IMPOUNDED on the 27th day of September, 1870, by John M’Kellar, Esq., Tapanui Station: one White Cow, red spots on neck, two slits in off ear, branded like E D near ribs; owner unknown; for trespassing on Tapanui Station; for which no damage is claimed; and in default of being released, the above cow will be sold at the Public Pound at Tapanui, on Friday, the 28th day of October, 1870, at 12 o’clock noon.—A. MACGREGOR, Poundkeeper of the Glenkenich Pound.

BLUESKIN AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
A Meeting of the Blueskin Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held at the Waitati Hotel on Monday, 24th October, at 7 o’clock, for the purpose of electing a President, and other business.

NOTICE OF FENCING.—We hereby give notice to all whom it may concern, that we are about to erect a fence between Block VIII and Block XI, Pine Hill, on Section 8, Block VIII; also between Section 8 and Section 16 on one side, and Sections 7, 25, and 28 respectively on the other.

E. J. SCHLOTEL,
and
C. R. BOYD.

£50 REWARD.
WHEREAS on Saturday night, the 24th September last, or early on the following morning, a valuable stack of firewood was wilfully set fire to, near to the Home Station of the undersigned. A reward of Fifty Pounds sterling will be paid to any person or persons who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the offender; and further, the Governor will be recommended to grant a free pardon to such informant, provided he shall prove to have been an accomplice.

D. F. MAIN,
Taieri Lake Station,
1st October, 1870.

29 VICTORIA, No. 26.
SCHEDULE A.
I, THE UNDERSIGNED JOHN PITCHES, hereby make application to Register the Ida Valley Deep Lead 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 “Ida Valley Deep Lead Company (Registered.)”
2. The place of intended operations is at Blacks No. 3.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is one thousand five hundred pounds, in one hundred shares of fifteen pounds each.
4. The amount already paid up is three hundred and fourteen pounds.
5. The name of the Manager is John Pitches.
6. The Office of the Company is at Blacks No. 1.
7. The names and several residences of the Shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date are as follows:—

John Smellie Graham, Dunedin, 10 shares
Arthur Buchanan, Maniototo Plains, 10 shares
William Fraser, Earnslugh, 10 shares
Robert Stewart, Hawksburn, 7 shares
Donald Stronach, Ida Valley, 7 shares
Henry G. Glassford, Gipp’s Land, 5 shares
Thomas Fraser, Dunedin, 5 shares
William Ulick Burke, Blacks, 4 shares
Adolphus Alexander Oliver, Maniototo Plains, 3 shares
John Pitches, Blacks, 3 shares
John Handyside, Blacks, 3 shares
John Alves, Dunedin, 2 shares
John Beck, Blackstone Hill, 2 shares
Robert M’Morran, Clyde, 2 shares
Robert Thompson, Clyde, 2 shares
Hugh Simonon, Ida Valley, 1 share
Gilbert Sinclair, Blacks, 1 share
Henry Rowland, Blackstone Hill, 1 share
Fanny M’Cluskey, Hogburn, 1 share
John Hughes, Blacks, 1 share
James Wotherspoon, Blacks, 1 share
Samuel Worth, Blacks, 1 share
James M’Donald, Drybread, 1 share
James Millward, Chatto Creek, 1 share
William Crawford, Dunedin, 1 share
Unallotted, 15 shares

Total, one hundred shares.

Dated this 29th day of September, 1870.

JOHN PITCHES, Manager.

Witness to signature—
JAMES HAZLETT,
A Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

[A Proclamation, of which the following is a copy, has been sent to His Excellency the Governor, by the Honourable Colonial Secretary, for signature.]

Governor.

PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by the eleventh section of “The Otago and Southland Union Act, 1870,” it is enacted that, notwithstanding the dissolution of the Provincial Council of the Province of Southland, the persons who immediately before the coming into operation of this Act were members of the said Council shall, on a day and at a time and place to be fixed by the Governor by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, assemble, and by lot or by ballot, as and to be taken in such manner as shall be prescribed in and by such Proclamation, select seven of their number, who, with the present Superintendent of the Province of Southland shall represent in the Provincial Council of the new Province that part of the new Province which, immediately before the coming into operation of the said Act, was included in the Province of Southland:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, K.G.C.M.G., in exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do by this Proclamation fix Thursday, the twentieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, as the day and time, and the Provincial Council Chamber, Invercargill, as the place, on and at which the persons who immediately before the coming into operation of the said Act were members of the Provincial Council of the late Province of Southland shall assemble as and for the purpose in the hereinbefore recited section of the said Act is provided. And I do by this Proclamation prescribe that the selection by the said persons of seven of their number to represent, with the person who at the time of the passing of the said Act was Superintendent of the late Province of Southland, in the Provincial Council of the new Province of Otago, that part of the said new Province which was within the late Province of Southland, shall be by ballot, to be taken in the manner following, that is to say:—

1. William Wood, Esq., lately Superintendent of the Province of Southland, shall preside at the taking of, and shall take the said ballot at the said meeting.
2. The taking of the said ballot shall commence at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, on the said twentieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
3. The said William Wood, Esq., shall, before the said twentieth day of October, cause to be printed ballot papers, with the Christian or first names and surnames of all the persons who were Members of the