WANTED

8th May, 1876.

PUPIL TEACHER (Male or Female).
Applications, with testimonials, to be sent to Mr. Wardell, Teacher, on or before 7th June.

B. SOMERVILLE,
Clerk to School Committee.

WANTED for the District School of Alexandra a duly qualified Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress. Salary: Master £200, Mistress £60 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 7th June.

JAMES RIVERS,
Clerk School Committee, Alexandra.

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 heretofore 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.

ABSTRACTS from previous Gazettes of Impounding Notices

9TH JUNE, FRIDAY NOON.

A Horse will be sold at Hampden Pound.

A cow, 6 steers, and 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.

£50 REWARD

INCENDIARISM

MALICIOUSLY SETTING FIRE TO TWO STACKS OF OATS

WHEREAS about 9:30 o’clock on the morning of the 9th instant Two Stacks of Oats, situate at Shag Valley, near Palmerston, the property of John Jordon, were discovered on fire, by which they were destroyed. And whereas at an inquest held at Jordon’s Junction Hotel, Shag Valley, on the 10th instant, by J. W. Murdoch, Esquire, R.M. and Coroner, to inquire as to the origin of the said fire, the Jury returned the following verdict: “That the stacks were wilfully set on fire by some person or persons to the Jurors unknown.” 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 will 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 shall give such information as will lead to a like result.

T. K. WELDON,
Commissioner of Police.

Police Office, Dunedin,
26th April, 1876.

INCENDIARISM

MALICIOUSLY SETTING FIRE TO THREE STACKS OF OATS

WHEREAS about 3:15 o’clock on the morning of the 17th instant, Three Stacks of Oats, situate at North East Harbour Peninsula District, the property of James and William Christie, value £300, were discovered on fire, by which they were destroyed. And whereas it is believed that the said fire was wilfully caused: Notice is hereby given that a reward of £50 will be paid to any person who shall first give such information to the Police as will 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 shall give such information as will lead to a like result.

T. K. WELDON,
Commissioner of Police.

Police Office, Dunedin,
27th April, 1876.

INCENDIARISM

MALICIOUSLY SETTING FIRE TO CORN AND CORN STACKS IN THE WAIKOUAITI DISTRICT

£100 REWARD AND A FREE PARDON TO AN ACCOMPLICE

WHEREAS the following property has been destroyed by fire in the Police District of Waikouaiti, viz.:

1. Two stacks of oats, value £50 8s., at Shag Valley, belonging to John Jordon, on the 9th ultimo.

2. One barn containing 600 bushels of oats, 17 bushels wheat, and sundry articles, value £160, between Mount Watkins and Flag Swamp, belonging to John Galbraith, on the 6th instant.

3. 63 bags of wheat, value £100, at Flag Swamp, belonging to Donald Sutherland, on the 7th instant.

4. Two stacks of wheat, value £200, at Pleasant Valley, belonging to J. W. Murdoch, on the 7th instant.

5. One stack of straw and 125 bags of oats, value £75 at Bushy Park, belonging to A. and W. Cochrane, on the 7th instant.

6. Five stacks of wheat and one stack of oats, value £340, at the Maori Kaik, belonging to Mairs, on the 14th instant.

And as the destruction of said property is attributable to incendiaries, Notice is hereby given that a reward of £100 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 arrest and conviction of the person or persons by whom any of the said fires were 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 any of the fires who will give such information as shall lead to a like result.

T. K. WELDON,
Commissioner of Police.

Police Office, Dunedin,
15th 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 the time being.