NOTICE.—The Kaikorai Road Board intend to collect

a general Rate of 1s in the £ over the whole dis-
trict for the year ending 20th March, 1874. The Rate book
can be seen by the Ratepayers at the Kaikorai
Hotel on and after Thursday, 25th September, for ten
days.

JAMES THOMSON,
Clerk Kaikorai Road Board.

4s

NOTICE.—A meeting of Licensee-holders in Toe Toes

Hundred will be held on Tuesday, the 30th Sept.,
1873, at 2 o’clock p.m., at the house of Mr. Hugh Carswell,
to elect two Wardens, vice Richardson and Carswell
resigned.

THOMAS HUGHAN,
Banger.
Dunedin, September 3rd, 1873.

NOTICE.—The North-East Valley Road Board intend

to make a General Rate of one shilling (1s.) in the £ over the whole district,
for the year ending June, 1874. The Rate Book can be
seen at the hotel of Mr. Thomas Brown, North-East
Valley, on and after Monday, the 25th August, 1873,
for ten days.

HUGH McFADYEN,
Clerk to Board.

2t—6s.

NOTICE to the owner of Section 24, Block XXXII

Palmerston, that the dividing fence be made before
this day month, such fence to be split posts, rails, and
palings.

7th September, 1873.

SAMUEL LEES,
Owner of Section 25, Block XXXII.

3t—6s.

NOTICE is hereby given that poison has been laid on

my property at Saddlehill Park.

WILLIAM JAFFREY.

Dated this 30th day of August, 1873.

4t—6s.

SUPREME COURT

NOTICE is hereby given that a Sitting of the Supreme
Court for the despatch of Criminal and Civil busi-
ness, will be held at the Supreme Court House at
Dunedin, on Monday the sixth day of October 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, plaintiffs, defendants, or witnesses, are re-
quired to give their attendance.

INCENDIARISM.

MALICIOUSLY SETTING FIRE to an UNOCCUPIED HOUSE.

£50 REWARD

And a Free Pardon to an Accomplice.

WHEREAS, on the night of the 6th instant, an unoc-
cupied house, built of wood and iron, and recently
used as an hotel, situate at Carricktown, Cromwell district,
the property of Charles Colelough, valued at £150, was
destroyed by fire: And whereas at an inquest held on
the 12th instant, at the Star of the West Hotel, Carrickton,
to enquire as to the origin of the said fire, the Jury re-
turned the following verdict: ‘That the said house was
wilfully, maliciously, and feloniously destroyed by fire,
by some person or persons at present unknown to the
jurors.’ Notice is hereby given that a reward of £50
will be paid by the Provincial Government of Otago, to
any person who will give such information as will lead to
the conviction of the person or persons by whom the said
fire was caused, and His Excellency the Governor will
be advised to grant a free pardon to an accomplice, not
being the person who actually caused the fire, as will give
such information as will lead to a like result.

29th August, 1873.

T. K. WELDON,
Commissioner of Police.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick and Co., of Stafford street, Printers to the
said Provincial Government for the time being.

INVERCARGILL, BLUFF & WINTON RAILWAY,

On and after May 1st, 1873, daily trains will run as
under :—

Leave Winton for Invercargill at 8.15 a.m.
Invercargill for Bluff at 9.45 a.m.
Bluff for Invercargill at 11.45 a.m.
Invercargill for Bluff at 2 p.m.
Invercargill for Winton at 4 p.m.
Bluff for Invercargill at 4 p.m.

A train will leave Winton on Saturday evenings at
5.15, returning from Invercargill on Monday mornings at
7. There are no trains on Sunday.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 54, Sept. 11, 1873.)

Registration and Returning Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th September, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

Edgar Hall Carew, Esq.,
to be Registration and Returning Officer for the Election
of Members of the House of Representatives for
the Electoral District of Tuapeka.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Provincial Returning Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th September, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

Edgar Hall Carew, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for Provincial Elections for
the Electoral Districts of Milton, Matau, and Waihola,
in the Province of Otago.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Mayor Elected.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th September, 1873.

IT is hereby notified that, in conformity with Clause 3
of “The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering
Act, 1865,” the name of the undermentioned person has been
sent in to this office by the Town Clerk as having been
re-elected Mayor of Balclutha:

John McNeil, Esq.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Justice of the Peace Appointed.

Department of Justice.
Wellington, 9th September, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to re-appoint

John McNeil, Esq.,
Mayor of Balclutha, to be a Justice for the Colony,
under “The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering
Act, 1865.”

JOHN BATHGATE.

Inspector of Distilleries Appointed.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 30th August, 1873.

IT is hereby notified for general information, that the
under-mentioned Officer of Customs at Stewart’s
Island, has been appointed an Inspector of Distilleries,
under the provisions of “The Distillation Act, 1868:”

James Brown Greig, Esq.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
Commissioner of Customs.