NOTICE to Applicants.—R. Johnston has been appointed to the vacancy in the Land Office.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

To William St. Paul Gellibrand, Esq., Thomas Lloyd Gellibrand, Esquire, and Sir Francis Smith, Pastoral Lessees of Run No. 218, in the Province of Otago.

TAKE NOTICE, that, in terms of section one hundred and three D (103D) of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872,” the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago hereby call upon and require you, as the holders of the Pastoral lease of Run No. 218 (which run is included within the boundaries of the Otago Gold Fields) to exercise your right to apply for an Agricultural lease under the provisions of section 103B of the said Act, of a block not exceeding six hundred and forty (640) acres in extent, of the land comprised in the said Pastoral lease, not actually known to be auriferous.

And further take notice, that if you fail or neglect to make application for an Agricultural lease within three months from and after the date of the service of this notice, you will be deemed to have declined to exercise your right to obtain an Agricultural lease under the provisions of the said Act.

Dated this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago.

To William St. Paul Gellibrand, Esquire, Thomas Lloyd Gellibrand, Esquire, and Sir Francis Smith, Pastoral Lessees of Run No. 20, in the Province of Otago.

TAKE NOTICE, that in terms of section one hundred and three B (103B) of the Otago Waste Lands Act 1872, the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago hereby offer to you, as the holder of the pastoral lease of Run No. 20, the right to acquire by purchase, at the rate of twenty shillings (20s) per acre, subject to the conditions of purchase contained in the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872,” six hundred and forty (640) acres, or any quantity not exceeding six hundred and forty acres in one block of the land comprised in the said lease, including or not including, at your option, your homestead pre-emptive right.

And further take notice that you are required to exercise your right of purchase within twelve months after the date of the service of this notice, and that in the event of non-payment of the purchase money for the land (if any) selected by you within such period of twelve months, you will be deemed to have declined to purchase.

Dated this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago.

To William St. Paul Gellibrand, Esquire, Pastoral Lessee of Run No. 121A, in the Province of Otago.

TAKE NOTICE, that in terms of section one hundred and three D (103D) of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872,” the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago hereby call upon and require you, as the holder of the Pastoral lease of Run No. 121A (which run is included within the boundaries of the Otago Gold Fields) to exercise your right to apply for an Agricultural lease under the provisions of section 103B of the said Act of a block not exceeding six hundred and forty (640) acres in extent of the land comprised in the said Pastoral lease, not actually known to be auriferous.

And further take notice, that if you fail or neglect to make application for an Agricultural lease within three months from and after the date of the service of this notice, you will be deemed to have declined to exercise your right to obtain an Agricultural lease under the provisions of the said Act.

Dated this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

No. 4,089. WARRANT 745

Between Thomas Hammond, plaintiff; and Alexander McPherson, defendant.

NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias, to me directed and delivered, issued out of this Honorable Court in this cause, on the thirty-first day of January last, and in pursuance of “The Execution of Judgments against Real Estate Act, 1867,” all the estate and interest of the above-named Alexander McPherson, the execution debtor, in all that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement twenty perches, more or less, situate in the town of Roxburgh, in the Province of Otago, in New Zealand, being the north-east moiety of Section numbered eight (8) Block six (VI), on the map of the said Town of Roxburgh, bounded towards the north-west by Section six, one hundred and twenty-five links, towards the north-east by Cheviot street one hundred links, towards the south-east by section ten, one hundred and twenty-five links, and towards the south-west by the other moiety of the said Section eight, one hundred links, the memorial of judgment of which was registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds in Dunedin, in the Province aforesaid, on the first day of February last, has at the suit of the above-named Thomas Hammond, the execution creditor, been levied upon and taken in execution, and will be sold by public auction at the Sheriff’s Bailiff’s Office, Supreme Courthouse, in Dunedin, on Thursday, the 31st day of July, at twelve o’clock at noon, unless the said execution shall be previously satisfied.

Dated in Dunedin, this twenty-fourth day of April, 1873.

I. NEWTON WATT,
Sheriff of Otago.

The estate and interest of the above-named Alexander McPherson, the execution debtor, intended to be sold, is an estate in fee simple, subject to a mortgage for three hundred pounds.

JOHN MOUAT,
(Of McKay and Mouat, in Princes street, in Dunedin, Solicitor for Execution Creditor).

GAZETTE.—Parties who get the “Gazette,” or who may apply for it, should give as part of their address the nearest, or most convenient post town. The “Gazette” has little chance of reaching parties unless that is done.

OTAGO LAND ACT 1872 may be obtained from the Government Storekeeper, Dunedin. Price, 2s 6d; if posted, 3s 2d. The usual allowance to the trade. Postage stamps cannot be received in payment.

JUST PUBLISHED.—Map of Otago, 16 inches by 18 inches, printed in colors, by William Collins, Sons, and Co., London and Glasgow. Price, 2s.

May be obtained at the District Land Offices, Queenstown, Lawrence, Clyde, and Naseby; and from Messrs. Livingston, Oamaru; John Smith, Waikouaiti; Souter, Hislop, and Gray, Milton; J. R. Bremner, Hampden; Henry Wise and Thomas George, Dunedin.