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TEACHER WANTED for the Side School, Cambrian.
Salary £145 per annum, with comfortable 4-roomed Residence.
Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged with the undersigned on or before the 25th March, 1876.

WILLIAM WILLIAMS,
Clerk School Committee,
Cambrian.

TEACHER WANTED for the Side School, at St. Bathans.
Salary: Government allowance of £75, and School Fees amounting in all to between £130 and £140 per annum. There is also a good dwelling house.
Applications to be lodged with the undersigned, before the 18th March.

WM. PYLE, Jun.,
St. Bathans.

WANTED, a TEACHER for Blackstone Hill School.
The Government subsidy is £60, with School Fees. The average attendance will be about 20. Duties to commence on May 1st. There is a residence attached to Schoolhouse.
Applications to be lodged with the Secretary on or before the 31st March, 1876.

ROBERT JOHNSTONE,
Secretary School Committee,
Blackstone Hill.

THREE POUNDS REWARD.

STRAYED, from Forbury, about the 20th of November, a Dark Bay HORSE, branded like hind fetlock white. Any person returning the same to Martin and Watson, Stuart-street, will receive the above reward.

FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.

RAPE.

WHEREAS Richard Milford is charged, on warrant, with having on the 4th ultimo, at Otepopo Bush, near Hampden, committed rape upon a girl of eleven years of age, notice is hereby given that a reward of £50 will be paid by the Provincial Government of Otago to any person who shall first give such information to the Police as will lead to the assert and conviction of the said Richard Milford.

Description - A native of Hampshire, England, a farm labourer or ploughman, 27 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, slight, active build, brown hair, cut short, small brown whiskers and moustache (which may be shaved off), very fresh complexion, thin featured, good looking, and old mark of cut from a reaping hook about an inch and a-half long on the third joint or knuckle of first finger of left hand; cannot read or write; was dressed when last seen in white straw hat, dark coat, moleskin trousers, and elastic-side boots; carried a grey blanket swag, in which he had a suit of very dark tweed.
He arrived at Port Chalmers from England by the ship Charlotte Gladstone about 2½ years ago.

T. K. WELDON,
Commissioner of Police.

Police Office,
Dunedin, 3rd February, 1876.

LOST, a Fixed Deposit Receipt of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, dated Dunedin, 27th August, 1875, for six months, No. 2/24, for One Hundred and Eighty-one Pounds Five Shillings. Any one returning same to Colonial Bank of New Zealand, Dunedin, or Oamaru, will be rewarded.

4t. 16s. pd.

TWENTY POUNDS PENALTY.

POUNDKEEPERS who have not made their quarterly returns to the Provincial Treasurer are reminded that the Impounding Ordinance contains a penalty of £20 for such neglect.

TEVIOT, MOUNT BENGER.

RUNNING in our Paddock since the Twenty-fifth day of December, 1875, One Bay Mare, no brands, six years old, two white hind feet, about fifteen hands high, no other marks, light saddle hack, shod all round. Owner can have her, by paying expenses, by applying to

McELWANE AND KIRK,
Teviot, Mount Benger.

January 10th, 1876. 4 1-13s pd.

EDENDALE POUND.

All Horses in this Pound have been claimed with the exception of:
1 Bay Gelding, branded like IJ on near shoulder: say C and L conjoined; C reversed and L joining back of C, point turned down, indistinct.

W. L. TAYLOR,
Poundkeeper.

Edendale, 7th February, 1876.

ABSTRACTS from previous Gazette of Impounding Notices:

FRIDAY, 10TH MARCH, NOON.
A Bull and a Cow will be sold at Port Chalmers Pound.

7 Horses will be sold at Clyde Pound.

FRIDAY, 17TH MARCH, NOON.
2 Horses will be sold at Balclutha Pound.

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

MR ROBERT SHORT, Land office, Dunedin, has been appointed to supply information as to settlement on the land, whether by immediate purchase, deferred payments, or under agricultural leases.
Mr Short will show maps of the land and assist purchasers or selectors in making the necessary applications.

MUNICIPALITY OF GREEN ISLAND.

In consequence of an informality the rates levied on the Green Island Municipality are abandoned.

W. A. CALDWELL,
Town Clerk.

1t. 3s.

MUNICIPALITY OF GREEN ISLAND.

As no valid nomination was received for the election of a councillor for North Ward on the day appointed, Notice is hereby given that nominations will be received at the Town Clerk’s office up till noon on Monday, the 6th March.

By order,
W. A. CALDWELL,
Town Clerk.

1t. 5s.

TUTURAU ROAD DISTRICT.

RATEPAYERS in the above District are hereby notified that the Local Board intend, after the 8th proximo, to sue defaulters for the recovery of road rates due by them to said Board.

JOHN WATT,
Road Collector.

Tuturau, 8th February, 1876.
3t. 15s.