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Otago Daily Times, Issue 40, 31 December 1861, Page 5

To the Editor of the Otago Daily Times. Dunedin, 31st Dec. 1861. Sir, —As a great many of the electors who registered last March are not aware whether they can rote or not this day at the election of members for the Town Board, will you please in your present issue to give a prominent place to the elucidation thereof? and oblige An Elector. [In answer to the question of our correspondent, we may state that all parties who were duly registered last March will be entitled to vote.—Ed. D. T.~\ GOVERNMENT NOTICES. SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS ON THE GOLD FIELDS. ALL Applications for Licenses to Sell Spirituous Liquors on the Diggings otherwise than by Wholesale, and excepting for new fields, received at this Office on or before the 15th of the month, will be taken into consideration in the Superintendent's Office on the first Tuesday of the month following. By order, JOHN LOGAN, Clerk to Superintendent. Superintendent's Office, Dunedin, 30th December, 1861. 13UBLICANS' LICENSE. The EXECUTIVE COUNCIL will hold an open Meeting on TUESDAY, 7th January, 1862, at 10 o'clock a.m., in this Office, to consider the Applications for Licenses received on or before the 15th day of December, 1861. Applicants are requested to attend. By order, JOHN LOGAN, ' Clerk to Superintendent. Superintendent's Office, Dunedin, 30th December, 1861. NEW YEAR'S DAY. GRAND CALEDONIAN GATHERING, AT JONES'S BAZAAR, ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY NEXT, Ist and 2nd January, Under the patronage of the Scotchmen of Dunedin. Programme : FIRST DAY—WEDNESDAY. TO commence with a GRAND QUOITING MATCH. Ist prize, £2 25.; 2nd do., £1 Is. Competitors to bring their own Quoits:: no Quoits to be wider than eight inches in diameter. Entrance, 2s. 6d. Aunt Sally will be in attendance. CUMBERLAND WRESTLING. Ist prize, £2 25.; 2nd do., £1 Is. Entrance, 2s. 6d. REEL OF TULLOCII. Ist prize, £2 25.; 2nd do., 10s. 6d. Entrance, 2s. 6d. STANDING HIGH LEAP. Prize, £2 2s. Entrance, 2i. 6d. HOP, STEP, AND JUMP. Prize, £1 Is. Entrance 2s. HITCH. AND KICK. Prize, £1 Is. FOOT RACE (Amateurs), 100 yards. Prize, £2 2s. Entrance, 2s. 6d. GREASY POLE. Prize, Watch and Chain. SWORD DANCE. Prize/ £2 2s. Entrance, 2s. 6d. DIPPING FOR ORANGES. Prize, £1 Is. FOOT RACE—A gentleman with a man on his back for 50 yards, against one without for 100 yards. Three to start. Prize, £2 2s. RUNNI.SG HIGH LEAP. Prize, £2s 2s. Entrance,. 2s. 6d. DANCE—HIGHLAND FLING. Prize, £2 2s. Entrance, 2s. 6d. I BEST DRESSED HIGHLANDER. Prize, £1 Is. BOY IN HIGHLAND COSTUME^ Prize, 10s 6d. • SACK RACE. Ist prize, £1 Is.; 2nd do., 10s. 6d. BASKET RACE WITH EGGS. 75 yards. £1 Is. SECOND DAY—THURSDAY. To commence with CUMBERLAND WRESTLING. Ist prize, £2 25. ; 2nd do., £1 Is. Entrance, 2s. 6d. PUTTING HEAVY STONE, 21 lbs. Ist prize, £1 Is. ; 2nd do., 10s. 6d. Entrance, 2s. 6d. FOOT RACE. 300 yards. Boys under 15 years of age. Heats. Ist prize, £1 Is.; 2nd do., 10s. 6d. DANCE—STRATHSPEY, AUNT SALLY. STANDING HIGH LEAP. Prize, £2 2s. Entrance, 2s. 6d. GREASY POLE. Prize, Wjjtch and Chain. HURDLE RACE IN HIGHLAND COSTUME. Prize, £1 Is. Entrance, 2s. 6d. SACK RACE (Men's.) Ist,prize, £1 Is.; 2nd do., 10s. 6d. SACK RACE (Boys'). Ist prize, 155.: 2nd do., 7s. 6d. SWORD DANCE. Prize, £2. Entrance, 2s. 6d. FOOT RACE (Amateurs',:). 100 yards. Prize, £2 2s. Entrance, 2s. 6d. .>/- ' BLIND BARROW RACE. Ist prize, £1 Is.; 2nd do., 10s: 6d: DANCE—SHAUNTREUS. DIPPING FOR ORANGES (Men).. Prize, £2 2s. Entrance, 2s. 6d. ' . • DIPPING FOR ORANGES (Boys). Prize, £1 Is. PUTTING LIGHT STONE. Ist prize, £1 Is. ; 2nd do.. 10.'. C": T>^™, ?-. 0\ BASKET "RACE WITH EGGS. 100 yards. Prize £1 Is. GRAND HIGHLAND FLING BY ALL THE COMPETITORS, will conclude each day's performance. Music throughout the Fetes by two Bands. God Save theiQueen ! /Admission: —Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. ; Children, lialf-price ; Bazaar Free. ALEXAND K & CUMMING Has for Sale Invoices of ' ; Furniture Drapery Slops ■; ■ . _ Ironmongei^y, and Boots and. Shoes. Temporary Office, Arcade. FOR SALE. TWO NEW DINGIES, 7 feet, built of Kauri, and copper-fastened. Oars and rowlocks complete. May be seen on board the " Phoenix." J. K. FRY, Princes-street. FOR SALE, ■pjrv ACRES on INCH CLUTHA, suitable t)\J for Farming, Private Residence, or for Cuttinq-up as a Speculation. ROBERT GILLIES, Land Agent.