THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
827

Depositary of Stamps appointed.

Office of the Commissioner of Stamps,
Wellington, 9th December, 1874.

IT is hereby notified for public information, that
FREDERICK BUNNY, Esq.,
Postmaster at St. Bathan's, Otago, has been ap-
pointed a Depositary of Duty Stamps.

R. C. HAMMERTON,
Acting Secretary.

"Marriage Act, 1854."
OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1874.-NOTICE
No. 22.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th December, 1874.

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:-

Primitive Methodist Society.
The Rev. WALTER HARRIS.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Traffic Returns.

WELLINGTON-MASTERTON RAILWAY.

RETURN of Traffic for Month ending 30th
November, 1874.

COACHING.
No. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Passengers ... 10,990 462 17 2
Parcels, &c. ... 9 19 6 472 16 8

MERCHANDISE.
Tons. £ s. d. £ s. d.
354 ... 75 3 2 ... 75 3 2

Total ... ... ... £547 19 10

ANTHONY GARSTIN,
Traffic Manager.
1st December, 1874.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
heretofore subsisting between the undersigned
Heinrich Gottlieb Carl Nees and Philipp Tisch as
Saw Millers, Engineers, and Contractors, carrying on
business at Christchurch and Alford Forest, in the
Province of Canterbury, under the style of "Tisch,
Nees, and Company," has this day been dissolved.
Dated this 23rd day of November, 1874.

H. G. C. NEES.
PHILIPP TISCH.

Witness-Wm. M. Beynon.
Witness to signature of Philipp Tisch-John O.
Anstiss, Clerk to Hanmer and Harper, Solicitors,
Christchurch.
647

NOTICE is hereby given, that I have registered a
Memorandum of Association establishing a
Company, with limited liability of its Shareholders,
intituled

"The Patea Town Hall Company, Limited,"

the object of which is "the purchase of land in the
District of Patea for the erection of a Town Hall and
buildings thereon;" and that I have issued a Certifi-
cate of Incorporation of the said Company, bearing
date the 3rd day of December, 1874.

A. S. DOUGLAS,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.

New Plymouth, 4th December, 1874.
650

PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the charge of the
PUBLIC TRUSTEE during the Month of November, 1874.

| No. | Name of Deceased. | Colonial
Residence. | Supposed
British or
Foreign
Residence. | Date of Rule or Order. | Value or
Estimated Value
of Personal
Estate. | Time of
Deceased's
Death. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | James McShane | Christchurch | ... | Nov. 13, 1874 | Under £200 | June 18, 1874 | Died in Hospital,
Christchurch. |
| | Christian Lawson | Greek's Gully,
Westland | ... | Nov. 13, 1874 | Under £500 | Aug. 12, 1874 | Accidentally shot. |
| | Ann McIntyre | Auckland | ... | None required | Under £10 | Sept. 14, 1874 | Died in hospital. |
| | Mark Reynolds | Auckland | ... | None required | Under £10 | July 23, 1874 | Died on voyage. |
| | Mary Muir | Immigrant
per "Parsee" | ... | None required | Under £10 | | |
| | Charles Gibson | Tuapeka | ... | None required | Under £10 | Aug. 25, 1874 | Died in hospital. |
| | Hugh Cochrane | Dunedin | ... | None required | Under £50 | Oct. 13, 1874 | |
| | William Willesford | Dunedin | ... | None required | Under £10 | Oct. 7, 1874 | Drowned in Wai-
wera River. |
| | Charles Williams... | Hampden | ... | None required | Under £20 | Oct. 7, 1874 | |
| | James Stewart | Dunedin | ... | None required | Under £5 | Oct. 5, 1874 | |
| | John Drew | Grahamstown United States | ... | None required | Under £5 | | |
| | Elijah Mee | Wairoa,
County Cavan,
Hawke's Bay
Ireland | ... | None required | Under £20 | Nov. 8, 1874 | Fall from horse. |
| | Joseph Frank Mar-
tees | Turakina | ... | None required | Under £50 | | |
| | Stephen Sedge | New
Plymouth | ... | None required | Under £25 | Nov. 3, 1874 | Died in hospital. |
| | William Finlayson | Dunedin | ... | None required | Under £10 | Nov. 8, 1874 | Ditto. |
| | Amelia Robertson | Dunedin | ... | None required | Under £10 | Nov. 1, 1874 | Ditto. |
| | Joseph Silva | Christchurch | ... | None required | Under £25 | Nov. 4, 1874 | Ditto. |
| | Robert Loveridge | New
Plymouth Dorsetshire,
England | ... | None required | Under £10 | June , 1863 | |

Dated the 2nd day of December, 1874.
J. WOODWARD, Public Trustee.