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Otago Witness, Issue 316, 19 December 1857, Page 7

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE & LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. ESTABLISHED IN 1836. . Empowered by Act of Parliament. ■ Subscribed Capital, upwards of £1,500,000. FTIHE Undersigned beg to give Notice that, A in pursuance of instructions from Messrs. Cookson, Bowler & Co., Lyttelton, they are now^prepared to receive applications for Fire Insurance" in the Liverpool and London Fire Ins«|nce Company. Printed Forms, and information as to Rates of Premium, Conditions, &c, may be obtained on application to . . W. C. YOUNG & Co., j Agents for Otago. j , CONTRACTS | FOR THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT. i TO CARPENTERS. J FTIENDERS in duplicate will be received at | JL this Office till Saturday, the 26th day i of December current, at 1 o'clock forenoon, I from parties willing to supply 4 FORMS i 3 TABLES, 1 And to execute some small Repairs in the Hospital, Dunedin. The Specification may be seen, and other particulars learned, on application to the Chief Constable. By his Honor's command, JOHN LOGAN, Clerk to Superintendent. Superintendent's Office, Dunedin, 18th December, 1857. CONTRACTS FOR THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT. SAWN TIMBER, &c, as under, for the Erection of additional Barracks for Immigrants, to be delivered within four weeks from this date, on the site adjacent to the present Barracks, Princes Street. Liberal Prices will be given. 22,000 feet Timber 15,000 Shingles Also 55 Piles Offers for supplying the above, in quantities " of not less than 1000 feet each, will be received at this Office. A specification of the sizes of the Timber, i &c, may be seen at the Office of the Civil Engineer. By his Honor's command, JOHN LOGAN, Clerk to Superintendent. Superintendent's Office, Dunedin, 15th December, 1857. ~- s. .j WEST TAIERI HUNDRED-. NOTICE — All Persons who have not paid the Assessment for the first Half-year are hereby requested to do so on or before the 24th December. WILLIAM M'DIARMID. DONALD BORRIE. THOMAS REDPATH & CO. BEG to inform the Flockowners and Settlers in the Molyneux District that they are now Erecting a STORE at the Three Bushes, Otanomomo, for the Sale and Storage of Goods. OTAGO BOARD OF EDUCATION. NOTICE is Hereby Given, that a Meeting of the Otago Board of Education will be held in the Office of the Provincial Solicitor, at Dunedin, upon WEDNESDAY, the 23rd day of December, 1857, at 11 o'clock forenoon, for the despatch of general business. J. M'GLASHAN, Secretary. Dunedin, 30th November, 1857. GENERAL BOARD OF ROAD TRUSTEES. NOTICE is hereby Given, that, in pursuance of the "Roads Ordinance 1856," a MEETING of the Persons liable to he rated for Roads, within the recently proclaimed Road District of Port Chalmers, -will be held, for the purpose of electing a District Board of Road Trustees, at the Brewery, Sawyers' Bay, upon THURSDAY, the 24th December, 1857, at 6 o'clock evening. By section 7th" of said Ordinance, it is enacted that "every person of the male sex, and twentyone years of age and upwards, who is rated, or liable to he rated, for roads within any part of the Province, in virtue of that or any other Ordinance, shall be qualified to be elected a member of any District Board of Road Trustees." And by section 9 it is enacted that " the Electors'assenibled at every such meeting shall, by a -majority of their number, appoint a Chairman, and make their electiniy; nf not less than three persons, qualified as aforXiid, 3o lorm the District Board of Uoad Trusteesßkndthe state of the votes shall be ascertain - ed^tKa show of hands, .or in such other manner as to;tbwhairman_ may seem expedient ; and at the Meeting at which he is Chairman he shall.be disqualified to r be elected' a Trustee, and shall have bo' vote except a "casting .vote in every case of an equality of votes ; and he shall declare the state o£ the votes to_the Meeting, which declaration shall be final ; and shall forthwith make a true return in writing of the names and designations of the persons elected, such return to be made to the. Clerk ' of the General' Board of Trustees ; and in default of so doing shall forfeit .and pay a penalty not exceeding fiver pounds.'.' By order of the Board, JAMES JL. CHEYNE, . , ' tyerk to the Board. Dunedin, 14th December, 1857. r