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Barrier Reef to the westward of Port Moresby is not recommended for vessels of considerable draught.

This notice affects Charts No. 2121, New Guinea, Sheet 5; No. 2126, Port Moresby and Fairfax Harbour; also Australian Directory, Vol. ii., 1879, pages 288-291.

Notice to Owners of Native Land under “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882.”

“TE Ture Reiti i nga Whenua o te Karauna me nga Whenua Maori, 1882,” me te Ture Whakatikatika i taua Ture.

Ki te tangata nana, ki nga tangata ranei na ratou nga whenua kua whakahuatia i roto i nga rooru whakaatu i nga utu o nga, whenua Maori, kua tukua atu nei ki nga poari takiwa e mau nei nga ingoa i roto i te Kupu Apiti ki tenei, i raro i nga tikanga o nga Ture kua whakahuatia i runga ake nei me era atu Ture katoa e pa ana e whai tikanga ana.

NOTEMEA kua tukua mai he tono ki ahau Te Minita Whakahaere i nga Moni o Niu Tireni, e mau nei toku ingoa i raro iho nei, e nga poari takiwa e tetahi tangata ranei mo te taha ki a ratou, i raro i nga tikanga o “Te Ture Reiti i nga Whenua o te Karauna me nga Whenua Maori, 1882,” kia utua nga reiti e meingatia ana, kia utua i runga i nga tikanga o aua rooru :

He panuitanga tenei ki a koutou ki ia tangata ki ia tangata o koutou, kia mohio ai koutou kua takoto nga rooru o nga whenua Maori ki nga tari o aua poari takiwa ko aua rooru he mea tuhi ki te reo Maori, a e whakaatu ana hoki i nga utu o nga whenua Maori kua whakahuatia i runga i aua rooru.

Na he tono tenei ki a koutou ki ia tangata ki ia tangata hoki o koutou nga tangata na ratou aua whenua kia utua e koutou aua reiti a te 1 o nga ra o Pepuere, 1886, i mua mai ranei o taua ra, me utu e koutou aua moni reiti i te tari o te poari o te takiwa i takoto ai aua whenua, tena te whakaaturanga kei te Kupu Apiti.

KUPU APITI.

He mea tuhi nei toku ingoa i tenei te 27 o nga ra o Hanuere, 1886.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(Mo te Minita Whakahaere i nga Moni o te Koroni.

[TRANSLATION.]

“THE Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882,” and the Amendment thereof.

To each and every the owner or owners of land described in the substituted valuation rolls of Native lands supplied to the local bodies, the names of which are set forth in the Schedule hereunder, under the provisions of the above Acts and all other Acts affecting the same or relating thereto.

WHEREAS demand having been made to me, the undersigned Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of New Zealand, in accordance with the provisions of “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882,” by or on behalf of the said local bodies, for payment of the rates appearing to be payable under or by virtue of the said rolls :

Notice is hereby given to you and each and every of you that rolls of Native lands are now deposited at the offices of the said several local bodies, which said rolls are in the Maori language, and show the rateable value of the Native lands therein mentioned or described.

And you and each and every of you, the owners of the said lands, are hereby required and directed to pay the said rates on or before the 1st day of February, 1886, such payment to be made by you at the office of the local body in whose district the lands affected are respectively comprised, and as noted in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness my hand this twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(For the Colonial Treasurer.)

Members of Taradale River Board, County of Hawke’s Bay, elected.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1886.

NOTICE has been received at this office that the under-mentioned persons have been duly elected Members of the Taradale River Board :—

JOHN DRUMMOND.
HENDERSON GORDON.
THOMAS JEFFARES.
ISAAC JEFFARES.
RICHARD NEAGLE.

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1886.

THE following notices of elections of members of Road Boards, under “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” have been received at this office.

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Whaingaroa Road District, County of Raglan :
John C. King.

Wairoa Road District, County of Patea :
Francis Williamson.

Officiating Ministers for 1886.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1886.

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 :—

Church of the Province of New Zealand commonly called the Church of England.

The Venerable Archdeacon John Albert Fenton, M.A.
The Reverend Thomas Johnston.

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend Paul Aubry, S.M.
The Reverend Claude Cognet, S.M.
The Reverend Michael Marnane, S.M.
The Reverend Peter Regnault, S.M.

Baptists.

The Reverend Thomas Anson Cato.

[The names of the Venerable Archdeacon John Albert Fenton and the Reverend Thomas Johnston are in substitution of the names John Alfred Fenton and Thomas Johnstone, given in Notice No. 1, in Gazette of the 21st January.]

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

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1886.

THE Loyal Oreti Lodge, situated at Dipton, is registered as a branch of the Invercargill District of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 25th day of January, 1886.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies,