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Patea Mail, 28 September 1880, Page 1

Public Announcements. THE ss Wakatu, Captain C. Evans, will leave Patea for the above port This Day, Tuesday, at 2 p.m. For freight or passage apply to W. Dale, agent. I PATEA S.S. COMPANY. THE s.s. Patea will leave Patea as under (circumstances permitting): For Wellington— Thursday, 30th, at 5.30 p.m. For the future flags will be hoisted at the office to denote arrival and departure of steamer: Bed, with blue and white centre — Arrival. Blue, with white centre, underneath red flag—Departure on that day. Consignees will please arrange with shippers from Southern Ports to ship goods direct to Patea. Outward shippers are particularly requested to arrange at the office for shipment of same. Passengers are also requested to obtain their tickets at the office, or from the Manager, who will be in attendance on board hour before leaving. Freight will be payable before goods are delivered. Orders for same to be obtained from the Manager in all cases. For freight or passage apply to Bed Cross Line. FOR NELSON. EDW. C. HORNER, Manager.

Sale of Waimate Plains. WEST COAST, NORTH ISLAND. Crown Land’s Office, Wellington, 9th September, 1880. IT is hereby notified that 127 Sections of Land in the abovenamed locality will be oS’ered for sale on deferred and immediate payments. The sections on deferred payments will be open for application on Monday, the 25th October, at the Land Offices, Carlyle and Hawera. Sections for which there are more than one application will be submitted to auction, between the applicants only, on Thursday, the 28th October, at Hawera. The price of land on deferred payments will be £5 an acre. Five shillings per acre will have to be deposited on making application. Each applicant will only be allowed to apply for one section on deferred payments. Applicants for land on deferred payments may send their applications and deposits, with statutory declaration as required by “ The Land Act, 1877,” through post to the Land Office, Carlyle, Patea, to arrive on or before the 25th October. Envelopes should be marked “ Application for deferred payment land, Waimate Survey District.” The land on immediate payments will be sold by public auction, open to all bidders, on Friday, 29th October, at Hawera. Upset price, £4 an acre. On immediate payment there arc 88 sections, ranging from 50 acres to 100 acres each. On deferred payments there are 89 sections, ranging from 50 acres to 80 acres each. Colored lithograph plans may be seen at all the Land Offices of the Colony on and after the 15th instant. Information as to the mode of making applications for land on deferred payments, and the necessary forms, may be had from any of the Commissioners of Crown Lands. W. ROLLESTON, Minister of Lands.

NOTICE. A SPECIAL Meeting- of the Patea jLi. Comity Council -will be lielil on Wednesday, the 6th October next, for the purpose of confirming the following resolution : “ That Bye-law 7 of the Slaughterhouse Regulations be struck out, ami the following substituted;— “ The Council may from time to time appoint an Inspector of Slaugh-ter-houses, who may demand from the owner or lessee of every slaughterhouse the sum of one half-penny for each and every head of small cattle, and two-ponce for each and every head of large cattle slaughtered at any slaughter-house, except in the case of boiling-down establishments, the owners or lessees of which shall pay two shillings and sixpence for every thousand, or part of a thousand, head of small cattle slaughtered, provided always that any demand for such fee be made within six calendar months from the date on which such cattle were slaughtered, and when collected shall be paid by the Inspector to the County Treasurer. - ” J. BLACK, Clerk, Patea County Council. County Offices, 4th September, 1880. ,