SCHOOL-MISTRESS WANTED for Waikouaiti District School. Salary £100 per annum. Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged with the undersigned on or before the 1st of June, 1870.

JOHN SMITH,
Chairman of School Committee,
Waikouaiti.

WASTE LAND BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS.

Tuesday, 19th May.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the following allotment of Rural Land will be offered for sale by public auction, on Tuesday, the 19th May next, in the Land Office, at noon, under the 35th clause of the "Otago Waste Land Act 1866," at the upset price of 10s. per acre.

Section 28, Block VIII, Otepopo, 52a. 3r. 18p.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
19th April, 1870.

23rd May, at noon.

BUSH RESERVES.—Sealed offers will be received at this office until noon of Monday 23rd May, for leasing for a term of 21 years from the 1st June, 1870, the undermentioned Bush Reserves, under certain conditions as to planting &c., which may be seen on and after the 1st May at the Police Stations at West Taieri, Balclutha, Port Molyneux, Waikouaiti, Tokomairiro and Hampden, and at the Land Office, Dunedin.

The offers are to be made by filling in the printed form of Tender, (which can be obtained at the place abovementioned), the prices at which the different descriptions of timber in the bush are to be supplied to the public, and are to be enclosed in an envelope marked "Offer for Lease of Bush Reserves," addressed to the Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board, Dunedin.

The person whose tender may be accepted will require to name two sureties to the satisfaction of the Waste Land Board, who will enter into a bond in the sum of £50 for the due fulfilment of the conditions of the lease.

The lowest or any offer not necessarily accepted.

For list of sections see previous Gazettes.

THE RESERVE having been withdrawn from section 2, block V, Lawrence—Notice is hereby given that the said section will be offered for sale by public auction by Mr. J. M. Nicolson, at the Court House, Lawrence, on Monday, the 6th day of June next, at noon, at the upset price of £2, and subject to a valuation (to be stated at time of sale) for improvements effected thereon.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin,
29th April, 1870.

NOTICE is hereby given, that Section 107, Block I, Waitahuna West District (island below Dalhousie), containing 10 acres, will be offered for sale by public auction, as land of special value, at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday, the 6th day of June next, at noon, at the upset price of £2 per acre.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin,
3rd May, 1870.

NOTICE to Payers of Road Rates in Maungatua District.—It is the intention of the Commissioner for the District to apply for authority to levy a rate of one Shilling in the Pound sterling annual value.

The rate roll shall be lying for inspection at Maungatua School-house from this date until 7th May noon.

Dated at Maungatua this 29th day of April, 1870.

ALEX. M’INTOSH, Clerk and Collector.

NOTICE.—Broad Bay District.—Parties in arrear of Road Rates, will please pay their respective amounts to me, at my house, within 21 days from this date, otherwise legal proceedings will be taken to recover the same.

JAMES SEATON, Clerk and Collector.

12th April, 1870.

BLUESKIN ROAD RATES.—Notice is hereby given, that all Outstanding Rates will be sued for after the 10th May, 1870.

JOHN AITKEN, Clerk and Collector.

Blueskin, 20th April, 1870.

NOTICE to the Rate-payers of the Clarendon Local Road Board.—The Rate Roll of this Board will lie at my house, for inspection of the Rate-payers, for a period of fourteen days from this date.

PETER PEGRES, Clerk and Collector.

April 28, 1870.

HERBERT ROAD DISTRICT.—The precept authorising the Collection of a Highway Rate of one shilling per pound sterling of annual value in this District having been issued, Rate-payers are hereby informed that the Rates must be paid to the undersigned at the schoolhouse, Herbert, on or before the twenty-third day of May next.

ALEX. PIRIE, Collector.

Otepopo, April 25, 1870.

NORTH-EAST HARBOR.—Parties who have not yet paid road rates in the North-East Harbor District are hereby notified that legal measures will be adopted to recover all rates not paid on or before the 14th of May, 1870. Payment to be made to Mr. Forrester, Collector, at his residence; or to the Clerk, at the schoolhouse.

GEORGE P. BELL, Clerk to the Board.

IMPOUNDED on the 22nd day of April 1870, by A. Johnston, for Messrs. Chapman, Maitland and Sanders, Maniototo Plains: 1 red and white bullock, branded like shamrock leaf on near rump, coupling chain on neck, 4 near rib; 1 red and white bullock, branded like shamrock leaf near rump, and like S on loin; 1 roan bullock, branded like shamrock leaf near rump; 1 red and white bullock, branded like Y (in circle) on off rump; 1 red and white steer, branded on near rump, near ear split; owners unknown; for trespassing on the runs of Messrs. Chapman, Maitland, and Sanders, Maniototo Plains, for which 15s. each damage are claimed, and in default of being released, the above cattle will be sold at the Public Pound at Hawksbury, on Friday, the 20th day of May, 1870, at 12 o’clock noon.

A. VALENTINE, Poundkeeper of the Hawksbury Pound.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of "The Escheat Act 1868," and in the matter of JAMES BUCHANAN, late of West Taieri, farmer, deceased.

Regina v. Buchanan and Others.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that an inquest for the purpose of determining whether certain lands, situate in the Province of Otago, lately the property of James Buchanan, the above-named deceased, namely,—Section twenty-four, irregular block, West Taieri District; and section twenty-three, block one, Lower Harbour West District; and containing together sixty-three acres, three roods, and twenty-two poles, or thereabout, have or have not become the property of Her Majesty the Queen, by way of escheat, will be held by me, the Sheriff of the District of the Province of Otago, in pursuance of the above-mentioned