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NORTH EAST VALLEY ROAD DISTRICT.

MEETINGS of Ratepayers entitled to Vote at the ensuing election will be held as under to Nominate Candidates for Election as Member for the District Board, viz., at Mr. Crickmore’s, Sawyers’ Bay, on Monday, the 29th May, at 12 noon, for Harlington.

GEORGE ROSS, Returning Officer.

At Schoolhouse, North East Valley, for Signal Hill Sub-division, on Tuesday, the 30th May, at 12 noon.

JOHN LONGWORTH, Returning Officer.

At Cattle Market Hotel, on Wednesday, the 31st May, at 12 noon, for Pine Hill Sub-division.

HENRY POTTER, Returning Officer.

In the event of a poll being demanded in any of the Sub-divisions the election will take place on Thursday, the 8th day of June, 1876, from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m.

GEORGE ROSS, Harlington,
JOHN LONGWORTH, Signal Hill.
HENRY POTTER, Pine Hill.

Returning Officers.

MAKAREWA ROAD DISTRICT.

ORDER.

THE Makarewa District Road Board have duly notified their intention to open up a new road through Section 29, Block IX., Invercargill Hundred, in lieu of the track as originally laid off through the said section; and also of the said line dividing the said section from Section 28, and a portion of Section 27 of the said block and hundred. No objection having been lodged to the proposed alteration of road, and the owner and occupier of the ground over which the proposed road is to run having signified his assent thereto, the said Board does hereby, and by virtue of the thirty-third section of the “Highway Boards Empowering Act, 1871,” and of the “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871,” direct that this new line shall be opened up according to plan and specification, and that it shall be in lieu of the two lines which it is herein specified it is intended to supersede.

THOS. TURNBULL,
Chairman Makarewa Road Board.

WM. RUSSELL,
Clerk to the Board.

Office of Makarewa Road Board,
Invercargill, 13th May, 1876.

EDUCATION MEETING.

THE Owners and Occupiers of Land, and Householders at Fairfax and vicinity, are invited to meet at the School-house, Fairfax, on Thursday, the 8th of June, 1876, at half-past 7 o’clock p.m., to elect a School Committee for the current year.

JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between T. W. Kempthorne, F. Prosser, and T. Ching, as Wholesale Druggists and General Merchants, expired by effluxion of time on the 29th February, 1876.

The business from that date, and in future, will be carried on as heretofore by T. W. Kempthorne, E. Prosser, A. Felton, and F. S. Grimwade, in co-partnership under the style of Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co. at Dunedin and Auckland, and at Wellington as Felton, Grimwade, and Co.

The new firm will receive all outstanding accounts and discharge all liabilities of the former partnership.

Signed,
THOMAS W. KEMPTHORNE.
E. PROSSER.
THOMAS CHING.

Witness: THOMAS ANCELL.

Dunedin, 8th May, 1876.

t.c.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Partnership hitherto 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.

t.c.

Dated March 1st, 1876.

FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.

INCENDIARISM.

MALICIOUSLY SETTING FIRE TO THREE STACKS OF OATS.

WHEREAS about a quarter-past ten o’clock on the night of the 15th instant three stacks of oats, the property of Thomas Henderson, situate at Trotter’s Creek, in the Hampden Police Division, and opposite the Kartigri Hotel, were maliciously destroyed by fire:

And whereas suspicion is attached to two swagmen, who, dissatisfied with the treatment they received at the said hotel, left shortly before the said fire was discovered:

Notice is hereby given that a reward of £50 will be paid by the Provincial Government of Otago to any person who will first give such information to the police as shall lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons by whom the said fire was caused, and in addition thereto His Excellency the Governor will be advised to grant a free pardon to an accomplice, not being the person who actually caused the fire, who will give such information as shall lead to a like result.

T. K. WELDON,
Commissioner of Police.

Police Office, Dunedin,
23rd May, 1876.

NOTICE.

ROAD BETWEEN PELICHET’S BAY AND LOGAN’S POINT.

ANY PERSON found throwing the Metal of the said Road away, or into Pelichet’s Bay, or otherwise injuring the said road, will be prosecuted.

JAMES GREEN,
Secretary for Roads and Works.

Roads and Works Office, Dunedin,
22nd May, 1876.

ENQUIRIES are made at this Office for Elizabeth Hesketh, who left London for Otago in ship “Chile” in July, 1867. Any person who can give information regarding her will please to communicate with me.

COLIN ALLAN,
Immigration Officer.

Immigration Office,
Dunedin, 8th May, 1876.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by GEORGE JONES, of High-street, Dunedin, Printer to said Provincial Government for time being.