will be charged, but the minimum stock on which assessment will be charged shall not be less than 250 sheep.

Lease to commence from the 10th day of April, 1876, and expires on the 9th day of April, 1886, or to determine on twelve months' notice from the Commissioner of Crown Lands to the Lessee to that effect, without liability on the part of Government or Waste Lands Board for compensation for improvement. The right to take a road five chains broad, for stock travelling, is retained by Government. No previous Lessee on purchasing the Lease to be entitled to exercise a pre-emptive right to purchase land on Run. Improvements enhancing the value of the Run made by Lessee to be paid by the incoming tenant before obtaining possession. A deposit of one-tenth of the purchase-money shall be paid on fall of the hammer, and the balance within a month. The annual assessment will be payable on the first day of October of each year, excepting the first period from the 10th day of April to the 1st day of October, 1876, when the proportion, namely £3 10s., will be payable at auction.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Land Department,
Dunedin, 16th August, 1876.

WAIKOUAITI ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE. — The Annual Meeting of this Board will take place on Wednesday, the 16th of August, at 12 noon, at the Merton School House.

W. N. BAYLEY,
Clerk to the Board.

WAIPORI ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Waipori Road Board intend to levy a General Rate of One Shilling (1s.) in the Pound on all property within the jurisdiction of the Board on Saturday the 2nd September, 1876, for the year ending June, 1877. A statement of the proposed rate can now be inspected at the Office of the Board. Objections (if any) must be sent to me in writing on or before the 30th August, 1876.

JAMES SIM, Clerk.
Maungatua, 10th August, 1876.

PORTOBELLO ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE.

THE Balance-Sheet and Statements of Account for the year ending June the 30th, 1876, is open for inspection at the house of the undersigned. The Annual Meeting of the Board will be held in the house of Mr. W. Allan, Portobello Road, on Wednesday, the 16th instant, at 12 o'clock.

GEORGE J. CLARK,
Clerk to the Board.

KAIKORAI ROAD DISTRICT.

RATEPAYERS are hereby notified that the Kaikoria Road Board intend, at their next meeting on Tuesday, August 29th, to levy a General Rate of One Shilling in the Pound on the net annual value of property within the district. The Rate Roll is open for the inspection of ratepayers at the Board’s Office, Green Island, till the above date.

JOHN S. KENNEDY,
Clerk to the Board.

Green Island,
August 14th, 1876.

THE Annual Meeting of the Grey Road Board will be held on Wednesday, August 16th, at noon in the Athenæum, Riccarton, when the Annual Statement of Accounts will be presented.

W. A. REILLY, A.M.,
Clerk.

PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

THE PARTNERSHIP hitherto subsisting between the undersigned as Butchers has this day been DISSOLVED by mutual consent.

Dated at Dunedin this first day of August, 1876.

DONALD M'DONALD,
HERMANN DÖRING,
George Street.

Witness,
ALEXANDER JOHNSTON,
Butcher.

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between us, John Hamilton and Charles Payne Raines, of Invercargill, heretofore carrying on business as grocers and bakers, under the firm of Hamilton and Raines, was on the fifth day of July, 1876, Dissolved by mutual consent, and that all debts owing to the said partnership are to be received by the said John Hamilton, who will pay all the debts due by the said late firm.

Dated at Invercargill, this fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

Witness to the signature of
} JOHN HAMILTON.
JAMES HARVEY,
Solicitor, Invercargill.

Witness to the signature of
} CHARLES P. RAINES
Charles Payne Raines
C. H. MOWARD,
Clerk to T. M. Macdonald,
Solicitor, Invercargill.

ABSTRACT from previous Gazette of Impounding Notices:—

25TH AUGUST, FRIDAY NOON.

A cow, steer, and a heifer will be sold at South Dunedin Pound.

1ST SEPTEMBER, FRIDAY NOON.

2 Steers, 1 bullock, and 2 heifers will be sold at Popotuno Pound.

WANTED, a Teacher for the Side School, Tuapaka Flat, near Laurence. Salary, £75 per annum and School Fees. Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged at the Education Office on or before the 10th of September.

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.