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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1197, 8 February 1895, Page 19

GBETNA GEEEN

Is in Dumfries, S. Scotland, near the bordor. Here runaway marriages were contracted for many years, as Scotch law ruled that an acknowledgment before witnesses made a legal marriage. The place thus became famous, but not so famous as Wolfe’s Schnapps, which, on its merits as a stimulant of the finest quality, is well known throughout the world. It is wise to buy whole bottles and to deface the labels after use, as sometimes the empty bottles are refilled with cheap, unwholesome gin, and sold for the original Wolfe's Schnapps. 12

An average of 1000 pigs are eaten in London daily. THURSDAY, 28th FEBRUARY, At 2 o’clock, AT THE WINDSOR PARK ESTATE, NEAR OAMARU. IMPORTANT SALE OE PUREBRED LINCOLN, BORDER LEICESTER, ENGLISH LEICESTER AND SHROPSHIRE DOWN STUD SHEEP. An unrivalled opportunity for sheep-breeders WIiIGHT, STEPHENSON & CO. have received instructions from Edward Menlovo, Esq., of Windsor Park, to offer by auction at above time and place, for Genuine Sale--2390 purebred sbeep, as follows: 700 stud Lincoln ewos, 1 and 2 shear sheep, say, 350 each age, i.e , 2 and 4-tooth 40 stud Lincoln rams, 1,2 and 3 shear sheep 500 one shear pure-bred Lincoln flook rams 150 one and two shear stud Border Leicester ewes, say half each 2 and 4tooth - 200 one shear purebred Border Leicester flock rams 300 one and two shear English Leicester stud ewes, say 50 each, 2 and 4tooth , 100 one shear purebred English Leicester flock rains 400 one, two and throe shear Shropshire Down stud ewes 100 one shear purebred Shopshire Down flock rams .100 purebred Shropshire Down Ram lambs 2390 0 Note. —In directing the attention of sheepbreeders to this, the largest sale of purebred sheep that has been held in this Colony, the auctioneers would state that Mr Menlove’s flock of Lincolns is the oldest in New Zealand, having been established nearly a quarter of a century ago. He commenced with about a hundred ewes from the farfamed flocks of Messrs Dudding, of Riby Grove (Lincolnshire), and Kirkham, of Biscatborpe (Lincolnshire), at an average cost of FORTY-FIVE GUINEAS each. Mr Menlove himself has managed the stud flock, and by judicious and heavy culling annually,- and by the use of the very best stud rams that money would procure, has attained for himself a name as a breeder of Lincolns and other stud sheep second to none in this Colony. At the Sydney sales of July last a draft of Mr Menlove’s Lincoln rams brought from to 6| guineas each. 201

NOTICE TO MAKE RETURNS UNDER “ THE LAND AND INCOME ASSESSMENT ACTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1894.” Land and Income Tax Department, Wellington, 31st January, 1895. NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of the above Act, and the regulations made thereunder, every person and company within the meaning of the said Act, boing the owner of land in New Zealand, or being the holder or owner of any mortgage or mortgages of land in New Zealand, is hereby required to duly make and furnish to me in the prescribed form, returns of such land and mortgages on or before the Ist day of May, 1895. And, further, notice is hereby given that such returns shall in all cases be delivered at or forwarded the Office of the Commissioner of Taxes, in tho Government Buildings at Wellington. john McGowan, Commissioner of Taxes. Note. —It will not be necessary for persons to make returns when the unimproved value of the land together with the value of any mortgages does not exceed <£2so. Persons who have not received forms of returns from this office may obtain them at any Post Office. 429 NOTICE, SECTION 118, NATIVE LAND COURT ACT, 1894. Department of Justice, Wellington, 2Sth January, 1895. THE attention of all persons interested ig directed to section 118 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” which provides that bona fide transactions in Native lands may be completed under certain restrictions. All claims under this seotion must be notified as required by the Aot and the rules made thereunder, before the 23rd day of April next, otherwise they will bo excluded. Copies or the rules affecting such claims, and all other necessary information, may be obtained at any of the offices of the Native Land Comt. By order. C. J. A. HASELDEN, 491 Under-Seoretfarj^