Tolmie, Wm. Alex., sec. 65, b. VIII, Pomahaka
Turnbull, John, secs. 37 and 38, b. IX,
Wilkin, R., and Thomson, A. M’M., sec. 1, b. III, Pembroke
Williamson, James, sec. 11, b. I, Tuturau District
Waddell, James, sec. 11, b. XLII, Clutha
Otago, the Superintendent of the Province of, Reserve marked G, Oamaru Town
Otago, the Superintendent of the Province of, Cattle Market Reserve, Palmerston
Otago, the Superintendent of the Province of, Reserve, section 8, block XX, Dunedin
Otago, the Superintendent of the Province of, Coal Reserve, section 57, block III, Moeraki District
Otago, the Superintendent of the Province of, Mill Reserve, secs. 3 and 4, block XVIII; 56 and 7, block XVII, and part of Durham street.

PERSONS in whose favor Crown Grants have been signed can only obtain them by calling at the Crown Grant Office, or by sending an Agent with an authority in the subjoined form, signed before a Justice of the Peace.

W. H. CUTTEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Grant Office,
Dunedin, 6th December, 1866.

I, A. B., of hereby authorise C. D., of to receive from the Commissioner of Crown Lands the Crown Grant in my favor for section block District, his receipt for which shall be binding on me.

Signature of Claimant.

Signed before me this day of 1867,
A Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1867.

TENDERS will be received at this office until 1st of April, 1867, from persons willing to supply the New Zealand Government with Stationery, to be delivered free of expense in this Colony at such port as the Government may indicate, for the twelve months commencing on the 1st May, 1867.

The articles are enumerated in the New Zealand Gazette of 4th February current, and are to be of the best description of their several kinds.

The Tenderers will be required to forward samples of the paper.

A bond for the sum of £1000—the Contractor in the sum of £500, and two sureties £250 each, for the due performance of the contract—will be required to be entered into within a month of the acceptance of the contract.

William Fitzherbert,
(for the Colonial Secretary).

From the New Zealand Gazette, Feb. 11, 1867. No. 9.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1867.

THE following Rules and Regulations are published for general information.

William Fitzherbert,
(For the Defence Minister).

Colonial Prizes.

1. The firing for the Colonial Prizes will take place at or near Wellington, on a day to be named by the Government.

2. Competitors for the “Colonial Prizes” will fire at ranges of 400, 500, and 600 yards—five shots at each range, without artificial rest, any position. Size of target 6 x 6, centre 4 feet, bull’s eye 2 feet. Value of points:—bull’s eye 3, centre 2 outer 1. Highest possible score 60 points.

3. All officers of the Colonial Forces, any person sworn in and now serving as a militiaman, and all members of Volunteer Corps are eligible to be chosen as competitors for the “Colonial Prizes,” but as the number of such competitors must be very limited, the best shots will be selected from each Province or District by preliminary competitive firing, the ranges for which, number of shots, position, size of targets, and value of points, will be the same as in firing for the Colonial Prizes.

4. Each Province or District will be allowed to send one representative to Wellington for every 30 men who score 20 points at the competitive firing, but no representative will be recognised who does not himself score 30 points.

5. Every person wishing to be a representative must give notice thereof in writing, on or before the twenty-eighth of February, to the Adjutant, who will, under directions of the Officer commanding the district, appoint a day or days between the 1st and 15th of March for the competitive firing, when the highest scorer or scorers (according to the number of representatives to be sent by the Province or District) will be entitled to fire at Wellington for the Colonial Prizes.

6. The cost of a saloon cabin passage to and from Wellington (calculated at the rates charged for return tickets) will be allowed to the competitors, together with a sum of ten shillings a day to each non-resident during his unavoidable detention at Wellington.

District Prizes.

7. Officers Commanding Districts will appoint the times and places for the firing for the District Prizes. Every intending competitor must give notice in writing of his intention to the Adjutant of the permanent staff on or before the twenty-eighth of February next.

8. Competitors for the District Prizes will fire at ranges of 300, 400, and 500 yards—5 shots at each range, without artificial rest, any position; size of target and value of points same as for the Colonial Prizes.

9. No prizes will be given for which there are not at least twenty competitors.

10. No person will be allowed to compete for more than one set of District Prizes.

General Rules to be observed in firing for both the Colonial and District Prizes.

11. The long or medium Enfield rifle, the Lancaster rifle, and the breech or muzzle loading carbine, as issued by the General or Provincial Governments, must alone be used, and attention is particularly called to the notice from the Government Gazette printed at the foot, as the order therein laid down will be strictly enforced.

12. Ammunition will be provided by the Government.

13. One sighting shot at each range will be allowed.

14. No prizes whatever will be given in any case for a less score than 20 points.

15. Each competitor will fire his whole number of shots in the same day, unless the weather turns out unfavorable, when the senior officer present may, at any time, at his discretion postpone the firing until the next favorable opportunity.

16. A list, giving each competitor a number only, will be given to the officer and marker; another list will be made out with each competitor’s name and corresponding number on it, to be kept by the senior officer stationed at the spot where the competitors fire from.

17. Should any competitor absent himself when his turn comes to fire, he is to forfeit his chance, and a shot is to be fired in the air (which the marker will score as a miss), in order to keep the numbers on the lists correct.

18. All disputed points are to be decided by the senior officer present, whose decision will be final.

19. Ties will fire one shot at the longest range until the best shot be returned.

20. In the scoring one point will be added to each hit.