HIS HONOR the DEPUTY-SUPERINTENDENT

NOTICE.

directs it to be notified that he has appointed Constable Samuel Hughes to be Inspector of Slaughter Houses and of Cattle intended for slaughter for the District of Balclutha, vice Constable William Skean, transferred.

J. DAVIE,
For Provincial Secretary.
15th August, 1876.

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.
17th August, 1876.
21. 6s.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,

OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

No. 833 Warrant,
Between Thomas Crossan, plaintiff, and Franz Julius, defendant.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of a writ of fieri facias, to me directed and delivered, issued out of this honourable Court in this cause, on the seventh day of June last, and in pursuance of ‘The Execution of Judgments against Real Estate Act, 1867,’ all the estate and interest of the above-named Franz Julius, the execution debtor, in all that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement one rood (more or less), situate in the private township of Milton, in the Province of Otago, in New Zealand, being section numbered twelve (ra), block one (1), on the plan of subdivision of the private township of Milton, deposited by George Elder Brown in the office of the Registrar of Deeds for the Province of Otago, and being part of rural section one hundred and two (102), block twelve (xii), Tokomairiro district, commencing at a point on the southeastern boundary of said rural section three hundred (300) links from the eastern corner thereof, and thence continuing south-westerly, and bounded on the southeast by the main south road one hundred (100) links, on the south-west by section numbered eleven (11) on said plan two hundred and fifty (250) links, on the north-west by other part of said rural section (shown, but not numbered, on said plan) one hundred (100) links, and on the north-east by section numbered thirteen (13) on said plan two hundred and fifty (250) links to the commencing point. The memorial of judgment, No. 2026, of which was registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds in Dunedin, in the Province aforesaid, on the seventh day of June last, has, at the suit of the above-named Thomas Crossan, the execution creditor, been levied upon, and taken in execution, and will be sold by public auction at the Sheriff’s Ballarat Office, Supreme Court House, in Dunedin, on Tuesday, the fourteenth day of November, at twelve o’clock at noon, but not unless the said execution shall be previously satisfied.

Dated in Dunedin, this 29th day of July, 1876.

I. NEWTON WATT,
Sheriff of Otago.

The estate and interest of the above-named Franz Julius, the execution debtor, intended to be sold, is an estate in fee-simple, subject to a mortgage of two hundred and fifty pounds, and sixty-five pounds for interest, repayable by twenty-eight monthly installments of six pounds eleven shillings and threepence each.

JOHN MOUAT,
Of Jetty Street, Dunedin,
The Solicitor for the Execution Creditor.

NOTICE

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 4 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 said lands shall be put up for sale by public auction shall be deemed to have been guilty of a misdemeanor 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 arrange 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.

LAND ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS

NOTICE is hereby given that the following applications for licenses to occupy land on deferred payments have been received at this office:—

Thomas Mayor and William Jarvis Cross, for section 8, block 5, Greenvale district.

Jeremiah Robertson, section 39, block 31, Tuapeka West.

And Tuesday, the 22nd day of August, 1876, at 11 o’clock a.m., and the Land Office, Lawrence, are appointed the time and place for deciding these applications if unopposed, and for notifying any objections that may be lodged.

Two o’clock of the same day and the same place are appointed for deciding by auction the right to license to occupy any section for which there is more than one applicant.

E. H. CAREW,
District Land Officer.
District Land Office,
Lawrence, July 26, 1876.

Date and place confirmed.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 28th July, 1876.

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.