SLAND in Blueskin Bay, section 88a, Block I,
Waikouaiti District. Tenders will be received for a Lease of the above Section at the Land Office, Dunedin, up to Friday, the 6th of October next.

On that date, also, Section 52, block I, Otokia District, containing 12a. 2r. 15p., will be offered for Sale by public auction, at 12 o’clock, noon, at the upset price of 21s. per acre.

NOTICE is hereby given, that Section 20, Block IX, Otepopo District, containing 153a 3r 33p., is now open for application as ordinary Rural Land.

IT is Hereby Notified that the Regulations for the Management of Pasturage within Hundreds, published in the Provincial Government Gazette, No. 727, of the 7th April, 1871, so far as clauses 1 to 14 inclusive, have been agreed to by the Waste Land Board, as Regulations for the Management of Pasturage within the Strath Taieri Hundred. The word “October” will for the present year, so far as regards this Hundred be substituted for the word “January” in clause 1, before mentioned.

J. T. Thomson,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board.
Dunedin, 23rd August, 1871.
Approved,
W. A. Tolmie,
Deputy Superintendent.

LAND OPEN FOR SALE on 22nd February, 1871.—See Gazette of 23rd February, 1871, which may be had at the various Survey and Police Stations throughout the Province; and at the Land Offices, Dunedin and Invercargill.

NOTICE TO RUNHOLDERS.—The Lessees and Licensees of Runs within the recently declared Land District of Invercargill, will please to forward to the District Land Office, Invercargill, the return of Stock ordered by the Waste Land Act to be made during September, and to pay the Assessment due thereon to the Receiver of Land Revenue there, on 1st October, 1871.

List of Runs within Invercargill Land District:—
31, 62, 64, 66, 74, 88, 111, 131, 132, 161, 162,
167A, 172A, 172B, 175B, 176, 177, 193,
194, 214, 251, 254B, 257, 301P, 303, 323,
324, 326, 327, 328, 350, 359, 389, 391,
394, 398, 413, 414A, 414B, 415, 420, 423,
424, 426, 427, 436, 438.

Forms for Stock Returns may be had at the Land Office, Dunedin or Invercargill.

NOTICE is hereby given that Sections 3 to 6, 9 to 21, 26 to 28, 31 to 38, 40 to 42, Block I, Lower Hawea District, are now open for application as ordinary rural land, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

NOTICE.—Settlers desirous of Depasturing Cattle on the Strath Taieri Hundred are requested to make the required return, and to take out Depasturing Licenses.
Forms and every information may be had from the Ranger, and at this office.

TENDERS will be received at this Office, until noon of Friday, the 1st September next, for the performance of the Steam Tug Service in the Port of Dunedin, for Twelve Months, by a suitable Steamer of not less than (70) seventy horse power. The Master of the Tug must be qualified to act, and be licensed by the Government as a Pilot for the aforementioned Port.
Dunedin, 25th July, 1871.

EDUCATIONAL MEETING.

A MEETING of the Owners and Occupiers of Land and Householders within the newly-constituted Educational District of Riverton will be held in the Schoolhouse, North Riverton, upon Friday, the 22nd day of September, 1871, at seven o’clock p.m., to elect a School Committee for the said district for the remainder of the current year. The election will be made in manner provided by clause 14 of the “Education Ordinance, 1864.”

By order:
John Hislop, Secretary.

IMMIGRATION.—PASSAGE FARES REDUCED.

TO £5.—Persons desirous of bringing their friends or relatives to the Province of Otago, can procure Passages from London or Glasgow, on payment at this office of Five Pounds per statute adult. Forms of application may be had from

John Logan,
Immigration Agent.
Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 17th July, 1871.

The Addresses of the Runholders having been omitted in the Return published in Gazette of 23rd August, 1871, the names of the Runholders are re-published with the Addresses.

RETURN OF NUMBER OF SHEEP IN THE PROVINCE.

Sheep Inspector’s Department,
Dunedin, 13th June, 1871.

Sir,—I have the honor to forward, for the information of the Government, Return of Sheep in the Province of Otago for the year ended 30th September, 1870.

The accompanying list shows a total of two millions four hundred and seventy-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-five (2,497,525) sheep above six months old, of which number one million five hundred and eighty-nine thousand and fifteen (1,589,615) are returned as depasturing on Runs, seven hundred and ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and thirteen (798,813) on freehold, seventy-five thousand six hundred and fifty (75,650) on Gold Fields, and sixteen thousand and forty-seven (16,047) on Hundreds.

The number forty-one thousand six hundred and fifty (41,650) appearing in the Return as diseased were confined in a corner of the Waitahuna District, and with the exception of eleven hundred (1,100) in a paddock at Lovell’s Flat on last inspection in May, I found the disease so far reduced that no symptoms of scab could be noticed amongst any of the other flocks: but a few months must elapse before they can be pronounced clean. By careful monthly inspections which I propose making, I am sanguine of being able soon to report that all the sheep in the Province are free from disease.

The Waitahuna District being the only part of the Province where any scab has existed for the last two years, I have tried hard to get it stamped out. Although it has been kept from spreading, I have failed in getting it under until now. This particular part of the country being a commonage, the great difficulty I had to encounter was in separating the flocks of the different owners. On almost every examination of any particular flock, some stray sheep belonging to nearly all the owners in the commonage were sure to be found intermixed, there being no recognised boundaries; and