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by them, so soon as the successor shall become
beneficially entitled thereto.

2. That Legatees receiving legacies shall give
   receipts in the prescribed form, which receipts must
   bear date on the day of signing, and must be brought
   to the Stamp Office to be stamped within sixty days
   thereafter, otherwise such receipts become invalid.

3. That every Successor to real or personal estate,
   as soon as he, or any other person in his behalf, shall
   become entitled thereto in possession, or to the
   receipt of the income and profit thereof, shall furnish
   to the Commissioners full and true accounts of the
   property succeeded to, with the name of and their
   relationship to the predecessor.
   Cumulative penalties are imposed by the Act for
   neglect or delay in rendering such accounts, or
   paying the duty assessed.

Depositary of Duty Stamps appointed.
Office of the Commissioner of Stamps,
Wellington, 27th April, 1875.

IT is hereby notified for public information, that
Mr. JOHN BOURKE ROCHE,
Bookseller at Greymouth, in the Province of West-
land, has been appointed a Depositary of Duty
Stamps.

R. C. HAMMERTON,
Secretary for Stamps.

Medical Referee appointed.
Government Insurance Office,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1875.

THE under-mentioned gentleman has been appointed
a Medical Referee for the Districts of Lincoln
and Prebbleton, Province of Canterbury, under “ The
Government Insurance and Annuities Act, 1874 :"

JOHN CHARLES CROZIER DURHAM, Esq.,
L.M.S.R.C.S. Irel.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Insurance Agent appointed.
Government Insurance Office,
(Industrial Branch,)
Wellington, 28th 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 Lodge and at the
place set opposite his name :--

vice William Bowes Clarkson, resigned.
W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Member of House of Representatives elected.
Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1875.

THE Deputy of the Clerk of the Writs has received
a Return to the Writ issued by the Clerk of the
Writs on the 25th day of March, 1875, for the election

of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives
of New Zealand for the Electoral District hereinafter
specified; and by the indorsement on such Writ it
appears that the under-mentioned gentleman has been
duly elected Member for such District, viz. :-

For the District of Auckland City West :
PATRICK DIGNAN, Esq.
AMELIUS M. SMITH,
Deputy of the Clerk of the Writs.

"Marriage Act, 1854."

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1875.—NOTICE No. 15.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 26th 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 :—

United Church of England and Ireland.
The Reverend William Henry Cooper.
The above name, which should have been included
in the list published in January last, was accidentally
omitted from the annual list sent to the Registrar-
General.

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
numbered respectively twenty-two (22) and twenty-
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.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the parcel of
land hereinafter described will be brought
under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act,
1870,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same
within one calendar month after the date of publica-
tion of this notice.

THOMAS ANDREW BROMELL, Applicant.—
4 acres 2 roods 36 perches, being Section 119,
Havelock Suburban, Province of Marlborough.
(William Douslin, Broker.)
Diagrams may be inspected at this office.
Dated this 23rd day of April, 1875, at the Lands
Registry Office, Blenheim.
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EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.