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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The focal plane of the light will be 25 feet above
high-water level, and may be observed in ordinary
weather at a distance of nine miles from a ship's
deck.
The light tower will be painted white.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 5th April, 1880.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

ENTRANCE TO PORT ADELAIDE.

In consequence of the looking-glass beacon marking
the entrance to Port Adelaide (on the north bank)
having been run into and destroyed, it is hereby
notified that until further notice the position will be
marked by a cheese-shaped buoy painted black, and
surmounted by conical framework and ball.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 30th March, 1880.

R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board.

Money Order and Savings Bank Offices opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1880.

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

NORMANBY (Chief Office, Wanganui),
KAITOKE (Chief Office, Wellington), and
OTAUTAU (Chief Office, Invercargill),
from and after the 1st June proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1880.—Notice No. 9.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1880.

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 name of an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information :-

Baptists.

The Reverend William Charles Spencer.

NOTE. The above is in substitution of the name Charles
William Spencer, appearing in Gazette No. 44, of the 6th May
instant, page 638.

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

Civil Service Literary Prize.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 20th March, 1880.

AN offer having been made to the Civil Service
Examination Board of a sum of £5 per annum,
for five years, to provide for prizes for the best essays
on the principles and practice of Parliamentary
Government, cognate subjects, the Board an-
nounce that the subject for the present year shall be

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY
IN ENGLAND.

Prize to be competed for under the following con-
ditions:-

1. Competition to be open to all persons under the
   age of 25 years at this date who have passed either
   the Junior or Senior Civil Service Examination, and
   who are in the Civil Service at the time of competition.

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2. The prize to be in books or money, at the option
   of the prize-taker.
3. Essays to be legibly written, and on one side of
   the paper only.
4. Essays to be delivered to the Secretary of the
   Civil Service Examination Board, Wellington, by the
   31st December, 1880.
5. No competitor to allow his name to appear on
   his essay, but to adopt a motto or cypher, which is
   also to be written on a sealed envelope containing
   the author's name, and attached to the essay.
6. The prize will not be awarded unless there is an
   essay which, in the judgment of the examiners, is
   of sufficient merit to entitle the author to receive it.
7. Competitors are advised to keep copies of their
   essays, as those sent to the Board will not be re-
   turned.

G. S. COOPER,
Chairman.

Deaf and Dumb Institution, Sumner, Canterbury.

Education Department,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1880.

THE Government having secured suitable accom-
modation at Sumner, Canterbury, for the pro-
posed Institution for the Education and Training of
Deaf-mutes, Mr. and Mrs. Van Asch are now pre-
pared to receive pupil-boarders at the Institution.
Full information may be obtained on application to
the undersigned, or to the Secretaries of the several
Education Boards.

By order.
JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.

Crown Lands Notices.

Land open for Purchase on Application.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1880.

THE under-mentioned sections, not having been
purchased at the late auction, will, by direction
of the Land Board, be open to purchase on applica-
tion at the Land Office on and after Monday, the
14th day of June, 1880, viz.: 4 sections, Horokiwi
Valley, 17 sections, Taratahi Plain, 4 sections, Wai-
poua, 25 sections, Rangitumau, 43 sections, Pahaua,
16 sections, Whareama, and 6 sections, Awhea
Blocks, and 8 sections, Waitotara District, at the
upset price of 10s. per acre; one-fourth to be paid
on application, and the balance in one month. Maps
can be seen and full particulars obtained at this
office.

Jos. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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 Ophir on or before
the 29th day of June, 1880,