ARMSTRONG [L.S.]

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-named John Armstrong, in the presence of us,

(Signed) J. C. PORTER,
Solicitor, Kaiapoi.

(Signed) M. PORTER,
Gentlewoman, Kaiapoi.