IMMIGRANTS' PASSAGE MONEY.—All Immi

grants in arrears are requested to pay the same forthwith, otherwise expenses will be incurred. Lists containing the names of all persons in arrears have been placed in the hands of the police.—John Logan, Immigration Agent. Dunedin, 11th October, 1870.

GAZETTE

Complaints respecting the non-receipt of the Gazette, if made to J. Logan, Superintendent’s Office, Dunedin, will receive immediate attention. Each person will please see that the nearest Post Town is given in his address.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS taken at

DUNEDIN, for the Month of October, 1870.

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 29.971 inches
Highest pressure (on 24th) ... 30.434 "
Lowest pressure (on 4th) ... 29.509 "
Range for month ... 0.925 "

Temperature in Shade.

Approx. mean temperature for month 52.5 Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ... 60.9 "
Mean minimum temperature ... 44.1 "
Mean daily range of temperature ... 16.8 "
Highest maximum temperature (on 23rd) 77.0 "
Lowest minimum temperature (on 13th) 37.0 "
Extreme range for the month ... 40.0 "
Mean temperature of evaporation ... 49.1 "

Solar Radiation.

Maximum (on 26th) ... 148
Mean for month ... 121

Terrestrial Radiation.

Minimum (on 13th) ... 16
Mean for month ... 24

Mean degree of humidity

(Saturation = 100) ... 78.1

Mean elastic force of vapour ... 0.263 inches
Mean temp. of dew point ... 41.6 Fah.

Total rainfall on 10 days ... 0.600 inches
Greatest rainfall in one day (on 4th) ... 0.118 "

Mean amount of sky covered (overcast ... = 10) ... 4

Wind: Mean velocity per day for month 205 miles.
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on 5th) ... 670 "

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 2 3 0 4 5 7 3 5

Remarks:

Thunder on 4th.

N.B.—The results of all the self-registering instruments were recorded at the morning’s observation, and therefore occurred during the preceding 24 hours.

Henry Skey.

WASTE LAND BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS.

Wednesday, 28th December, at noon.

District of Coneburn. Block 12, Run 345, on the Kawarau River, near Frankton.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the following allotments in the above Block will be offered for sale by public auction, as land of special value, at the Survey Office, Queenstown, on Wednesday, 28th day of December next, at the hour of twelve o’clock noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

Schedule, &c., may be had on application.—John Logan, Immigration Agent.

An application having been received to purchase the undermentioned sections, notice is hereby given that they will be sold under the 27th clause of the "Otago Waste Land Act 1866," to the present applicant, at the prices affixed, unless applications have been received before the 23rd day of December next from other person or persons desirous of purchasing the said sections.

Town of Waihola, Sections 1 and 2, Block X, at £5 and £3.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Sale of Block XII, Coneburn District, advertised to take place on Monday, the 26th, is postponed till Wednesday, the 28th of December next, at 12 o’clock noon.

J. T. Thomson, Chief Commissioner Waste Land Board.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the following allotments of Rural Land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, will be offered for sale by auction, as land of special value, at Pollock’s Hotel, Popotunoa, on Wednesday, the 11th day of January next, at noon:

Block III, Kurowica District.

Section 2, containing 4a. 3r. 11p., at the upset price of £200.
Section 1, containing 26a. 1r. 24p., at the upset price of £50.

The Hotel, occupied by Mr. Pollock, is situated on Section 2, and consists of bar, dining-room, parlor, private room, four bed-rooms on the ground floor, and eight on the upper floor. The out-buildings connected with the Hotel consist of nine-stalled stable, cooking-house, blacksmith’s shop, barn, and stock-yard. Section 1 is partly fenced, and is now used as an accommodation paddock, attached to the hotel.

Terms: ten per cent, cash, balance within a month.

J. T. Thomson, Chief Commissioner.

SETTLERS desirous of depasturing Stock on the Hundreds, during the year 1871, are reminded by Section 1 of the "Regulations for the Management of Pasturage within Hundreds," they are required to furnish to the Waste Land Board, on or before the 1st January next, a Return in the form or to the effect of the Schedule hereto; and any person depasturing cattle upon a Hundred failing to make such Return, or making a false Return, shall be liable to a penalty of £20.

Depasturing Licenses and forms of Return may be had from the Waste Land Board.