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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

Transfer of Volunteer Officer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 15th June, 1880.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
transfer Captain JOHN BLACK
from the No. 1 Company Carlyle Rifle Volunteers to
the Patea Cadet Rifle Volunteers.
JOHN BRYCE.

Resignation of Cemetery Trustee.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 10th June, 1880.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
RICHARD ROBERT HUNT, Esq.,
as a Trustee of the Ngaruawahia Cemetery.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Officiating Minister for 1880.—Notice No. 12.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 12th June, 1880.

P URSUANT 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 :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Hugh Murray.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Terms and Conditions for Hiring Diamond Rock-
Boring Machine.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th May, 1880.

A PPLICATIONS 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 $1\frac{1}{2}$ 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.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Rural Lands, Land District of Auckland.

I HEREBY notify that the rural lands mentioned
in the Schedule hereunder will be open for free
selection at this office on and after Thursday, the
22nd day of July next.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.
WAIROA, NEAR HAWKE'S BAY.—OPOITI SURVEY
DISTRICT.

Description of Land.—The quality of the soil is
good, and is covered with a dense growth of fern and
tutu on the hills, with deep gullies, generally with
bush in them.

WAIAU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Description of Land.—Block III., broken fern and
tutu hills, soil good, light vegetation, a little bush.
Block IV., Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, undulating fern, tutu,
and grass hills, excellent soil on river flats: a well-
formed bridle-road runs through these sections.
Block X., Section 1, broken fern and tutu hills;
Section 2, broken fern and tutu hills, with a little
bush, excellent soil on river flat; Sections 3 and 4;
undulating fern and tutu hills, with a little bush, ex-
cellent soil on river flats; Section 6, broken fern and
tutu hills, excellent soil on river flat: a well-formed
bridle-road runs through Sections 2, 3, and 4.
Blocks VI., VII., VIII., IX., XI., XIII., XIV.,