Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th March, 1887.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize

The CLERK TO THE NATIVE LAND COURT, AUCKLAND,
to frank letters, telegrams, and parcels on the public service.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th March, 1887.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a Money
Order and Savings Bank Office will be opened at

PAIHATUA (Chief Office, Wellington),

from the 24th instant.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Money Order Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th March, 1887.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a Money
Order Office will be opened at

HYDE (Chief Office, Dunedin),

from the 24th proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1887.—Notice No. 5.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th March, 1887.

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 entitled
"The Marriage Act, 1880," the following names of Offi-
ciating 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 Reverend Edward Andrew Phillips, B.A.
The Reverend George Grantham Collins, B.A.

Hebrew Congregations.

The Reverend Isaac Zachariah.
Casper Joseph Levien, Esq.

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

[In the above notice the name "Casper Joseph Levien" is
published in substitution for the name "Charles Joseph
Levien," given in Gazette No. 5, of the 20th January, 1887.]

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1887.

THE Loyal Mercury Bay Lodge, No. 6602, situated at
Mercury Bay, is registered as a branch of the Auck-
land District of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Man-
chester Unity, under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,"
this 9th day of March, 1887.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

"The Native Land Administration Act, 1886."

Native Office,
Wellington, 4th December, 1886.

To Persons having dealings with Natives for Land in-
complete on the 1st day of January, 1887.

ATTENTION is hereby called to the provisions of
sections 1, 24, and 25 of "The Native Land Adminis-
tration Act, 1886," which said sections are set out in
Schedule A herein.

A printed form of the notification mentioned in the said
section 24 may be obtained on application to a Registrar of
the Native Land Court.

The notification should be signed in duplicate by the
person making it, and should contain such particulars of the
purchase or lease intended to be notified as will show clearly
the nature of the transaction alleged.

One of such duplicates should be delivered to a Commis-
sioner under the above Act, and the other to the Chief Judge
of the Native Land Court. Such delivery may be personal
or by post in a registered letter.

The burden of proving delivery will be upon the party
asserting it.

Notifications under section 24 must be so delivered as to
reach the Commissioner and the Chief Judge of the Native
Land Court respectively before the 1st day of April, 1887.

SCHEDULE A.

Section 1. The Short Title of this Act is "The Native Land
Administration Act, 1886." It shall come into operation on
the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-seven.

Section 24. A person who may claim to have heretofore
purchased or leased the share or interest of some out of
several owners of land (the title whereof was not at the time
of such purchase or lease subject to any restriction preclud-
ing such purchase or lease) may, within three months after
the coming into operation of this Act, notify the fact of such
purchase or lease to the Commissioner and also to the Chief
Judge of the Court, and it shall thereupon be a duty of a
Judge to inquire into the circumstances thereof, and who, if
satisfied that there had been a purchase or lease as alleged,
and that the transaction was bonâ fide, and that a fair value
or rent was given or reserved, may give his certificate to that
effect to the person alleging himself to be such purchaser or
lessee, who shall transmit the same to the Commissioner.

Section 25. Upon the grant of such certificate the person
therein named,—

(a.) If a purchaser, shall be the owner of the share of his
vendor in the land the subject of such purchase, and
shall be entitled to have partitioned to him in severalty
such part of the land as the Court may deem just;

(b.) Or he may within one month after the date of the
certificate give notice to the Commissioner that he is
desirous of purchasing the shares or interests which
he has not already acquired, and in such case he
may, on obtaining a certificate from a Judge that
such Judge is satisfied that he had, before the first
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
six, obtained the signature of one or more owner or
owners to a writing purporting or agreeing to convey
the share or interest of the persons signing, at any
time within twelve months from the said first day of
July, but not afterwards, purchase all or any of such
shares or interests.

If all such outstanding shares or interests are not pur-
chased, he shall be entitled to have partitioned to him
such part of the land as the Court may deem just;

(c.) If a lessee, shall be entitled to have the share of his
lessors in the land comprised in his lease ascertained,
and partition made thereof to such lessors, and shall
be entitled to hold his lease subject to the terms
thereof until its expiry;

(d.) Or he may, within one month after the date of the
certificate, give notice to the Commissioner that he is
desirous of obtaining a lease of all or some of the
owners who have not already granted him a lease, and
in such case he may, on obtaining a certificate from a
Judge that such Judge is satisfied that he had, before
the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-six, obtained the signature of one or more
owner or owners to a writing purporting to be or agree-
ment to grant a lease of the land or of the share or
interest of the person signing, at any time within
twelve months from the first day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-six, but not afterwards,
obtain a lease of all or any of such shares or interests
for the same term as he holds the shares or interests
acquired before the coming into operation of this Act.
If a lease of all such outstanding shares or interests is
not acquired within the said twelve months, he shall
be entitled to have the shares of his then lessors
ascertained and partition made thereof, and shall be
entitled to hold his lease subject to the terms thereof
until its expiry; and

It shall be a duty of the Court to effect such partitions as
aforesaid, the purchaser or lessee in whose interest it is made
paying all Court fees and the charges for survey in respect of
the land the subject of such purchase or lease.

T. W. LEWIS,
Under-Secretary.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 10th March, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for an Improved Washing-
machine, to be known as "The Perfection Washing-
machine."

HENRY EDWARDS, of Ghuznee Street, Cabinet-maker, and
GEORGE EDWARDS, of Hanson Street, Laundry Engineer,
both of Wellington, New Zealand, have deposited at this
office a specification of the said invention; and I have