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and trenches of the applicants, situated on the ground
known as the John Bull, at the head of Pipe-clay Gully,
on the Carrick Range.

NOTICE.

Provincial Compulsory Lands Taking Act, 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given, that it is intended to introduce a Bill into the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago at its next Session, authorising the Superintendent of the Province of Otago to take, compulsorily, for the purpose of making roads in the District of Portobello, parts of Sections numbered respectively twenty-two (22) and twenty-eight (28), Block numbered five (V.), Portobello District, and in the District of Papakaio, part of land sold under application numbered 9229, Block numbered IV., on the map of the Papakaio District: And notice is hereby further given that a copy of the Bill so intended to be introduced as aforesaid, may be inspected at the office of the Clerk of the Provincial Council, on and after the seventeenth day of April next.

Dated at Dunedin, this eleventh day of March, 1875.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

RESIGNATION.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 16th March, 1875.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has received and accepted the Resignation of

JOHN H. BAKER, Esq.,

as a Commissioner of the Southland Waste Land Board.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY.

THE Provincial Government Offices will not be opened on WEDNESDAY, 17th MARCH, 1875.

By order.

JOHN LOGAN.

LEASE OF TOLL.

MONDAY, 22nd MARCH, 1875.

THE Lease of the Hillside Toll Gate for the year commencing on the 1st of April, 1875, and ending on the 31st March, 1876, will be sold by Public Auction by Mr. James Milner, at the Provincial Government Buildings, on Monday, 22nd March, 1875, at noon.

Two thousand five hundred pounds was realized by the Government at the sale on the 20th March last, for the year ending 31st March, 1875.

Terms and conditions of sale can be seen at the Office of the Provincial Secretary.

WINTON CEMETERY.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has appointed

Thomas M’Williams, contractor, Winton Township
William Keith, farmer, Winton Flat, Winton
Francis Malcolm, farmer, Winton Bush, Winton
Alexander Gerrard, farmer, Winton Flat, Winton
Dugald Cameron, schoolmaster, Winton
James Mitchell Thomson, Presbyterian minister, do.
Arthur Gerrard, settler, Oreti, Winton

to be Managers of the said Cemetery.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary

Dunedin, 16th March, 1875.

CARTERS.—Tenders will be received at the Government Offices, Dunedin, until noon of Friday, 19th March current, for the supply of Horses, &c., in connection with prison labour, for 6 months, commencing on 1st April next.

For further particulars, see Mr. Caldwell, at Dunedin Gaol.

OTAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT.

TENDERS for supplying the Police and other Government Officers at undermentioned Stations with Forage for the twelve months, ending 31st March, 1876, will be received at the Government Buildings, Dunedin, until the 30th proximo.

Blueskin Switzers
West Taieri Waipori
Palmerston Clyde
Waikouaiti Blacks
Oamaru Roxborough
Kakanui Alexandra
Hampden Cromwell
Naseby Arrowtown
Macraes Cardrona
St. Bathans Queenstown
Tokomairiro Invercargill
East Taieri Woodlands
Balcutha Winton
Clinton Riverton
Lawrence Louthcr
Havelock Mataura
Tapanui

PRIZES FOR LABOR-SAVING MACHINES.

NOTICE.—The Provincial Council of Otago being desirous of stimulating invention and securing the introduction of labor-saving appliances calculated to assist in developing the agricultural resources of the Province, has voted a sum of £150, with a view to enable a first and second prize to be offered for the most approved drainage ploughs—the first prize to be £100, the second prize £50,—the prizes to be awarded on such terms, and in such amounts, as the Government may consider advisable.

Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the vote of the Council, a competition of Draining Machines will be held during the month of August next, in a stiff clay soil, in a locality to be hereafter selected, contiguous to Dunedin.

The following particulars are published for the information of intending competitors :—The judges to be appointed shall be composed of machinists and agriculturists; and in awarding the prizes the following points will be kept in view:—

1st. To secure a machine which will remove the soil and finish a drain to the depth of at least 42 inches, and which will leave the drain ready for the pipes with the least amount of manual labor.

2nd. Or, failing the above, a machine that will remove part of the soil, and loosen the remainder to a depth of say 36 to 42 inches, so that it could be quickly removed by manual labor.

Each machine to be capable of adjustment so as to cut different widths of drains, to suit main, sub-main, and ordinary drains, say 12 inches wide at bottom for main drains, and 2½ or 3 inches for small drains.

In determining the merits of the respective machines, the Judges will consider the quality of the work done, the price of the machine, and the cost of the drain, as completed in each case, and other things being equal, the preference will be given to the machine which removes the smallest quantity of earth compatible with the full attainment of the object desired, and which can be supplied at the lowest cost.

Should the judges consider that the machines exhibited do not merit the full amount of the premium, the prizes will be awarded only to such an extent, and in such amounts as they may recommend.

D. REID,
Secretary for Works.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 23rd February, 1875.

BONUS FOR GOLD-SAVING APPARATUS.

NOTICE.

THE Provincial Council of Otago being desirous of stimulating invention, and securing the use of gold-saving apparatus in connection with hydraulic mining