shoulder, white spot on forehead, shorn all round, supposed to belong to Harry Withers, for trespassing on Cranbourne District Roads, for which 2s. 6d. damages are claimed; and in default of being released, the above mare will be sold at the Public Pound at Hawksbury, on Friday, the 15th day of April, 1870, at 12 o’clock noon.—ARCH. VALENTINE, Poundkeeper of the Hawksbury Pound.

IMPOUNDED on the 16th day of March, 1870, by Messrs. P. and G. Grant, Blueskin: one spotted light-red and white yearling bull, no visible brand; one spotted dark-brown and white bull, no visible brand; owners unknown; for trespassing on their growing crop of turnips, for which 3s. 6d. per head is claimed, and in default of being released, the above cattle will be sold at the Public Pound at Blueskin, on Friday, the 15th day of April, 1870, at 12 o’clock noon.—J. GREEN, Poundkeeper of the Blueskin Pound.

NOTICE.

Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway.—Session 1870.

NOTICE is hereby given that application is intended to be made, at the ensuing Session of the Provincial Council of Otago for leave to introduce a Bill under the provisions of the “Provincial Compulsory Land Taking Act 1866” authorising David Prou, foot of Dunedin in the Province of Otago and Colony of New Zealand Contractor and John Thomas Chaplin of the same place Coach Proprietor to take compulsorily for the purpose of making and constructing a Railway from Port Chalmers in the said Province to the City of Dunedin in the said Province and of constructing wharves, jetties, and other necessary erections for the purpose of enabling ships and vessels to load and discharge their cargoes and land and take in passengers from and to such Railway the lands or portions of the lands particularly mentioned and situated as described in the Schedule hereunder written: And notice is hereby further given that a copy of the Bill so intended to be introduced as aforesaid may be inspected at the Office of the Clerk of the said Provincial Council on and after the twenty-fifth day of April next ensuing the date hereof.

Schedule above referred to.

Sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 42, block one, Wharves and Quays Reserves, City of Dunedin.

Sections 52 and 53, block nine, North Harbor and Blueskin District.

Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32A, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45, Upper Harbor West District.

Portion of Town Belt, between Port Chalmers and Dunedin Main Road and high water mark, town of Port Chalmers, and sections 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 92, 93 and 94, town of Port Chalmers.

Crossings of Castle street, Stuart street (crossings on Jetty), Albany street, and proposed extensions of Beach street, Hanover street, and Forth street, City of Dunedin.

District road frontage to sections 52 and 53, block nine, North Harbor and Blueskin District.

District road frontage to sections 2 to 45, both inclusive, Upper Harbor West District.

District road between sections 29 and 31, and 28 and 30, Sawyer’s Bay District.

District road frontage to sections 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 28, Sawyer’s Bay District, Wickliffe terrace (continuation to George street), Grey street, and Harbor Reserve, town of Port Chalmers.

Otago Harbor below high water mark, that is to say: Portion between Reclamation known as Railway Reserve and Beach street, Dunedin; portion in front of sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34, block one, Wharves and Quays Reserve, Dunedin; portion between Albany street and Logan’s Point, being part of Pelichet Bay, Dunedin; portion in front of sections 52 and 53, block nine, North Harbor and Blueskin District; portion in front of sections 1 to 45, Upper Harbor West District; portion in front of sections 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 28, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 66, Sawyer’s Bay District; portion in front of Town Belt, between section 62, Sawyer’s Bay District and south end of George street, Port Chalmers; portion in front of Harbor Reserve from section 77 to 112, Port Chalmers.

Dated this eighteenth day of March, 1870.

KENYON AND MADDOCK,

Solicitors for the Bill.

37s 6d.

I, THOMAS FRANCIS ROSKRUGE, hereby make application to register “The Nugget and Cornish Quartz Mining Company, Registered,” under the provisions of the “Mining Companies Limited Liability Act 1865,” and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is, to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular, namely—

1. The name and style of the Company is “The Nugget and Cornish Quartz Mining Company, Registered.”

2. The place of operations is at Nugget Gully, Upper Shotover District, Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is Six Thousand Pounds, in 480 shares of £12 10s. each.

4. The amount already paid up is £5,280, being estimated value of the mine and first call of £1 per share.

5. The name of the Manager is Thomas Francis Roskrugé.

6. The office of the Company is on the ground of the Company.

7. The names and several residences of the Shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date, are as follows:—

Thomas Francis Roskrugé, Upper Shotover, 120 shares

John Rowe Pasko, Upper Shotover, ... 120 ,,

William Stavely, Dunedin, ... 80 ,,

Michael John Malaghan, Queenstown, ... 40 ,,

John Blacklock, Invercargill, ... 40 ,,

James Blacklock, Invercargill, ... 30 ,,

William Henderson Calder, Invercargill, ... 30 ,,

John Hare, Invercargill, ... 20 ,,

480 ,,

Dated this 12th day of March, 1870.

THOMAS FRANCIS ROSKRUGE,

Manager.

Witness to signature—

Richmond Beetham, R.M.

17s 6d.

CITY OF DUNEDIN.

Public Weighbridges at Stuart and Crawford Streets.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Provincial Government Weighbridges at Crawford street, north of Jetty street, and at Stuart street, near the Jetty, have been appointed and sanctioned by the City Council of Dunedin as Public Weighbridges within the meaning of Bye-law 3 of said Council.

J. M. MASSEY,

Town Clerk.

22nd March, 1870.

5s.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, February 24th, 1870, No. 10.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Wellington, 14th February, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Mar-