22nd Sept., Friday, noon, a Mare will be sold at the Leaning Rock (Clyde) Pound.

22nd Sept., Friday, noon, a Horse will be sold at Milton Pound.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary for Land and Works, until noon of Monday the 2nd of October for,

1st. Contract No 22, Survey of a Township at the Elbow, Taringatura District, about 100 acres into sections of quarter acre, half acre, and five acres.

2nd. Contract No 73, Survey of Long Bush Township, about 470 acres, into sections of from five to twenty acres.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained at the Survey Offices Dunedin and Invercargill.

Tenders to be endorsed "Tender for Contract No 73," or 73 as the case may be.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

GEO. GE DUNCAN,
for Secretary for Land and Works.

OTOKIA ROAD DISTRICT. — Tenders wanted for certain works by the above-named Local Road Board. Specifications to be seen at the School House, Otokia, and all information given on and after Monday, the 11th inst. The works to be shown on Saturday, the 16th; intending contractors to meet at the School at 11 o’clock A.M., and all Tenders to be lodged with the undersigned on or before 12 o’clock on Wednesday, the 20th inst. — PETER LEITCH, Clerk.

Otokia, 6th September, 1871.

MOSGIEL ROAD DISTRICT. — Tenders will be received by the Undersigned until noon of Friday, the 15th September, for Construction of a timber Bridge over Mill Creek; also, a timber Culvert. Specifications may be seen at the house of Mr. A. Armit Mosgiel, who will show the works. The Board does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender. JOHN ANDREWS, Clerk to the Board. Grange Mosgiel, 23rd August, 1871.

BELL HILL WORKS. — Tenders will be received at the Government Offices, Dunedin, until noon of Thursday, 21st day of September, current, for Carting for Six Months, commencing 2nd October, 1871.

Sureties will require to sign a form — which may be obtained at the Gaol, and must be lodged with the tender — for the due performance of the Contract.

Extent of security — £50 in all.

For further information, apply to Mr. Caldwell, Governor of the Gaol.

TENDERS wanted for extensive brick addition to Girls’ Provincial High School.

Plans and specifications to be seen at my office till noon Wednesday, 20th inst.

DAVID ROSS,
Princes street.

SCHOOLMASTER Wanted for Government Side School at Macrae’s. Salary £75 per annum with Fees and a small Residence.

Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged on or before September 15th with R. DONALDSON, Clerk to the School Committee, Macrae’s.

WANTED, a Properly Qualified Teacher for the Main School at Riverton. Salary: Government Grant and the usual proportion of school fees. The probable number of children attending school will be from 60 to 80. A free residence (with about an acre of land fenced in) is attached to the House.

Applications with testimonials to be lodged with the undersigned on or before the 30th September, 1871.

RICHARD ROCKE, Clerk School Committee,
Riverton.

WANTED, a Teacher for the Side School, Clarke’s Flat, near Lawrence.

Applications, with testimonials to be lodged with the undersigned on or before the 20th Sept., 1871.

ALEX. FRASER, Secretary to School Committee,
Clarke’s Flat, near Lawrence.

WANTED, a Teacher for the Side School, Tapanui. Salary, £75 from Government, and £40 from School Committee, with four-roomed house, garden, and twelve-acre paddock.

Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged with the undersigned on or before the 2nd October, 1871.

JOHN MCFARLANE, Secretary School Committee,
Tapanui.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS taken at DUNEDIN, for the Month of AUGUST, 1871.

At 9 a.m. daily.

Lat. 45° 52’ 11” S. Long. 170° 31’ 7” E.

Altitude above Sea, 550 feet.

Barometer (reduced to 32° Fah. and sea level.)

Mean atmospheric pressure for month 29.765 inches

Highest pressure (on 19th) … 30.318 ”

Lowest pressure (on 27th) … 29.252 ”

Range for month … 1.066 ”

Temperature in Shade.

Approx. mean temperature for month 45.6 Fah.

Mean maximum temperature … 52.6 ”

Mean minimum temperature … 38.7 ”

Mean daily range of temperature … 13.8 ”

Highest maxim. temperature (on 8th) 65.0 ”

Lowest minim. temperature (on 3rd) 32.0 ”

Extreme range for the month … 33.0 ”

Solar Radiation.

Maximum (on 27th) … 99 ”

Mean for month … 82 ”

Mean degree of humidity (Saturation = 100) … 75.1 ”

Mean elast. force of vapour … .230 inches.

Mean temp. of dew point … 38.1 Fah.

Total rainfall on 15 days … 3.666 inches.

Greatest rainfall in one day (on 31st) 1.240 ”

Mean amount of sky covered (overcast, 10) … .5

Wind: Mean velocity per day for month 174 miles

Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on 25th) … 680 ”

Number of days on which the wind blew from each point:—

N. N.E. E. S.E. S. S.W. W. N.W. Calm.

5 3 0 2 1 2 9 2 7

REMARKS:—High wind on 24th from W.; Snow fell on 1st and 17th; Hail; Aurora seen on 18th.

NOTE.—The results of all the self-registering instruments were recorded at the morning’s observation, and therefore occurred during the preceding 24 hours.

HENRY SKEY.

WASTE LAND BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS.

SETTLERS desirous of Depasturing Cattle on the Wairuna and Crookston Hundreds are requested to make the required return and take out Depasturing Licenses.

Forms and every information may be had of the Ranger at Balclutha, and at the Land office.

WINTON HUNDRED.

APPLICATIONS will be received at the Land Office, Invercargill, for the purchase of section 35, block III, Winton Hundred, hitherto temporarily reserved, on Monday, the 18th day of September, 1871.