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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 727, 22 October 1870, Page 3

SALE BY AUCTION. THIS DAY, at 2 C^CLOCK. BOATMAN'S ARMS" HOTEL. TN O. 3UN RO, •J Instructed by George Nicholas, will sell by Public Auction, all the right, title aud interest of the vendor in and to Allotment No. 2, Coal Eeserve, being 20 feet frontage to Gladstone street, by a depth of 66 feet, whereon is erected the Boatman's Arms Hotel; Stock-in-Trade, Furniture, Utensils, &c. Terms—Cash. JNO. MUNEO, Auctioneer. \T7ESTPORT ani> CHARLESTON TELEGRAPH LINE OF COACHES Will leave the Empire Hotel for Charleston as follows:—• Saturday ... ... 11.15 a.m. JAMES SIMPSON, TENDERS. lENDERS will be received up to 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 29th, at this office, for constructing a horse track up Lyell Creek. Specifications to be seen at Sloan's Hotel, Lyell Creek, and at this office. A. DUDLEY DOBSON, District Engineer. District Engineer's Office, Westport. • v- mm r. NOTICE. UPPER BULLER AND INAN GAIIUA. A "WARDEN'S COURT will be held at CHRISTY'S ACCOMMODATION HOUSE, at the Inangahua Junction, on TUESDAY, the Bth NOVEMBER prox. The Warden's Office will be open at the same place from the Ist of November until the sitting of the Court, for applications, registrations, and the issue of summonses. All persons desiring protection of any kind for their claims must make special application on the Bth, and no claim will be considered protected after that date unless such application has been made. JOSEPH GILES, "Warden. Westport, Oct. 17, 1870. Superintendent's Office, Nelson, 10th October, 1870. "OTICE is hereby given that the Superintendent has refused to grant a Goldmining Lease applied for bv R. C. Rjeid, on behalf of the Buller Quartz-crushiug Company, for the land hereinafter described, viz.:— A block of Land, containing sixteen acres two roods, more or less, situated at the Lyell, Buller district. ALFRED GREENFELD, Provincial Secretary. NOTICE. rriHE following alteration has been made in the law relating to the transfer \>f mining shares. JOSEPH GILES, "Warden. (Clauses 2 and 3 of the Stamp Duties' Amendment Act, 1870.) 2. The duty upou the transfer of any share or shares in the stocks or funds of any corporation, company, or society whatsoever, in New Zealand, may in the case of shares in any goldmining company carrying on business within the limits of any proclaimed goldfield, or of the transfer of any property held by virtue of miners' rights be denoted by an adhesive stamp affixed thereto, and the Minister shall provide stamps for that purpose. 3. Whenever any adhesive stamp shall be used for denoting the payment of stamp duty charged on such instrument as in the preceding section mentioned the transferor shall at the time of executing the instrument of transfer so sign his name thereto as that part of his signature shall bo on the left side of the stamp part on the stamp itself and part on the right side of the stamp and the signature shall be written continuously and shall be so written as if the stamp were part of the paper and in default thereof the stamp Bhall be of no avail and such adhesive stamp shall be affixed by the transferor and such transferor failing to affix and cancel as afore-said any such stamp at the time of executing such transfer shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds.