there shall be valid objections against granting such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden, at Queenstown, on or before the 13th day of December, 1872.

Copy of the application made, and plans annexed, may be seen at the Warden’s Office at Queenstown.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this 29th day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

James William Robertson for 5 acres of land, being section 59, block 22, Shotover.

[Republished from page 490 of Gazette of November 20, 1872, in consequence of Block VII having been printed instead of Block VI.]

NOTICE.

Of certain land in the town of Balclutha, in the Province of Otago, having been set apart as a site for an Athenæum.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS the Provincial Council of Otago have, under and by virtue of Section 62 of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1866,” recommended that the lands hereinafter described should be set apart as a site for an Athenæum, and it is expedient that the said lands should be so reserved for that purpose: Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby publish and declare that I have made and dedicated the lands hereinafter described a reserve for a site for an Athenæum: (that is to say)

Section 16, block VI, Balclutha.

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

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has appointed

HORACE BASTINGS, Esq.

to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, and also to be Secretary for Goldfields and Secretary for Works.

W. A. TOLMIE,
Provincial Secretary.

30th November, 1872.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has appointed

CONSTABLE JOHN NEIL CLARK

to be Inspector of Slaughter Yards and Registrar of Brands for the district of Oamaru, vice Constable Alexander M’Lean Steele, resigned.

W. A. TOLMIE,
Provincial Secretary.

Nov. 28, 1872.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs to be notified that he has appointed

HUGH MCDERMID, Esq.

THOMAS TAYLER, Esq.

WILLIAM THOMSON, Esq.

of Port Chalmers, to be Trustees of the Municipal Sinking Fund.

W. A. TOLMIE,
Provincial Secretary.

30th November, 1872.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Under Section 1, Regulation IV.

WHEREAS I have received sufficient proof that the portion of the Otago Gold Field, described in the Schedule hereto, is for the whole or the greater part of an inferior character as regards the value of its gold deposits: Now, therefore, I hereby give notice that the same may be occupied by holders of Miners’ Rights, in claims of the undermentioned size, viz:—

One (1) acre for each holder of a miner’s right, provided that no block claim shall comprise more than six (6) acres.

Given under my hand at Clyde, this 26th day of October, 1872.

W. LAURENCE SIMPSON.

All that portion of the Otago Gold Field situate at the Luggate Creek, Cromwell district, about 400 yards above the extended claim held by Messrs Swanson and Staunton, and bounded on all its sides by Crown lands.

TO CONTRACTORS.—Tenders are invited by the Outram Road Board for Cutting a Drain between Blocks V and VI, Maungatua District. Plans and specifications may be seen at Mr. Stevenson’s, Taieri Village. Tenders to be addressed to the Chairman of the Board on or before noon of Saturday, the 7th inst.—DAVID GRANT, Surveyor to the Board.

IMPOUNDED, on the twenty-eighth day of November, 1872, by Hugh Ross, by order of Donald Borrie, one bay mare, branded like diamond near shoulder, 2 off shoulder; one bay horse, like FR off shoulder; one bay horse, like ¶ near shoulder, like diamond off shoulder, owners unknown, for trespassing on fenced roads, and damaging crop; for which ten shillings per head is claimed; and, in default of being released, the above cattle will be sold at the Public Pound, at Papakaio, on the twentieth day of December, 1872, at twelve o’clock noon.—JAMES DALGLEISH, Poundkeeper of the Papakaio Pound.

IMPOUNDED, on the 28th day of November, 1872, by Mr Robert Turnbull, for trespassing on Montees Station, one red and white cow, branded like scar off rump; one red and white steer, no visible brand, owners unknown, for which 20s per head is claimed, for eating and destroying growing crops and breaking down fences on station; and, in default of the above stock being released, they will be sold on Friday, the 20th day of December, 1872, at twelve o’clock noon.—WM. WILLIAMS, Poundkeeper of the Leaning Rock (Clyde), Pound. 30th November, 1872.

ROADS.

NOTICE.—Whereas it is intended to stop up these Roads and portions of Roads which are severally described in the Schedule hereunder written and are delineated on the maps or plans mentioned and referred to in the “Roads Diversion Ordinance 1872,” Session XXX copies of which maps or plans so far as they relate to the particular roads or portions of roads intended to be stopped up in the Road District specified in the Schedule have been deposited at the public School mentioned immediately after the description of