OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY),

VOL. XX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1876. No. 1065.

HIS HONOR the DEPUTY-SUPERINTENDENT
DENT directs it to be notified that he has appointed the Constables after-named to be Inspectors of Slaughter-houses and of cattle intended for slaughter, each for the place mentioned immediately after his name, viz.:

• George Parmenter, Naseby.
• James Murdoch, St. Bathans.

ALEX. WILLIS,
For Provincial Secretary.

[Reprinted from Provincial Government Gazette of 26th July, 1876.—Corrected.]

NOTICE.

THE Red Light situated at Black Jack’s Point having been destroyed by the late gale, will not be lit till further notice.

WILLIAM THOMSON,
Chief Harbour Master,
7th August, 1876.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

IN conformity to the 29th section of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” and to the Regulations made under that Act and the Gold Fields Act Amendment Acts of 1867, 1868, and 1869, for the granting of leases for gold mining purposes within the Province of Otago, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a lease for gold mining purposes of Crown lands to the applicant specified in the annexed Schedule unless there shall be valid objections against granting such lease.

Objections to the granting such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing and lodged with the Warden at Queenstown on or before the 18th day of August, 1876.

Copy of the application made, and plans annexed, may be seen at the Warden’s Office, at Queenstown.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this 7th day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

GEO. TURNBULL,
Deputy-Superintendent of Otago.

SCHEDULE.

Ah Tan, on behalf of Ah Tan & Co., for two acres of land more or less, as the same may be found after survey to be within the pegs and trenches of the applicants, being section 85, block XIX, Shotover District.

NOTICE.

S ignorance prevails respecting the purchase of Crown Lands at public sales by auction, attention is drawn to the Act entitled “The Crown Lands Sales Extortion Prevention Act,” especially clauses 3 and 8 of said Act, which are as follows:

III. Every person who shall actually receive money or other valuable consideration for abstaining to bid for or compete for the purchase of any Crown Lands which shall have been advertised for sale by public auction, and whether or not the same land shall be put up for sale by public auction shall be deemed to have been guilty of a misdemeanour and shall on conviction thereof be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding two years or fined any sum not exceeding five hundred pounds.

VIII. Any Commissioner of Crown Lands or other person connected with the administration of any of the Waste Lands of the Colony who shall cause or attempt to cause or knowingly permit any person to apply for the purchase of any portion of the Waste Lands of the Crown such applicant not being a bona fide intending purchaser or who shall knowingly countenance or permit any collusion or arrangement between intending purchasers of land having for its object to preclude or supersede the necessity of bona fide competition at any such auction sale as aforesaid shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds and shall for ever thereafter be rendered incapable of holding any office or employment under the Crown.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Lands Department,
Dunedin, 9th August, 1876.