THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
668

Declined.
D. McKenzie, Dunedin ... £ 32,715 4 9
Matheson Brothers, Dunedin ... 35,363 0 0
Job. Wain and Co., Dunedin ... 37,000 0 0
D. Proudfoot, Dunedin ... 38,600 0 0
Thos. Logan, Dunedin ... 38,983 7 5
Ashworth Creshaw, Dunedin ... 41,514 7 0
J. Dunbar, Dunedin ... 44,756 14 1
W. Hampsen-Topham, Invercargill... 45,923 2 2

Traffic Returns.

AUCKLAND AND MERCER RAILWAY.

RETURN of Traffic for four weeks ending 25th
September, 1875.

PASSENGERS.
No. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Passengers 10,553 823 6 8
Parcels, &c. 16 2 3
Season Tickets* 21 6 2 860 15 1

GOODS.
Tons.
Freight 1,922 705 8 5

Total ... ... ... £1,566 3 6

• Included in above number of passengers.

NAPIER AND WAIPUKURAU RAILWAY.

RETURN of Traffic for four weeks ending 25th
September, 1875.

PASSENGERS.
No. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Passengers 4,666 370 17 7
Parcels, &c. 7 12 8
Season Tickets* 25 7 0 403 17 3

GOODS.
Tons.
Freight 690 2 267 1 5
Pigs 2
Timber 106,575 feet
Wool 2 bls. 267 1 5 586

Total ... ... ... £670 18 8

• Included in above number of passengers.
  F. B. PASSMORE,
  Superintending Engineer.

Government Life Insurance Office opened.

Government Insurance Office,
Wellington, 19th October, 1875.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the under-mentioned
Post Office has been opened as a Government
Life Insurance Office :-
Hawera, Taranaki.
W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Depositary of Duty Stamps appointed.

Office of the Commissioner of Stamps,
Wellington, 20th October, 1875.

IT is hereby notified for public information, that
MR. J. ORCHISTON,
Postmaster at Hawera, in the Province of Taranaki,
has been appointed a Depositary of Duty Stamps.
C. HICKSON,
(in the absence of the Secretary for Stamps).

"Marriage Act, 1854."

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1875.—NOTICE No. 26.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 20th October, 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:-

The United Church of England.
The Reverend JOHN CROSSLEY.
JOSEPH SHEARMAN.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

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.

MALCOLM MURE WEBSTER, as Attorney for
Alexander Fletcher.—5 perches, part of Section 437,
Nelson City, a rectangular block fronting Hardy
Street 20 feet, with a depth south of 71 feet, its
north-eastern corner being 94 feet from corner of
Hardy and Collingwood Streets. (Henry Adams and
Son, Solicitors.)

GEORGE ADAM.—15 acres, Sections 11 and 12,
Block D, Wakatu District. (Henry Adams and Son,
Solicitors.)

MARY POWELL.—5 acres, Section 903, Nelson
City. (Adams and Kingdon, Solicitors.)
Caveat in above cases must be lodged within one
calendar month after publication of this notice.
Diagrams may be inspected at this office.
Dated this 16th day of October, 1875, at the Lands
Registry Office, Nelson,

ANDREW TURNBULL,
Deputy District Land Registrar.

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 be lodged forbidding the same
in each case within one calendar month from the date
of gazetting this notice.

RICHARD DAVID MANEY, Applicant.—8
acres 3 roods 8 perches, part of Suburban Sections
50 and 51, Meanee District; and being Lot No. 10
on plan of subdivision of (inter alia) said sections.
Also 1 rood three perches, part of Suburban Section
53, Meanee District, and being Lot No. 38 on said
plan. (C. L. Margoliouth, Broker.)
Diagrams may be inspected at this office.
Dated this 12th day of October, 1875, at the
Lands Registry Office, Napier.
585
HANSON TURTON,
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 be lodged forbidding the same
within one calendar month from the date of publica-
tion of this notice.