JUNE 16.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 769

HURUNUI-WAITAKI RAILWAY.-WEKA PASS SEC-
TION. SUMMIT CONTRACT.

Accepted.
J. Coates, Palmerston South ...

Declined.
T. Bailey, Heathcote
A. Johnston, Waikari
Grigg and Guild, Christchurch
H. Mackellar, Waikari
G. Thornton, Christchurch
P. McGrath, Rangiora
J. and A. Anderson, Christchurch
S. Alexander, Christchurch...

Authority to Frank.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 9th June, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

ROBERT HUNTER GOVETT, Esq.,
the Acting Secretary to the Hon. the Premier, to
frank, free from payment, letters and telegrams
posted on the public service.

W. W. JOHNSTON,
Postmaster-General.

Native School Site at Mangamuka.

Education Department,
Wellington, 13th June, 1881.

THE following report of the person appointed by
the Governor under the provisions of "The
Native Schools Sites Act, 1880," to ascertain the title
of certain Natives to land at Mangamuka, appro-
priated by them for the site of a school, having been
adopted by the Governor, is published in accordance
with the said Act.

THOMAS DICK.

Resident Magistrate's Office,
Hokianga, 20th May, 1881.

SIR,-With reference to your letter of 8th February,
informing me that His Excellency the Governor had,
in pursuance of "The Native Schools Sites Act,
1880," appointed me to ascertain the title of certain
Natives to land at Mangamuka, appropriated by them
for the site of a Native school, I have the honor to
report that, after having given notice by advertise-
ment published in the Northern Luminary (copies of
which advertisement I also forwarded to Natives
residing on the spot), I visited Mangamuka on the
19th instant, and, after due inquiry, at which the
whole of the leading chiefs of the district were pre-
sent, am satisfied as to the ownership of the land, and
the willingness of the Native owners to appropriate
the same for the site of a school in accordance with
the requirements of "The Native Schools Sites Act,
1880."

A tracing and description of the land so dealt with,
authenticated by my signature, is forwarded here-
with.

I have, &c.,

SPENCER VON STURMER,
Resident Magistrate.
The Secretary, Education Department,
Wellington.

DESCRIPTION.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 5 acres, more or less, being called or
known by the name of the Kauhoehoe School Re-
serve, situated in the Maungataniwha Survey District,
Block XIV. Bounded North-east by a
line, 700
links; towards the South-east by a line,
715
links; towards the South-west by a line, 700
links; and towards the North-west by a line, 715
links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
Survey Office, Auckland,
31st March, 1881.

SPENCER VON STURMER,
Resident Magistrate, Hokianga.
19-5-81.

School Site set apart.

IN exercise of the powers and authorities vested in
them by "The Education Reserves Act, 1877,"
the School Commissioners for the Nelson Provincial
District have, by a resolution dated the 13th June,
1879, appropriated and set apart as a site for a public
school the several sections specified below, viz.:-
Sections Nos. 581, 582, 583, 584, and 585, on
the plan of the Town of Reefton, containing
1 rood 20 perches, more or less.
Bounded on the North-eastward by a right-of-way;
South-eastward by Section No. 581 on the said plan;
South-westward by the Buller Road; and North-
westward by Section No. 586 on the said plan.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Chairman of School Commissioners, Nelson.

Telegraph Station opened.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 14th June, 1880.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a
telegraph station has been opened at Kamo,
County Whangarei.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Post Offices opened as Government Life Insurance
Offices.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 10th June, 1881.

NOTICE is hereby given that the post offices at
the under-mentioned places have been opened
as Government Life Insurance Offices:-

DARGAVILLE, Auckland.
TE KOPURU, Auckland.

D. M. LUCKIE,
Commissioner.

Officiating Ministers for 1881.-Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 9th June, 1881.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1880," 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 Patrick Robertson Munro.
The Reverend George Kinninmouth Stowell.

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

Member of House of Representatives for City of
Nelson elected.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 11th June, 1881.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to
the writ issued by him on the 25th day of May,
1881, for the election of a Member to serve in the
House of Representatives of New Zealand for the