FRESH TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Land and Works until noon of Friday, 3rd March, for—

Contract No. 544—Construction of a Foot bridge over the Pomahaka River.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Office of the Engineer of Roads and Works Dunedin, or at Police Station, Tapanui.

Tenders to be endorsed “Roads and Works, Tender for Contract No. 544.”

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

WANTED, TENDERS for about 60 chains road formation in the Deborah Bay Road District. Intending contractors will meet at Mr. Hitchcock’s at 9 a.m. on Friday, March 3rd, and be shown the work; and tenders can be lodged at the Post Office, Port Chalmers, or at Mr. Lean’s, The Rocks, Port Chalmers, up till 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 4th. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.—JOSEPH RAWSON.

BLUE MOUNTAIN DISTRICT ROAD BOARD.

Tenders are invited for the following works:—
The Erection of two Timber Bridges and road works:
The Erection of a Culvert and road works. Plans and Specifications may be seen at the house of the Clerk, and Tenders lodged with Mr. Ross, Chairman, on or before noon, Saturday, 4th March. The Board does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.—JOHN KEEN, Clerk. Palmerston, February 13th, 1871.

WAIHOLA WEST ROAD BOARD.—Tenders wanted for forming about 200 chains (more or less) of Roads. Specifications may be seen and the line of road shown by the members of the Board at Mr. Grey’s on the 4th March, at 1 o’clock p.m. The lowest or any Tender may not be accepted.—WILLIAM DUFF, Clerk to the Board. Waihola, February 16th, 1871.

WASTE LAND BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE is hereby given that applications will be received at the Land Office, Dunedin, for the remaining part of Block 3, North Harbor and Blueskin District on and after Thursday, the second day of March next.

NOTICE is hereby given that Block XXII, Arrowtown, containing 3a. Or. 20p., and Section 38, Block VII, Shotover District, containing 6a., known as the Warden’s quarters Reserve, will be offered for sale by Public Auction, at the Public Library, Arrowtown, on Wednesday, the 15th day of March next, at noon, at the upset price of £3 per acre, subject to a valuation of £140 for house and other improvements erected thereon.—J. T. THOMSON, Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 4th February, 1871.

WHEREAS the decision, award, and direction of the Land Claims Commissioner in respect of the Grant to George Green of 117 acres in Block I, Compbelltown Hundred, was confirmed by a Judge of the Supreme Court on the 31st day of October, 1870, the said Grant has been recommended to his Excellency the Governor for cancellation, and has been cancelled accordingly, as provided by the “Green and Spencer Land Claims Act 1868.”

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Assistant Commissioner.

Court of Land Claims,
Invercargill, 15th February, 1871.

THE following owners and occupiers of land in the Oteramika Hundred have been licensed by the Waste Lands Board, Invercargill, to depasture cattle on the Waste Lands of the Crown in the said Hundred for the current year.

Geo. F. RICHARDSON
JOHN DRAKE
M’KAY, BROTHERS
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN LAND Co.
HECTOR NICHOLSON
JAMES WILLIAMSON
THOMAS DENNISTON.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 15th February, 1871.

MEETING for the election of Wardens of Oteramika Hundred will be held at 1 o’clock p.m., on Saturday, the 18th day of March, at the One-Tree Point Hotel, Oteramika.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 15th February, 1871.

NOTICE.

CROWN GRANTS for the Land, and in favor of the persons after-mentioned, are now ready for delivery; and attention is directed to the following clauses of the “Crown Grants Act 1866.”

Clause XXXIX.—There shall be paid upon all Grants to be hereafter issued, which may be left in the charge or custody of any Commissioner of Crown Lands, or other officer charged with the delivery of the same, a fee of sixpence for every month during which they shall be so left after the expiration of three months from the date of the notice in the Gazette wherein the lands are situate, that such Grants are ready for delivery.

Clause XL.—There shall be paid upon all Grants issued prior to the passing of this Act, and left as aforesaid in the custody of the officer charged with the delivery thereof, a fee of sixpence per month for every month during which they shall be so left after two months subsequent to the passing of this Act.

J. T. THOMSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
21st February, 1871.

Aitken, John, section 1 of 18, block I, North Harbor and Blueskin district
Allan, A. G., section 31, block II, Tuturau district
Allan, Colin, sections 2 of 25, and 26, block IV, North Harbor and Blueskin district
Bell, F. D., sections 17, 18, 19, Dunback district
Do., sections 40 and 41, Dunback district
Do., sections 15 and 16, Dunback district
Do., sections 21, 22, and 23, Dunback district
Do., section 11, Waihemo district
Do., section 15, Waihemo district
Do., section 38, Waihemo district
Bell, James, section 16, block XII, North Harbor and Blueskin district
Botts, T. G., sections 10 and 12, block XII, Queenstown
Blackie, John, the younger, section 47, block VII, Dunedin
Brown, Alex., section 1 of 26, block VII, Dunedin and East Taieri district
Do., sections 11, 14, 15, 19, 20, and 25, block VII, Dunedin and East Taieri district
Brown, S. N., section 19, block XI, Queenstown
Butler, Wm., section 5, block I, Arrowtown