PROCLAMATION.

SETTING APART 2800 ACRES OF LAND IN THE TAPANUI 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 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 17, 18, 20, 23 and 24, Block XI, Crookston Survey District, will be open on the 1st day of March, 1876, for application for license and lease, on deferred payment, as provided in the Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, this 31st day of January, 1876.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

CLOSING ROADS.

NOTICE is hereby given that objections having been lodged with me against the shutting up of certain road lines included in the Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1875, situate in the Road Districts of Makerewa, Otepopo, Peninsula, Shotover, Waipori, and Waitahuna East, a special meeting of the Executive Council will be held in the Government Buildings, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 17th day of February, at noon, for the purpose of deciding the said objections, when parties interested are invited to attend.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that the resignation of

MR. DONALD CAMPBELL

of his appointment as a Manager of the Otepopo Cemetery has been received and accepted.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 28th January, 1876.

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

MR. ANGUS ROSS

to be a Manager of the Otepopo Cemetery.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 28th January, 1876.

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

MR. W. T. SMITH

to be a Manager of the Kaitangata Cemetery.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 1st February, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that Messrs. Stephen Read and Co. have received permission to surrender their Gold Mining Lease of Section 3, Block VII, Lauder District, and the land is now open for occupation by holders of miners’ rights.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 25th January, 1876.

A SPECIAL "GAZETTE" was published last Saturday.

JOHN LOGAN.

31st January, 1876.

DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

MONDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 1876.

2,500 ACRES OF LAND for sale on deferred payments, in the Spottis Hundred.

Notice is hereby given that the undermentioned sections will be open for application on deferred payments on Monday, the 7th day of February, 1876. Application must be made by the applicant in person, at any Land Office in the Province, and a deposit of 1s. 6d. per acre paid at the time of making the application, being the first half-year’s occupation fee. The purchase money is payable at the rate of 3s. per acre per annum for ten years.

Plans to be seen, and lithographs obtained, at the Land Office at Dunedin, and at Clyde.

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.

WAIHOLA DISTRICT
(Near Tokomairiro).

TUESDAY, 8th February, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that section 16A, block II, Waihola District, containing 2a. 2r., will be offered for sale by public auction, at Capstick, Duthie and Co.’s Auction Rooms, Milton—(after sale of Immigrants’ Cottages, with allotments)—on Tuesday, 8th February next, at noon, at the upset price of £2 2s. per acre.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner Waste Lands Board.

Land Department,
Dunedin, 29th Dec., 1875.

HERRIOT HUNDRED,
NEAR TAPANUI.

Sale on Wednesday, the 9th day of February, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following allotments in the above Hundred will be offered for sale by public auction, at Tapanui, on Wednesday, the 9th day of February, 1876, at noon, as land of special value, under clause 85 of the “Otago Waste Land Act, 1872,” at the upset price opposite each section :—