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Southland Times, Issue 1764, 8 July 1873, Page 4

Corporation Notices* CORPORATION or IN VERCARGILL r I LENDERS are invited up to 7.30 p.m. of I Thursday, 10th July— CARTAGR Ist. Unloading and carting from railway trucks, 200 yards of Metal. 2nd. FOR BREAKING METAL in lots of 50 to 100 yards. TO NURSERYMEN. 3rd. For supplying about 500 Trees, Shrubs, &c. Specifications at the Town Surveyor s Office. The lowest or any tender not necessarily ao« cepted. A deposit of 5 per cent, must accompany each tender. W. B. SCANDRETT, Town Clerk. July 3rd, 1873. REVISING COURT. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Council will hold an open Court at the Council Hall, Kelvin-street, at noon on Friday, the 11th day of July, for the revision of the Burgess List, and for hearing and determining the claims of the burgesses thereof to be inserted in such lista, and the objections of such burgesses to any other burgess having hi» name retained thereon. W. B. SCANDRETT, Town Clerk. June 26th, 1873. ELECTION OF MAYOR. "PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the _L nomination of candidates for the office of Mayor for the year ending Ist August, 1874, will be declared on Tuesday, the 15th day of July, at the hour of noon at the Council Hall, Kelvinstreet. Nominations must be in the form of schedule Dof the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865, and be lodged at the Town Clerk' 3 Office, on or before noon of the day herein fixed for the declaration. W. B. SCANDRETT, Town Clerk. June 26th, 1873. ELECTION OF COUNCILLORS AND AUDITORS. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the nomination of candidates for election to the several offices of Councillors and Auditors for the year ending Ist August, 1874, will be declared on Tuesday, the 15th day of July, at the hour of noon, at the Council Hall, Kelvin street. The Councillors retiring are— CB. GfiOBGB GOODWIIXIE Cb. Gboboe Litmßi>en Cb. Hbnbt Thomas Ross Cb. Robebt Tapfbb Four Councillors and two Auditors to be elected. Nominations must be in the form of Schedule Dof the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865 and be lodged at the Town Clerk's office on or before noon of the day herein fixed for the declaration. W. B. SCANDRETT, Town Clerk. June 26th, 1873. Xiand Transfer Act.K'otlce*. LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES. NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels of Land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of " The Land Transfer Act, 1870," unless caveat in the meantime be lodged forbidding the same. Allotment 2 (two), block IX. (nine), on the plan of the subdivision into lots of section 25 (twenty five), block I. (one), Invercargill Hundred. Applicant— DANlEL FALE, of Invercargill, carter. Section 27 (twenty, seven), block XII., (twelve), town of Invercargill. Applicant — JOHN TURNBULL THOMSON, of Dunedin, chief surveyor. Sections 16 (sixteen), and 17 (seventeen), block VI. (six), New River Hundred, Province of Otago. Applicant— JOHN WILSON, of Waianiwa, in the said Hundred of New River, farmer. Sections 1 (one), 2 (two), 3 (three), and 21 (twenty one), block LXI. (sixty one), town of Invercargill. Applicant — HENRY ELIAS OSBORNE, of Invercargill, auctioneer. Caveats in each-case must be lodged within one calendar month after the gazetting of this notice. Diagrams may be inspected at this offioe. Dated this 3rd day of July, 1873, at the Lands Registry Office, Invercargill. W. RUSSELL, District Land Registrar. WHAT IS THE PERMISSIVE BILL ? IT is a measure based upon the broad principle that the Liquor Truffle is inimical to the well being of the nation, and its preamble sets forth that — " Whereas the common sale of Intoxicating Liquors is a fruitful source of Crime, Immorality, Pauperism, Disease, Insanity, and premature Death, whereby not only the individuals who give way to drinking habits are plunged into misery, but grievous wrong is done to the persons and property of Her Majesty's subjects at large, and the public rates and taxes are greatly augmented : and whereas it is right and expedient to confer upon the ratepayers of Cities, Boroughs, Parishes, and Townships the power to prohibit such common sale as aforesaid." Its provisions would simply give effect to the public opinion of the country upon a traffic which is confessedly dangerous and difficult to control. It would give ratepayers the power to prohibit the traffic by a decided majority, a right confined at present to Licensing Magistrates and land* owners, who seldom permit a public house to be licensed near their own dwellings, and who frequently exercise their power as landlords to prohibit them over large districts. Its principal clauses provide— I. That any time after the passing of the Act it shall be lawful for a given number of ratepayers in any Borough, Parish, or District, to require the Mayor or Overseers to take the votes of the ratepayers as to the propriety of bringing into operation the provisions of the Act.* 11. That the Mayor or Overseers shall, on receipt of such requisition, cause voting papers to be delivered to, and collected from, all ratepayers within the district. 111. That if, on examining these voting papers, it was found that two-thirds of those voting were in favor of the adoption of the Act, no license could be granted or renewed within that district after the term for which the license was current. It is therefore a Bill which could only come into operation when a very large majority in any district were in its favor, and as a result would, after all, prohibit only a privileged monopoly. ALEX. HAY, R.S., Sons of Temperance. DAVID BONTHRON, W.S. Independent Order of Good Templars. *All details, such as the number required to sign the requisition, extent of the district, &c. would be decided in Committee, after the general 1 principle of the Bill had been accepted. '