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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 7

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, County of Rangitikei.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1889.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the
Rangitikei County Council, is published in accordance
with "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."

T. W. HISLOP.

RESULT OF POLL FOR PROPOSED LOAN, COUNTY OF RANGITIKEI.

THE following is the result of the poll taken on the 26th day
of January, 1889, on a proposal to raise the sum of £2,000 by
way of loan under the provisions of "The Local Bodies'
Loans Act, 1886," for the purpose of renewing the Onepuhi
and Turakina Bridges, situate within the Maungaraupi
and Wangaehu Ridings, County of Rangitikei; £500 of the
amount to be expended on the Onepuhi Bridge, and £1,500
on the Turakina Bridge :--

Number of ratepayers on the poll, 431, representing 904
votes. Number of ratepayers who voted for the proposal,
230; number of votes recorded for the proposal, 475; num-
ber of ratepayers who voted against the proposal, 1; number
of votes recorded against the proposal, 2.

A majority of the ratepayers of the county (outside the
Town Districts of Bull's and Lethbridge), exercising more
than one-half of the total number of the votes, being in
favour of the proposal, I therefore declare it to be carried.

J. W. MARSHALL,
Chairman, Rangitikei County Council.

Marton, 29th January, 1889.

Special Order made by Southland County Council.—Merging
South Wyndham Road District.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1889.

THE following special order, made by the Southland
County Council, is published in accordance with "The
Counties Act, 1886."

T. W. HISLOP.

SPECIAL ORDER,

THAT the prayer of the petition of the ratepayers of the
South Wyndham Road District be given effect to, and that
the South Wyndham Road Board be dissolved, and the said
road district be merged in Southland County, on and after
the 11th day of January, 1889.

RESOLUTION confirming the above Special Order, passed
11th January, 1889.

That this Council hereby confirm the special order passed
at special meeting held on 28th November, 1888, merging
the South Wyndnam Road District in Southland County,
and dissolving the Board thereof, on and after the 11th day
of January, 1889.

Sealed with the county seal, this 25th day of January,
1889, in the presence of—

ANDREW DUNLOP, Chairman.
OTTO G. W. HART, Member.
R. P. MACGOUN, County Clerk and Treasurer.

Alteration in the Scale of Charges in force on the New
Zealand Railways.

THE New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in pur-
suance of the powers conferred by "The Government
Railways Act, 1887," do hereby make the following altera-
tion in the scale of fares, rates, and charges on the New
Zealand Railways, to come into force on and after the
8th February, 1889:—

PART IV.—LOCAL RATES.
WELLINGTON SECTION.

Potatoes, consigned from Lower Hutt to Wellington, will
be charged 3s. 9d. per ton.

The common seal of the New Zealand Rail-
way Commissioners was hereunto affixed,
this fifth day of February, one thousand (L.S.)
eight hundred and eighty-nine, in the
presence of

JAMES MCKERROW, Chairman.
J. P. MAXWELL, Commissioner.
W. M. HANNAY, Commissioner.

Reward of £10,000 offered for the Discovery of New Gold-
fields.—Amended Conditions.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1888.

REWARDS of £10,000 are offered for the discovery of new
goldfields, upon the amended conditions set forth
hereunder.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Mines.

AMENDED CONDITIONS.

1. The maximum sum offered as a reward for any proved
   discovery of a new goldfield in accordance with these condi-
   tions is £5,000 for the North Island, and £5,000 for the
   Middle Island.

2. The newly-discovered goldfield must be situated not
   less than forty miles from any existing goldfield or any
   existing workings.

3. No reward shall be payable until 50,000 ounces of gold
   have been produced from the newly-discovered goldfield
   within three years from the date of its being registered.

4. Any person discovering new gold-workings, and being
   desirous of obtaining the reward, shall immediately forward
   a written report of such discovery, with full particulars, to
   the Warden or Resident Magistrate of the district within
   which such discovery shall be situated, and the Warden or
   Resident Magistrate shall forthwith register the report as an
   application for reward.

5. No prospecting will be allowed upon Native land with-
   out a prospecting license authorising the person therein
   named, with the consent of the owner of the land, to prospect,
   in accordance with the provisions of sections one hundred
   and thirty-five to one hundred and thirty-seven of "The
   Mining Act, 1886," inclusive.

No reward shall be paid for any discovery that may be
made upon Native land without the consent of the Native
owners and the approval of the Minister of Mines.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road to Hikutaia
Station, on the Grahamstown-Te Aroha Railway.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1882," to exe-
cute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of
a road to Hikutaia Station, on the Grahamstown-Te Aroha
Railway, and for the purposes of such public work the
land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be
taken; and notice is further given that the plan of the
said road and of the land so required to be taken is de-
posited in the Post Office at Hikutaia, and is there open
for inspection. And notice is hereby given that all persons
affected by the execution of the said public work or by the
taking of the said land shall, if they have any well-grounded
objections to the execution of the said public work or to the
taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send
such writing, within forty days from the first publication of
this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder :—

| Approximate Area
of the Parcel of
Land required to be
taken. | | Situated in
Block No. | Situated
in the Survey
District of |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. R. P. | Township of
Stirlingworth | VIII. | Waihou. |
| 1 1 37 | | | |

In the Provincial District of Auckland; as the said parcel
of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 16031, deposited in the office of the Minister for
Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of
Wellington, and thereon coloured burnt sienna.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-eight.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Officiating Ministers for 1889.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 5th February, 1889.

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 Offi-
ciating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are
published for general information: —

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend John Antoine Goutenoire.
The Reverend Philip Aimé Martin.

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend William Nichol.

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend Edward Austin.