14th August, immediately after the sale of the Crown Lands in the Hundreds of North and South Tokomairiro.

The Reserves in the districts of Pemahaka and Kuriwao, upon Thursday, the 15th August, immediately after the sale of the Crown Lands in the Hundreds of East and West Clutha.

For further information, apply to

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

Education Office,
Dunedin, July 23rd, 1867.

THE Half-yearly Statutory Meeting of the Education Board, will be held at the Government Buildings, Dunedin, upon Wednesday, the 31st day of July, 1867, at 12 o’clock, noon.

EDUCATION RESERVES.—Printed Copies of the Education Board’s Amended Regulations and Conditions for the Leasing of the Education Reserves may now be had on application.

J. HISLOP, Secretary.

IMMIGRATION TO OTAGO.—Urgent representations having been made to the Provincial Government as to the scarcity of agricultural labourers, notice is hereby given to those employers who, through their friends and connections in the mother country, can hire suitable labourers, that the Government is prepared to issue passage orders from Glasgow to the Province on payment of £10 per statute adult.

The same facilities will also be given to others than agricultural employers who may wish to engage their own workpeople in the home country; the only stipulation which the Government makes in either case is, that public aid shall be strictly confined to importation of bona fide labour suitable to the actual requirements of the Province.

COLIN ALLAN, Immigration Agent.

THE following List of elected Local Boards is published for general information:—

PINE HILL.—Trustees………Mr. Hugh M’Fadyen
,, Cornelius Bunbury
,, Mongo Hislop
,, Michael Barrett
,, Robert Marshall

MERTON.—Trustees………Mr. David Brunton
,, Robert Allan
,, Robert Murray
,, John Spence
,, Chas. Hammond

N.E. VALLEY.—Trustees……Mr. Francis Campion
,, Henry Green
,, Dennis Heenan
,, James Hunter
,, Walter Simpson

CRANBOURNE.—Trustees……Mr. William Diack
,, Andrew Dempster
,, Alexander Annan
,, Thomas Brown
,, Charles Thomas Ick

CLEVEDON.—Trustees………Mr. William Chapman
,, William Gilchrist
,, Robert Blair
,, William Bayley

ROSLYN.—Trustees………Mr. James Kilgour
,, Alexander Livingston
,, William Baird Ogilvie
,, Charles Fountain
,, George Miller

NOTICE.—Until new Boards are elected, the Boards for previous year continue to hold office.

JAMES DOUGHTY,
Clerk to General Road Board.

NOTICE TO LOCAL ROAD BOARDS.—John Hardy, Land and Road Agent and Surveyor, Dunedin, is prepared to act for Local Boards and country settlers generally, in all the business connected with the General Road Board; the Education Board, or the Provincial Government.

Dunedin, 16th July, 1867.

NOTICE TO RUNHOLDERS IN THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO.—Return of Stock and Payment of Assessment.—The Runholders in the Province of Otago are reminded that a Return of Great and Small Cattle depastured on the Lands comprised in their leases, must be lodged at this Office in the month of September of each year, in terms of Clause LXX of the “Otago Waste Lands Act, 1866,” and that the Assessment of sevenpence per head for Small Cattle and three shillings and sixpence per head for Great Cattle, must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, on the first day of October thereafter, or their Runs will be inevitably forfeited.

W. H. CUTTEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, July, 1867.

Forms of Return may be obtained at this office.