mistakes which may arise through cattle not bearing brands according to the “Cattle Branding Ordinance.”

6. That every licenseholder shall, within fourteen days after these bye-laws are published in a local paper, make a return to the Warden living nearest to him, showing the numbers and brands of all stock depastured by him on the New River Hundred, and that the Wardens will not be responsible for any mistakes which may arise through non-compliance with this requirement.

7. That the penalty for any breach of the foregoing bye-laws be any sum not exceeding five pounds sterling, to be recovered in a summary way, according to the XLV clause of the “Land Regulations.”

8. That nothing contained in the above bye-laws shall be held or construed to authorise the impounding of sheep or cattle, or the enforcing penalties from the owners of any sheep or cattle which are being depastured on any land, whether fenced or not, which is the property of, or is lawfully occupied by the owner of such sheep or cattle.

WM. RUSSELL,
Secretary to the Wardens.

Sanctioned on behalf of Waste Lands Board.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 25th Feb., 1873.

30s.

NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF MINING LEASE APPLICATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the application of Angus McKay for mining lease of four acres of land at Yorston, Third gully, Hyde, made on August 24th, 1872, was on February 19th, 1873, withdrawn, and that the said ground is now open to persons holding miners’ rights or business licenses, or to applicants for a lease, as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for.

H. W. ROBINSON,
Warden.

Naseby, February 26th, 1873.

SUPREME COURT.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Supreme Court for the despatch of Criminal and Civil Business, will be held at the Supreme Court House, at Dunedin, on Monday the seventh day of April next, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all persons bound by recognizances to appear as prosecutors, defendants, or witnesses, are required to give their attendance.

EDWARD FRAS. WARD..

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 3rd March, 1873.

WASTE LAND BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR UNSURVEYED LAND, under “Otago Waste Land Act 1866.”—The Sections in the subjoined Schedule being now surveyed, the applicants are informed that the Waste Land Board will give its decision on their applications at this Office, on Thursday, the 20th day of March, 1873, at 12.30 o’clock; on or before which day, objections to the survey, and if any, must be made. In the event of the applications being granted, the purchase money may be paid forthwith.

John M’Gregor, Tait, and Borrow, section 3, block VIII, Waikaka District.

John M’Gregor, section 2, block VIII, Tuturau District.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 5th March, 1873.

CROWN GRANTS.

CROWN GRANTS for the land and in favor of the persons under-mentioned are now ready for delivery.

J. T. THOMSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 26th February, 1873.

Brown, Elizabeth, section 11, block XI, Lawrence

Rodgers, W. A., section 90, block I, Naschy

McGillivray, Jane, section 17, block XXIX, Herbert

Duncan, J. A., section 1, block XXXII, Palmerston

Murray, J. R. sections 15, 16 and 17, block IV, Outram

Smith, Gordon, section 17, block III, Oamaru

Do section 19, block XXVII, Oamaru

Nixon, F. F., section 2 of 44, block II, Moeraki district

Black, John, sections 1 of 6 and 2 of 6, block IV, Moeraki district

Atkinson, E. B., section 29, block I, Marawenua district

Ferens, Thomas, section 7, block X, Kauroo district

Findlay, James, sections 42, 43, 76 and 77, block II, Otepopo district

Do sections 46, 47, 48, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85 and 86, block II, Otepopo district

Payne, A. D., section 109, block II, Papakaio district

Driver, H. Stewart, and Maclean, H. J., sections 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 43, 44, 45, 62 and 63, block VI, Papakaio district

Driver, H. Stewart and Maclean, H. J., sections 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 52, 53, 54, 86, 87, 88 and 89, block I, Awamoko district

Woods, W. H. and others, sections 4, 5 and 6, block IV, Cailin’s district

Johnston, John, sections 1, 2 and 3, block IV, Warepa district

Clapcott, Bunter, section 28, block XII, Pomahaka district

Oakes, J. P., section 6, block XXVII, Waihola district

Redmayne, Thomas, sections 9 and ½ of 8, block I, Inch Clutha district

Hislop, John, ½ of section 5, block I, Clutha district

Nicholls, F., section 22, block I, Portobello district

Yorston, Hugh, section I, block II, Clarendon district

Thompson, R., 7, 8 and 9, block IX, North Harbor and Blueskin district

Kemp, John, section 18, block VII, North Harbor and Blueskin district

Marshall, Mary, section 114, block III, Shotover district

Bryce, Thomas, sections 23, 24 and 25, block VI, Hillend district

Louden, David, section 6, block I, Akatore district

THURSDAY, 13th March, at noon.

NOTICE is hereby given that Sections 6 and 7, Block III, Wyndham district, containing respectively 100 acres each, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Royal Mail Hotel, Popotunoa, on Thursday the 13th day of March next at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

THURSDAY, 13th March, at noon.

NOTICE is hereby given that Block LI, Dunedin, containing 27 poles, will be offered for sale by public auction, by Mr. McGoun, at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 13th day of March next, at noon, at the upset price of £200.

THURSDAY, 20th March, noon.

NOTICE is hereby given that section 2 of 63, block V, Moeraki District, containing 38a 2r 28p; section 1 of 44, block VII, Hawksbury district, containing 33a; and section 40, block II, Waikouaiti district, containing 75a 1r 29p, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Court House, Hawksbury, on Thursday, the 20th day of March next, at noon, at the upset price of 10s per acre.

Immediately thereafter, sections 71, 72, 73, 74 and 75, block V, Hawksbury district, will be offered as land of special value, at the upset price of £2 per acre.

THURSDAY, 20th March, 1873.

4375 ACRES, BLOCK III, GLENKENICH DISTRICT.
(Waikoikoi Run, Capt. McKenzie’s.)

THE above land, being sections numbered 1 to 39, 52 to 58, 65 to 70, 78, 80, 81, block III, Glenkenich District, will be open for application at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 20th day of March 1873, at £1 per acre.

In the event of more than one application being made for the same land on the same day, it will be put up for sale by auction, open to all bidders.

MONDAY, 31st March, noon.

THE undermentioned Town Sections will be sold by Auction at the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon on Monday, the 31st day of March proximo :—