At Clyde, on Monday, 3rd April, after Clyde: sections in Township of Alexandra.

Michael O’Hagan, sections 32 and 33, block III: district of Lander, 195a. 1r.

At Mataura Bridge, on 5th May: sections in Townships of Wyndham, Waikawa, and Mataura Bridge.

Peter Harrington, sections 12 and 13, block I., district of Tiger Hill, 99a. 1r. 34p.

At Cardrona, on Wednesday, 5th April: sections in Township of Cardrona; subject to valuations.

Peter Harrington, sections 16 and 17, block I., district of Tiger Hill, 95a. 2r. 3p.

And Thursday, the 24th day of February, 1876, is the day appointed for deciding such applications, if unopposed, and notifying objections, if any, which may have been lodged.

EDUCATION RESERVES.

THE Lease of the following-mentioned Education Reserves will be disposed of by auction at the Court House, Hawksbury, on Monday, 1st May, 1876, immediately after the sale of Crown lands there:

Copies of the leasing regulations and conditions of lease may be seen at the School house, Waikouaiti, or at the Education Office, Dunedin.

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

MAUNGATUA DISTRICT.

WEDNESDAY, 3RD MAY, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease for ten years of the Bush Reserve, being Section 47, Block I, Maungatua District, under the 85th clause of “The Waste Lands Act, 1872,” containing 162a. or. 19p., will be offered for sale by public auction at Capstick, Duthie, and Co.’s Auction Rooms, Milton, Tokomairiro, on Wednesday, the 3rd May next, immediately after the sale of the Townships, at the upset price or rent of one shilling per acre per annum.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner
Land Department,
Dunedin, 16th Feb., 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following applications, under the 47th, &c., sections of the Waste Land Act, were received and recorded on the 7th day of February, 1876:

George McCluskey, sections 32 and 33, block III, district of Lander, 195a. 1r.

George Naylor, sections 32 and 33, block III, district of Lander, 195a. 1r.

Patrick Murphy, sections 32 and 33, block III, district of Lander, 195a. 1r.

John C. Chapple, sections 32 and 33, block III, district of Lander, 195a. 1r.

Andrew Murphy, section 36, block III, district of Lander, 195a. 1r. 15p.

Andrew Anderson, section 9, block III, district of Lander, 200a.

James Sim, section 7, block III, district of Lander, 200a.

Walter Sim, section 2, block III, district of Lander, 200a.

Edward Murphy, sections 28 and 29, block III, district of Lander, 195a. 1r. 5p.

John C. Chapple, sections 28 and 29, block III, district of Lander, 195a. 1r. 5p.

James Nevill, section 33 and 32, block III, district of Lander, 195a. 1r.

The duplicate applications against which no objections have been lodged will be decided by auction at the District Land Office, Clyde, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon on Thursday, 24th February, 1876. The upset price to be £1 10s. per acre, payable in ten years by half-yearly payments.

W. LAWRENCE SIMPSON,
District Land Officer.
District Land Office,
Clyde, 7th February.

ELECTION OF WARDENS OF HUNDREDS.

IT is hereby notified that meetings for the Election of Wardens of Hundreds will be held on the days and at the places stated hereunder.

The Rangers will preside at the meetings to be held within their respective districts, and the votes will be taken by ballot.

License-holders will have to produce their licenses at the time of voting.

• Hundred, Moeraki; No. of Wardens, 5; Date of Meeting, 23rd Feb., at 6.30 p.m.; Place of Meeting, School-house, Hampden; Mr. Valpy will preside.
• Hundred, Waikouaiti; No. of Wardens, 3; Date of Meeting, 25th Feb., at 6.30 p.m.; Place of Meeting, School-house, Merton; Mr. Valpy will preside.
• Hundred, West Taieri; No. of Wardens, 3; Date of Meeting, 28th Feb., at 6.30 p.m.; Place of Meeting, School-house, Maungatua; Mr. Valpy will preside.
• Hundred, Fraquair; No. of Wardens, 3; Date of Meeting, 29th Feb., at 6.30 p.m.; Place of Meeting, Court-house, Outram; Mr. Valpy will preside.
• Hundred, Strath Taieri; No. of Wardens, 3; Date of Meeting, 29th Feb., at 6.30 p.m.; Place of Meeting, Court-house, Middlemarch.
• Hundred, Waihola; No. of Wardens, 5; Date of Meeting, 23rd Feb., at 6.30 p.m.; Place of Meeting, School-house, George; Mr. Hughan will preside.
• Hundred, Mokoreta; No. of Wardens, 4; Date of Meeting, 26th Feb., at 6.30 p.m.; Place of Meeting, School-house, Wyndham; Mr. Hughan will preside.
• Hundred, Toe Toes; No. of Wardens, 3; Date of Meeting, 28th Feb., at 6.30 p.m.; Place of Meeting, Bushman’s Hotel, Toe Toes; Mr. Hughan will preside.

The Wardens when elected shall compute the number of cattle which each hundred will carry; apportion the number of great and small cattle which may be depastured by each person holding license, and determine the boundaries within which great and small cattle respectively may be depastured during the year 1876, and a copy of the Regulations so made shall be furnished to the Waste Land Board for publication without delay.

In case of neglect, the powers given to such Wardens shall be held and exercised by the Waste Land Board.

An insufficient number of licenses having been taken out for the following Hundreds no Wardens can be elected. The Waste Land Board has therefore appointed the persons named to act as Rangers under the 129th clause of the “Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872.”

For Otepopo, Mr. James R. Elder.
For Hawksbury, Mr. Richard Fry.