PORT CHALMERS POUND.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has appointed

Thomas Brukken,
of Port Chalmers, to be Poundkeeper of the Port Chalmers Pound.

W. A. Tolmie,
Provincial Secretary.

7th July, 1873.

ENGINEER

Applications will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works until Monday, 11th August, for the appointment of District Engineer for the Interior District.

Requisite information as to duties may be obtained at the Office of the Provincial Engineer.

Applicants to furnish certificates of competency.

Horace Bastings,
Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 14th July, 1873.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Under Section 1 of Regulation IV,

WHEREAS I have received sufficient proof that the portion of the Otago Gold Field, described in the schedule hereto, is for the whole or the greater part of an inferior character as regards the value of its gold deposits:

Now, therefore, I hereby give notice that the same may be occupied by holders of Miners’ Rights in claims of the under-mentioned size:

(a) to each the holder of a miner’s right, provided that no block claim shall comprise more than six

(b) acres altogether.

Given under my hand at Naseby, this 28th day of June, 1873.

H. W. Robinson,
Warden.

Schedule.

All that portion of the Otago Gold Field, situate at the east side of Hamilton road near Naseby, and comprising two acres more or less, bounded on the north by Smith and Co.’s extended claim, 70 yards; on the south by Cogan’s paddock, 70 yards; on the east by main gully, 130 yards; and on the west by Hamilton road, 130 yards.

ABSTRACT FROM PREVIOUS GAZETTES OF IMPOUNDING NOTICES

25th July, Friday, noon, a bay horse will be sold at South Dunedin Pound.

18th July, Friday, noon, 3 cows, 1 bullock, 1 heifer, 1 calf, 1 steer will be sold at the Lovells Flat Pound.

IRISH TENDERS

Tenders will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Saturday, 26th July, 1873, for Contract No. 3 -- Supply and delivery of 3000 sleepers for Bluff and Invercargill Railway.

Plans and Specifications may be seen and forms of tender obtained at the Office of the Engineer of Roads and Works, Dunedin, and at Railway Office, Invercargill.

Tenders to be endorsed -- “Tender for Contract No. 3.”

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

Horace Bastings,
Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 15th July, 1873.

TENDERS WANTED

By the Corstorphine Subdivision of the Suburban Road Board for spreading over 200 yards of metal, at per yard. Intending contractors will be shown the portions of the road on which the metal is to be spread, by Messrs. Thomson, Mclaren, and Dempster, on Friday, the 18th July, at 2 o’clock, at the bottom of the Church Hill, Green Island.

7s. 6d.

SUBURBAN ROAD BOARD

TENDERS wanted for Clerk and Collector, for above Board, for current year. Tenders to be lodged with Mr Andrew, Chairman, on or before Saturday, the 19th July.

Green Island, 7th June, 1873.

2t-4s. 6d.

BLUESKIN ROAD DISTRICT

TENDERS required on or before the 19th inst., from persons willing to perform the office of Clerk and Collector to the above District. All persons tendering must enclose testimonials, and names of proposed sureties.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Applications to be addressed “Chairman Blueskin Road Board, Post Office, Port Chalmers.”

21-6-8.

WANTED

A Schoolmistress for the Port Chalmers Grammar School. Salary, £100 per annum.

Applications to be lodged with the undersigned not later than the 14th instant.

Applicants will please state when, if successful, they would be ready to enter on their duties.

John MacFarlane, Clerk,
Port Chalmers Grammar School Committee.

July 1st, 1873.

WASTE LAND BOARD ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE is hereby given, that the following allotments in the undermentioned Townships will be offered for sale by public auction, on the dates and at places mentioned:

Sections in Manuherekia -- At Black’s, Manuherekia, on Monday, the 21st July next, at noon.

Sections in Ophir -- At Black’s, Manuherekia, on Monday, the 21st July next, after the township of Manuherekia.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR UNSURVEYED LAND

Under “Otago Waste Lands 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 16th day of July, 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.

L. D. Nichol, section 68, block 6, Tuturau district Do
Do ,, 77 ,, 7 Do
Do ,, 17 ,, 9 Do
Wm. Brunton ,, 14 ,, 9, Toetoes district
Henry Boyd ,, 6 ,, 2 Do
J. T. M’Kerras ,, 17 ,, 1 Do
Do ,, 24 ,, 4 Do
Do ,, 7 ,, 2 Do
Do ,, 8 ,, 5 Do
Henry Petheron ,, 78 ,, 7, Tuturau district
Do ,, 18 ,, 4, Wyndham district
A. N. and Jas. Campbell, section 25, block 4, Toetoes district

J. T. Thomson,
Waste Lands Board Office,
Chief Commissioner.

Dunedin, 16th July, 1873.

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. E. Brenner, Hampden; Henry Wise and Thomas George, Dunedin.

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.