THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 943

Gold-Mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 8th July, 1879.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned gold-mining leases in the Nelson
South-West Gold Fields cancelled; and that the
ground is now open for application, as if no lease of
the said ground had ever been applied for :-

Samuel Samuels and others; 10 acres, District of
Grey. No. 872.
Michael Noonan; 16 acres 2 roods, District of
Waiwero. No. 871.
Michael Henry Hayden and others; 10 acres,
District of Grey. No. 822.
James Garroway Lock; 10 acres, District of Grey.
No. 821.

W. GISBORNE,
Minister of Mines.

Appointment in the Survey Department.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

EDGAR ARUNDEL LEWIS

to be a Draughtsman in the Survey Department of
New Zealand. Appointment dating from 18th June,
1879.

G. GREY,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 7th July, 1879.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a
Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be
opened at

HUNTLY (Chief Office, Auckland),
from and after 15th July instant.

By order.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Member of House of Representatives elected.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 5th July, 1879.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to
the Writ issued by him on the twentieth day of
June, 1879, for the election of a Member to serve
in the House of Representatives of New Zealand, for
the electoral district hereinafter specified; and by the
indorsement on such Writ it appears that the under-
mentioned gentleman has been duly elected Member
for such district, viz. :-

For the District of Hutt:
HENRY JACKSON.

G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1879.—NOTICE No. 10.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1879.

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 Thomas Adolphus Bowden, B.A.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Alexander Murray McCallum.

Baptists.
The Reverend Thomas Harrington.

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

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

IT is hereby notified that the gold-mining lease,
No. 179c, of Section 14, Block I., St. Bathans,
issued to James Phillips under "The Gold Fields
Act, 1866," has this day, with the approval of the
Land Board of the Otago Land District, been can-
celled, and that the land is now open for occupation
as if no such lease had been issued.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this
second day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

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 Lawrence on or
before the 8th day of August, 1879.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's Office at Lawrence.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: Alexander McNab and others. Style
under which it is intended to conduct the business:
"Nelson Gold-Mining Cement Company, No. 2."
8 acres, in the Tuapeka Mining District. (Section
126, Block V., Waitahuna East.)

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this
first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

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 Naseby on or before
the 21st day of July, 1879.