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. 2rs. p.d.

NOTICE TO IMMIGRANTS.

IMMIGRANTS per following Ships, viz:—

Wild Deer
Wm. Davie
Hydaspes
May Queen
Christian M'Ausland
Palmerston
Zealandia
Charlotte Gladstone
Euterpe
Michael Angelo
Jas. N. Fleming
Allahabad
Dover Castle
Otago
Lady Jocelyn
Peter Denny
Helen Denny
Surat
Dunfillan
Carnatic
Scimitar
Asia
Hindostan
Peeress

Buckinghamshire
Atrato
Caroline
Cartsburn
Sussex
Maori Bahu
Cerona
Parsee
Tweed
Invercargill
Jessie Readman
Auckland
Nelson
City of Dunedin
Gareloch
Oamaru
Wellington
Dallam Tower
Wennington
Earl of Zetland
Hannibal
Aldergrove
Waimea
Waimate

Janet Court

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, legal proceedings will be taken for the recovery of the same.

COLIN ALLAN,
Immigration Officer.

7th June, 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 Jordan, on the 9th ultimo.

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

3. 163 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 8th instant.

6. Five stacks of wheat and one stack of oats value £340, at the Maori Kaik, belonging to D. Elston and M. Peacock, 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.

ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.

MURDER.

WHEREAS Martin Cunningham is charged, on warrant, with having, on the about the 25th of November, 1875, at Lake Ohau, murdered one Hugh Hannah: This is to notify that a reward of £100 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 said Martin Cunningham.

Description of Martin Cunningham, better known as “Martin.” An Englishman, but looks not unlike a half-caste, a sailor and station hand, about 35 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, stout square build, broad round flat face, swarthy complexion, ill-looking, black or very dark brown hair, inclined to curl at ends, black whiskers, beard, and moustache, tattooed on both arms and back of hands, a ship in full sail on one arm and a name underneath it, believed also to have anchor on muscle of left arm, and a small cut or scar on back of head, walks with his arms wide from body. When last seen he wore an old brown felt hat with leather strap round it, hat cut in two or three places, through which the strap was passed; dark brown or black single-breasted coat, slit about the hips; bluish tweed vest, moleskin trousers with a small blue stripe down seam, and water-tight boots.

He is believed to have arrived in Port Chalmers by the ship “Jura” twelve years ago. He has worked for some years on the West Coast road, and was generally employed on stations; knows the back country well, and has lived amongst the Natives in the North Island.

T. K. WELDON,
Commissioner of Police.

Police Office, Dunedin,
December 27th, 1875.

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.

LOST, a Fixed Deposit Receipt on the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, Oamaru. Dated 25th November, 1875, for six months, No. 2-19, for Thirty-five pounds sterling. Anyone returning same to Colonial Bank of New Zealand, Oamaru, will be rewarded.

4t—los.

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.