Mortgage ... 0 12 0
£5 1 6

In this case, if the title were of any other description, the fees would amount to £6 14s. 6d.

When the mortgage is paid off, the fee for registering the discharge is 5s.

Application and other forms, containing full directions, can be obtained at the various offices at a cost of one shilling each.

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Registrar-General of Land.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, February 7, 1871, No. 10.)

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the “Otago Hundreds Regulation Act 1869,” it is enacted that, subject to the provisions in the said Act contained, it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute into a Hundred any portion of the Waste Lands of the Crown, within the Province of Otago, not forming part of any Hundred for the time being existing, notwithstanding that such lands or any part thereof shall be comprised within any pastoral lease or licence heretofore or thereafter to be granted by the Crown under any law regulating the occupation or disposal of Waste Lands of the Crown, and whether or not the same shall have been included within the boundaries of any proclaimed Gold Field: And whereas by the “Otago Hundreds Regulation Act 1869 Amendment Act 1870,” it is enacted that no Hundred shall thereafter be proclaimed in the Province of Otago unless one-third part at least of the area thereof shall be determined under the provisions of the said “Otago Hundreds Regulation Act 1869,” to be land available for agricultural purposes, and that no Hundred shall exceed twenty thousand acres in extent, and that, in determining the boundaries of all Hundreds thereafter proclaimed, due regard shall be paid to the natural features of the country over which any such Hundred is to be proclaimed:

NOW therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities in me vested, do hereby constitute and proclaim those districts or portions of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Otago, not forming part of any existing Hundred, particularly described in the Schedule hereto, to be Hundreds under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

The Crockston Hundred,

Containing 20,000 acres, being parts of Runs Nos. 212 and 168, the boundaries whereof are more particularly delineated upon the plan numbered three, authenticated by the signature of the Colonial Secretary, and deposited in the office of the Secretary for Crown Lands.

The Wairuna Hundred,

Containing 20,000 acres, being parts of Runs Nos. 31, and 78, the boundaries whereof are more particularly delineated upon the plan numbered four, authenticated by the signature of the Colonial Secretary, and deposited in the Office of the Secretary for Crown Lands.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington 4th February, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to be Returning Officers for the election of Members of the Provincial Council, of the Province of Otago, for the Electoral Districts set opposite their names respectively, viz.:

John Burnside—City of Dunedin, North Harbor, Wakara, Kaikorai, Caversham, Peninsula.

William Reid—Port Chalmers, Blueskin.

Thomas Windle Parker—Town of Oamaru, Oamaru Country, Waitaki, Meeraki.

John Wallace Murdoch—Waikouaiti North, Waihemo.

James Fulton—Taieri.

John Dewe—Waihola, Milton, Matau.

William Lawrence Simpson—Waitahuna, Tuapeka.

James Pillans Maitland—Clutha.

George Stewart Neish—Mataura.

John Nugent Wood—Mount Benger.

Vincent Pyke—Dunstan, Kawarau.

Richmond Beetham—The Lakes.

Henry Wirgman Robinson—Mount Ida.

Harvey Thomson—Invercargill, Waihopai, Oteramika, Newtown.

Peter Grant—Riverton, Aparima, Makarewa.

Charles Rous Marten—Oreti.

W. GISBORNE.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS IN GAZETTE.—All advertisements for insertion in Gazette, other than those from Road Boards, &c., which are inserted free, must from this date be accompanied by a cheque (or cash) for the full amount, including, if from a country district, 1s for exchange, otherwise they will not be inserted. The charge is 6d per line of 7 words.

January 10, 1871.

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.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago by MILLS, DICK and Co., Stafford-street, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.