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To the owner of the said fence, I shall cause the same to be erected at your costs and charges.

W. ADAMSON,
Owner of Sections 4 and 5, Block I,
Invercargill Hundred.
Invercargill, 15th August, 1872.
3t 22s 6d

To James M’Kellar, or owner of Section 1, Block 30, Invercargill; J. A. R. Menzies, or owner of Section 4, Block 30, Invercargill; H. J. Tancred, or owner of Section 20, Block 30, Invercargill; and J. C. W. Russell, or owner of Section 21, Block 30, Invercargill.

TAKE NOTICE that I desire the boundary or separating fence between your sections and sections 2 and 3, Block 30, Invercargill, to be made immediately, and that such fence shall be a substantial post, two-rail and board fence, at least five feet in height; posts two feet in the ground, and not more than eight feet asunder; and that, failing the erection of your half of the said fence, I shall cause the same to be erected at your cost and charges.

GEORGE HUSH,
Owner of Sections 2 and 3, Block 30.
Invercargill, 25th Nov., 1872.
3t—27s. 6d.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, trading as hotelkeepers, general storekeepers, butchers and bakers, at Nevis, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to and by the above firm will be received and paid by Daniel Scally, who will henceforth carry on the business solely on his own account.

DANIEL SCALLY.
GEORGE MICHAEL STARKEY.

Witness to signatures:
PATRICK PIERCE.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS taken at DUNEDIN, for the Month of November, 1872.

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 ... 30.020 inches
Highest pressure (on 19th) ... 30.258 „
Lowest pressure (on 12th) ... 29.603 „
Range for month ... 0.655 „

Temperature in Shade.
Approx. mean temperature for month ... 55.3 Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ... 63.9 „
Mean minimum temperature ... 46.7 „
Mean daily range of temperature ... 17.3 „
Highest maxim. temperature (on 30th) 84.0 „
Lowest minim. temperature (on 1st) 38.0 „
Extreme range for the month ... 46.0 „
Mean temp. of evaporation ... 50.8 „

Solar Radiation.
Maximum (on 30th) ... 171 „
Mean for Month ... 139 „

Terrestrial Radiation.
Minimum (on 14th) ... 21 „
Mean for month ... 33 „

Mean degree of humidity (Saturation = 100) ... 72.5
Mean elastic force of vapour ... 0.318 inches
Mean temp. of dew point ... 44.6 Fah.
Total rainfall on 4 days ... 0.766 inches
Greatest rainfall in one day (on 13th) ... 0.324 „
Mean amount of sky covered (overcast, =10) ... 4.6

Wind: Mean velocity per day for month 112 miles.
Greatest velocity observed for 24 hours (on 1st) ... 440 „

Number of days on which the wind blew from each point:—
N. N.E. E. S.E. S. S.W. W. N.W. Calm.
2 1 9 7 5 1 1 1 3

Remarks.—Fog on 30th.

NOTE.—The results of all the self-registering instruments were recorded on the dates above given, and therefore occurred during the preceding 24 hours.

HENRY SKEY.

From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 68, November 28, 1872.

"Municipal Corporations Waterworks Act, 1872, proclaimed in operation in Dunedin."
(L.S.) G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the "The Municipal Corporations Waterworks Act, 1872," it is among other things enacted, that the said Act may be brought into operation in and for any borough within any Province, by an Act or Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of such Province, as therein mentioned: And by the said Act it is also provided that the Corporation of the City of Dunedin shall be exempt from the operation of the hereinafter recited clause; and that the said Act may be brought into operation immediately after the passing of the said Act, by Proclamation of the Governor:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me for that purpose by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that "The Municipal Corporations Waterworks Act 1872," shall, from and after the day of the date hereof, be in operation in the City of Dunedin aforesaid.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

JOHN HALL.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

INSPECTORS OF IMMIGRANT SHIPS APPOINTED.

Office of Lands and Immigration,
Wellington, 25th November, 1872.

IT is hereby notified for general information, that the under-mentioned gentlemen have been appointed to act as Commissioners to inspect and report upon the state and condition of Immigrants and Immigrant Ships upon their arrival:—

Rt. HON. DR. JAMES BROWN GRIEG, Esq., Acting Harbour Master.
WALTER H. PEARSON, Esq., Immigration Officer.
FRANCIS ALEXANDER MONCKTON, Esq., Coroner.

G. M. WATERHOUSE,
(for the Minister of Immigration).

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick and Co., of Stafford-street, Printers to the Provincial Government for the time being.