THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1715

District did, by resolution on the 14th day of Octo-
ber last past, classify certain lands within the said
district as rural lands, and, the approval of His Excel-
lency the Governor having been obtained thereto,
the said Board hereby declares that the under-
mentioned lands shall be rural lands, viz.:—

All that parcel of land being Blocks VI., X., XIV.,
and parts of Blocks V., IX., and XIII., Huiroa Survey
District; and also Blocks V. and VI., and parts of
Blocks I. and II., Ngaiire Survey District. Bounded
towards the North by the Patea River, Stratford
Suburban, and Block II., Huiroa; towards the East
by Blocks VII., IX., and XV., Huiroa District, and
the confiscated line; towards the South by Blocks
IX. and X., Ngaiire District; and towards the West
by the Kaupokonui District, Stratford Suburban, the
Mountain Road, and the Manganui River.

C. D. WHITCOMBE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land District of Taranaki.

Crown Land Office,
New Plymouth, 23rd November, 1878.
In virtue of the authority contained in "The Land
Act, 1877," the Land Board of Taranaki Land
District did, by resolution on the 21st day of October
last past, classify certain lands within the said dis-
trict as suburban lands, and, the approval of His
Excellency the Governor having been obtained
thereto, the said Board hereby declares that the
under-mentioned lands shall be suburban lands,
viz.:—

All that parcel of land in the Land District of
Taranaki, being Sections numbered 14 to 19, and 22
to 51 inclusive, in Block I., Ngaiire Survey District.

Also all that other parcel of land in the aforesaid
land district, being Sections numbered 23 to 31, 52
to 78, and 85 to 101, inclusive, in Block II., Ngaiire
Survey District, both as shown on the plan of the
Chief Surveyor of the said land district.

C. D. WHITCOMBE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Tenders Invited.

TO IRONMASTERS.—WANTED 100,000 TONS OF
STEEL RAILS.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, New Zealand,
6th November, 1878.
Written TENDERS will be received at Wel-
lington by the Hon. the Minister for Public
Works up to 30th September, 1879, for the supply
of the whole or any portion of 100,000 tons of steel
rails, to be manufactured within the colony from New
Zealand ores. Payment will be made in cash on
delivery at the works—the Government of New
Zealand agreeing to pay, in addition, one-half of the
cost of the conveyance to the colony by sea of the
workmen to be engaged in the manufacture.

Information as to the mineral resources of New
Zealand, and maps indicating the various localities in
which mineral deposits are situated in relation to
means of transport, may be had on application to the
Agent-General of New Zealand, 7, Westminster
Chambers, Victoria Street, London; or to W. Walton
Evans, Esq., 66½, Pine Street, New York.

As it is unlikely that intending contractors will
enter into an engagement of the above nature with-
out first satisfying themselves by personal inspection
as to the position and extent of the raw material in
New Zealand required for the manufacture of iron,
every facility and information on this subject will be

afforded on application to Dr. Hector, C.M.G., F.R.S.,
Director of the Geological Department, Wellington.
For the information of parties desiring to tender,
it may be stated that the official returns show that
there were imported into New Zealand, within the
last eight years, 15,500 tons of cast-iron, and 93,000
tons of wrought-iron, exclusive of iron for Govern-
ment and other railways, during which period 1,068
miles have been constructed and opened for traffic.

John Knowles,
Under Secretary for Public Works.

NOTICE.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, New Zealand,
6th November, 1878.
The foregoing advertisement will be published in
the United Kingdom, the North American
States, and the Continent of Europe.

New Zealand colonists who may have friends and
correspondents connected with the iron manufacture
are requested to be good enough to draw attention to
the highly advantageous and profitable field for enter-
prise which this colony presents to those who can
bring the necessary capital and practical experience
to bear upon such manufacture.

John Knowles,
Under Secretary for Public Works.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

Between Robert Heaton Rhodes and William
Donald, Trustees of the real estate of George
Rhodes, deceased, and the said Robert Heaton
Rhodes, plaintiffs, and Thomas Wadsworth,
defendant.

Notice is hereby given that, under a writ of
fieri facias, duly issued herein out of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand, Canterbury Dis-
trict, against the real and personal estate of the
above-named defendant at the suit of the above-
named plaintiffs, I have seized and taken into execu-
tion all the estate and interest of the above-named
defendant (comprising his estate in fee-simple in
possession, free from all encumbrances) in all that
piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement
thirty acres, or thereabouts, situate in the County of
Geraldine, in the Provincial District of Canterbury,
New Zealand, and being the Rural Section numbered
4407 on the map or plan of the Chief Surveyor of
the late Province of Canterbury, now the said pro-
vincial district, setting out and describing the rural
lands in the Timaru District thereof, together with
the hotel known as the "Orari Hotel," and the other
buildings and erections thereon; and that I intend
to cause the same to be sold by public auction, at
the auction-rooms of Messrs. John King and Co., in
the Borough of Timaru, on the twenty-first (21st) day
of February, 1879, at the hour of eleven o'clock in
the forenoon, unless the judgment-debt and the costs
and expenses of and incidental to this execution be
previously paid and satisfied.

The Solicitor for the Execution Creditors is Arthur
Perry, Esq., of the Main South Road, in the said
Borough of Timaru.

Dated this 4th day of November, 1878.

Richmond Beetham,
Sheriff of the District of Timaru.
Perry and Perry,
Solicitors, Timaru. 628