Mr JAMES COOK

to be a Manager of Riverton Cemetery.

W. A. TOLMIE,
Provincial Secretary.

24th Feb., 1873.

Gold Fields Office,
Dunedin, 25th February, 1873.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Mining Lease issued in favor of Messrs Hagel, Smith and Brown for section 3, Polnoon district, and the Mining Lease Certificate issued to said party for section 1, Polnoon district, have been cancelled at their request, and the land is now open for occupation by holders of miners' rights.

ALEX. WILLIS,
for Provincial Gold Fields Secretary.

NOTICE FOR DISTRICT ROAD BOARDS.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Dunedin, 11th February, 1873.

ANY District Road Board requiring a road or roads to be taken through private property under the powers conferred on the Government by the “Provincial Compulsory Lands Taking Act 1866,” must forward to this office plans and descriptions of such road or roads by an authorized surveyor, in sufficient time to enable the standing Rules and Orders of the Provincial Council of Otago under the Act above-mentioned to be complied with.

The clause of the standing Rules and Orders is published below for general information.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Under-Secretary.

Notice of intention to introduce Bill to be gazetted thirty days before Session, and fourteen days' notice to be given to owner, &c.

3. Not less than thirty days previous to the commencement of the Session in which any Bill shall be introduced under the provisions of the “Provincial Compulsory Land Taking Act 1866” (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), a notice shall be published in the New Zealand Government Gazette and also in the Government Gazette of the Province, setting forth the objects, and stating the intention to introduce such a Bill; and, also, stating the time at which a copy of the Bill may be inspected at the office of the Clerk of the Provincial Council; and such notice shall contain the name of the township, district, or other territorial division in which the lands intended to be taken are situated, and the blocks and sections or parts of sections to be so taken; and not less than fourteen days previous to the commencement of the Session a notice in the form or to the effect set forth in the Appendix marked B shall be given to the owners, or reputed owners, lessees, or reputed lessees, and occupiers of all lands intended to be taken for the purposes of the Bill, either by delivering a copy of such notice personally to every such person, or by leaving the same at his or her usual or last known place of abode in the Province; or, in case of his or her absence from the Colony, with his or her agent, or by forwarding the same by post in a registered letter, addressed with a sufficient direction to his or her usual or last known place of abode in the Province, duly stamped and posted before the first of such fourteen days at the Chief Post-office in Dunedin.

ABSTRACT FROM PREVIOUS GAZETTES OF
Impounding Notices:—

7th March, Friday, noon, a mare will be sold at West Taieri Pound.

7th March, Friday, noon, a heifer and a bullock will be sold at Palmerston Pound.

7th March, Friday, noon, a horse will be sold at Papakaio Pound.

TIME EXTENDED.

CONDITIONAL TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary for Works, until 14th March, 1873, from persons desirous of constructing a bridge over the Clutha River at the Beaumont, in terms of conditions to be seen at the office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at the Police Camp, Tuapeka, on and after the 15th instant.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Under Secretary.

25th February, 1873.

PAYMENT TO BE MADE IN LAND OR CASH AT THE OPTION OF GOVERNMENT.

FRESH TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 4th March, 1873, for

Contract No. 696—Formation and gravelling of 88 chains of road at the “Fern Hills,” on road Winton Benmore.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of 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.

ALEX. WILLIS,
for Secretary for Works.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary for Works, until noon of Tuesday, 18th March, 1873, for

Contract No. 722—Formation of about 80 chains of road, Naseby to Clarks Diggings.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Office of the Engineer of Roads and Works, Dunedin, and at Police Camp, Naseby.

Tenders to be endorsed “Roads and Works tender for contract No. 722.”

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

ALEX. WILLIS,
for Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 25th Feb., 1873.

NASEBY SLUDGE CHANNEL.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Saturday, 15th March, 1873, for

Contract No. 1—Construction of about ten miles of Sludge Channel.

Plans and specifications may be seen and forms of tender obtained at the office of the Engineer of Roads and Works, Dunedin, and at Police Camp, Naseby.

Tenders to be endorsed “Tender for Contract No. 1, Sludge Channel.”

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

ALEX. WILLIS,
for Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 25th Feb., 1873.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 11th March, 1873, for

Contracts Nos. 714, 715, 716, 717, 718, 719, 720, 721—Maintenance of portions of road, Dunedin to East Taieri Bridge, from Hillside to 9th milepost.

Plans and specifications may be seen and forms of tender obtained at the office of the Engineer of Roads and Works, Dunedin.

Tenders to be endorsed “Roads and Works tender for contract No. 714, 715, 716, 717, 718, 719, 720, 721,” as the case may be.

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

ALEX. WILLIS,
for Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 25th February, 1873.

TENDERS WANTED.

MORNINGTON Road Board District invites Tenders for forming and metalling Woodhead and Nidpath roads, as per plans and specifications, to be seen at Mr Attwood’s, Clerk to the Board, Mornington.

Tenders to be addressed to the Chairman, Mr R. B. Martin, High street, on or before the 6th March.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

(Signed) J. E. ATTWOOD,
Clerk to Board.

210s

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

WANTED, a Second Master for the Kaikorai District School. Salary £75 per annum, with 10 per cent.