THE Public are requested to observe that business with the Land Department must be transacted by personal attendance, or by an agent. The increase of the business of the Office rendering it impossible to reply to written communications, except in special cases.

W. H. CUTTEN, Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 24th February, 1864.

ALL Persons having unsettled claims for Land, acquired either by purchase whilst the land was unsurveyed, or under pre-emptive rights, or under any ordinance, within any surveyed blocks of land advertised as open for application, are requested to call at the Land Office and have their claims adjusted before the date of the decision on the particular block, or the Government will not be responsible should the land over which such claim, or claims exist be sold, but the purchase will be deemed to have lapsed under the 15th clause of the Land Regulations.

W. H. CUTTEN, Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 24th February, 1864.

CROWN LANDS, DECISION DAYS.

WAREPA DISTRICT.

APPLICATIONS for the following Blocks will be decided by Auction at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Tuesday, the 10th day of March, at 12 o’clock noon.

Warepa Block 1
Do do 2
Do do 3
Do do 4

NORTH HARBOR AND BLUESKIN DISTRICT.

APPLICATIONS for the following Blocks will be decided by Auction at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 15th day of March, at 12 o’clock noon.

North Harbor and Blueskin Block 4
Do do 5
Do do 6
Do do 7
Do do 9

WAIKOUAITI DISTRICT.

APPLICATIONS for the following Blocks will be decided by Auction at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 17th day of March, at 12 o’clock noon.

Waikouaiti Block 1
Do do 4

HILLEND DISTRICT.

APPLICATIONS for the following Blocks will be decided by Auction at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday, the 21st day of March, at 12 o’clock noon.

Hillend Block 3
Do do 6
Do do 7

MOERAKI DISTRICT

APPLICATIONS for the following Blocks will be decided by Auction, at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the 23rd day of March, at 12 o’clock noon.

Moeraki Block 3
Do do 4
Do do 5
Do do 10

OTEPOPO DISTRICT.

APPLICATIONS for the following Blocks will be decided by Auction at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday, the 28th day of March, at 12 o’clock noon.

Otepopo Block 2
Do do 5

CLARENDON AND MAUNGATUA DISTRICTS.

APPLICATIONS for the following Blocks will be decided by auction, at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the 30th day of March, at 12 o’clock noon.

Clarendon, block 7
Do do 8
Maungatua, block 3
Do do 4
Do do 5
Do do 6
Do do 7
Do do 8

W. H. CUTTEN,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 1st March, 1864.

NOTICE TO ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.

ASSISTED Immigrants, per the following ships, viz.:

Alpine, 12th Sept., 1859.
Sevilla, 2nd Dec., 1859.
Gala, 23rd Feb., 1860.
Storm Cloud, 28th April, 1860.
Airedale, (Auckland,) 8th Feb., 1860.
Dunedin, (Melbourne,) 12th March, 1860.
Gil-Blas, (do.,) 31st March, 1860.
Pladda, 20th Aug., 1860.
Robert Henderson, 3rd Sept., 1860.
Henrietta, 24th Sept., 1860.
Win. Miles, 1st Oct., 1860.
Evening Star, 14th Oct., 1860.
Silistria, 29th Oct., 1860.

are hereby informed that unless payment be made, or satisfactory arrangements entered into for the payment of the balances due by them on account of their passages, on or before the 31st March instant, legal proceedings will be instituted for the recovery of the debt without any further notice.

COLIN ALLAN,
Immigration Agent.
Immigration Department, 1st March, 1864.

LIST of Persons applying for Relief under the "Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862."

Patrick James Sullivan, of Invercargill, Southland, a debtor, not in custody.

James Gillon, of Dunedin, Otago, wine merchant, a debtor not in custody.

John Wagstaff, of Dunedin, carpenter, a debtor not in custody.

James David Jones, of Dunedin, storekeeper, a debtor.

John Morris Davies and William John Blake, of Dunedin, Otago, hotelkeepers.

John Cargill and George Turnbull, praying for sequestration of estate of Henry Arnold, of Inch Clutha, miller and sawyer.

James Hemsley, of Spray street, Invercargill, Southland, builder, a debtor, not in custody.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.