NOTICES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

APPLICATION FOR LAND

Copy of the application made, and plans annexed, may be seen at the Warden’s Office at Arrowtown.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

J. MACANDREW, Superintendent.

SCHEDULE

William Bremer and Joshua Graves, for six acres of Land in Brackens Gully, Arrow, above the Big Bluff, below Hill’s Gully.

NOTICE

HAWKE'S BAY AND MARLBOROUGH RIVERS ACT 1868

WEST TAIERI RIVER DISTRICT

ELECTION OF BOARD OF CONSERVATORS

In pursuance of the provisions of the seventh section of “The Hawke’s Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act 1868,” I hereby summon a General Meeting of the Voters within the West Taieri River District, proclaimed by Proclamation in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette, No. 705, published on the 24th day of December, 1870, for the purpose of electing from amongst the persons qualified to vote at the meeting a sufficient number of persons to be the Board of Conservators of the District, such meeting to be held in the Drill Shed at Outram, within the said West Taieri River District, on Friday, the third day of February next, at the hour of five o’clock in the afternoon.

Dated this nineteenth day of January, 1871.

J. MACANDREW, Superintendent.

HELENSBROOK TOLL

Notice is hereby given that after Saturday the first day of December proximo, the Tolls contained in the list appended hereto may be taken at the Helensbrook Toll Bar (that is to say):—

1. For every horse or other beast drawing any coach, chariot, landau, barouche, chaise, phaeton, curricle, car, or any such like carriage—sixpence.
2. For every horse or other beast (two oxen or neat cattle to count as one horse), drawing any waggon, wain, or such like conveyance—sixpence.
3. For every horse or other beast drawing any whitechapel cart or dray on two wheels—sixpence.
4. For every horse, mule, or ass, laden or unladen, and not drawing—sixpence.
5. For every drove of horses, mules, or asses, unladen, and not drawing—threepence for every head.
6. For every drove of oxen, cows, or neat cattle—the sum of three shillings and fourpence per score, and so in proportion for any greater or less number.
7. For every drove of calves, swine, goats, sheep, or lambs—the sum of tenpence per score, and so in proportion for any greater or less number.

D. REID,
Secretary for Public Works.

Land and Works Office,
16th January, 1871.

NOTICES

AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATION CERTIFICATES

Notice is hereby given that the Agricultural Occupation Certificate issued in favour of William Sowerby for Section 17, Block XIX., Shotover, has been cancelled, and the said section is now open for application under the Agricultural Lease Regulations.

D. REID,
Secretary for Land and Works.

Notice is hereby given that the Mining Lease prepared in favour of Messrs William Hancock, J. Webb, and John Johnston, for Section 1, Block XIV, Tuapeka East District, has been cancelled, and the said section is now open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights.

D. REID,
Secretary for Land and Works.

Dunedin, 21st Jan., 1871.

LIST OF LICENSED AUCTIONEERS

The undermentioned list of Licensed Auctioneers is published for general information:—

Barnett, William, Dunedin
Driver, Henry
Evans, Frederick H.
Hepburn, William
Lanseigne, Jules
Power, Pierce
Spedding, Donald M.
Street, Charles Henry
Stephenson, John
Chappell, John Cole, Alexandra
Fleming, Neill, Oamaru
Maude, Arthur Hay
Shrimski, Samuel E.
Capstick, Richard W., Tokomairiro
Hay, Matthew, Lawrence
Fache, George, Dunstan

ALEX. F. OSWIN, Sub-Treasurer.
Provincial Treasury, Dunedin,
January 23rd, 1871.

PRIVATE PETITIONS

The following resolution by the Private Petitions Committee, which was afterwards adopted by the Provincial Council, is published for general information:—

“In concluding their labours, your Committee would recommend to the consideration of the Council the advisability of laying down as a rule of this House that all Petitions should be first submitted to the Government, if possible, during the recess, before being presented to the Provincial Council; so that the Government may be prepared beforehand with any evidence they wish to procure bearing on the prayer of the Petitions; and all applications for Reserves should be made to the Government during the recess and brought down to the Council with their opinion thereon.

JOHN L. CULLING, Chairman.

Dunedin, December 5, 1870.

IMMIGRATION TO OTAGO

CONDITIONS

For each adult, and the half of that sum for persons between the ages of 1 and 12, must be paid in Otago before the names are sent home to the Agent in Edinburgh.

If the parties remain three years in Otago, no further payment will require to be made. If they do not remain that time, another payment of £8 10s. must be made before leaving Otago.

All Immigrants must be approved by the Agents for the Province, and may sail either from London or Glasgow.

Schedule, &c., may be had on application.—John LOGAN, Immigration Agent. Dunedin, 11th October, 1870.

IMMIGRANTS’ PASSAGE MONEY

All Immigrants 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.

FLAX

The House of Representatives having resolved that there should be an Exhibition in Wellington, during the next Session of the Assembly, of all varieties of Flax fibre prepared in the Colony.