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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 purchased, 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 agreement 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.

Member of the House of Representatives for Western Maori Electoral District elected.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1887.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 16th day of November, 1886, for the election of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Western Maori Electoral District, and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that

HOANI TAIPUA TE PUNA I RANGIRIRI

has been duly elected Member for such district.

G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Officiating Ministers for 1887.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 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 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 Daniel Dutton.
The Reverend Thomas Neane.

Hebrew Congregations.
The Reverend Samuel A. Goldstein.

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

Trade Union registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1887.

THE Operative Bakers’ Association of Dunedin, situated at Dunedin, is registered as a trade union, under “The Trade Union Act, 1878,” this 20th day of January, 1887.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Land Claims Commissioner’s Report.

I, the undersigned, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to hear and decide claims to land by persons claiming title thereto from, through, or under the New Zealand Company, report that the claim of John Hughes and Thomas Hughes, as representatives of Richard Hughes, formerly of Stourbridge, in the County of Worcester, England, deceased, having been referred to me by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, I do hereby decide that the said Richard Hughes was at the time of his death entitled to a Crown grant in fee-simple of all that parcel of land containing 1 acre, more or less, being Section No. 813 on the public map or plan of the City of Wellington. The said grant to take effect as from the 13th August, 1840.

Dated at Wellington the 20th day of January, 1887.

Report No. 1619; claim 1871, 1872.

GEO. B. DAVY.

Report No. 1619.

SECTION No. 813, City of Wellington, was selected by or on behalf of Richard Hughes (since deceased), under Land Order No. 817. There has been no dealing with the said land by the said Richard Hughes, or by any person claiming through or under him.

GEO. B. DAVY.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for smelting Gold, Silver, and other Ores, to be called “Johnson and Heskett’s Universal Smelting Furnace.”

HENRY JONHSON, Ironfounder, and Thomas James Heskett, Engineer, both of Onehunga, Auckland, have deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 19th day of April 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 4th day of April next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 2194.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1887.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in the Arrangements for electrically lighting Railway Trains.

ILLIUS AUGUSTUS TIMMIS, of 2, Great George Street, Westminster, Middlesex, Civil Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 19th day of April 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 4th day of April next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 2195.