CROMWELL TO QUEENSTOWN.—Tenders will
be received at the Office of the Secretary for
Public Works until Noon of Thursday, the 21st March,
for Contract No. 249, Formation of Road, Arrow Flat
to Hayes’ Lake.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of
tender obtained, at the Office of the Engineer of Roads
and Works, Dunedin, and at the Warden’s Camp,
Queenstown.

Tenders to be indorsed, “Roads and Works Tender
for Contract, No. 242.”

The Government does not undertake to accept the
lowest or any tender.

DREDGING HARBOR.—Tenders will be received
at the Office of the Secretary for Public Works,
until noon of Monday the 18th March, for Contract
No. 234.—“Dredging Channel from end of Rattray
street Jetty.”

Plans and Specifications may be seen, and forms of
tender obtained, at the Office of the Engineer of Roads
and Works, Dunedin.

Tenders to be indorsed “Roads and Works Tender
for Contract No. 234.”

The Government does not undertake to accept the
lowest or any tender.

The time for receiving Tenders for “Training Walls,
&c.,” is postponed to the same date.

Date for Receiving Tender Postponed.

DREDGING HARBOR.—Fresh Tenders will be re-
ceived at the Office of the Secretary for Public
Works, until noon of Monday, the 18th day of March,
1867, for Contract No. 234: Constructing Training
Walls and Dredging Channel, Rattray Street Jetty.

Plans and Specifications may be seen, and forms of
tender obtained, at the Office of Engineer of Roads and
Works, Dunedin.

Tenders to be endorsed, “Roads and Works, Tender
for Contract No. 234.”

The Government does not undertake to accept the
lowest or any tender.

CROWN LANDS.—LEASES OF PASTORAL
LANDS.—NOTICE.—The attention of Holders
of Depasturing Licenses in the Province of Otago, is
requested to the 69th section of the Otago Waste Lands
Act, 1866, which provides that unless notice of inten-
tion to surrender the license be given within six months
after the passing of the Act, they will be peremptorily
excluded from receiving a Lease under the Act. The
Act was assented to on the 8th of October last, conse-
quently no notice can be received after the 8th of April
next.

W. H. CUTTEN,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, March 5, 1867.

NOTICE.—SALE OF CROWN LANDS.—Some
misapprehension existing with reference to the
terms of the Waste Lands Act, 1866, as to the pay-
ment of purchase money on the Sale of Rural Lands
by auction, intending purchasers at the sale, which
commences on March 26, 1867, are informed that one-
tenth of the purchase money must be paid at the time
of sale, and the remaining nine-tenths within one month,
or the deposit will be forfeited.

W. H. CUTTEN,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 19th February, 1867.

M. CUSTOMS.—Notice is hereby given, that
the following Goods, having remained in Bond
beyond the time prescribed by law, will, in terms of the
Customs Regulation Act, 1858, be sold by public
auction on Friday, the 22nd instant, at Reynolds’
Bond; sale to commence at 12 o’clock :—

a 119 cases Brandy, 2163½ gals.
„ 1 ullage „
„ 2 qr.-casks do. 53 „

a 236&37 1 case Tobacco, 157 lbs
„ 302½ 2 boxes Snuff, 197 „
„ 386 43 1 case Tobacco, 161 „
„ 387 46 1 „ do., 162 „

a 593 6 1 qr.-cask Wine, 26 gals.
„ 664 20 cases do., 40 „
„ 690 3 „ Bitters,

THOMAS HILL, Collector.
Custom House, Dunedin, 12th March, 1867.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1867.

In virtue of the powers delegated to the Postmaster-
General by his Excellency the Governor, the follow-
ing appointments have been made in the Postal
Service of the Colony.

JOHN HALL.

OTAGO.

G. A. Harris to be Postmaster at Kakanui, from 14th
November, 1866.
Robert Anderson to be Postmaster at Franktown, from
1st November, 1866.
William Wilson to be Postmaster at Puerua, from 24th
November, 1866.
Harry William Barber to be Postmaster at Lawrence,
from 1st March, 1867.
William Liddle M’Kay to be Postmaster at Taieri
Ferry, from 1st January, 1867.
James Muir to be Postmaster at Waikawa, from 12th
November, 1866.
William Rogers to be Postmaster at Nevis, from 1st
January, 1866.

INCH CLUTHA DISTRICT ROAD RATE.—The
Precept having been issued for the collection of
the above Rate, notice is hereby given that same must
be paid to Mr. William Alfred Mosley, the Collector
thereof, at his house, within said district, on or before
the 1st day of April 1867.

Inch Clutha, March 12, 1867.

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.

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 informa-
tion from

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary,
Education Office, Dunedin.

SPECIAL Meeting of the Education Board will
be held at the Government Offices, Dunedin,
upon Monday, the 25th day of March, 1867, at 12
O’clock noon, for the despatch of business.

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

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