Feb. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 269

Private Advertisements.

PETONE TOWN BOARD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following are the number of votes recorded for and against the proposal to raise a loan for a water-supply for the Petone Town District:—

Number of ratepayers on the roll, 249; representing 357 votes. Number of ratepayers who voted for the proposal, 188, representing 190 votes; against the proposal, 3 voters, representing 3 votes.

And I hereby declare the said proposal to be carried.

W. J. KIRK,
Chairman, Petone Town Board.

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Authorising the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company (Limited) to sell surplus Lands taken for the Purposes of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway at Plimmerton which are not required for the Purposes of the said Railway.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the fifty-first section of “The Railways Construction and Land Act, 1881,” that, if it is found that any land taken under this Act is not required for the purposes of the railway, the company may, with the consent of the Minister for Public Works, publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold by public auction, or, with the like consent, may cause such lands to be leased for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, at such rent and upon such terms and conditions as the company thinks fit:

And whereas the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto were taken under the provisions of the said Act for the purposes of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway, and are not required for the purposes of the said railway: And whereas the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company is desirous of selling the said lands, and has applied to me, as Minister for Public Works, to consent to the sale thereof:

Now, therefore, I, Edwin Mitchelson, the Minister for Public Works, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, do hereby consent to the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company (Limited) causing the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be sold by public auction.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Wellington; as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 15165, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured neutral tint.

Witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

E. MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

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To the Registrar-General, Wellington.

I, FREDERIC TRUBY KING, Bachelor of Medicine, Master in Surgery, and Bachelor of Science of Edinburgh University, now residing at Wellington, do hereby give notice that I intend applying, on the 12th March, 1888, to have my name placed on the Medical Register for the Colony of New Zealand; and that I have accordingly deposited evidence of my qualifications in the office of the Registrar-General of the said colony.

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I, JAMES EDWARD RIDDELL, Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, Licentiate of the Apothecaries’ Hall, Ireland, and duly-registered Medical Practitioner of Great Britain, residing at Herbertville, do now give notice of my intention of applying, on the 26th February, 1888, to have my name placed on the Register of Medical Practitioners in the Colony of New Zealand; and I have this day deposited with the Registrar at Napier the evidence of my qualifications, in terms of “The Medical Practitioners Act, 1869.”

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In the matter of “The Phoenix Assurance Company of London Act, 1887” (Private), and of the Phoenix Assurance Company of London.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Head Office of the Phoenix Assurance Company of London is situate at Exchange Chambers, 12, Grey Street, in the City of Wellington, at which Head Office legal proceedings and any notice may be served upon the company by serving the same upon the General Agent and Attorney of the company personally, or by sending the same through the post in a prepaid letter addressed to him, or leaving the same at the said Head Office, and such service shall be good service upon the company.

G. S. GRAHAM,
General Agent and Attorney.

Witness—John Sinclair, Solicitor, Wellington. 100

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INFORMATION relating to the DAIRY FARMING INDUSTRY, being a Report of a Select Committee of the Legislative Council, together with Extracts from the most Recent Works and Reports on the Subject of Dairy Farming.

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CONTENTS.

APPOINTMENTS—
Coroner .. .. .. .. 258
Examiner of Engineers .. .. .. 258
Judge of Assessment Court .. .. .. 258
Postmasters .. .. .. .. 263

CROWN LANDS NOTICES .. .. .. .. 261

LAND—
Set apart for Leasing as Small Grazing Runs .. 257
Taken for Railway .. .. .. 257

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES .. .. .. 264

MINING NOTICES .. .. .. .. 264

MISCELLANEOUS—
Applications for Registration of Trade Marks .. 258
Civil Service Senior Examination .. .. 260
Designations of Post Offices changed .. .. 263
Erratum .. .. .. .. 257
First Elections, &c. .. .. .. 257
Notice to Imprestees .. .. .. 259
Notice to Mariners .. .. .. 259
Patents .. .. .. .. 260
Post Offices opened and closed .. .. 263
Proposed Loan .. .. .. 259
Special Orders .. .. .. 259
Te Makarini Scholarships .. .. .. 261
Tenders .. .. .. .. 260

NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES .. .. .. 262
PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS .. .. .. 269
VOLUNTEERS .. .. .. .. 258

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Govt. Printer, Wellington.