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to be Inspector of Slaughter Houses, and of Cattle intended for slaughter, for the Lawrence District.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.
9th September, 1874.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 15th September, 1874.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that the Mining Leases issued in favour of the undermentioned persons have been cancelled, and the land is now open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights:—

John Thurlow, for sec. 12, bl. I., St. Bathans.
George Henry Smith " 11, bl. L, do.
The Shamrock Quartz? " 14, bl. V., Dunback Distr. Mining Company }

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

BLUFF WHARF.

WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 29th September, 1874, for Contract No. 963.— Extension of Bluff Wharf.
Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at the District Engineer’s Office, Invercargill.

Tenders to be indorsed, “Tender for Contract No. 963.”
The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

D. REID,
Secretary for Works.
Dunedin, September 9, 1874.

NOTICE.

ALTERATIONS in the Conditions for the Cartage and Delivery of Goods and Parcels from the Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway Shed, tenders for which were invited on the 25th August last, can be seen at the General Manager’s Office, Dunedin, on and after this date.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Under-Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 16th Sept. 1874.

APPLICATIONS FOR CROWN LANDS.

DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

IT is Notified for public information that applications may now be made at any Land Office, for land situated in any Land District, under the deferred payment clauses of the Act.

The Land now remaining open for Sale on deferred payments is situated as follows:—

At Hyde, 1,137 acres
At Ida Valley, 1,232 acres
At Waipahi, 1,612 acres
At Tuapeka, 1,526 acres
At Maerewhenua, 2,400 acres
At Toetoes, 761 acres
At Lake Wakatipu, 663 acres
At Glenkenich, 44 acres
At Lake Hawea, 1,500 acres
At M’Nab’s, 276 acres
At Tuapeka, 4,493 acres

Copies of the pamphlet giving the substance of the conditions may be obtained at any Land Office.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.
Dunedin, 12th September, 1874.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Lands, until noon of Monday, 21st September, for Contract No. 87, Survey of 18,000 acres in Greenvale and Crookston Districts into sections of 200 acres each.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Survey Office, Dunedin.

SEPARATE Tenders will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Thursday, the 24th September, 1874, for the erection of Passenger Station and Goods Shed at Winton.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of Tender obtained, at the Traffic Manager’s Office, Invercargill, and General Manager’s Office, Dunedin.

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

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works, until noon of Tuesday, 22nd September, 1874, for—

Contract No. 961—Construction of stone and timber Bridge over the Otaria Stream, on road Clinton to Mataura Bridge.
Contract No. 962, Toitois Jetty—Construction of timber Jetty at Toitois, Township of Portrose.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at Police Camp, Mataura Bridge.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tender for Contract No. 961” or 962, as the case may be. The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

TENDERS for Works, until noon of Tuesday, 22nd September, 1874, for—

Contracts Nos. 957, 958, 959, 960—Construction of Stone and Timber Bridges on road Clinton to Mataura between Clinton and Mataura Bridge.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained at the Office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at Police Camp, Balclutha.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tender for Contract No. 957, 958, 959, 960,” as the case may be.

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

BRIDGES.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 22nd September, 1874, for—

Contracts Nos. 957, 958, 959, 960—Construction of Stone and Timber Bridges on road Clinton to Mataura Bridge between Clinton and Mataura.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained at the Office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at Police Camp, Balclutha.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tender for Contract No. 957, 958, 959, 960,” as the case may be.
The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

TENDERS will be received up to noon on the 30th September, for the several Works required in the erection of a Granite School Building, of Stone, in Oamaru.

Plans and specifications may be seen at the Education Office, Dunedin, and at the Office of John Lemon, Tyne street, Oamaru.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

TO ARCHITECTS.

COMPETITIVE DESIGNS are invited for a Building to be used for the Otago Provincial Museum.

The conditions under which Designs will be received can be seen on application at the Office of the Secretary for Works.

Designs will be received at the Office of Lands and Works till noon of Thursday, 1st October, 1874.

WASTE LAND BOARD.

IT is hereby notified that all business for consideration by the Board at its weekly meeting on Wednesday must be entered not later than 4 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday previous.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

NOTICE is Hereby Given, that the undermentioned Runs will be leased to the persons named, unless objections to the same are lodged previous to the 9th day of December next:

No. of Run. Applicant. Boundaries. Extent.
456 Archd. Cameron. On all sides by the Howloko Bush. 7000 acres.
457 D. Manson. On all sides by the Mono’s wai Bush. 9600 acres.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 1st September, 1874.

THURSDAY, 1st OCTOBER, 1874.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that the Lease for 10 years of the undermentioned Runs will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Survey Office, Queenstown, on the 1st day of October next, at noon, in terms of the Otago Waste Land Act, 1872, at the upset price of half-a-crown per acre.