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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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types: Amœba, Paramœcium or Vorticella or any ciliate in-
fusorian, Hydra or any hydroid polyp, Actinia or Alcyonium,
Asterina, Earthworm, Paranephrops or Palinurus, Blatta or
Periplaneta or Bacillus, Mytilus or Mesodesma or Chione or
Unio, Helix or Limax or Arion, Boltenia or any simple
Ascidian, Agonostoma or Lotella or Pagrus or any Teleost,
Columba, Lepus, Gregarina, Thalassicolla or Collozoum,
Eusporgia or Clathria, Aurelia or any Scyphomedusa,
Pleurobranchia or any Ctenophore, Echinus, Ophiocoma
or any Ophiurid, Holothuria, Comatula, Leptoplana or
any Planarian, Distoma, Tænia, Nereis or Polynoe, Hirudo,
Sipunculus, Lepidurus, Daphnia, Cyclops, Cypris, Lepas,
an Isopod, an Amphipod, Cancer or Heterograpsus or
any native crab, Peripatus, Scolopendra or Himantopus,
Scorpio, Limulus, a spider, Cicada or Aphis, Musca,
Apis, moth, beetle, Terebratulina, a Polyzoon, Ostrea
or Pecten, Haliotis or Parmophorus, Turbo or Diloma,
Octopus or Ommastrephes, Amphioxus, Geotria, Raja or
Trygon, frog (e.g. Litoria), Mocoa or Nautilus, Canis,†
Ovis,† Homo.† 3. The skeletons of the following verte-
brates in addition to those included under §2: Mustelus
or any other shark, Callorhynchus, Acipenser, Ceratodus,
Menobranchus or any Urodele, Chelone, Hatteria, Croco-
dilus, Python, Crotalus or any poisonous snake,† Struthio,
Apteryx, Hieracidea or Circus, Anser, Ornithorhynchus,
Echidna, Macropus or Halmaturus, Phascolomys,† Thyla-
cinus,† Dasypus, Erinaceus, any Delphinoid, Felis, Ursus,
Stenorhynchus or Phoca, Sus, Tapirus, Equus, Elephas,
Hyrax, Lemur, Cebus or Ateles, Macacus, Troglodytes,
Simia. 4. The typical mode of development and chief
deviations therefrom in the various classes of animals.
Generalizations of embryology. 5. The main facts of the
distribution of vertebrata in time and space. The chief
characters of the zoo-geographical regions. The bearing of
the facts of distribution on the theory of evolution. 6.
Generalizations of zoology. Origin of species.

Practical Work. (The examination to last for two days, of
six hours each.)—1. The dissection and microscopical ex-
amination of the types required for the pass examination,
together with the forms printed in italics in §2, supra. Can-
didates will also be expected to recognize and describe any
characteristic part of any of the skeletons mentioned in §3,
as well as any typical example of vertebrate exoskeleton.

(c.) Geology, including lithology and palæontology.

(5.) Physiology: Human anatomy and animal physiology.

(6.) Mental Science (as defined in the statute “Of Honours
in Arts”).

III. In each of the Honours subjects, with the exception of
mathematics and mental science, candidates shall be re-
quired to pass a practical examination.

IV. The scope of the examination in all the Honours
subjects shall be the same as that prescribed for candidates
for Honours in Arts.

• External characters only required in these types.

† Skeleton and chief organs only required.

‡ Skull only.

JAMES HECTOR,
Chancellor.

Passed in Senate.
Christchurch, 22nd April, 1885.

Approved in Council, 12th May, 1885.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Standing Orders on Local Bills.

THE following amended Standing Orders of the Houses
of the General Assembly relative to Local Bills are
published for general information.

F. E. CAMPBELL,
Clerk of Parliaments.

18th March, 1885.

349. Local Bills are those which, not being Private Bills,
     affect particular localities only.

350. No Local Bill shall be read a second time unless
     notice shall have been given of the said Bill in the locality
     to which the Bill refers; such notice shall state explicitly
     the object which such Bill is intended to effect, and shall
     have been published once at least in each of three suc-
     cessive weeks before the second reading in a newspaper
     circulating in such locality.

351. At the time of the first publication of such notice, a
     copy of the Bill shall be deposited in the Resident Magis-
     trate’s Court of the district, and shall be open to public
     inspection; and such Bill shall, at the expiration of the
     prescribed period for advertising, be forwarded to the Clerk
     of the House in which the Bill is to be introduced, indorsed
     with a certificate from the Resident Magistrate, or Clerk of
     the Resident Magistrate’s Court, that such Bill was so depo-
     sited, and remained open for public inspection for the pre-
     scribed time.

352. When it is intended in such Bill to take power to
     deal with any lands, plans or surveys of such lands, on a
     scale of not less than two inches to a mile, and certified by
     an authorized surveyor, shall be deposited with the Bill.

353. In the case of Bills authorizing the construction of
     harbour works, or the raising of further loans for the com-
     pletion of harbour works previously authorized, such Bill
     shall be accompanied by a statement of the financial posi-
     tion of the promoters, an estimate of the cost of construc-
     tion, and the estimated increased revenue to be derived from
     the proposed works, together with the plans or surveys before
     mentioned.

354. Before the Bill is introduced into the Legislative
     Council or House of Representatives, the before-mentioned
     plans or surveys and estimates shall be forwarded to the
     office of the Clerk of the House in which the Bill is to be
     initiated.

• Amendment shown in italics.

Native Land Court Notices.

Notice under “Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

I, 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 30th day of April,
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 9th
day of June, 1885.

SCHEDULE.

NAME by which land is known: Te Popo. Native Land
Court District wherein situate: Bay of Islands. Area: 2
acres.

Dated this 30th day of April, 1885.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Application for Rehearing of Claim.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
AUCKLAND DISTRICT.

IN the matter of a decision of the Court given during a
sitting opened at Kihikihi, on the 23rd day of April,
1884, upon the hearing of a claim for the investigation of
title to land situate in the said district, and known as “Ma-
nukatutahiki Otautanga or Maungatautari;” and in the
matter of several applications for a rehearing upon the
aforesaid claim made to the Court in writing within three
months after such decision by Natives thinking themselves
aggrieved thereby :

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court,
in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me, do
hereby order, as to such part of the case in which such
decision was given as makes order in favour of Ngatihaua,
that a rehearing, to the extent of inquiring whether the names
of Hera Nikora and of her sisters ought not to have been
inserted in any order made in favour of Ngatihaua, be had
on the 2nd day of July, 1885, at a sitting of the Court to be
then holden at Cambridge aforesaid. In all other respects I
dismiss the said applications.

Dated this 7th day of May, 1885.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Gold Fields Notices.

Special-claim Grant cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 12th May, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor
has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned
special-claim grant cancelled, and that the ground is now
open for application as if no lease of the said ground had
ever been applied for :—

Bendigo Deep Level Quartz-Mining Company; 59 acres
3 roods 25 perches, Block III., Wakefield District, Otago
Mining District.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Mines.)