THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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has been approved and duly appointed under the
11th clause of "The Customs Regulation Act,
1858," for the reception of goods under bond.
WM. FRANCE (for Secretary.)

Applicant—R. F. Williamson.
Locality—Opposite the Government Camp, Arrow
River.
Area—16 acres 2 roods and 4 perches.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 5th April, 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the lower portion
of a stone and wooden building, situated on
the North side of Bridge Street, Nelson, in the
Province of Nelson, and known as
FISHER'S WAREHOUSE (formerly Nash and Scaife's,)
has been approved and duly appointed under the
11th clause of "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,"
for the reception of goods under bond.
WM. FRANCE (for Secretary.)

Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 5th April, 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a wooden building,
situated in Waghorn Street, at the Port of
Napier, in the Province of Hawke's Bay, and known
as
G. E. G. RICHARDSON'S WAREHOUSE,
has been approved and duly appointed under the
11th clause of "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,"
for the reception of goods under bond.
WM. FRANCE (for Secretary.)

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 4th April, 1866.

IN conformity with the 29th clause of "The Gold
Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865," it is hereby
notified that it is intended to grant Leases for Gold
Mining purposes of the Crown Lands to the Appli-
cants specified in the following Schedule.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Applicants—Samuel Farrell and party.
Locality—Welsh's Point, Gabriel's Gully.
Area—6 acres 2 roods and 14 perches.

Applicants—J. Wm. Robertson.
Locality—Mount Aurum.
Area—14 acres 3 roods and 2 perches.

Applicants—Alex. Murdock and Co.
Locality—Bounded on the West by Murdock Creek,
and on the East by the Scandinavian Prospecting
Claim, Skipper's.

Applicant—H. Brewer and another.
Locality—Maori Point, Upper Shotover.
Area—1 acre 2 roods.

Applicants—P. Sorenson and party.
Locality—Skipper's Creek, Upper Shotover.
Area—12 acres 1 rood and 22 perches.

Applicant—Richard Spratt.
Locality—Maori Point, Upper Shotover.
Area—3 acres 3 roods and 10 perches.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1866.

IN conformity with the provisions of "The Gold
Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865," it is hereby
notified that it is intended to grant a Lease for Gold
Mining purposes of the Crown Lands to the Appli-
cant specified in the following Schedule.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1866.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the
eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen
Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act, 1854,"
the following Name of an OFFICIATING MINISTER,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information—

Free Church of Scotland,
The Reverend JAMES MURRAY DAVIDSON.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths and Marriages, in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 9, of the 30th of January; No. 13, of the
3rd of March; and No. 17, of the 24th March, in the
present year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this
twenty-seventh day of March, 1866.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

NOTIFICATION—Whereas by "The New Zealand
Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act,
1865," it is enacted that instead of the periods of six
months, and eighteen months, prescribed by the
seventh section of "The New Zealand Settlements
Act, 1863," for preferring claims to compensation, the
period for such purpose shall be a period not less
than three months nor more than six months, to
be prescribed by the Compensation Court in each
case, and due notice of such period for preferring
claims shall be given by direction of the Court by
advertisement in public newspapers, or otherwise by
public notice in the Maori and English language.

And whereas by an Order in Council made by His
Excellency the Governor in Council at Wellington, on
the seventeenth day of January, 1866, it was ordered
that from the date thereof, the district the boundaries
whereof are defined in the Schedule hereto, should
be a district within the provisions of the said "New
Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and should be
designated by the name of the Bay of Plenty District,
and the lands within the said district were thereby
reserved and taken for the purposes of settlement,
and it was declared that all such lands were required
for the purposes of the said last-mentioned Act, and
are subject to the provisions thereof from the date of
the said Order in Council now in recital:

Now, by the direction of the Compensation Court,
it is hereby notified that the period for preferring
claims to compensation, on account of the taking as
aforesaid of the said block of land, has been pre-
scribed by the Court to be six months from the said
seventeenth day of January.

Dated at Auckland this fifteenth day of March,
1866.

A. J. DICKEY,
Chief Clerk, Compensation Court.

SCHEDULE.
Bay of Plenty District.
All that land bounded by a line commencing at the
mouth of the Waitahanui River, Bay of Plenty, and
running due south to the Tarawera River, thence by
a straight line to the summit of Putauaki (Mount