NORTH-EAST VALLEY ROAD DISTRICT.

RATEPAYERS are hereby notified that on Saturday, the 1st July, 1876, a general rate of one shilling in the £ was made for the year ending June, 1877, and that the same is payable on the 1st August, 1876. Any person objecting to the assessment must do so in terms of clause 6, part 3, Highway Boards Empowering Act, the Board having no authority for hearing objections.

HUGH McFADYEN,
2t—9s.
Clerk and Collector.

IMPOUNDED on the 8th day of July, 1876, by William Sloan:

One light bay horse, white blaze down face; no visible brand.

Also, on the 9th, by Henry Youngman:
One red Cow, branded like O W off rump.

And one red heifer Calf, no visible brand.
Owners unknown, for trespassing. Horse on Andrew Greagg’s paddock, Green Island; cow and heifer, Town Belt, for which driving fee, horse £1, cow and heifer, yard fee is. 6d. each, and in default of being released the above cattle will be sold at the public Pound at South Dunedin, on Friday, the 28th day of July, 1876, at twelve o’clock noon.

JAMES BARR,
Poundkeeper.

TEACHER Wanted for Maheno District School, vacant by the appointment of Mr. R. Peattie, M.A., to a mastership in the Girls’ High School, Dunedin.
Good residence and a nine-acre glebe, close to Railway Station.
Full particulars may be learned from the undersigned, with whom applications, with copies of testimonials, must be lodged on or before 10th August.
Duties to commence 1st October.

JAMES R. ELDER,
Secretary of School Committee.

SCHOOLMISTRESS WANTED for Outram School. Salary £100. Applications, with certificates, to be lodged with the Clerk not later than 15th July.

TEACHER WANTED for the School at Wild Bush, near Riverton. Salary £75, with school fees and rent allowance. Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged on or before July 27th, with

A. GARDEN,
Wild Bush, Riverton.

LIBRARY COMMITTEES are informed that another order for books has been forwarded to Britain. After meeting existing claims the remaining books will be distributed among Committees in the order of the dates on which moneys are paid in and claims lodged. The Committee that ordered copies of Scott’s Quentin Durward, Kenilworth, and Heart of Midlothian, will receive the same on application.

JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.

NOTICE.

AFTER this date Poison will be laid on our properties for the destruction of dogs.
Any party found trespassing on our properties after this date with dogs and guns will be prosecuted according to law.

WILLIAM JAFFRAY,
R. SOMERVILLE,
ROBT. FINNIE.

Saddlehill,
22nd June, 1876.

6t. 21s. p.d.

METEOROLOGICAL ABSTRACT TAKEN AT DUNEDIN FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1876, AT 9 A.M.

LAT. 45° 52' 12" S. LONG. 170° 32' 37" E. ALTITUDE ABOVE SEA LEVEL, 500 FEET.

Barometer—Inches.
Mean for the month ... 29.682
Maximum for the month on the 27th ... 30.302
Minimum for the month on the 23rd ... 28.775
Extreme range ... 1.527

Temperature in the Shade—Fah.
Mean maximum temperature ... 49.8
Mean minimum temperature ... 38.5
Approximate mean temperature for the month ... 44.1
Mean daily range of temperature ... 11.3
Extreme maximum temperature on 14th ... 59
Extreme minimum temperature on 9th ... 31
Extreme range of temperature for month ... 28

Exposed Thermometer—Fah.
Mean terrestrial radiation ... 34
Minimum terrestrial radiation on 9th ... 22

Hygrometrical—
Mean elastic force of vapour (computed from the dew point) ... 0.208 in.
Meantemperature of the dew point ... 35.6 Fah.
Mean degree of moisture (satu. ratio=100) ... 71.7 Fah.

Rain—
Total rainfall ... 7.066 inches
Number of days on which rain fell ... 10 days
Maximum rainfall in any twenty-four hours on the 23rd ... 3.10 inches

Wind—
Average daily velocity for month ... 175 miles
Maximum velocity for month on 19th ... 450 miles
Mean amount of cloud for month - 0, clear sky; 10 overcast ... 5.3 to 10
Ozone, according to Moffat’s scale 1 to 10 (mean of column 15) ...

Remarks—
High winds from 17th, 19th, and 24th. Heavy rain on 23rd and 24th. Few Solar spots.

(Signed) HENRY SKEY,
Observer.

Note.—In this Abstract the results are inserted for the day on which they were recorded although occurring during the preceding twenty-four hours.

NOTICE TO IMMIGRANTS

IMMIGRANTS per following Ships, via:

Wild Deer
Wm. Davie
Hydaspes
May Queen
Christian McAusland
Palmerston
Zealandia

Charlotte Gladstone
Euterpe
Michael Angelo
Jas. N. Fleming
Allahabad
Dover Castle
Otago
Lady Jocelyn

Are hereby informed that unless payment be made, or arrangements entered into for the payment by instalments of Promissory Notes given by them on account of passage money and outfit, at the Immigration Office, Dunedin, within one month from this date, legal proceedings will be taken for the recovery of the same.

COLIN ALLAN,
Immigration Office.

7th June, 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.