ESTIMATED Receipts and Expenditure of the

Town of Lawrence, for the year ending 31st July, 1877

RECEIPTS.

To Rates for the year... ... £55 0 0
" Do old do... ... 40 0 0
" Licenses ... ... 242 0 0
" Rents of shops and offices, &c. ... ... 140 0 0
" Hire of Hall ... ... 40 0 0
" Government subsidy ... ... 183 16 8
" Auctioneers’ Licenses ... ... 100 0 0

£1,395 16 8

EXPENDITURE.

By Interest ... ... 47 0 0
" Salaries ... ... 75 0 0
" Assessor ... ... 15 0 0
" Inspector of Nuisances ... ... 15 0 0
" Commissions ... ... 18 0 0
" Rent of water... ... 52 0 0
" Lighting ... ... 40 0 0
" Keeping Hall ... ... 30 0 0
" Incidentals, printing, &c. ... ... 49 0 0
" Oil, Coal, Wood, &c. ... ... 15 0 0
" Public Works ... ... 625 16 8

£1,395 16 8

L. C. HOLMES,
Town Clerk.

Lawrence, 13th April, 1876.

It.—148. pd.

CORPORATION OF ROXBURGH.

PROBABLE Receipts and Expenditure for the Municipal year 1876-7.

RECEIPTS.

Licenses ... ... £166 0 0
Dog Tax ... ... 8 0 0
Rents ... ... 30 0 0
Rates ... ... 60 0 0
Fines ... ... 8 0 0
Subsidy ... ... 60 0 0

£332 0 0

EXPENDITURE.

Salaries and Commission ... ... 75 0 0
Rent ... ... 17 10 0
Printing ... ... 10 0 0
Repayment of Loan ... ... 75 0 0
Public Works ... ... 150 0 0
Balance ... ... 4 10 0

£332 0 0

WM. CHAS. HODGES,
Town Clerk.

It.—125.

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.

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 beneficial 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 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."

GAZETTE.

Postmasters and others would oblige by informing me when any person leaves their districts to whom the Gazette is addressed in order that the Gazette may be stopped.

JOHN LOGAN,
Superintendent's Office,
Dunedin, 24th February, 1876.

GAZETTE.

Any person not receiving the Provincial Government Gazette regularly as heretofore will please at once to communicate with me, giving name and post-office address.

JOHN LOGAN,
Superintendent's Office,
Dunedin,
14th February, 1876.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by George Jones, of Moray Place, Dunedin, Printer to said Provincial Government for the time being.