THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 987
tail-races No. 200 and 1267, certificates of which
have been surrendered. Reg. No. 735.
No. 780, 1459.
December 10, 1878. Tail-race. Granted, Novem-
ber 10, 1876. 500 yards in length, commencing at
our claim near Cement Lead, and terminating at a
creek below the Darkie's Terrace Road; course, north
and south. Reg. No. 132.
No. 600, 1367.
October 4, 1878. Tail-race. Granted, September
27, 1872. 500 yards in length, commencing at Town
Lead; course, east and west; and terminating at
beach, Constant Bay.
JOB GREGORY.
HUGH HORNER.
Granted.
CHARLES BROAD,
Warden.
19th June, 1879. 421

APPLICATION FOR LEASE.

To the Warden at Lawrence. Tuapeka, 27th June, 1879.

I HEREBY apply for a Gold-Mining Lease of the
lands hereinafter described, in accordance with
the Gold-Mining Lease Regulations of New Zealand;
and I agree, upon the approval of this application,
to execute a lease upon the basis therein stated, if
the Governor shall think fit to grant the same.

ALEXANDER MCNAB.

Name and address in full of applicants: Alexander
McNab, Edward Lawson, William Johnstone, Alex-
ander George Thomson, Richard Snedden, all of
Blue Spur.
Style under whien it is intended to conduct the
business: Nelson Gold-Mining Cement Company,
No. 2.
Extent of land applied for: Eight acres.
Minimum number of men to be employed by the
lessees: For the first six months, two men; sub-
sequently, when in full work, ten men.
Amount of capital proposed to be invested:
£2,000.
Proposed mode of working the land: By sluicing
and crushing.
Precise locality: Section 126, Block V., Waitahuna
East District.
Term for which lease is required; Fifteen years.
Time of commencing operations: Immediately on
lease being granted.

The above application, with any objections thereto,
will be heard at the Warden's Office at Lawrence
on Friday, the 8th day of August, 1879.
Any person desiring to object to the issue of a
mining lease upon the above application must, within
forty-one clear days from the date of such applica-
tion, enter his objection at the Warden's Office,
Lawrence.

Warden's Office, Lawrence,
27th June, 1879.
H. J. ABEL,
pro Warden. 428

CITY OF AUCKLAND.

NOTICE is hereby given that the City Council of
Auckland intend to introduce the following
Bills to the forthcoming session of Parliament :-
A Bill to consolidate the Loans of the City of
Auckland, and to make provision for future Loans.
A Bill to transfer the Improvement Commissioners'
Trust to the City of Auckland.

A Bill to transfer the Site and Property of the
Auckland Mechanics' Institute and Provincial Coun-
cil Library to the City of Auckland for the purpose
of establishing a Free Public Library.

P. A. PHILIPS,
Town Clerk.

City Council Offices,
Auckland, 7th July, 1879. 434

In the matter of a Bill intituled "An Act for De-
claring the Purposes for which certain Lands are
held in Trust by the Church Property Trustees
within the Diocese of Christchurch, and for the
better defining the Trusts thereof, and for the
Conveyance to and vesting in the said Church
Property Trustees of certain other lands, and for
the better Regulation and Management of all Lands
now or hereafter to be vested in the said Trus-
tees;" and in the matter of "The Private Estates
Bills Act, 1867."

NOTICE is hereby given that application is in-
tended to be made at the next session of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, by a petition,
for leave to bring in a Bill for declaring the purposes
for which certain lands are held in trust by the
Church Property Trustees within the Diocese of
Christchurch, and for the better defining the trusts
thereof, and for the conveyance to and vesting in the
Church Property Trustees of certain other lands, and
for the better regulation and management of all
lands now or hereafter to be vested in the said Trus-
tees.

Copies of the Bill will be deposited in the Private
Bill Office on or before the commencement of the
session.

It is intended to define the trusts upon which
certain lands now vested in the Church Property
Trustees, constituted a corporation with perpetual
succession under that name by an Ordinance of the
Superintendent and Provincial Council of the late
Province of Canterbury, No. 3, of the second session
of the said Council, intituled "The Church Property
Trust Ordinance, Session II., No. 3," are held, being
the lands commonly known as the Bishopric Estate
and the Dean and Chapter Estate, and to apply for
powers for the disposal of the income and revenues
thereof.

Also for defining the manner in which the lands
now vested in the Diocesan Board of Trustees, the
Church Property Trustees, or any other Trustees
appointed by the Synod of the Diocese of Christ-
church, as reserves or sites for churches, schools,
parsonages, glebes, cemeteries, or other church pur-
poses, shall be administered by the Church Property
Trustees or other Trustees.

Also that certain lands vested in the late George
Augustus, Bishop of New Zealand, as a corporation
sole, shall vest in the Church Property Trustees,
subject to the trusts thereof.

Also that certain lands within the Diocese of
Christchurch, held by the Trustees appointed by the
Synod of the said diocese under the authority of
"The Religious, Charitable, and Educational Act
1856 Amendment Act, 1865," may be conveyed to
the Church Property Trustees, subject to the trusts
thereof.

Also to give power to the Church Property
Trustees to deal with all lands now or hereafter to
be vested in them as sites for cemeteries.

Also to make further and better provision for the
regulation, administration, and management of all
the lands held or to be hereafter held by the Church
Property Trustees.

The muniments of title relating to all the above
lands will be deposited for inspection at the office of
the Church Property Trustees, at Christ's College, in