Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1441

Additional Regulation as to Payment of Rewards for Discovery of New Goldfields.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th June, 1886.

THE following additional regulation for the payment of rewards for the discovery of new goldfields, recommended by the Goldfields Committee on the 22nd June, 1886, having been adopted by the Government, is published for general information.

This regulation applies to the notifications published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 19th March and 29th October, 1885, offering rewards for gold discoveries.

W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister of Mines.

ADDITIONAL REGULATION.

No claim for a reward for the discovery of gold will be considered by the Goldfields Committee unless such claim be made within one year from the date of the discovery.

Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 15th November, 1887.

HIS Excellency the Governor has approved of the disbandment of the G Troop, 1st Regiment New Zealand Cavalry (No. 2 or B Troop, Auckland Cavalry Volunteers). Date of disbandment, 3rd November, 1887.

The under-mentioned gentleman therefore ceases to be an officer in the Volunteer Force, his commission having lapsed under the provisions of “The Defence Act, 1886:”—

Captain Charles Ross Cholmondeley Smith.

T. FERGUS.

Run liable to Forfeiture.

Crown Lands Office,
Invercargill, 3rd November, 1887.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of clause 188 of “The Land Act, 1885,” that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is liable to forfeiture if the rent, together with the penalty provided by the Act, be not paid within three months from the present date :

Run 421, Longwood District. Henry Barry, lessee.

JOHN SPENCE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Sale of Unclaimed Property.

Police Department, Commissioner’s Office,
Wellington, 31st October, 1887.

THE unclaimed property described hereunder, and now in possession of the police at Whangarei, will, unless previously claimed, be sold by public auction, at the Police-station, Whangarei, on Saturday, the 26th proximo, at noon, in accordance with the Police Regulations :—

Twelve bottles of gin and six bottles of whiskey.

W. E. GUDGEON,
Commissioner of Police.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1887.

THE following notices of elections of Members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Matakoho Road District, County of Otamatea :
William Mackwood.

Epsom Road District, County of Eden :
George Worrall.

Matamata Road District, County of Piako :
Francis Dibble.
John Finnerty.

Point Chevalier Road District, County of Eden.
John Oliver.

Avondale Road District, County of Eden :
Henry Peck.

Pahiatua Road District, County of Wairarapa North :
Robert Heaton Rhodes.

Moa Road District, County of Taranaki :
Albert Bishop.

Officiating Ministers for 1887.—Notice No. 25.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th November, 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 :—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Reverend Henry Bache Harvey, B.A.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Robert Scott West.

Church of Christ.
Mr. Edward Lewis.

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

Specially-authorized Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 10th November, 1887.

THE Timaru United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary, situated at Timaru, is registered as a specially-authorized society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 10th day of November, 1887.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Award by Land Claims Commissioner.

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 George McCaul, as executor of the will of the late Henry Churton, of Wanganui, deceased, having been referred to me by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, I do hereby decide that the said George McCaul, as executor as aforesaid, is entitled to a Crown grant in fee-simple of all that parcel of land containing 2½ acres or thereabouts, being that part of Section No. 162, left bank of Wanganui River, defined as “Churton’s” on the selection-map in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at Wellington. Title to be antevested as from the 2nd November, 1849.

Dated at Wellington, the 26th day of October, 1887.

Report No. 1521 ; Claim 1774.

Geo. B. DAVY,
Commissioner.

Report No. 1621.

THE land mentioned in the foregoing report is part of 200 acres which the said Henry Churton was entitled to select by virtue of Compensation-scrip Nos. 245, 248, 249, and 250, and which he selected accordingly, as appears by the selection-map in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at Wellington.

28th October, 1887.

Geo. B. DAVY.

Award by Land Claims Commissioner.

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 George McCaul, as executor of the will of the late Henry Churton, of Wanganui, deceased, having been referred to me by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, I do hereby decide that the said George McCaul, as executor as aforesaid, is entitled to a Crown grant in fee-simple of all that parcel of land containing 9½ acres or thereabouts, being that part of Section No. 158, left bank of Wanganui River, defined as “Churton’s” on the selection-map in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at Wellington. Title to be antevested as from the 2nd November, 1849.

Dated at Wellington, the 26th day of October, 1887.

Report No. 1620 ; Claim 1773.

Geo. B. DAVY,
Commissioner.

Report No. 1620.

THE land mentioned in the foregoing report is part of 200 acres which the said Henry Churton was entitled to select by virtue of Compensation-scrip Nos. 245, 248, 249, and 250, and which he selected accordingly, as appears by the selection-map in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at Wellington.

28th October, 1887.

Geo. B. DAVY.