Commissioner for the said district, to exercise the rights, privileges, and duties of the said Local Board of the said district.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

(L.S.)

J. MACANDREW, Superintendent.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has appointed James Udall, Esquire, J.P., to be a Visiting Justice of the Gaol in Oamaru.

D. Renn, Provincial Secretary.

19th February, 1872.

NOTICE is hereby given, that Peter Speirs has withdrawn his application for a Gold Mining Lease of Section 22, Block 18, Tuapeka East, and the land is open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights.

J. B. BRADSHAW, Provincial Gold Fields Secretary.

Gold Fields Office, Dunedin, 20th Feby., 1872.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the undermentioned persons having failed to execute the Agricultural Leases prepared in their favor, the Leases have been cancelled.

Thomas Ritchie Simson, Lease 621a, for Sections 12 and 18, Block 4, Waitahuna East.
Thomas Ritchie Simson, Lease 622a, Section 51, Block 4, Table Hill.
John Crawford, Lease 9c, Section 2, Block 11, Table Hill.

And the land is open for application under the Agricultural Lease Regulations.

J. B. BRADSHAW, Provincial Gold Fields Secretary.

Gold Fields Office, Dunedin, 20th Feby., 1872.

TEANERAKI LOCAL ROAD BOARD.—Whereas the Local Board of the Teaneraki Road District has requested the Otago General Road Board to borrow the sum of Five Thousand Pounds under the provisions of the “Road Districts Loan Ordinance 1865,” for the purpose of constructing a light line of railway from Oamaru to the Waireka Valley within the said district:

Notice is hereby given to the ratepayers on the assessment roll of the said district that the General Board will grant the request of the Teaneraki Local Road Board at a meeting of the General Board to be held at Dunedin on the 14th day of March next, unless that two-thirds of the ratepayers on the assessment roll of the said district are unfavorable to the loan being contracted, as provided in Clause 2 of the said Ordinance.

Dated at Dunedin this eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

Alex. Willis, Clerk to the General Board.

(See Clauses after notice to Windsor Board.)

WINDSOR LOCAL ROAD BOARD.—Whereas the Local Board of the Windsor Road District has requested the Otago General Road Board to borrow the sum of Eleven Thousand Pounds under the provisions of the “Road Districts Loan Ordinance 1865,” for the purpose of constructing a light line of railway from Oamaru to the Waireka Valley within the said district:

Notice is hereby given to the ratepayers on the assessment roll of the said district that the General Road Board will grant the request of the Windsor Local Road Board at a meeting of the General Board to be held at Dunedin on the 14th day of March next, unless two-thirds of the ratepayers on the assessment roll of the said district are unfavorable to the loan being contracted, as provided in Clause 2 of the said Ordinance.

Dated at Dunedin this eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

Alex. Willis, Clerk to the General Board.

The following clauses of the “Road Districts Loan Ordinance” are published for general information:—

I. The Otago General Road Board at the request of the local board of any road district may borrow on the security of the yearly highway or road rates or of any special rates authorised to be levied from time to time under the provisions of the “Otago Roads Ordinance 1865” for the specific work for which a loan is required any sum which with any other sum previously borrowed and remaining unpaid for such road district shall not exceed one year’s estimated rental of property in such district.

II. It shall be lawful for the ratepayers in any road district to petition the Otago General Road Board to refuse any such request of the local board to borrow any such sum as in the last clause is mentioned and on being satisfied that two-thirds of the ratepayers on the assessment roll of the district are unfavorable to a loan being contracted the General Road Board shall refuse to comply with the request of the local board.

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

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.

ENFIELD LOCAL ROAD BOARD.—Whereas the Local Board of the Enfield Road District has requested the Otago General Road Board to borrow the sum of Eight Thousand Pounds, under the provisions of the “Road Districts Loan Ordinance 1865,” for the purpose of constructing a light line of railway from Oamaru to the Waireka Valley within the said district:

Notice is hereby given to the ratepayers on the assessment roll of the said district that the General Road Board will grant the request of the Enfield Local Road Board at a meeting of the General Board to be held at Dunedin on the 14th day of March next, unless two-thirds of the ratepayers on the assessment roll of the said district are unfavorable to the loan being contracted, as provided in Clause 2 of the said Ordinance.

Dated at Dunedin this eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

Alex. Willis, Clerk to the General Board.

CORRECTION.— For James Wallace Murdoch, Esquire, in fourth line from top of last column of page 89 of Gazette dated 14th February current, read John Wallace Murdoch, Esquire.

STAMP ACT.—Managers of Cemeteries must use a 2s 6d Stamp on declaration made under Section 14 of the “Cemeteries Reserves Management Ordinance 1864.”