Nov. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1343

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, EketaHuna Road District, County of Wairarapa North.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th November, 1890.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the EketaHuna Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

FREDK. WHITAKER,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

EKETAHUNA ROAD DISTRICT.

RESULT of a poll taken at EketaHuna on the 8th November, 1890, on a proposal to raise a loan of £1,000, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” for formation in the Wellington No. 2 Special-settlement Block:—

Number of ratepayers on special roll 22, representing 22 votes; number of ratepayers who voted in favour of the proposal 14, representing 14 votes; against, none; number of ratepayers who did not vote 8, representing 8 votes.

As the number of ratepayers who voted and the number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal were in each case a majority, I declare the proposal carried.

WILL. B. MATHESON,
Chairman.

Crown Grants issued under “The Murihiku Native Reserves Grants Act, 1883.”

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1890.

IT is hereby notified that, in terms of the provisions of “The Murihiku Native Reserves Grants Act, 1883,” Crown grants have been issued to the persons whose names appear in the Schedule hereto.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Ratimira te Au and others. Kate Topi.
George Mauhe and others. John W. G. Taiaroa.
Ratimira te Au and others. Ihaia Taoka.
Eliza Green and others. Peneamine Kahupatiti.
Hoani Paororo. Teone Topi Patuki & another.
J. G. Stevens and others. Elizabeth Mi.
John Hokopu. William Bates and another.
Mary Hokopu. John Paororo.
George Howell. Jane Parker.
David Pratt. Henry te Huruhuru.
Sarah A. Cameron. PiriHira Pako.
Horomona Pukuheti and another. Mary Titahi.
Henry Huruhuru. Thomas Gilroy and another.
Daniel te Auotu. Peneamine Kahupatiti.
James Leader and another. Maika Neira.
Rawhiri te Awha and another. William Fisher.
Pene te Au. Ellen Brown.
Elizabeth Stirling. James Wikson and others.
John Stirling. Caroline Goodwilly & another.
Hori Kerei Taiaroa. Emma Simeon and another.
Paitu and another. George Wera and others.
Ihaia Whaitiri. Patoromu Pu and another.
Mary Titahi. Karipa Haimona and others.
Haimona Pakipaki. Mary Hokopu.
Motoitoi. Ann Williams.
Mary Anglem. John Mi and others.
Teone Topi Patuki. James Bates and another.
Abraham Hutoitoi & another. Rewiti te Aukau.
Alfred Kaihau. John Arnett.
Caroline Howell. John Poko and another.
Teone Topi Patuki & another. Karipa Haimona and others.
William Anglem. Horomona Pukuhiti.

Appointment of Examination Shed.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby appoint the under-mentioned building to be a place where goods may be deposited for examination on the landing thereof, namely,—

A building [constructed of iron and roofed with iron, being a railway-shed, situated on the railway reserve at SYDENHAM,
between Carlyle Street, Sydenham, and South Town Belt, Christchurch, eastward of Colombo Road, Sydenham.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 380.]

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 13th November, 1890.

THE following list of tenders for the Police-station Contract, Stratford, is published for general information.

Thos. FERGUS,
Minister for Public Works.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
William Howson, Stratford .. .. .. 430 19 2

Declined.
Robert Davis, Wanganui .. .. .. 499 13 0
Charles Clarson, Hawera .. .. .. 588 0 0
M. Burgess, Ngai re .. .. .. 588 2 0
George Syme, jun., Hawera .. .. .. 589 0 0
Hooker and Walker, New Plymouth .. .. .. 613 1 0
G. Cliff, New Plymouth .. .. .. 625 0 0
Thomas S. Bond, New Plymouth .. .. .. 644 0 0

Land taken for a Further Portion of the Kawakawa Railway.

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a further portion of the Kawakawa Railway, which is a railway vested in the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, under the provisions of “The Government Railways Act, 1887:”

And whereas all conditions precedent required by law to be observed and performed prior to the taking of such lands in the manner hereby provided have been observed and performed:

Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on us by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in that behalf, do hereby notify and declare that the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are taken for a further portion of the said line of railway hereinbefore specified.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Auckland; as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. P.W.D. 16636, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

JAMES McKERROW.
J. P. MAXWELL.

Officiating Ministers for 1890.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1890.

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:—

Primitive Methodist Connexion.
The Reverend James Cocker.
The Reverend Henry Williams.

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