SALE OF TOWN AND RURAL LANDS.

HIS Honor the Deputy-Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has fixed Tuesday, the 7th day of October, 1873, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, at a Sitting of the Waste Lands Board, in the Land Office, at Christchurch, as the time and place when a Sale by Auction of Town and Rural Land shall take place, in accordance with Clause 24 and Clause 35 of the Waste Lands Regulations, subject to the usual conditions of sale, and in conformity with the regulations for the disposal, sale, letting, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown now in force within the Province of Canterbury.

Applications will be received by the Waste Lands Board on and up to Monday, the 22nd day of September, 1873.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, September 1, 1873.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the twenty-second year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "The Provincial Reserved Bills Act, 1858," it is enacted that whenever any Bill shall have been passed by the Provincial Council of any Province, and shall have been reserved by the Superintendent for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, such Bill shall not have any force or authority within the said Province until the Superintendent shall signify, either by speech or message, to the Provincial Council, or by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, that such Bill has been laid before the Governor, and that the Governor has assented to the same.

And whereas certain Bills intituled—

"The District Roads Compulsory Land-taking Ordinance, 1873,"
"The Reserve No. 74 Ordinance, 1873,"
"The Reserve No. 304 Ordinance, 1873,"
"The Reserve No. 424 Ordinance, 1873,"

were passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, and the same were reserved by the Superintendent of the said Province for the assent of His Excellency the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, Richard James Strachan Harman, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in pursuance of all powers vested in me, do hereby proclaim and declare that the aforesaid Bills have been laid before His Excellency the Governor, and that His Excellency has consented to the same.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this second day of September, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

R. J. S. HARMAN,
Deputy-Superintendent of Canterbury.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the owners and occupiers of land and householders in the Educational District of Pigeon Bay have failed within the time limited for that purpose by the Board of Education to contribute and pay to the Provincial Treasurer the amount fixed by the Board as the contribution of the said district for school purposes:

Now, therefore, I, Richard James Strachan Harman, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in pursuance of the powers vested in me, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, do hereby declare a uniform rate of sixpence half-penny in the pound to be leviable within the said district, under the provisions of the forty-second section of "The Education Ordinance, 1873," and I do hereby appoint EDWARD GOODWIN as the person to whom the said rate shall be paid.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

R. J. S. HARMAN,
Deputy-Superintendent.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, September 1, 1873.

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

John Neill
and
Thomas Pritchard

to be Warders at the Lyttelton Gaol, vice James Johnstone and John Reid resigned.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Provincial Secretary.