THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1679

School Commissioner appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 26th November, 1878.

PURSUANT to section twelve of "The Education
Reserves Act, 1877," His Excellency the Go-
vernor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN BUCHANAN, Esq.,

to be a School Commissioner for the Provincial Dis-
trict of Hawke's Bay, vice R. Beetham, Esq., re-
signed.

J. BALLANCE.

Educational Statistics.

Education Department,
Wellington, 25th November, 1878.

THE following statistics of education under "The
Education Act, 1877," are published for general
information.

J. HISLOP.

Record Clerk, Crown Lands Department, appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

GEORGE GRAHAME ORBELL, Esq.,

to be Record Clerk in the Crown Lands Department.
Appointment to date from 12th April, 1878.

ROBERT STOUT,
Minister of Lands.

Old Land Claims.

NOTICE is hereby given that, on the seventeenth
day of October, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight, an Act was passed by the General
Assembly of New Zealand intituled "An Act to
make further provision for the final settlement of
Land Claims."

The attention of every person having any unsettled
claim to land in respect of the former purchase thereof
from the aboriginal natives of the colony, and which
has not been disallowed, is drawn to the provisions
of the said Act next following, that is to say,-

Every claim capable of being prosecuted under
"The Land Claims Settlement Act, 1856," or "The
Land Claims Settlement Extension Act, 1858" (here-
inafter called "the said Acts"), which shall not be
prosecuted before the 31st day of December, 1879,
shall be deemed to have lapsed.

Whenever any selection of land is required to be
made under the provisions of the said Acts, the Com-
missioners may prescribe a period within which such
selection shall be made, and if the selection be not
made within such period, such right of selection shall
lapse and be deemed abandoned, and the claimant or
claimants shall have no further right, title, or interest
in respect of such claim, or in respect of any land
the subject of such claim.

In any claim in which difficulties exist in the way
of obtaining quiet possession of the land to which
the claimant is entitled, and in which the survey of
the claim cannot be made in a reasonable time, to be
fixed by the Commissioners, the Commissioners shall
determine the claim by directing a grant of other
land in exchange, or by the issue of scrip of equiva-
lent value, exercisable only within twelve months
after issue thereof.

Notwithstanding anything in the said Acts con-
tained, the Commissioners may admit to hearing the
claimants in claims 64 (Captain George Beadon),
and 1128 (Mrs. Elizabeth George), subject to re-
strictions stated in the Act herein first mentioned, of
which a copy may be seen at the office of the Land
Claims Commissioner at Wellington, and at the
office of the Agent-General for the colony, 7, West-
minster Chambers, Victoria Street, London.

Claimants not resident within the colony should
forthwith appoint a duly-authorized agent at Welling-
ton in the colony, to do and perform whatever may
be required to obtain the benefit of the Act herein
firstly referred to.

Dated at Wellington, New Zealand, this twenty-
eighth day of November, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-eight.

ROBERT STOUT,
Land Claims Commissioner.

Notification of Vacancy of Seat in the House of Re-
presentatives for Electoral District of Gladstone.

IN compliance with the provisions of the thirteenth
section of "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1870," I hereby notify that I have been certified that
Frederick William Teschemaker, Esquire, a member
of the House of Representatives for the Electoral
District of Gladstone, died on the 21st day of
November, 1878, and that the seat in the House of
Representatives for the said electoral district is
vacant by reason of such death.

Dated at Wellington, the 26th day of November,
1878.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Speaker.

Certificated Accountants in Bankruptcy appointed.

Wellington, 22nd November, 1878.

HIS Honor the Chief Justice has, this 22nd day
of November, 1878, appointed

CHARLES ALEXANDER BAKER, of Wellington,
ERNEST EDWARD EDMUNDS, of Carterton, and
ADAM ARMSTRONG, of Carterton,

to be Certificated Accountants in Bankruptcy for
the Judicial District of Wellington, under "The
Debtors and Creditors Act, 1876."

ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Suburban Lands to be classed as Rural Lands, Land
District of Marlborough.

WHEREAS by the thirty-ninth section of "The
Land Act, 1877," it is enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Land Board, subject to the ap-