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Switzer’s Orepuki
Switzer’s Orepuki
Switzer’s, Nokomai.

At 4 p.m. on the day of nomination, the Warden or Clerk officiating will publicly notify the name of the person or persons who may have been nominated.

The poll will be taken at the Court-house in each place; or, if there be no Court-house, then in such other building as the Warden of the district may direct.

C. E. HAUGHTON,
Secretary for Land and Works.

Dunedin, 18th April, 1871.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Mining Leases prepared in favor of Michael Dillon, for section 6, block VII, Rock and Pillar; and August Lorenson, for section 33, block XI, Skipper’s, have been cancelled, and the land in question is now open for occupation by holders of Miner’s Rights.

C. E. HAUGHTON,
Secretary for Land and Works.
Land and Works Office,
Dunedin, 21st April, 1871.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Agricultural Leases issued in favor of Stewart R. Angelo, for sections 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, block VII, Shotover Survey District; and John Kenny, for sections 61, 62, 83, 84, 90, 91, 93, 99 and 100, block II, Leaning Rock District, have been cancelled by the Executive Government.

C. E. HAUGHTON,
Secretary for Land and Works.
Secretary for Land and Works Office,
Dunedin, 20th April, 1871.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following appointments:—

Constable William Madigan,
to be Gaoler at Clyde.

Constable John Black,
to be Gaoler at Oamaru.

Constable Richard Pilkington,
to be Gaoler at Naseby.

Constable Patrick Gantly,
to be Gaoler at Queenstown.

E. B. Cargill,
Provincial Secretary.

20th April, 1871.

RESIGNATIONS.

HIS Honor the Superintendent has received and accepted the resignations of Donald Reid, Esquire, and George Duncan, Esquire, as Commissioners of the Waste Land Board of Otago.

E. B. Cargill,
Provincial Secretary.

18th April, 1871.

GENERAL ROAD BOARD.—Notice.—Extract from Minutes of the General Road Board, 6th April, 1871:—

Tomahawk.—Notice was given that at a Special Meeting it would be moved—“That the Resolution arrived at on the 6th February, 1871, be revoked.”

A true extract.

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to the Board.

Copy of Resolution referred to:

Tomahawk.—“Read an objection to the closing of the Road Line, between sections 1, block I, and 4, block VII. Not to be closed.”

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THE undermentioned persons being licensed to depasture cattle within the Oteramika Hundred, have been elected Wardens for the said Hundred during the current year:—

David M’Kay
Robert M’Callum
George Frederick Richardson
John Drake.

Walter H. Pearson,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 18th April, 1871.

BY-LAWS passed by the Wardens of the Oteramika Hundred, 18th March, 1871:—

1st.—No cattle, of any description, shall be depastured on the unsold land within the Hundred, except by license holders.

2nd.—No sheep shall be depastured on the unsold land.

3rd.—No entire horse over twelve months old, and no bull over six months old, shall be depastured, without special permission of the Wardens.

4th.—All license holders shall, on or before 18th April, 1871, register with the nearest Warden, a statement of the number of cattle and horses depastured by them on the unsold lands within the Hundred, with their brands.

5th.—Before removing or slaughtering cattle, owners shall give notice in writing to the nearest Warden.

6th.—Any person about to bring cattle on the run shall, one week before doing so, furnish to the nearest Warden notice in writing, with such information as shall give opportunity for inspection.

7th.—No person shall be allowed to depasture on the unsold lands in the Hundred more than one head of cattle for every twenty-five acres of land owned or occupied by him in the Hundred.

8th.—All stray cattle may be impounded.

9th.—The penalty for any breach of the foregoing Bye-Laws shall be any sum not exceeding five pounds, to be recovered in a summary manner, in accordance with the 45th clause of the “Southland Waste Lands Act 1865.”

David M’Kay,
Chairman of Wardens.

Assented to on behalf of the Waste Lands Board, 11th April, 1871.

Walter H. Pearson,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

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. Gillies, Chairman.”

Dunedin, December 5, 1870.

ABSTRACT FROM PREVIOUS GAZETTES

Of Impounding Notices:—

28th April, Friday, noon, a Steer and a bay Mare will be sold at Oamaru Pound.