PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

In view of an order being shortly sent to Britain by the Government for another supply of Public Library Books, the Committees of Public Libraries throughout the Province are invited to forward to the undersigned, as soon as possible, lists of such books as they may wish to be procured.

JOHN HISLOP,

Secretary, Education Office.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Public Works until noon of Monday, 28th inst., for Contract No. 269. Dunedin to North Taieri; Construction of 33 chains of road.

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. 269,” as the case may be. The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

GEORGE DUNCAN,

Secretary for Public Works.

Dunedin, 19th November, 1867.

NOTICE.

CROWN GRANTS for the Land, and in favor of the persons after-mentioned, are now ready for delivery; and attention is directed to the following clauses of the “Crown Grants Act, 1866.”

Clause XXXIX. — There shall be paid upon all Grants to be hereafter issued, which may be left in the charge or custody of any Commissioner of Crown Lands, or other officer charged with the delivery of the same, a fee of sixpence for every month during which they shall have been so left after the expiration of three months from the date of the notice in the Gazette of the Province wherein the lands are situate, that such Grants are ready for delivery.

Clause XL. — There shall be paid upon all Grants issued prior to the passing of this Act, and left as aforesaid in the custody of the officer charged with the delivery thereof, a fee of sixpence per month for every month during which they shall be so left after two months subsequent to the passing of this Act.

W. H. CUTTEN,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,

Dunedin, 18th November, 1867.

Armstrong, C. C., and Payne, R. M., Section 9, Block LXXII, Oamaru.

Ashcraft, James, Section 14, Block XXI, Oamaru.

Barraclough, John, Section 8, Block LXXXI, Oamaru.

Bathgate, John, Sections 8, 10 and 11, Block V, Dunedin and East Taieri District.

Bray, Benjamin, Section 23, Block V, Hawksbury District.

Bray, Benjamin, Section 10, Block V, Hawksbury District.

Bruce, Archibald, Section 2, Block II, Otepopo District.

Casserly, William, Section 8, Block II, Fairfax.

Clapcott, B., Section 55, Block IX, Pomahaka District.

Dausey, Arthur, Sections 5 and 6, Block LXXII, Oamaru.

Everitt, Charles, Section 15, Block LXXII, Oamaru.

Fleming, David, Sections 1 of 11, 2 of 11, 1 of 12, and 2 of 12, Block IV, Moeraki District.

Fraser, Thomas, Sections 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, Block VIII, Moeraki District.

Gillies, John, Section 53, Block I, Moeraki District.

Gordon, George, Sections 22 and 23, Block III, Hawksbury District.

Grady, M., Sections 7, 8 and 9, Block VIII, Fairfax.

Hassell, James, Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 16, 17, 18 and 19, Block LXXXVIII, Oamaru.

Hayton, William, Section 10, Block XXII, Oamaru.

Henderson, David, Sections 8 and 9, Block LIV, Oamaru.

Howorth, Thomas, Section 122, Green Island Bush District.

Hynes, Philip, Sections 10, 11 and 12, Block VIII, Fairfax.

Hynes, Timothy, Section 3, Block VI, Fairfax.

Hynes, Timothy, Section 4, Block VI, Fairfax.

Kirkland, James, Section 57, Block VII, Pomahaka District.

Lindsay, John, Sections 71 and 72, Block III, Hawksbury District.

Logan, George, Section 58, Block VII, Pomahaka District.

Mainland, John, Section 15, Block LXXXI, Oamaru.

Marshall, Matthew, Section 4, Block IV, Coast District.

McCall, John, and Ferguson, William, Section 9, Block V, Moeraki District.

Prendergast, Charles, Section 2, Block LXXII, Oamaru.

Riedman, John, Section 11, Block LXXII, Oamaru.

Ritchie, James, Section 2 of 15, Block III, Hawksbury District.

Rhodes, W. B., R. H. and G., Section 19, Block IV, Hawksbury District.

Rhodes, W. B., R. H. and G., Section 24, Block IV, Hawksbury District.

Roberts, W. H. S., Pre-emptive Right on Run 212, under Application 6806.

Roberts, W. H. S., Pre-emptive Right on Run 212, under Application 84c.

Sandeman, David, Section 46, Block XX, Dunedin.

Skey, Henry, Section 74, Block XI, North Harbour and Blueskin District.

Skey, Henry, Section 1 of 5, Block IX, North Harbour and Blueskin District.

Spiers, William, Sections 54, 55 and 56, Block VII, Pomahaka District.

Sumpter, George, Section 12, Block XXI, Oamaru.

Sumpter, George, Section 18, Block XXI, Oamaru.

Thomson, A. R. B., Sections 7 and 28, Block LXXII, Oamaru.

Wayne, William Henry, the younger, Sections 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 29, Block VIII, Moeraki District.

Young, Joseph, Section 42, Block II, Otago Peninsula District.

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.

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Grant Office,

Dunedin, 18th Nov., 1867.

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.

THE QUARTERLY MEETING, under the Licensing Ordinance, will be held at noon, on the first Tuesday of December, in the Resident Magistrates Courts within the Province, mentioned in the Proclamations which have appeared in the Provincial Gazette. Application must be lodged with the Clerk of Court fourteen days at least before the meeting.