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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1879.
IT is hereby notified for general information that a
Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be
opened at
OWAKE,
(Chief Office, Dunedin,)
from and after the 1st January next.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1879.
THE "Pioneer Lodge, No. 47, of the United
Ancient Order of Druids," is registered as a
friendly society under "The Friendly Societies Act,
1877," this 26th day of November, 1879.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Friendly Society registered.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1879.
THE Loyal United Friends' Benefit Society, at
Auckland, is registered as a friendly society
under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1877," this 2nd
day of December, 1879.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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 applicants specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objec-
tions against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating
the grounds of objection, must be made in writing,
and lodged with the Warden at Lyell on or before
the 26th day of December, 1879.
Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Lyell.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: Martin Conradson and Luca Fantella.
Style under which it is intended to conduct the
business: "Band of Hope 213 Mining Company."
16 acres 2 roods, in the Alpine Range, Lyell
Creek, Nelson South-West Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this twenty-
seventh day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

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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 applicants specified in the
annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objec-
tions against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating
the grounds of objection, must be made in writing,
and lodged with the Warden at Westport on or
before the 16th day of December, 1879.
Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Westport.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: Thomas Neil and party: Style under
which it is intended to conduct the business: "The
Skibbereen Gold-Mining Company." 10 acres, at
Addison's, in the Nelson South-West Mining
District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this twenty-
seventh day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Gold-Mining Lease Application withdrawn.

IN pursuance of Regulation No. 24 of Appendix A.
to "The Mines Act, 1877," it is hereby notified
that the application of Malcolm McLeod, Henry
Prosser, and Robert Sweeney, for a gold-mining lease
of five acres of land situated at Vinegar Hill, in the
Mount Ida Mining District, has been withdrawn;
and that the land is now open to persons holding
miners' rights or business licenses, or to applicants
for a lease, as if no lease of the same had ever been
applied for.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this
twenty-sixth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.
J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Agricultural Lease cancelled.

IT is hereby notified that the agricultural lease
No. 680c, of Sections 6 and 10, Block III.,
Table Hill, granted to John Thomson under "The
Gold Fields Act, 1866," has been cancelled; and
that the land is now open for occupation as if no
lease thereof had been issued.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this
twenty-sixth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Sale of Rural Lands.

IN pursuance of "The Land Act, 1877," and "The
Crown Lands Sale Act, 1877," the Land Board
for the Land District of Marlborough hereby
notifies that the allotments of rural land mentioned
in the following Schedule will be offered for sale by