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and that objections to a compliance with the application must be lodged at his office within six weeks from this date.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Under Secretary.
Provincial Secretary's Office,
Dunedin, 25th July, 1875.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that an application has been received by His Honor the Superintendent, in terms of the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865 Amendment Ordinance, 1866, to erect the Township of Winton into a Municipality, and that it is His Honor's intention to comply with the request, provided no valid objections are lodged at his office within two months from this date.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Under Secretary.
Provincial Secretary's Office,
Dunedin, 10th July, 1875.

HIS Honor the Deputy Superintendent, directs it to notified that he has appointed the Members of the Police Force after-named to be Inspectors of Slaughter-yards, and of Cattle intended for slaughter, each for the District named immediately after his name:—
Sergt. Edward Morton, for Queenstown.
Sergt. John McNally, for Clyde.
Senr.-Constable Thomas McGann, for Cromwell.
Senr.-Constable John Morton, for Arrowtown.
Constable John Prendiville, for Black.
Constable Walter Jones, for Alexandra.
Constable Richard Mercer, for Naseby.
Constable Buchannan Scott, for Macraes.
Constable David Walsh, for St. Bathans.
Constable Thomas Walters, for Palmerston.
J. DAVIE,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 31st August, for
Contract No. 1042.—Formation of 104 lineal chains of road through Block 8, Wyndham District, near Richardson's, including the construction of two bridges over the Titiroa Creek, on road "Mataura Bridge to Toetoes."
Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at the Police Station, Mataura Bridge.
Tenders to be indorsed, "Tender for Contract No. 1043."

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.
J. GREEN,
Secretary for Works.
Dunedin, 3rd August, 1875.

TENDERS FOR WORKS.

TENDERS for the construction of the undermentioned Railway, and other works, will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works, until noon of Tuesday, the 7th September:—
1st Contract, No. 1044, Earthworks, Bridges, Culverts, and Permanent Way of Railway from Palmerston to Waynes.
2nd Contract, No. 1045, Mosgiel to Outram Railway, Earthworks and Fencing.
3rd Contract, No. 1046, do. do., Permanent Way.
4th " 1047, do. do., Bridges and Culverts.
5th " 1048, do. do., Taieri Bridge.
6th " 1049, Bridge over Clutha River at Inch Clutha.
Plans and specification may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, on and after the 21st instant, at the Provincial Engineer's Office, Dunedin.
The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.
J. GREEN,
Secretary for Works.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works until Noon of Tuesday, 17th August, for—
Contract No. 1041.—Formation and Metalling of 248 lineal chains of the Road Clutha to Mataura, between Four-mile Creek and Carthope.
Plans and specifications may be seen and forms of tender obtained at the Office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at the Police Station, Balclutha.
Tenders to be indorsed, "Tender for Contract, No. 1041."

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

DRAINAGE MACHINES.

NOTICE.—Parties intending to enter machines for trial at the competition of draining machines—see advertisements in Provincial Gazettes, Nos. 949 to 956—are requested to notify to the Provincial Secretary before the 30th instant,—1st, the number of implements they intend to enter for competition; 2nd, if the implements are to be imported, when they are expected to arrive.

The competition will be held about the end of September; the particular day and place will be duly announced. Intending competitors are requested to furnish the above information at the earliest date, in order that the necessary arrangements may be made.
J. DAVIE,
Provincial Secretary.
Dunedin, 3rd August, 1875.

NOTICE.

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

PERSONS desirous of selecting Land, either for immediate purchase or for occupation on deferred payments, or under the Agricultural Lease Regulations, will, on application to Mr. Robert Short, at the Land Office, Dunedin, be supplied with all the information they may require as to what land is open for sale or occupation, and the terms upon which it may be acquired.
Mr. Robert Short will shew maps of the land, and assist purchasers or selectors in making the necessary applications.

NOTICE to applicants for Unsurveyed Land, under "Otago Waste Land Act, 1872."—It is hereby notified to the Applicants whose names appears in the subjoined Schedule, that they have been declared to be the purchasers of the sections set opposite their names in the schedule, and that the purchase money of these sections must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue in Invercargill, on or before Wednesday, the 25th day of August, 1875, otherwise the Applications will be deemed withdrawn, cancelled, and void, and the deposit made at the time of lodging the application will be forfeited.

SCHEDULE.
The Minister of Land and Immigration for C. Rout, 378r, section 48, block I, Wyndham District.
J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.
Land Department,
Dunedin, 11th August, 1875.

THE undermentioned Town Sections will be sold by Auction, at the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon, on Monday, the 20th day of September proximo.

GEO. TURNBULL,
Deputy Superintendent.
Superintendent's Office, Dunedin,
August 9th, 1875.