application of the owner or master, who will be held responsible for the payment of all dues and charges.

11. No vessel will be permitted to enter the Dock with gunpowder or combustible matter on board.

Passed by the Otago Dock Board, this twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

(L.S.)

R. B. MARTIN,
Chairman.

J. S. WEBB,
Clerk to the Board.

21st November, 1871.

The foregoing Bye-laws having been submitted to his Honor the Superintendent of Otago for approval, have with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, been approved by him, and the same are now published for general information.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that he has appointed the Constables after-named to be Gaolers, each for the place mentioned immediately after his name:

Constable WILLIAM MADIGAN, Clyde,
,, PATRICK GANTLY, Queenstown,
,, RICHARD PILKINGTON, Naseby,
,, JAMES PHILIP GAYNOR, Oamaru.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

26th January, 1872.

HIS HONOR the Superintendent directs the following Executive change, which will take effect on the 1st day of February next, to be notified—

DONALD REID, Esquire,
to be Provincial Secretary and Treasurer and Secretary for Land;

JAMES BENN BRADSHAW, Esquire,
to be Provincial Gold Fields Secretary and Secretary for Works.

JOHN LOGAN,
Secretary to Superintendent.

27th January, 1872.

HIS HONOR the Superintendent has appointed Mr THOMAS GRUNDY and Mr JOHN O. H. M’ARDELL to be Inspectors of the Gold Fields Depasturing Districts of Tuapeka and Wakatipu respectively, their appointments to date from the 1st instant.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 30th January, 1872.

Land and Works Office,
Dunedin, Jan. 29, 1872.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the application made by H. L. Squires, on the 19th December, 1871, on behalf of the Concord Company, Waitahuna, for a Gold Mining Lease in Block VIII, Table Hill, has been abandoned, and the land is open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights.

D. REID,
Secretary for Land and Works.

Land and Works Office,
Dunedin, January 29, 1872.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the application made by Joseph Higgins, on the 18th October, 1871, for a Gold Mining Lease of Section 16, block V, Table Hill, was refused by the Warden, and the land is now open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights.

D. REID,
Secretary for Land and Works.

Land and Works Office,
Dunedin, January 29, 1872.

SUPPLEMENTARY List of Licensed Auctioneers for the year ending 7th January, 1873, is published for general information:—

POWER, PIERCE, Dunedin,
HAY, MATHEW, Lawrence,
CHAPPLE, JOHN COLE, Alexandra,
MACRORIE, DAVID, Invercargill,
OSBORNE, HENRY ELIAS, Invercargill.

ALFRED F. OSWIN,
Sub-Treasurer.

Provincial Treasury,
Dunedin, January 23, 1872.

Gold Fields Department,
Warden’s Office, Dunedin,
3rd January, 1872.

I HEREBY give notice that I am prepared to receive applications under the Agricultural Lease Regulations, from persons desirous of occupying portions of that part of the Otago Gold Field described by Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette of the 27th December, 1871.

ALEX. WILLIS, Warden.

GENERAL ROAD BOARD.— The Ordinary Monthly Meeting, which should be held on the 1st February, is postponed until the 8th of that month.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Board.

23rd January, 1872.

ABSTRACT FROM PREVIOUS GAZETTES

of Impounding Notices:—

9th February, Friday, noon, a heifer and a steer will be sold at Oamaru Pound.

9th February, Friday, noon, a mare will be sold at Otakia Pound.

9th February, Friday, noon, a bullock will be sold at Hawksbury Pound.

9th February, Friday, noon, four cows, four calves, and three steers will be sold at Papakaio.

9th February, Friday, noon, a horse will be sold at Glenkenich Pound.

9th February, Friday, noon, a colt and a heifer will be sold at Tokomairiro Pound.

9th February, Friday, noon, a gelding, four mares and a cob will be sold at Clyde Pound.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary for Land and Works, until noon of Friday, 30th January, for—

Contract No. 567.—Formation of about 140 chains of road, between Queenstown and Arthur’s Point.

Plans and Specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained at the office of the Engineer of Roads and Works, Dunedin, and at the Court-house, Queenstown.

Tenders to be endorsed “Roads and Works Tender, for Contract No. 567.”

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

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary for Land and Works until noon of Tuesday, 6th February, for

Contract No. 544—Construction of a Stone and Timber Foot-Bridge over the Pomahaka River, on road “Beaumont to Switzers.”

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.