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Tender obtained at the office of the Engineer of Roads and Works, Dunedin, and at Police Camp, Winton.
Tenders to be endorsed "Roads and Works tender for contract No. 696."
The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

HORACE BASTINGS,
Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 11th Feby., 1873.

TENDERS are invited by the Blueskin Road Board for a small contract on the Port Chalmers and Blueskin road. By meeting at Mr. James Farquharson at noon on Monday, February 24, contractors will be shown the work; and tenders can be lodged with the undersigned up till the 28th instant. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

JOSEPH MAWSON,
F.
Clerk, Blueskin Road Board.

NORTH-EAST VALLEY Road District.—Tenders wanted for certain formations in N.E. Valley. Plans and specifications to be seen at School-house. Tenders to be marked and addressed to Chairman, and left at School-house on or before Friday, 7th March, at noon. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
4t.9s

EDUCATION RESERVES, SOUTHLAND.
APPLICATIONS will be received by Mr. John H. Baker, Survey Office, Invercargill, from persons wishing to lease any of the Reserves as formerly advertised. Copies of the Otago Regulations, and conditions for the Leasing of Education Reserves, can be obtained from Mr. Baker, Invercargill.

TEACHER Wanted for Merton School. Salary £75 with house, garden, and school fees. Applications (with testimonials) from certificated Teachers will be received by the undersigned up till Monday, 17th Feby.

D. BRUNTON,
Secretary Merton School Committee.
Merton, 1st February, 1873.

SCHOOLMASTER wanted for Tapanui Main School. Salary—Government subsidy with school fees, subject to a slight deduction. Average attendance of pupils, 50; probable income, £200 per annum. There is also a good fire-roomed cottage, as teacher’s residence, with fenced garden, and a school glebe of 12 acres also fenced. Applications, with testimonials, will be received until 27th February, 1873.

JOHN YOUNGSON,
Secretary to School Committee, Tapanui.
Tapanui, 27th January, 1873.

WANTED a Female Assistant for Waipori Main School. She will be required to teach sewing, and to assist in the tuition of the junior children. Salary £45 per annum. Application not later than Monday, 17th instant, to
W. H. COX, Hon. Sec.

REGISTRATION Forms may be had gratis from the Registration Offices throughout the Province, and also from the Government Storekeeper, Dunedin.

WASTE LAND BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS.

On and after the 17th February next, the 8000 acres reserved from sale by order of the Superintendent of Southland, on the 12th October, 1869, will be open for sale. The area and situation of the land are as follows:—

1210 acres on Run 165
1670 acres on Run 156n2) Waiau District.
4600 acres on Run 156x2
520 acres on Run 143 ... Wairio District.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR UNSURVEYED LAND, under "Otago Waste Land Act 1872."
It is hereby notified to the applicants whose names appear in the subjoined Schedule, that they have been declared to be the purchasers of the sections set opposite their names in the Schedule, and that the purchase money of these sections must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue in Invercargill on or before Wednesday, the 26th day of February, 1873, otherwise the applications will be deemed withdrawn, cancelled and void, and the deposit made at the time of lodging the application will be forfeited.

Dunedin, on or before Wednesday, the 26th day of February, 1873, otherwise the application will be deemed withdrawn, cancelled and void, and the deposit made at the time of lodging the application will be forfeited.

Cable & Drummond, section 16, block XV, Maungatua district.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 12th February, 1873.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR UNSURVEYED LAND, under "Otago Waste Land Act 1872."
It is hereby notified to the applicants whose names appear in the subjoined Schedule, that they have been declared to be the purchasers of the sections set opposite their names in the Schedule, and that the purchase money of these sections must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue in Invercargill on or before Wednesday, the 26th day of February, 1873, otherwise the applications will be deemed withdrawn, cancelled and void, and the deposit made at the time of lodging the application will be forfeited.

James Donoghue, section 43, block IV, Wyndham district.
Donald Cameron, sections 34 and 35, block VII, Waikaka district.
J. A. R. Menzies, section 44, block IV, Wyndham district.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, February 12, 1873.

THURSDAY, 22nd February, at noon.
NOTICE is hereby given that section 2 of 30, block II, Clarendon District, containing 45a 0r 24p, and sections 2 of 6 and 2 of 23, block VII, Hillend District, containing 40 acres each, will be open for sale by public auction at the auction rooms of Mr. Capstick, Tokomairiro, on Thursday, the 22nd day of February next, at noon, at the upset price of 10s. per acre.

THURSDAY, 22nd February, noon.
On Thursday, the 22nd Feb. next, at noon, section 3 of 45, block IV, Dunedin and East Taieri District, containing 73a 3r 12p, will be offered at the Land Office, Dunedin, at the upset price of 10s. per acre.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26, 1873, at Noon.
RUNS FOR SALE.—Mr. Milner will offer for sale by public auction, at the Land Office, Dunedin, pastoral leases for 10 years of the following Runs:—

Run No. 333, situated on the Wanaka Lake, contains 100,000 acres, 90,000 acres of which are high sheep country, and about 10,000 acres of shingly and swampy country, suitable for cattle. The rental will be an assessment of 7d per head on not less than 10,000 sheep, and 500 great cattle. The lease will commence on the 26th February, 1874, from which date to the 1st October ensuing the first assessment will be charged.

Run No. 335B, situated on the east shore of Lake Hawea, north of Timaru river, contains 9000 acres, 500 of which are agricultural land. The rental will be an assessment of 7d per head on 3000 sheep. The lease will commence on the 26th February, 1874, from which date to the 1st October ensuing the first assessment will be charged.

Run No. 444 is situated west of and adjoining Run 333, and Motatapu river; contains 5500 acres of high country. The rental will be an assessment of 7d per head on 1000 sheep. Lease to commence on 3rd March, 1873, when an assessment from that date to the 1st October, 1873, will be payable. The sale will be in terms of the "Otago Waste Lands Act 1872." The upset premium in each case will be one halfpenny per acre of the estimated area of the run. A deposit of one-tenth part of the premium and of the first rent will be payable on the fall of the hammer; balance of the premium within a month; and the balance of the assessment on the date of the commencement of each lease. The assessment will be payable, after the first year, on the 1st of October in each year. The runs will be leased for a period of ten years, terminable.