There will be no meeting of the General Road Board on Thursday, 7th February current. Due notice will be given of next meeting.

JAMES DOUGHTY,
Clerk to the Board.

SALE OF CROWN LANDS.—Section No. 32, Block 1, Otokia District, formerly Bush Reserve.—Notice is hereby given that the reserve will be withdrawn from Section No. 32, Block 1, Otokia District, and that the said section will be put up to sale by public auction, within the Land Office, on Thursday, the 21st of February next, at 12 o’clock noon, in terms of Clause LXIV. of the Otago Waste Lands Act, 1866.

TENDERS are wanted for the Erection of a Class-Room (of Timber,) at the Middle District School, Dunedin.

Also, Tenders for the Repairing and Completion of N. E. Valley School Premises. Plans, &c., to be seen at the office of Mr. H. F. Hardy, Architect, Eldon Chambers, until Saturday, the 9th February.

TENDERS wanted for the formation of about Forty Chains of Road in Highcliffe district, at per chain lineal. Specifications to be seen at my house. Tenders to be lodged at my house on or before the fourteenth of February.

JAMES BEATTIE, Clerk and Collector.

31st January, 1867.

POPOTUNOA LOCAL ROAD BOARD.—By appointment of the Superintendent, as advertised in the Provincial Government Gazette of the 9th January, a meeting of the persons liable to be rated within the Popotunoa Road District, took place at Mr. Pollock’s, Popotunoa Hotel, on Saturday, 26th of January, when the following were elected to serve as a Local Board of Road Trustees, viz.:

Mr. Thomas Pollock, Popotunoa Hotel.

Mr. George Steel, Kuriwao.

Mr. David Wallace, Clifton Park.

Mr. James Roy, junr., Wairuna.

Mr. John Pagan, Craiglands.

JAMES ROY, JUNR., Chairman.

Popotunoa, January 26th, 1867.

EDUCATIONAL MEETING AT WAITAHUNA.—A meeting of the male owners and occupiers of land, and householders at Waitahuna and vicinity, will be held in the School-house, Waitahuna, upon Thursday, the 14th day of February, 1867, at half-past 7 o’clock p.m., to take the necessary steps for the formation of the said locality into an Educational District under the Education Ordinance, 1864.

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary Education Board.

HIGH SCHOOL, DUNEDIN.—The School will be Re-opened upon Tuesday, the 12th day of February, 1867. Fees—£2 10s. per quarter, payable in advance.

The Rector and some of the Masters receive boarders.

For further information, apply to the Rector, or to JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

OTAGO GOVERNMENT RURAL LAND SALES.

About 100,000 Acres for Sale, at the Upset Price of 10s. per Acre.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Waste Land Board of Otago have resolved, with the sanction of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, to sell by auction, under the powers conferred by clause 85 of the “Otago Waste Lands Act, 1866,” the unsold surveyed lands within the Hundreds of Dunedin, East and West Taieri, Waihola, North and South Tokomairiro, and East and West Clutha, at the upset price of 10s. per acre.

There are about 100 allotments in the Dunedin Hundred, containing from 7 to 90 acres.

In the East Taieri, about 140 allotments, containing from 10 to 235 acres.

In the West Taieri, about 100 allotments, containing from 26 to 290 acres.

In the North Tokomairiro, about 125 allotments, containing from 20 to 285 acres.

In the South Tokomairiro, about 160 allotments, containing from 26 to 290 acres.

In the West Clutha, about 89 allotments, containing from 26 to 290 acres.

In the East Clutha, about 144 allotments, containing from 19 to 190 acres.

In the Waihola, about 220 allotments, containing from 15 to 400 acres.

The sale of the above lands will commence on Monday, the 25th day of February, 1867, at 12 o’clock, within the Provincial Council Hall, Government Buildings, Dunedin; and will begin with the allotments in the Dunedin Hundred, followed by those in the other Hundreds, in the order named above. The sale will be continued from day to day. This Gazette can be obtained at the Waste Land Office, Dunedin, the Survey Offices at Lawrence, Clyde, and Queenstown, and at all the Post-offices and School-houses throughout the Province.

W. H. CUTTEN,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board.

THE following Clauses of “The Crown Land Sales Extortion Prevention Act” are published for general information:—

II. Every person who shall directly or indirectly offer or propose to accept or receive money or other valuable consideration as an inducement to abstain from bidding or competing as a purchaser or intending purchaser of land belonging to the Crown advertised for sale by public auction and whether or not the same land shall actually be put up for sale or otherwise shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanour and be liable on conviction thereof to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding twelve calendar months and with or without hard labor or to be fined any sum not exceeding two hundred pounds sterling.

III. Every person who shall actually receive money or other valuable consideration for abstaining to bid or compete for the purchase of any Crown Lands which shall have been advertised for sale by public auction and whether or not the same land shall be put up for sale by public auction shall be deemed to have been guilty of a misdemeanour and shall on conviction thereof be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard labor for any period not exceeding two years or fined any sum not exceeding five hundred pounds.

IV. Every person from whom money or other valuable consideration shall have been extorted by the means aforesaid may recover the amount or value of the consideration so extorted in an action for money had and received.

V. It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown Lands in any Province of the Colony or any other person conducting any sale by public auction of Waste Lands of the Crown or any person attending any such sale to require that a declaration in the form of the Schedule to this Act appended shall be made and signed by any person desiring to bid or bidding at such sale and no bid from any such person shall be received until he shall have made and signed such declaration.

VIII. Any Commissioner of Crown Lands or other person connected with the administration of any of the Waste Lands of the Colony who shall cause or attempt to cause or knowingly permit any person to apply for the purchase of any portion of the Waste Lands of the Crown such applicant not being a bona fide intending purchaser or who shall knowingly countenance or permit any collusion or arrangement between intending purchasers of land having for its object to preclude or supersede the necessity of bona fide competition at any such auction sale as aforesaid shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds and shall for ever thereafter be rendered incapable of holding any office or employment under the Crown.