Tuapeka District. (No 28).

1. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 0a 1r 19p more or less being a road line situate in the Tuapeka District bounded on the north-east by section No 54 block I 870 links more or less and on the south-west by sections numbered 53 and 59 920 links more or less.

2. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 1a 1r 11p more or less being a road line situate in the Tuapeka District bounded on the north-east by sections numbered 52 58 and 61 block I 2646 links more or less and on the south-west by sections numbered 57 and 62 block I 2646 links more or less.

Plans to be seen at Schoolhouse, Lawrence.

Dated at Dunedin this fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. A. Tolmie,
Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

GUARD ROAD DISTRICT.—Election of Local Board of Road Trustees.

In pursuance of the "Otago Roads Ordinance 1865," and the "Otago Roads Ordinance 1865 Extension and Amendment Ordinance," I hereby convene a meeting of the persons liable to be rated for roads in the above-named district, such meeting to be held at the house of the Hon. John M'Lean, within the said district, on Friday, 30th September, 1870, at noon, for the purpose of electing a Local Board of Road Trustees to serve for the year ending June, 1871.

W. A. Tolmie,
Deputy-Superintendent.

NOTE.—The attention of ratepayers is specially directed to the 9th, 10th, and 11th clauses of the "Otago Roads Ordinance 1865," for mode of procedure at electoral meetings.

Dunedin, 14th September, 1870.

NOTICE.—In future when it is required that the amounts due to local Road Boards, on account of their subsidised rates, should be paid into a Bank to their credit, the Treasurers to the Boards must give an order to that effect on the back of the voucher.

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to General Road Board.

General Road Board Office,
Dunedin, 10th Sept., 1870.

TO HIS HONOR JAMES MACANDREW, ESQ.,

SUPERINTENDENT OF OTAGO, AND THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

SIRS,—We, the undersigned Settlers and Residents of North Molyneux, do humbly show that in consequence of the coastal steamer having been withdrawn from service, we are greatly inconvenienced, besides being put to unusual loss and expense in the forwarding of our produce and goods to the Dunedin markets, and as sailing crafts arrive and embark at uncertain times, no dependence can be placed on them. It frequently happens, too, that the long delay occasioned between the interval of shipping at Port Molyneux and the landing at Dunedin, that prices have fallen, which causes many to become serious losers, and which might be prevented by having a quicker and more certain mode of transit for our goods.

We therefore beg that you will take into your wise consideration the desirability of subsidising a coastal steamer for that purpose, and your petitioners will ever be,—Yours very obediently,

Robert Waugh Johnston
David Millar
Robert Beattie
Alexander Mitchell
Colin M'Lachlan
Donald Mitchell
William Kelly
Daniel Hagart
Robert Neill
William Fraser
James Fraser
Charles Smaill
John Johnston
Andrew Smaill
James Smaill
David M'Intyre
Edward Boyd
Thomas Johnson

August 17, 1870.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS taken at DUNEDIN, for the Month of August, 1870.

At 9 a.m. daily.
Lat. 45° 52' 11" S. Long. 170° 31' 7" E.
Altitude above Sea, 550 feet.

Barometer (reduced to 32° Fah. and sea level.)
Mean atmospheric pressure for month 29.679 inches
Highest pressure (on 29th) ... 30.226
Lowest pressure (on 8th) ... 29.187
Range for month ... 1.039

Temperature in Shade.
Approx. mean temperature for month 42.0 Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ... 46.5
Mean minimum temperature ... 37.5
Mean daily range of temperature ... 9.0
Highest maximum temperature (on 21st) 55.0
Lowest minimum temperature (on 30th) 32.0
Extreme range for the month ... 23.0
Mean temperature of evaporation ... 40.0

Solar Radiation.
Maximum (on 31st) ... 104
Mean for month ... 81

Terrestrial Radiation.
Minimum (on 16th & 11th) ... 14
Mean for month ... 20

Mean degree of humidity (Saturation = 100) ... 85
Mean elastic force of vapour ... .225 inches
Mean temp. of dew point ... 37.5 Fah.
Total rainfall on 22 days ... 3.815 inches
Greatest rainfall in one day (on 25th) ... 1.490
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast, 10) ... 6

Wind: Mean velocity per day for month 110 miles.
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on 26th) ... 490
Number of days on which the wind blew from each point:—
N. N.E. E. S.E. S. S.W. W. N.W. Calm.
2 6 1 2 1 4 6 0 9

NOTICE.

Notice is Hereby Given that the Government have cancelled the agricultural occupation certificate prepared in favour of J. T. Boyes for sections 35 and 36, block I, South Wakatipu, and the agricultural lease in favour of William Archibald Murray for section 8, block VI, Tuapeka East District; and said sections of land are now open for occupation.

D. Reid,
Secretary for Land and Works.

Secretary’s Office for Land and Works,
Dunedin, 13th September, 1870.

NOTICE.

Notice is Hereby Given that in consequence of the undermentioned Lessees having failed to execute the Agricultural Leases prepared in their favor, the same have been cancelled, and the land is now open for application for Agricultural purposes.

Andrew Miller, sen., section 32, block IV Table Hill
William Hope Miller, section 17, block IV Table Hill
George Webb, section 1, block IX Tuapeka East
Patrick Docherty, section 7, block VI
Peter Sherrat, section 25, block IV Waipori

D. Reid,
Secretary for Land and Works.

Secretary’s Office for Land and Works,
Dunedin, August 20, 1870.