Otago Provincial Gazette – 1870 – No. 667

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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 Act, on Tuesday, the seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court-house, Dunedin.

And notice is hereby further given, that any person claiming any title or interest to or in the said lands, or any of them, either as heir-at-law of the said James Buchanan, or otherwise, may appear and give evidence at such inquest in support of their, his, or her claims or claim.

Dated at Dunedin this nineteenth day of April, 1870.

I. NEWTON WATT,
Sheriff.

4t.—42s.

THIS is to give notice to the lessee of Section 1, Block III, Tuturau District, Mataura, that it is my intention to fence the boundary between said Section and Section 2, Block III, same district.

4s.

JAMES POLLOCK.

LOTTERY.—The following clause of the “Town and Country Police Ordinance 1862” is published for general information :—

If any person shall establish commence or be a partner or otherwise beneficially interested in any lottery or any scheme by which prizes whether of money or of any other matter or thing shall be gained drawn or thrown for or competed for by lot dice or any other mode of chance or shall sell or dispose of any tickets or other means by which permission or authority is gained or given to any person to throw for compete or have any interest in any such lottery or scheme or shall under any pretence or by means of any device sell or dispose of or endeavour to sell or dispose of any lands goods wares or merchandise by means of any game either of skill or chance every such person being duly convicted thereof shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds and for any second offence besides such penalty shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding six months: But this provision shall not apply to the distribution of any property amongst the owners thereof or to any raffle of any work purely of art of which a notice having the name and address of the person intending to hold the same subscribed thereto shall have been given to the Superintendent if the Superintendent shall not within one week after such notice prohibit such raffle by notice sent by post or in any other manner according to the address so subscribed by such person.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by MILLS, DIOX & Co., of Dunedin, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.