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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Appointment of Chief Clerk, Crown Lands
Department.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve the transfer of

FRANCIS STEVENS, Esq.,
Chief Clerk in the Militia and Volunteer Office, to
the same position in the Crown Lands and Immigra-
tion Departments. Appointment dating from 23rd
September, 1878.

ROBERT STOUT,
Minister of Lands and Immigration.

Appointment of Cadet in Crown Lands Office.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1878.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

DANIEL GEORGE ARTHUR COOPER, Esq.,
to be a Cadet in the Crown Lands and Immigration
Departments. From the 23rd September, 1878.

ROBERT STOUT,
Minister of Lands and Immigration.

Clerk and Accountant in Surveyor-General's
Department appointed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN KEEGAN JOHNSTON, Esq.,
to be a Clerk and Accountant in the Surveyor-
General's Department. The appointment dates from
the 9th September, 1878.

ROBERT STOUT,
Minister of Lands.

Gold-Mining Lease in Nelson South-West Mining
District cancelled.

Secretary for Gold Fields' Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1878.

IN conformity with Regulations 23 and 24 of
Appendix A to "The Mines Act, 1877," it is
hereby notified that the gold-mining lease described
below, having been refused by the applicant, His
Excellency the Governor has been pleased to cancel
the lease, and the ground is open for application as
if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied
for.

HENRY COSGROVE, for the Lyell Creek Com-
pany, Alpine Range, Lyell, Nelson South-
West Mining District; 9 acres 3 roods.

ROBERT STOUT,
Minister of Lands.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1878.—NOTICE No. 17.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1878.

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 names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information:---

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.

The Reverend ARTHUR HENRY SEDGWICK.

The Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.

The Reverend JAMES CAMERON.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Report, New Zealand Company's Commissioner.

I, DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner, duly ap-
pointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15,
Session XI, of the Legislative Council of the
Islands of New Zealand, to hear and decide claims to
land by persons claiming title thereto from, through,
or under the New Zealand Company, report that the
claim of Henry Westwood Hoffman having been
referred to me for investigation, I do hereby decide
that the said Henry Westwood Hoffman is entitled
to receive a Crown grant of Section No. 1021, in the
City of Wellington, the legal estate to be antevested
therein as from the 3rd day of January, 1848.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of September,
1878.

DAVID LEWIS, Commissioner,
New Zealand Company Land Claims.

Sale of Allotments in the Town of Carlyle.

Lands Board Office,
New Plymouth, 13th September, 1878.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned
allotments, situate on Lincoln Street and
Taranaki Road, in the Town of Carlyle, and known
as the Resident Magistrate's Reserve, will be offered
for sale at public auction, at noon, on Saturday, the
19th October proximo, at the Land Office in Carlyle,
at the upset prices set opposite the respective
numbers.

By order of the Board.

C. D. WHITCOMBE,
Chief Commissioner.

TOWN OF CARLYLE.—BLOCK 36.

No. on Plan. Area. Upset Price.
A. R. P. £ s. d.
3 0 0 25 154 10 0
4 0 0 25 154 10 0
14 0 0 25 154 10 0
15 0 0 25 154 10 0
16 0 0 24 204 0 0
6 0 1 2 65 0 0
7 0 1 11 65 0 0
8 0 1 18 75 0 0
13 0 2 6 100 0 0
And
5 0 1 2 100 0 0
with value of dwellinghouse thereon—viz., £175—
added thereto.

Plans may be inspected during office hours at this
office, at the Land Office in Carlyle, and the General
Crown Lands Office, Wellington.

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of
"The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regulations
made under that Act for the granting of leases for
gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it is
intended to grant a lease of Crown lands for gold-
mining purposes to the applicant specified in the