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NOTICES

SURVEYED LAND FOR SALE

Surcment thirty (30) acres, more or less, situate in the Upper Wakatip District, being section numbered 9, block III, on the map of the said district.

Bounded towards the north by Crown lands, one thousand one hundred (1100) links; towards the south-east by section numbered 7, two thousand nine hundred and fifteen (2915) links; towards the south by Crown lands, one thousand one hundred (1100) links; and towards the north-west by Crown lands, two thousand nine hundred and fifteen (2915) links.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, in presence of Donald Reid and George Turnbull, Esquires two of the members of the Executive Council of the said Province, being also members of the Provincial Council thereof, this nineteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

(L.S.) JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

D. REID.
GEO. TURNBULL.
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, and of the Provincial Council thereof.

NOTICE

In the matter of the “Highway Boards Empowering Act, 1871,” and of an Order made by the Aparima Road Board for opening up a road.

UNDER and by virtue of the provisions of section thirty-three of the “Highway Boards Empowering Act, 1871,” I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby appoint and fix Friday, the ninth day of April, 1875, at the hour of twelve noon, at the Superintendent’s Office, in the Provincial Government Buildings, at Dunedin, as and to be the time and place for taking into consideration an Order made by the Aparima Road Board, on the 13th day of February, 1875, and published in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette, No. 949, on the 24th day of February, 1875.

Dated at Dunedin, this 22nd day of March, 1875.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

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 2299, 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.

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
West Taieri
Palmerston
Waikouaiti
Oamaru
Kakanui
Hampden
Naseby

Switzers
Waipori
Clyde
Blacks
Roxborough
Alexandra
Cromwell
Arrowtown

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 up to be appointed shall be composed of machinists and agriculturalists; 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 from 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 adapted to the purpose of extracting gold from auriferous earth more completely than any of the machines or methods at present in use, has voted the sum of £250, to be offered as a bonus for the invention of such an apparatus, subject to such competition and regulations as His Honor the Superintendent may seem fit.

Notice is hereby given in accordance with the vote of the Council, that plans and proposals for such an apparatus will be received for consideration, up till the first day of August next ensuing.

The following particulars are published for the information of intending exhibitors of plans. The plans and proposals will be submitted to a body of judges, composed of experienced miners, and such other persons as His Honor the Superintendent may appoint, and in considering them the following points will be kept in view:

Macraes
St. Bathans
Tokomairiro
East Taieri
Balclutha
Clinton
Lawrence
Havelock
Tapanui

Cardrona
Queenstown
Invercargill
Woodlands
Winton
Riverton
Lumsden
Mataura