Lotteries.

The following section of the Town and Country Police Ordinance, 1862 is published for general information, viz.:—

"XXIII.—If any person shall establish commerce or be a partner or otherwise beneficially interested in any lottery or any scheme by which prizes, whether of money or of any other matter or thing, shall be gained, drawn, or thrown for or competed for by lot dice or any other mode of chance, or shall sell or dispose of any tickets or other means by which permission or authority is gained or given to any person to throw for, compete or have any interest in any such lottery or scheme, or shall under any pretence or by means of any device sell or dispose of or endeavour to sell or dispose of any lands, goods, wares, or merchandise by means of any game either of skill or chance every such person being duly convicted thereof shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, and for any second offence, besides such penalty, shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding six months: But this provision shall not apply to the distribution of any property amongst the owners thereof or to any raffle of any work purely of art, of which a notice having the name and address of the person intending to hold the same subscribed thereto shall have been given to the Superintendent; if the Superintendent shall not within one week after such notice prohibit such raffle by notice sent by post, or in any other manner according to the address so subscribed by such person."

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned as Millers and Produce Merchants, carrying on business in Dunedin and Oamaru under the style or firm of Anderson and Mowat, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent, and that the business will be carried on as hitherto by James Anderson, under the style or firm of Anderson and Co.

Andrew Mowat will pay all liabilities due by, and receive all debts due to, the late firm in Oamaru, James Anderson paying all liabilities due by, and receive all debts due to, the late firm in Dunedin.

JAMES ANDERSON,
ANDREW MOWAT.

Dated March 1st, 1876.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

The Partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned in the property known as the Acton Station, South Rakaia, Canterbury, has expired by effluxion of time, at and from the 31st day of March, 1875; and Donald McLean retires from the said partnership, the Canterbury and Otago Association (Limited) having purchased his interest in the said property.

The Canterbury and Otago Association (Limited)
By their attorney,
J. M. RICHE.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Dunedin, 30th March, 1876.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership heretofore existing between Joshua Goodfellow and James Frederick Peake, under the style or firm of Goodfellow and Co., Contractors for the Waitahuna and Tuapeka Sections of the Tuapeka Railway, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts due by the firm will be paid by James F. Peake, Dunedin, to whom claims must be sent in on or before the 30th April instant.

JOSHUA GOODFELLOW.
JAMES F. PEAKE.

John W. Jago, Witness.
Lawrence, 18th April, 1876.

TEACHER WANTED for Roxburgh Main District School.

Salary, £175 per annum, with the prospect of an increase shortly to £200. A good stone residence, with garden attached. Applications, with testimonials, will be received by the undersigned up till May 1st.

G. F. MACKAY,
Secretary.

TEACHER WANTED for Miller’s Flat School, Wakatipu.

Salary, £80 per annum, and school fees. Applications with testimonials to be addressed to Education Office, Dunedin, or Mr. R. Mathieson, Clerk to Committee, up to 10th May next.

WANTED for the District School of Alexandra

Duly qualified Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress.

Salary: Master £200, Mistress £100 per annum, with comfortable residence. A mistress competent to give instruction in music preferred. Applications to be forwarded to the Secretary Education Board, Dunedin, on or before the 19th June.

JAMES RIVERS,
Clerk School Committee, Alexandra.

IMPOUNDED on the 20th day of April, 1876, by John Hughes:

• One Roan Mare, branded like JH near shoulder.
• One Chesnut Mare, branded like GR near shoulder, and blaze on face.
• One Bay Mare, branded like ∞ near shoulder.
• One Bay Horse, branded like D near shoulder, with star and off hind fetlock white.

Owners unknown, for trespassing on freehold in block I, Waitahuna west, for which 3s. each is claimed and 15s. each driving expenses; and in default of being released the above cattle will be sold at the Public Pound at Lawrence on the 12th day of May, 1876, at 12 o’clock noon.

PETER ROBERTSON,
Poundkeeper of the Lawrence Pound.

STRAYED into my paddock, a strawberry Cow branded like VC on rump. Also red-and-white Cow, no visible brands. Also brown Bullock, branded like (C) on rump, and both ears slit.

If the above are not claimed within one month from the date of this notice they will be sold to defray expenses.

Dated at North Taieri, the 1st day of April, 1876.

GILBERT BUCHANAN.

4t—ros. pd.

ABSTRACTS from previous Gazettes of Impounding Notices:

Friday, 5th May, Noon.

• A Bullock will be sold at Oamaru Pound.
• A Heifer will be sold at Shotover Pound.

WILLIAM MILLER, ex "Invercargill," from Glasgow, a Registered Letter has been received for you at the Immigration Depot, Oamaru.

ALFRED HESKETH,
Immigration Officer, Oamaru.

COLLECTION of the Licensing Laws in operation in the Province of Otago, N.Z., embracing the Licensing Ordinance of the Provincial Council, and the Licensing Acts of the General Assembly, with Notes and Memoranda. Pp. 68. Price, 2s 6d. The usual allowance to trade.