required to correspond with patterns to be supplied
to the Contractor.
| | Full Cloth, with three lettering pieces, sprinkled edges. | Half Calf, cloth sides, three lettering pieces, sprinkled edges. | Half Calf, cloth sides, gilt backs, three lettering pieces, marbled edges. | Full Calf, bands, gilt backs, three lettering pieces, marbled edges. | Half Morocco, cloth sides, gilt backs, three lettering pieces, marbled edges. | Full Morocco, cloth sides, three lettering pieces, extra gilt edges. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. |
| Foolscap 8vo | ... | | | | | |
| Crown 8vo | ... | | | | | |
| Post 8vo | ... | | | | | |
| Demy 8vo | ... | | | | | |
| Royal 8vo | ... | | | | | |
| Imperial 8vo | ... | | | | | |
| Demy 4to | ... | | | | | |
| Royal 4to | ... | | | | | |
| Demy folio | ... | | | | | |

G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

"MARRIAGE ACT, 1854."
OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1874.-NOTICE No. 3.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1874.

THE following additional name of an Officiating
Minister sent in to me for insertion in the list
of Officiating Ministers for the year 1874, is published
in pursuance of the provisions of the Marriage Act
and Marriage Amendment Acts :--

Congregational Independents.
The Rev. THOMAS ROSEBY.

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

Confiscated Lands Office,
Patea, 2nd February, 1874.

IT is hereby notified, with respect to the confiscated
lands on the West Coast, advertised in the New
Zealand Gazette, No. 4, of the 29th January, 1874, to
be sold by auction at the Court House, Patea, on the
12th day of March, 1874, that they will be sold
subject to the following conditions :--

From and out of any of the said lands it shall be
lawful for the Governor or any person appointed by
him, at any time after the sale thereof, to take and
lay off, or cause to be taken and laid off, for public
purposes, one or more line or lines of road, railroad,
or tramroad through such land without payment or
compensation : Provided that the total quantity of
land which may be taken for such line or lines of
road, railroad, or tramroad under the said power shall
not be more than after the rate of five acres in every
one hundred acres, and so on in proportion for any
greater or less quantity than one hundred acres, and
whether the parcel of land sold be greater or less
than one hundred acres.

The Governor may at any time by indorsement on
the grant, or on a subsequent instrument or disposi-
tion, or by separate deed, release any such right, and
discharge the land comprised therein from the said
liability.

Nothing herein contained shall authorize the taking
of any lands which shall be occupied by any building,
or by gardens, orchards, plantations, or ornamental
grounds. The said power of taking lands for roads,
railroads, and tramroads shall cease and determine at
the expiration of five years from the date of the sale.

C. A. WRAY,
Officer in charge of Confiscated Lands,
West Coast.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 87

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 10th February, 1874.
THE following list of successful and unsuccessful
Tenderers is published for general information.
EDWARD RICHARDSON.

ASHBURTON AND TEMUKA RAILWAY.
RANGITATA CONTRACT.
£ s. d.
Ed. G. Wright, Christchurch ... 39,102 12 6
Declined.
Allan and Stumbles, Timaru ... 40,429 17 10

ASHBURTON TO RANGITATA RAILWAY.
ASHBURTON TO RANGITATA CONTRACT.
Accepted.
Ed. G. Wright, Christchurch ... 12,501 16 0
Declined.
Joseph Taylor, Christchurch ... 13,361 12 8
Francis Pavitt, Christchurch ... 13,622 0 0
Allan and Stumbles, Timaru ... 14,901 12 8
C. McKirdy, Wellington ... 14,974 9 0

RACECOURSE AND SOUTHBRIDGE RAILWAY.
SELWYN RIVER TO SOUTHBRIDGE CONTRACT.
Accepted.
M. McNamara, Christchurch ... 9,189 17 6
Declined.
W. White, jun., Christchurch ... 10,652 1 0

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels
of land hereinafter described will be brought
under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act,
1870," unless caveat in the meantime be lodged for-
bidding the same.

Sections 2 (two), 10 (ten), and 22 (twenty-two),
Block XXXI. (thirty-one); and Sections 1 (one)
and 22 (twenty-two), Block XXXII. (thirty-two),
all in the Town of Invercargill.-Applicant, JOHN
TURNBULL THOMSON, of Dunedin, Civil En-
gineer, as Heir-at-law to Peter Thomson, late of
Invercargill, Settler, deceased.

Caveat must be lodged within one calendar month
after the gazetting of this notice.
Diagrams may be inspected at this office.
Dated this 26th day of January, 1874, at the Lands
Registry Office, Invercargill.
115 W. RUSSELL,
District Land Registrar.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels
of land hereinafter described will be brought
under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act,
1870," unless caveat in the meantime be lodged for-
bidding the same.

Suburban Sections 1015 and 1039, Arahura Dis-
trict, Province of Westland.-Applicant, DAVID
COOPER, of Arahura, Farmer. (Solicitor, C. E.
Button.)

South-eastern moiety of Section 1128, Town of
Hokitika, Province of Westland.-Applicant, JOHN
NICHOLSON, of Hokitika, Draper. (Broker, F.
A. Learmonth.)

Caveats in either of the above cases may be lodged
at this office within one calendar month after the
date of the Gazette containing this notice.
Diagrams may be inspected at this office.
Dated this 28th day of January, 1874, at the Lands
Registry Office, Hokitika.
119 J. M. BATHAM,
District Land Registrar.