FEB. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 239

"The Property Assessment Act, 1879."

Government Offices, Wellington,
20th January, 1880.

THE following sections of the Property Assessment
Act are published for general information.

J. SPERREY,
Commissioner.

18. Every company, including banking and insur-
    ance companies, carrying on business in New Zealand
    at the commencement of this Act, shall at all times be
    represented by a person residing in the colony; and
    a place within the colony shall be appointed from
    time to time by every such company as aforesaid at
    which any notices or other instruments affecting the
    company under this Act may be served or delivered.
    (1.) Such person shall be called the "Public
    Officer" of the company for the purposes of this
    Act, and shall be appointed as follows :-
    (a.) In the case of a company having a local
    Board of Directors or Managers resident in the
    colony, within three months after the passing
    of this Act:
    (b.) In the case of a company not having such
    local Board as aforesaid, within six months after
    the passing of this Act.
    The office of Public Officer shall be kept con-
    stantly filled by the making of fresh appoint-
    ments thereto from time to time as may be
    necessary.
    (2.) Every new company shall, within three
    months after it shall commence or enter into busi-
    ness after the passing of this Act, appoint a Public
    Officer, and name a place for delivery of notices as
    aforesaid.
    (3.) Every company failing or neglecting, within
    the time hereinbefore limited in that behalf, to ap-
    point a Public Officer, or name a place at which
    notices or other instruments may be served or de-
    livered as aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding fifty pounds a day for every day after the
    time aforesaid during which such neglect shall con-
    tinue.

Sale of Crown Lands at Invercargill.

NOTICE is hereby given that the reserve on
Sections 65, 67, and 68, Block XVI., New
River Hundred, is discharged, and the sections will
be offered for sale by auction at the Land Office,
Invercargill, at noon, on Monday, the 10th day of
May proximo, at the upset price of £5 per acre.

NEW RIVER HUNDRED.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 11th February, 1880.

Sale of Crown Lands at Invercargill.

THE under-mentioned town and suburban sections
will be sold by auction at the Land Office,
Invercargill, at noon, on Monday, the 15th day of
March proximo :--

Crown Lands Notices.

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 Collingwood on or
before the 16th day of March, 1880.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: James Anderson, Henry Jennings, and
Edward Tole. Style under which it is intended to
conduct the business: "Moonlight Flat Gold-Mining
Company." 6 acres, at Moonlight Flat, in the Golden
Bay Gold-Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this six-
teenth day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

• Subject to £300, valuation for improvements thereon.