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I ©1r Q U 1-A DI IF, 10 caontanis JAMES BARNARD, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, HOBART TOWN. 1880. e t1 I.1LI •t S irR Z4 VIF.U '.CI_It T UT AUTUO U =TY. THE 101'"i-Mirt Ve $1 t&iffil. iI t I I t + VOL. LXV. TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1880. No. 532-2. COLONIAL TREASURY. from the time of raisin; such loan: And notice is hereby .Hobart Town, 28th November, 1879. further given, that a Public Meeting of the Municipal T is hereby notified that Trea-ury Bills, issued under Electors of the said Nlunicipali,y, for the purpose of I the authority of the Act of Parliament, 43 Viet. No. taking into consideration the expediency of raising such 6, in sums of not less than £100 each, and bearing loan, will be holden at the Council Chambers, Oatlands, Interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, payable in the said M nicipality, on Thursday, the 22nd day of half-yearly, the principal to be paid (,fl at Twelve Months January, 1880, at one o'clock in the afternoon. from the date of i,sue, can be obtained at par on Given under my hand, at the Council Chambers, Oat- application at the Colonial Treaqury. lands aforesaid, the twelfth day of December, 1879. W. R. GIBLIN, Colonial Treasurer. R. D. LORD, Warden. BOARD OF ED U CATION. SPECIAL GENERAL SESSIONS, LAUN- Hobart 7 own, 29th December, 1879. CESTON. GLENORCHY PUBLIC SCHOOL. APPEALS FROM ASSESSMENTS. APPLICATIONSforthe charge ofthe Public NOTICE is hereby given, that a Court of Special School, Glenorchy, will he received by the Board Lv General Sessions of Justices of the Peace residing of Education up to noon on Monday, the 12th proximo. within the Town of Launceston will be held in the Court HENRY BUTLER, Chairman Board of Education. House, Launceston, on Wednesday, the 7th day of January next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the NORTH ESK ROAD TRUST. purpose of hearing Appeals from the Assessment of the annual value of the lands and buildings within the said NOTICESwan, ofis herebyDunedin, given, was dulythat e'.ectedCharles a TrusteeCameron of Town as set forth in a Hobart Town Gazette Extra- the above Road District, in the place of Peter Isaac De ordinary of this date. Bomford, under Section 26 of 11The Cross and B e Dated this 19th day of December, 1879. Roads Act, 1870." Dated this 16th day of December, 1879. G. SMITH, Clerk of the Peace, Launceston. JAMES SCOTT, Chairman of Trustees. PUBLIC - HOUSE AND PACKE T LICENCES. RURAL DIUNICIPALI rY OF OATLANDS. NOTICE is hereby given, that the First Quarterly IN pursuance of the provisions of 11The Rural Al uni- L' Licensing Meeting of J u,tices of the Peace, for the crpolitics Act, 1865," notice is hereby given, that it consideration of applications for certificates of approval of is the intention of the Municipal Council of the Rural persons receiving Public-house and Packet Licences, of Municipality of Oatlands to aise a loan of One thousand applications for certificates approving of the transfer of six hundred Pounds at a rate of interest to be paid in existing Public-house and Packet Licences, and of respect thereof not exceeding Six Pounds and Ten Shil- applications for certificates of permission to continue to lings per cent. per annum ; and the purposes to which sell Liquor under Public-house Licences the holders such loan are to be applied will be the building of a whereof have died or been declared Bankrupt, until the Town Hall for the said Municipality, and also to pay for expiration thereof by effluxion of time, will be held the necessary land upon which to erect the said Town at the under-mentioned places in the several Districts Hall; and that a Rate of One Penny and a Halfpenny hereinafter named, on Monday, the 2nd day of February in the Pound upon the annual value of all property next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of that day. within the said Municipality will be the amount of the Notice is hereby further given, that all applications for, special rate which it will be necessary to impose in order the above purposes must be delivered to the Clcrl.s of to provide for the repayment of such loan with interest Petty Sessions of the said several Districts fourteen clear thereon, within a period not exceeding Thirteen years days before the holding of such meeting. B TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1880, 19 proprietors of the said pieces of land as by law directed, another reserved road, along Lot 384 purchased by Moses Diagrams delineating these parcels of Land may be Cohen, and along the Crown Reservation (crossing two otlief' reserved roads 50 links wide each) to Port Cygnet, thence by inspected at the Lands' Titles Office, Hobart Town, and that port northerly to Nichols Rivulet aforesaid, and thence at the Police Office of the District in which the several by that rivulet north-easterly and north-westerly (recrossing [ands are situated. one of the before-mentioned reserved roads) to the point of ,COUNTY OF WELLINGTON. commencement. Originally., located to William Nichols Fifty-eight acres. Lot 2418. Vicinity of Stinking Creek, under whom applicant claims. JOHN NICHOLS, (Appli» fronting upon the Government Road.No. 2, adjoining Lot cation 543 a), 7th February, 1880. 2417 purchased from the Crown by William Moore. Origi. Dated this 5th day of January, 1880, at the Lands'' nally granted to Henry Smart and registered in the name of Titles Office, Hobart Town, Tasmania. William Jones. One acre two roods and thirty perches. Town of Wynyard; Lots 10 and 11, Section B. Fronting upon G. P. ADAMS, Recorder of 71iilei. the Esplanade, Goldie-street, and Hogg-street, adjoining Lots ,3 and 9. Originally granted to Francis George Spicer and NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR GOLD registered in the name of William Jones. JOHN ANDER- MINING LEASE. SON, (Application '05 R.P.), 24th January, 1880. E,the undersigned, herebygivenotice thaton COUNTY OF DORSET. VICINITY OF THE RIVER W the 2nd day of January, 1880, we did leave BRID. with the Commissioner for Tasmania an application for a LOT 4069. 100 ACRES. Fronting on a reserved road, adjoining lands respectively Gold Mining Lease, the particulars whereof are hereunder belonging to George Tyson and David Turner, Lot 3828, and set forth :- Crown land. Originally granted to and registered in the Name in full of each applicant, with the full address of name of John Tevelein.
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