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Tuesday, 26th January.

THE undermentioned Town Sections will be sold by auction at the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon on Tuesday, the 26th day of January, 1875:--

Tuesday, 2nd February, at Noon.

NOTICE is hereby given that Section 22, Block 6, Table Hill District, containing 400 acres, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Tuesday, the 2nd day of February next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 1s per acre.

Wednesday, 3rd February.

THE following Section will be open for application at the Land Office, Invercargill, on Wednesday, the 3rd February, 1875:--

Section 23, block V., Winton Hundred.

THURSDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY.

Winton and Mabel Hundred.

THE following Sections will be sold by auction at the Land Office, Invercargill, on Thursday, the 4th February, 1875, at noon, in terms of Clause 29 of the Southland Waste Land Act, 1865, upset price 42s per acre:--

Section 29 Block IV. Winton Hundred
,, 30 ,, IV. do.
,, 24 ,, V. Mabel Hundred.

Tuesday, 9th February, at Noon.

NOTICE is hereby given that Sections 12 and M, Block I., Beaumont District, and Sections 5, 6, 7, 19, 21, and 22, Block 5, Tuapeka West District will be offered for sale by public auction at the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Tuesday, the 9th day of February next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

Tuesday, 9th February, at Noon.

NOTICE is hereby given that Sections 40, 41, and 42, Block I., Earnslaw District, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Survey Office, Queenstown, on Tuesday, the 9th day of February next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

Tuesday, 16th February.

NOTICE is hereby given that sections 2 and 4, block I., and section 26, block III, Table Hill District, comprising respectively 17a. 2r. 18p.; 200a. 3r. 37p., and 45a. 0r. 20p., will be offered for sale by public auction at the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Tuesday, the 16th day of February next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

and 52a. 0r. 29p., will be offered for sale by public auction at the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Tuesday, the 16th day of February next, at noon, at the upset price of £3 3s. per acre, with valuation and survey fees, £4 19s., added.

Tuesday, 16th February.

NOTICE is hereby given that Section 28, Block IV., Winton Hundred, containing 17a. 2r. 12p., will be re-opened for application at the Land Office, Invercargill, on and after the 15th day of February next.

Tuesday, 23rd February.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that section 42, Waihemo District, containing 117a. 3r. 22p., will be offered for sale by public auction at the North-Western Hotel, Palmerston, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of February next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

NOTICE is hereby given that meetings for the Election of Wardens for the undermentioned Hundreds will be held at the places and dates set opposite.

Waihola Hundred...At the School-house, Waihola Gorge, on Wednesday, the 3rd February, at 4 p.m.

Mokorita Hundred...At the School-house, Wyndham, on Tuesday, the 9th January (inst.), at 3 o'clock p.m.

Too Toes Hundred...At Attwood’s Hotel, Toe Toes, on Thursday, the 11th January next, at 3 p.m.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 15th January, 1875.

NOTICE is hereby given that applications of whatsoever nature relating to Goldfields or Gold Mining matters will only be considered by the Government when forwarded through the Warden of the District in which the applications are made, and to which the applications refer.

D. MACKELLAR,
Goldfields Secretary.

January 11, 1875.

NOTICE TO SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SCHOOLMASTERS.

THE following Resolution of the Education Board is published for the information of School Committees and Schoolmasters. The standards referred to are described in the Board's Regulations of September 15, 1874, pages 5 and 6.

School Committees, if they deem it advisable, are at liberty to charge higher rates, but they cannot charge lower rates than those specified.

The services of the teacher or head master of each school will be needed for making out a list of the pupils, and an account of the fees payable by them severally. It is believed that no difficulty will be experienced in collecting the school fees according to the scale fixed by the Board or to such higher rates as may have been fixed by Committees.

The fees for the education of orphan and destitute children will be paid by the Board at the rates specified in the resolution.

To School Committees.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that the Education Board, in pursuance of the provisions of the “Education Ordinance, 1864,” section 9, has fixed and determined the following minimum rates of fees to be paid by pupils for attendance at the different schools receiving aid from the Board, viz.:—

For Pupils in the 1st or lowest standard, 6s. per quarter.
Do. 2nd standard, 7s. 6d.
Do. 3rd do. 9s.
Do. 4th do. 10s. 6d.
Do. 5th and 6th standard 12s.

School Committees are enjoined to give effect to this.