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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 49

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1883.
PATENT for an invention for Wire for measuring, being an
improvement in apparatus for surveying and general
measuring.
ALFRED ATKINS, of Wanganui, in the County of Wanganui,
New Zealand, has deposited at this office a specification
of the said invention; and I have appointed Friday, the
17th day of August next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at this
office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto;
and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the
grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 2nd day
of August next, at this office, particulars in writing of their
objections to the said application, otherwise they will be
precluded from urging the same.

No. 839.
C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

Forms of tender and declaration can be obtained at any
Crown Lands Office in the colony.

Any person of the age of eighteen years and upwards may
become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person
tendering for two or more leases, the deposit of a sum equal to
one-half year's rent of the tender largest in amount shall be
sufficient, together with the sum of £1 10s. to pay for the lease
and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked cheque, or
bank draft, made payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue,
Patea.

Limits of Area for each Lessee.
No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any
person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease or a sub-
lease who owns, any freehold land, or land held under lease or
license under the Crown whereby such person shall become
either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by
himself or jointly with any other person or persons, including
the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area than 640 acres
anywhere in the colony.

The above land is situated near Opunake, and consists of
fairly-level bush country; soil good, and well watered.

Officiating Ministers for 1883.-Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1883.
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 Otago and Southland.
The Reverend David Borrie.
[This name is in substitution for the name "Daniel Borrie,"
which was published in Gazette No. 35, of the 26th April.]

Baptists.
The Reverend Decimus Dolamore.

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

Crown Lands Notices.

Certain Land classified as Pastoral Land.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1883.
IT is hereby notified that the Commissioners appointed in
pursuance of the 75th section of "The Land Act, 1877,"
have reported to His Excellency the Governor that the land
described in the Schedule hereto shall be classified as pastoral
land, and the Governor has determined that the same shall be
disposed of as pastoral land upon deferred payments, as pro-
vided by sections 76 to 85 inclusive of "The Land Act, 1877."

SCHEDULE.
Catlin's: Block VI., Sections 1, 3, and 4.
Kuriwao: Block X., Sections 2, 3, and 4.
Warepa: Block VIII., Sections 9 and 10.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

2,615 ACRES FOR CASH.

TO BE SOLD FOR CASH, AT HAWERA, ON FRIDAY
THE 15TH DAY OF JUNE.

OPUNAKE.

The above sections are of similar quality and description of
soil to those opened for perpetual leasing.

Terms of Sale: One-fourth of purchase-money to be paid at
sale, and the balance to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Patea
or Hawera, within one calendar month from date of sale;
otherwise the deposit will be forfeited, and the contract for the
sale of the land thenceforth be null and void.

Crown-grant fee to be paid on completion of purchase.

NOTE.-Further particulars and lithograph plans showing
the blocks and sections of the above lands can be obtained at
the Land Offices at Auckland, New Plymouth, Patea, Hawera,
Napier, and Wellington, on and after the 15th May instant.

C. A. WRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

LEASES OF RURAL LAND, WITH PERPETUAL
RIGHT OF RENEWAL,
WEST COAST (NORTH ISLAND) LAND DISTRICT.

2,264 ACRES FOR LEASING.

Crown Lands Office,
Patea, 1st May, 1883.
WRITTEN Tenders (in sealed covers) are invited for the
under-mentioned sections, in accordance with the pro-
visions of "The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882."

Conditions to be observed by Tenderers.
The price tendered must be stated in writing, as well as in
figures, accompanied by the statutory declaration required by
the Act, together with six months' rent at the rate tendered,
and the sum of £1 10s. to pay for the lease and registra-
tion, to be lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands at
Patea not later than 4 o'clock on Tuesday, the 12th day of
June, to be opened by the Commissioner of Crown Lands at
Patea, on Wednesday, the 13th day of June, at 11 o'clock a.m.,
when the highest tenderer (if the tenders shall equal or exceed
the upset fixed annual rental per acre) will be declared the
lessee.