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

George McCluskey, sections 32 and 33, block III., district of Lauder, 195a. Ir.

George Naylor, sections 32 and 33, block III., district of Lauder, 195a. Ir.

Patrick Murphy, sections 32 and 33, block III., district of Lauder, 195a. Ir.

John C. Chapple, sections 32 and 33, block III., district of Lauder, 195a. Ir.

Andrew Murphy, section 36, block III., district of Lauder, 195a. or 15p.

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

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

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

Edward Murphy, sections 28 and 29, block III., district of Lauder, 195a. Ir. 5p.

John C. Chapple, sections 28 and 29, block III., district of Lauder, 195a. Ir. 5p.

James Nevill, sections 33 and 32, block III., district of Lauder, 195a. Ir.

Michael O’Hagan, sections 32 and 33, block III., district of Lauder, 195a. Ir.

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

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.

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 los. 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, Morton; 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, Outram. |
| Hundred, Waihola; No. of Wardens, 5 ; Date of Meeting, 23rd Feb., at 6.30 p.m. ; Place of Meeting, School-house, Gore; Mr. Hughan will preside. |
| Hundred, Mokoreta; No. of Wardens, 4 ; Date of Meeting, 23rd Feb., at 6.30 p.m. ; Place of Meeting, Court-house, Clinton. |

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.

For Dunedin, Mr. James Green.

For East Taieri, Mr. Alexander Spencer and Mr. William Davey.

For Tuturau, Mr. Finlay Mackay and Mr. Thomas Littleworth.

For Catlins, Mr. J. M. Smith.

For Otaria, Mr. Thomas Trumble.

For Lee Stream, —

For South Tokomairiro, Mr. H. B. Flett.

For Waikaia, Mr. John McKellar.

For Waikaka, Mr. David Gordon.

J. T. THOMSON,

Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,

Dunedin, 2nd February, 1876.

APPROACHES TO WAIKOUAITI JETTY.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Friday, 25th February, for—

Contract No. 1098A. Formation of 14 chains approaches to Waikouaiti Jetty.

Plans and specifications may be seen and forms of Tender obtained at the office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at the Police Camp, Waikouaiti.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tender for Contract No. 1098A.”

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

TUAPEKA TO TEVIOT.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works for

2nd Contract, No. 1089—construction, part pitching, and gravelling 56.44 chains of road in block 3, Tuapeka West District, until noon of Friday, 3rd March, 1876.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at the Police Camp, Lawrence.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tender for Contract No. 1089.”

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