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INCENDIARISM.

Maliciously Setting Fire to Three Stacks of Wheat.

£100 REWARD,

And a Free Pardon to an Accomplice.

WHEREAS about 5 o’clock on the morning of the 14th instant, three stacks of Wheat, situate at Waiareka Valley, near Oamaru, the property of Messrs. Gifford and Clowes, value £100, were discovered on fire, by which they were destroyed; And whereas the said fire is believed to have been the act of an incendiary:

Notice is hereby Given, that a reward of £100 will be paid by the Provincial Government of Otago to any person who will first give such information as will lead to the arrest and 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, who will give such information as will lead to a like result.

T. K. WELDON,
Commissioner of Police.

Police Office, Dunedin,
18th June, 1874.

NOTICE.

FREE NOMINATED IMMIGRATION.

(Extract from Order in Council, 15th October, 1873.)

REGULATIONS FOR THE CONDUCT OF IMMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND, ON THE NOMINATION OF IMMIGRANTS BY PERSONS RESIDENT THEREIN.

1. Any person resident in the Colony, desirous of nominating relatives or friends in Europe for passages to New Zealand, may do so by applying to an Immigration Officer, in the form at foot, copies of which can be obtained at all Immigration and Post Offices.

The persons nominated, if approved by the Immigration Officer and the officers of the Home Agency, will receive free passages to the Colony.

2. Every adult emigrant will be required, before embarkation, to pay, unless specially remitted by the Agent-General, 20s. (and children in proportion), for bedding, blankets, and mess utensils.

3. The cost of conveyance to the port (unless the Agent-General agrees to pay it), and to the residence of their friends after their arrival in the Colony, must be defrayed by the emigrants themselves.

4. All the ships employed in this service will be denur the provisions of the Passenger Act.

5. It is to be distinctly understood, that notwithstanding the applications are forwarded to the Agent-General by the Immigration Officers, the Agent-General in London may refuse passages where the intending emigrants are in ill-health, or in any way unfitted, according to his judgment, to emigrate.

6. The Regulations, issued upon 21st April, 1873, for the payment of bonuses to the nominators upon the arrival of the nominated immigrants, are hereby rescinded; and no certificates for the payment of such bonuses will be given after the date hereof.

To the IMMIGRATION OFFICER,
187

I have the honor to state that, in my opinion, the persons named below would not be unwilling to emigrate to New Zealand, and would be desirable colonists.

I have, therefore, to advise that such persons should be communicated with, and invited to emigrate to the Colony.

I have, &c..

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT DUNEDIN FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1874, AT 9 A.M.

Lat. 45 deg. 52 min. 11 sec. S: Long. 170 deg. 81 min. 7 sec. E. Height above sea level, 500 feet.

Barometer—

Inches.

Mean for month ... 29.813

Maximum for month on the 6th ... 30.229

Minimum for month on the 1st ... 29.200

Extreme range ... 1.029

Temperature in Shade—

Fah.

Mean maximum temperature ... 45.9

Mean minimum temperature ... 36.1

Approximate temperature for the month ... 41.0

Mean daily range of temperature ... 10.2

Extreme maximum temperature on 9th ... 58.

Extreme minimum temperature on 17th ... 31.

Extreme range of temperature for month ... 27.

Exposed Thermometers—

Mean solar radiation ... 72.

Maximum solar radiation on 4th ... 89.

Mean terrestrial radiation ... 31.

Minimum terrestrial radiation on 26th ... 24.

Mean daily range between the extreme temperature of night and day ... 41.

Hygrometrical—

Mean elastic force of vapour ... 2.27 in.

Mean temperature of the dew point ... 37.8 Fah.

Mean degree of moisture ... 88.0,,

(computed from the means of wet & dry bulbs)

Rain—

Total rainfall ... 0.910 inches.

Number of days on which rain fell ... 9 days.

Maximum rainfall in any 24 hours on the 16th ... 0.222 inches.

Wind—

No. of days on which it blew from each point—

N 0, N E 3, E 0, S E 2, S 1, S W 6, W 6, N W 1, calm 11.

Average daily velocity for month ... 144 miles.

Maximum velocity for month, on 2nd ... 510 miles.

Mean amount of cloud for month ... 6 0 to 10

—0, clear sky; 10, overcast

Remarks—

Snow fell on 1st; high winds on 2nd from S.W.; fog on 25th; earthquake shock reported on 20th.

(Signed) HENRY SKEY, Observer.

NOTE— In this Abstract the results are inserted for the day on which they are recorded, although occurring during the preceding twenty-four hours.

(From the New Zealand Gazette of June 25th, 1874.)

Receiver of Land Revenue, Southland, appointed.

Wellington, 22nd June, 1874

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY McCULLOCH, Esq.,

to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Southland District of the Province of Otago, as from the 6th instant.

JULIUS VOGEL.

GAZETTE.— Complaints have been made by several parties of the non-receipt of the Gazette. As the Gazette is regularly posted in Dunedin, parties who do not receive it will be good enough to endeavour to find out the reason of the non-delivery.

DUNEDIN :

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by COULIS & CULLING, of Rattray-street, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.