proposed alteration of roads, and the owner and occupier of the ground over which the proposed roads are to run having signified his assent thereto, the said Board does hereby, and by virtue of the 33rd section of the "Highway Boards Empowering Act, 1871," and of the "Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871," direct that the proposed alteration of roads shall be executed according to plans and specifications, and that these new roads shall be in lieu of the line which it is herein specified they are intended to supersede.

D. M’ARTHUR,
Chairman.

WM. RUSSELL,
Clerk to the Board.

Office of Makarewa Road Board,
Invercargill, 17th Oct., 1874.

1—13s.

NOTICE.

THE Suburban Road Board, at their meeting on Monday, the 7th instant, made a Rate of One Shilling in the £ on all rateable property within the District, for the year 1874-75. Objections to rate must be lodged with me on or before the 7th day of January, 1875. Ratepayers will be heard in support of their objections on Friday, the 15th January, 1875, at 2 o’clock p.m.

ANDREW MASON,
Clerk to Board.

2—7s 6s

PORTOBELLO ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE.—Ratepayers are hereby requested to pay their Road Rates for the current year without further delay, otherwise legal proceedings will be taken to recover the same.

GEORGE J. CLARK,
Clerk to the Road Board.

Dec. 11, 1874.

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SUPREME COURT.

TUESDAY, 29th DECEMBER.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Supreme Court, for the despatch of Criminal and Civil business, will be held at the Supreme Court House, at Dunedin, on Monday the fourth day of January 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 required to give their attendance.

EDWARD H. WARD,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 11th December, 1874.

AUCTIONEER’S LICENSES.

A MEETING will be held in the Provincial Government Offices, Dunedin, at noon on Thursday, 7th January, 1875, to take into consideration the following applications for Auctioneers’ licenses:—

Connell, Henry, Oamaru.
Duthie, John Alexander, Tokomairiro.
Fleming, Neil, Oamaru.
Grigor, Robert, Balclutha.
Maud, Arthur Hay, Oamaru.
Spedding, Donald Mackenzie, Dunedin.

RANGER WANTED.

TENDERS are invited from persons willing to act as Ranger for the whole or portion of the Bineskin Roads District. Tenders to be addressed to the Board up to noon of December 28th, 1874.

W. J. BOLT,
Clerk to the Board.

2—6s

£5000.—SEVEN PER CENT. DEBENTURES.

CROMWELL CORPORATION WATERWORKS LOAN.

Issued under Act of the General Assembly, dated 31st August, 1874.

The Corporation of Cromwell invite tenders to the amount of £2000, bearing interest at 7 per cent. payable half-yearly.

The debentures will be payable in 30 years, and will be dated 8th January, 1875. They will be for £50 each, and the coupons attached for each half year’s interest will be payable at Cromwell or Dunedin at the Bank of New South Wales.

A minimum price will be fixed before tenders are opened.

Tenders in accordance with the annexed form will be received by the Town Clerk, Cromwell, up to 8 p.m. on Friday, the 8th January, 1875, endorsed “Tender for Debentures.”

Payments of 5 per cent. on the amount applied for shall accompany each tender; balance on 22nd January, 1875.

FORM OF TENDER.

I hereby tender subject to conditions of advertisement, dated 1874, for £ __, for every £50 debenture. I enclose £ __, being 5 per cent. on the amount applied for.

Name ..........................
Address ........................
Date ..........................

8—10s.

PALMERSTON CORPORATION will receive Tenders until noon on Monday, 28th instant, for the supply of about 1000 yards of Bluestone Metal, broken to 2½ inch gauges; to be placed (not spread) in Tiverton and Ronaldsay streets, under the direction of the Corporation’s foreman.

Five per cent. deposit must accompany each tender, and addressed to the undersigned, and marked “Tender for Metal.” The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

WILLIAM COBDEN,
Town Clerk.

Town Hall, Palmerston,
14th Dec. 1874.

2—9s 9d.

TENDERS for Printing Forms, Stationery, and Meat, due on TUESDAY, 29th DECEMBER.

TO CARPENTERS.

TENDERS wanted, till the 29th current, for addition and improvements at St. Leonard’s School, near Railway Station. Plans and specifications at the Education Office.

TENDERS Wanted for fencing the Portobello cemetery. Specifications can be seen at the houses of Messrs William Leslie and Nicholas Coneys, Portobello, with whom the tenders will be left on or before the 18th December. Mr. Coneys will show the work. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

WILLIAM LESLIE,
Clerk.

Portobello, 4th Dec. 1874.

2—6s 6d.

STATEMENT of the affairs of the Lucknow Quartz Company, Limited, to 1st December, 1874.

Name of Company: Lucknow Quartz Mining Co., Limited.

When formed: October, 1872.

Date of Registration: 31st October, 1872.

Where business is conducted: Bendigo Gully, (near Cromwell.)

Name of legal Manager: Thomas Black.

Nominal Capital: £7800.

Amount of paid up scrip given to Shareholders: £1300.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: £2600.

Amount of calls made: £1950.

Total amount of subscribed capital paid up: £3008 19s. 7d.

Number of shareholders at time of registration of Company: 14.

Amount of cash in hand: £52 4s 1d.

Whether in operation or not: In operation.

Dividends declared: Nil.

Number of shares unallotted: None.

THOMAS BLACK,
Legal Manager.

Dunedin, 1st December, 1874.

1 15s p