Examination for the Civil Service of India.

Education Department,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1884.
ON the 2nd June, 1885, and following days, an Examination, open to all qualified persons, will be held in London. Persons desirous to be admitted as candidates must apply on forms, which may be obtained from the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London, S:W., or from the undersigned. The forms must be returned so as to be received at the office of the Civil Service Commissioners, in London, on or before the 31st March, 1885.
By order.
JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary for Education.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th February, 1885.
IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-mining leases cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:

The Wakamarina Alluvial Hydraulic Sluicing Company; 10 acres, Wairau and Pelorus Mining District.
W. A. Robinson, Horse-shoe Claim; 13 acres 3 roods 30 perches, Wakamarina District.
Try-for-it Gold-Mining Company; 16 acres 1 rood 38 perches, Wairau and Pelorus Mining District.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(for the Minister of Mines.)

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

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 applicant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections 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 Lyell on or before the 2nd day of March, 1885.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen at the Warden's Office at Lyell.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: D. P. Anderson. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: "The Larnach Gold-Mining Company (Limited)." 16 acres 2 roods, at Lyell, in the Nelson South-West Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

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 applicant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections 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 Black's on or before the 8th day of April, 1885.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen at the Warden's Office at Black's.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Stephen Read. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: "Stephen Read and party." 5 acres, in the Dunstan Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Gold-Mining Leases to be granted.

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 leases of Crown lands for gold-mining purposes to the applicants specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against such leases.

Objections to the granting of such leases, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Queenstown on or before the 9th day of March, 1885.

Copy of the applications made and plans annexed may be seen at the Warden's Office at Queenstown.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANTS: John Mitchell and David Henderson. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: "El Dorado." 10 acres, at Skipper's, in the Wakatipu Mining District.

Applicant: John Aspinall. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: "The Old Camp Claim." 4 acres 1 rood 12 perches, Section 21, Block XI., Skipper's Creek, in the Wakatipu Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Mineral Lease refused.

Warden's Office,
Riverton, 17th February, 1885.

IN accordance with the twenty-first section of the regulations relating to mineral leases under "The Mines Act, 1877," it is hereby notified that the application of Henry Wilson for a mineral lease at Orepuki for coal-mining purposes, comprising Section 80, Block II., Longwood, has been refused, and that the ground comprised in such application is now open to applicants for a lease or license, or other interest which may lawfully be granted in the said ground, as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for.

Hy. McCULLOCH,
Warden.

Mineral Lease refused.

Warden's Office,
Riverton, 17th February, 1885.

IN accordance with the twenty-first section of the regulations relating to mineral leases under "The Mines Act, 1877," it is hereby notified that the application of Lavington G. Roope and others for a mineral lease at Orepuki for coal-mining purposes, comprising Section 81, Block II., Longwood, has been refused, and that the ground comprised in such application is now open to applicants for a lease or license, or other interest which may lawfully be granted in the said ground, as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for.

Hy. McCULLOCH,
Warden.

Native Land Court Notices.

Notice under "Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883."

JOHN EDWIN MACDONALD, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, do hereby, in compliance with the duty imposed upon me by "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883," give notice that on the 20th day of February, 1885, the title to the land mentioned in the Schedule herein became, within the meaning of the said Act, ascertained; and, further, that dealings with the said land will cease to be prohibited by the provisions of the said Act on the 1st day of April, 1885.

SCHEDULE.

Name by which land is known: Harakekaroa A. Native Land Court District wherein situate: Rotorua. Area: 1 acre 2 roods. Survey number: 5181.

Dated this 20th day of February, 1885.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.