TENDERS

TENDERS will be received by the Town Clerk at the Town Hall, Port Chalmers, until noon of Tuesday the 12th day of March, for the supply and laying of 500 yards of Road Metal on George Street, Port Chalmers. Tenders to be endorsed—"Tender for Metalling George Street."

Forms of Tender may be had at the Town Hall.

John Taylor, Town Clerk.
Port Chalmers, 27th Feb. 1867.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

Taken at Dunedin, for the Month of JANUARY, 1867.

Lat. 45° 52' 11" S. Long. 170° 31' 7" E.
Altitude above Sea, 550 feet.

Barometer (reduced to 32° Fah. and sea level).
Mean atmospheric pressure for month ... 29.910 inches
Highest pressure (on 25th) ... 30.433 "
Lowest pressure (on 2nd) ... 29.230 "
Range for month ... 1.203 "

Temperature in Shade
Approx. mean temperature for month ... 58.3 Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ... 66.5 "
Mean minimum temperature ... 50.1 "
Mean daily range of temperature ... 16.4 "
Highest maximum temperature (recorded on 7th) ... 85.0 "
Lowest minimum temperature (on 3rd) ... 42.0 "
Extreme range for the month ... 43.0 "

Solar Radiation
Maximum (on 7th) ... 110
Minimum (on 1st) ... 78
Mean for month ... 97

Terrestrial Radiation
Maximum (on 28th) ... 52
Minimum (on 3rd) ... 37
Mean for month ... 45

Mean degree of humidity (Saturation, 100) ... 77.2
Mean elastic force of vapour ... 0.355 inches
Mean temp. of dew point ... 49.5 Fah.
Total rainfall on 15 days ... 4.216 inches
Greatest rainfall in one day (the 30th) ... 1.056 "
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast, 10) ... 6

Wind
Mean velocity per day for month ... 141 miles
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on 3rd) ... 510 "

Number of days on which the wind blew from each point at 9.30 a.m.:
N., N.E., E., S.E., S., S.W., W., N.W., Calm.
2, 7, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 0, 12

Gale occurred on 2nd, from West.
Thunderstorm occurred on 28th.
Fog prevailed on 15th and 18th.

Henry Skey.

REGISTRATION FORMS

REGISTRATION FORMS may be obtained gratis from any of the Registration Officers or Wardens in the Province. The claims must be lodged with the respective Registration Officers before the end of March, 1867.

GENERAL ROAD BOARD OFFICE.—NOTICE

The next meeting of the General Road Board is appointed to be held on Thursday, the 7th day of March now next, at 12 o'clock, at the Government Offices, Dunedin.

James Eougherty, Clerk.

WANTED

WANTED, information about Job and Zacharias Curnow, belonging to Gwithian, near Hayle, Cornwall, who arrived in Melbourne per ship "Norfolk," in 1861, and soon after proceeded to the Otago Gold Fields. Any intelligence regarding the above-mentioned persons will be received by the Immigration Agent, Dunedin, for transmission to their friends in Britain.

PUBLIC CIRCULATING LIBRARIES

A Supply of Books for the Otago Public Libraries is expected shortly to arrive by the ship "City of Dunedin." Library Committees will obtain further information from

John Hislop, Secretary,
Education Office, Dunedin.

ADVERTISEMENT SHEET

ADVERTISEMENT SHEET.—Parties who get the Sheet will please give immediate notice at the Superintendent's Office, Dunedin, by letter or otherwise, in the event of their addresses requiring to be altered.

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 labour 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 labour 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.

NEW REGULATIONS for the DEPASTURING of STOCK upon certain Lands within the proclaimed "Otago Gold Field," and of the appointment of Wardens.—[From last week's Gazette.]

1. Every holder of a miner's right or of a business license shall be entitled to run two head of great cattle or horses free of charge.

2. All other cattle running in the before-mentioned lands shall be assessed and paid for half-yearly, and paid for at the following rates, namely: