TOKOMAIRIRO GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

WANTED a Junior Assistant Master. Salary £115 a year. Duty to commence 25th January. Applications with testimonials received until the 14th instant.

R. R. JONES,
Clerk School Committee.

Milton, January 3, 1876.

WANTED, Owners for three Horses which are running in my paddock since the 23rd Dec. Description of same: One bay Colt, light draught, branded like 5 near shoulder; one black Gelding, branded X.F. near shoulder, with white stripe down forehead; one brown Gelding, no visible brands.

SAMUEL O’KANE,
Reliance Hotel,
Otakia.

Otakia, Dec. 28, 1875.

2s.—5s. pd.

SCHOOLMASTER wanted for the Main School, West Taieri; salary, £100, with two-thirds of the school fees and a residence. There is an excellent glebe of 10 acres. The attendance last quarter was about 70. Applications with testimonials to be lodged with the undersigned before the 1st February; duties will begin on 1st March.

JAMES FULTON,
Hon. Sec., Woodside.

[Republished from last week’s Gazette in consequence of an error, Lander having been printed for Lauder.]

PROCLAMATION SETTING APART LAND IN THE SPOTTIS HUNDRED FOR OCCUPATION ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by the 47th section of the Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council, to set apart in any part of the Province districts or blocks of land within which licenses to occupy land and leases thereof on deferred payments may be granted either exclusively or within which the land shall be open for license or lease on deferred payment, or for sale on immediate payment.

And whereas the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago has recommended the Superintendent of the said Province to set apart the lands hereinafter specified for alienation on deferred payments:

Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council as aforesaid, do hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by “The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872,” and of every or any power in this behalf enabling me, proclaim, declare, and set apart all those sections numbered respectively 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, and 17, Block I., Tiger Hill District; section 23, Block II., Tiger Hill District; and sections 2, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 28, 29, 32, 33, 36, 38, Block III., Lauder District, on the map of the said Districts, and the said lands will be open on the 7th day of February, 1876, for application for license and lease, on deferred payment.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, this fourth day of January, 1876.

(L.S.)

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

NOTICE is hereby given that on Monday the 17th instant, the Lightship in the Lower Harbour of Dunedin will be removed for her annual overhaul which will occupy about eight days, during such time a cutter will be moored in her place and the Light exhibited from an ordinary masthead lantern.

WM. THOMSON,
Harbour Master.

Harbour Office,
Dunedin, 10th January, 1876.

IMPOUNDED on the 3rd day of January, 1876, by Sinclair Herrald, Lower Taieri Ferry, 1 red bull stag, branded ~ G near rump. Owner unknown, for trespassing on enclosed land, for which no damages are claimed, and in default of being released, the above stag will be sold at the Public Pound, on Friday, the 21st day of January, 1876, at twelve o’clock noon.

SAMUEL O’KANE,
Pounkeeper of the Otakia Pound.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT DUNEDIN FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, 1875, AT 9 A.M.

Lat. 45deg. 52m. 12s. S.; Long. 170deg. 32m. 37s. E.
Altitude above sea level 500 feet.

Barometer—

Mean for the month ... 29.677 inches.
Maximum for the month on the 21st ... 30.161
Minimum for the month on the 8th ... 29.064
Extreme range ... 1.097

Temperature in the Shade—

Mean maximum temperature ... 65.8 Fah.
Mean minimum temperature ... 49.3
Approximate mean temperature for the month ... 57.5
Mean daily range of temperature ... 16.5
Extreme maximum temperature on 31st ... 81.
Extreme minimum temperature on 19th ... 43.
Extreme range of temperature for month ... 38.

Exposed Thermometers—

Mean solar radiation ... 134.
Maximum solar radiation on 31st ... 162.
Mean terrestrial radiation ... 44.
Minimum terrestrial radiation on 4th ... 37.
Mean daily range between the extreme temperature of night and day ... 90.

Hygrometrical—

Mean elastic force of vapour ... 364 in.
Mean temperature of the dew point (computed from 50.2 Fah.
Mean degree of moisture (saturation : 100) and dry bulbs.) 76.9 Fah.

Rain—

Total rainfall ... 5.388 inches.
Number of days on which rain fell ... 18 days.
Maximum rainfall in any twenty-four hours on the 31st ... 1.858 inches.

Wind—

Average daily velocity for month ... 121 miles.
Maximum velocity for month on 1st ... 350 miles.

Mean amount of cloud for month —0. clear sky; 10, overcast ... 5.6 o to 10

Remarks—

Thunder on 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 30th; heavy rain on 31st; fog on 28th.

(Signed) HENRY KEY,
Observer.

NOTE.—In this Abstract the results are inserted for the day on which they are recorded, although occurring during the preceding twenty-four hours.