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MEMORANDUM OF GOVERNMENT LAND SALES.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land Department,
Dunedin, August, 1876.

TUAPEKA AND TABLE HILL DISTRICTS.

NOTICE.

SALE AT LAWRENCE ON TUESDAY, 10TH OCTOBER, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that Sections 46 and 703, Block 2, Tuapeka District, containing 1 acre and 2 acres 3 roods and 32 poles respectively, will be offered for Sale by Public Auction by Mr. R. B. Martin at the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Tuesday, 10th October next, at 2 o’clock p.m., at the upset price of £3 per acre. (No. 1924E.)

Also, at same time and place, Section 64, Block 4, Table Hill District, containing about 26 acres, at the upset price of 25s. per acre.

Subject to £5 5s. survey fees. (No. 1915E.)

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land Department,
Dunedin, 5th September, 1876.

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.

Land Department,
Dunedin, 9th August, 1876.

WAITAHUNA WEST DISTRICT.

BY LAWRENCE.

TUESDAY, 10TH OCTOBER, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following sections in the above District will be offered for sale by public auction by Mr. R. B. Martin, at the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Tuesday, 10th October, 1876, at 2 o’clock p.m., as land of special value, under clause 85, “Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872,” at the upset price opposite each section:—

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land Department,
Dunedin, September, 6, 1876.

PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

THE PARTNERSHIP heretofore 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 DORING,
Witness, George Street.

ALEXANDER JOHNSTON,
Butcher.

3t 12s.

FENCING ORDINANCE. -- Just Published.

Price 6d. Usual Discount to the Trade.

JOHN LOGAN.