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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Terms and Conditions for Hiring Diamond Rock-
Boring Machine.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th May, 1880.

APPLICATIONS will be received at this office
from persons desirous of hiring a Diamond
Rock-boring Machine, capable of boring at various
angles a core of 1½ inch diameter to a depth of 1,500
feet, with all steam appliances complete, accompanied
by an engineer in charge and assistants, at the price
of-

10/ per foot for the first 100 feet, or any part of 100 feet, bored.
12/6 " second " " " "
15/ " third " " " "
17/6 " fourth " " " "
21/ " fifth " " " "
25/ " sixth " " " "
30/ " seventh " " " "
35/ " eighth " " " "
40/ " ninth " " " "
45/ " tenth " " " "

and upon the following conditions:—

1. After one thousand feet special rates will be
   charged.

2. All applications must be accompanied by a
   deposit of £50 for the first hundred or any less
   number of feet bored. Further payments to be
   made monthly, upon a fixed day, according to the
   above scale, as the work proceeds.

3. The scale of charges is exclusive of fuel and
   water, which will be supplied by the hirer.

4. The hirer will be at the charge of sinking and
   protecting any shaft which may be necessary for
   finding the rock before boring operations commence,
   and the measurement of depth bored will be from the
   surface of the rock.

5. The hirer to find covering-shed for the
   machinery.

6. The engineer in charge will deliver to the hirer
   an accurate account of the depths of the borings,
   and all cores of rocks bored will be the property of
   the hirer.

7. The machine will be removed if the hirer causes
   any unreasonable delays or obstacles to prevent its
   continuous working, or if payment for its hire is not
   regularly made.

By order.

OLIVER WAKEFIELD,
Under-Secretary for Mines.

Officiating Ministers for 1880.—Notice No. 10.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 27th 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 names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Thomas Robinson Cairns.
The Reverend David McKee.

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend Alfred Taylor.

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

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—JUSTINIAN VERNON MUSGRAVE, of
England, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of
Judicature of England, has been appointed by his
Honor the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand in England, under
the second section of "The Commissioners of the
Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of
administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits,
and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Wellington.
21st May, 1880.

Crown Lands Notices.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 26th May, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned gold-mining lease cancelled, and
that the ground is now open for application as if no
lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—
Nicola Cacase and William Morris; 16 acres, Dis-
trict of Lyell, Nelson South-West Gold Fields.

R. OLIVER.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 26th May, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned gold-mining lease cancelled, and
that the ground is now open for application as if no
lease of the said ground had ever been applied for :—
John Teague and Thomas Murdoch (the Cambrian
Company); 3 acres, Section 2, Block IV., District
of Blackstone, Otago Gold Fields.

R. OLIVER.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 26th May, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned gold-mining lease cancelled, and
that the ground is now open for application as if no
lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:—
Charles McLean and others; 9 acres 1 rood
9 perches, District of Buller, Nelson South-West
Gold Fields.

R. OLIVER.

Certificate of Protection granted to A. A. S. Men-
teath, on behalf of the Victory Gold-Mining Com-
pany (Limited).

Mines Department,
Wellington, 29th May, 1880.

IN accordance with section six of "The Mines Act
1877 Amendment Act, 1879," this certificate of
protection for two years from the 29th day of May,
1880, to the 29th day of May, 1882, is granted in
favour of Andrew Agnew Stewart Menteath, on
behalf of the Victory Gold-Mining Company (Limited),
for the gold-mining lease (No. 736) issued to the
Defiance Quartz-Mining Company (Limited), and
dated the 1st day of January, 1876. (Area, 16
acres 2 roods).

OLIVER WAKEFIELD,
Under-Secretary for Gold Fields.