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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Traffic Returns.

AUCKLAND AND MERCER RAILWAY.

RETURN of Traffic for four weeks ending 27th
March, 1875.

PASSENGERS.
Passengers
Parcels, &c.
GOODS.
Tons.
Freight
Total

No.
13,636
634

£ s. d. £ s. d.
480 2 1
10 0 11
490 3 0

144 9 8
144 9 8

£634 12 8

FRANK B. PASSMORE,
Superintending Engineer for Constructed
Railways.

Insurance Agent appointed.

Government Insurance Office,
(Industrial Branch,)
Wellington, 21st April, 1875.

THE under-mentioned person has been appointed
Agent for the Industrial Branch of this De-
partment, under "The Government Insurance and
Annuities Act, 1874," for the Court and at the
place set opposite his name :-

Name of Agent.
For what Court.
Place.
John Jones
Court Concord, Ancient Greymouth.
Order of Foresters

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Medical Referee appointed.

Government Insurance Office,
(Industrial Branch,)
Wellington, 21st April, 1875.

THE under-mentioned person has been appointed
Medical Referee for the Industrial Branch of
this Department, under "The Government Insurance
and Annuities Act, 1874," for the Court and at
the place set opposite his name :--

Medical Referee.
For what Court.
Place.
Patrick Smith, Court Concord, Ancient Greymouth.
L. A. H.
Esq.,
Dubl.
Order of Foresters

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Sale of Crown Lands.

NOTICE.

Crown Lands Office,
Taranaki, 8th April, 1875.

IT is hereby notified for public information, that
the under-mentioned allotments in the Town of
Opunake, in the Province of Taranaki, will be offered
for Sale by Auction on the 29th day of May next,
at the upset prices named in the Schedule hereto:
subject to the payment of the sums respectively
named in the said Schedule for improvements, build-
ings, and the good-will of the business established
thereon.
The Sale will be held at the Crown Lands Office,
New Plymouth, at 12 o'clock noon.

C. D. WHITCOMBE,
Commissioner, Confiscated Land, Taranaki.

SCHEDULE.
OPUNAKE.

Marriage Act, 1854.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1875.-NOTICE No. 14.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1875.

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: -

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend John Spink Hudson.

Baptist.
The Reverend J. Hill.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

NOTICE.

Provincial Compulsory Lands Taking Act, 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given, that it is intended to
introduce a Bill into the Provincial Council of
the Province of Otago, at its next Session, author-
izing the Superintendent of the Province of Otago
to take compulsorily, for the purpose of making
roads in the District of Portobello, parts of Sections
eight (28), Block numbered five (V.), Portobello
District; in the District of Papakaio, part of land
sold under application numbered 2229, Block num-
bered IV., on the map of the Papakaio District; and
in the Wyndham District, parts of Sections numbered
respectively five (5), twenty-eight (28), and thirty-
three (33), Block numbered two (II.), on the map of
the Wyndham District. And notice is hereby further
given that a copy of the Bill so intended to be intro-
duced as aforesaid may be inspected at the office
of the Clerk of the Provincial Council, on and after
the seventeenth day of April next.

Dated at Dunedin, this twenty-second day of
March, 1875.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

Notice to the Public.

ALL Sales of Acts and other Publications issued
from the General Government Press will, after
this date, be made only to the Trade throughout the
Colony. Purchasers are therefore requested to
make application to some Bookseller, instead of to
the undersigned.

GEO. DIDSBURY,
Government Printer.