New Zealand Gazette – 1891 – No. 79

Page 1183

✨ Financial Statements, Officiating Ministers, Civil Service Exam, Rainfall Data

Oct. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1183

STATEMENT of RECEIPTS and PAYMENTS under “The Dunedin Church Lands Ordinance, 1861,” during the Year ended 30th September, 1891.

RESERVE No. 5.

Receipts.

£ s. d.
1890.
Sept. 30 Balance in hand .. .. .. 146 18 7
1891.
Sept. 30 Rents .. .. .. 781 18 0
£928 16 7

Payments.

£ s. d.
Professor Dunlop, twelve months’ salary .. .. .. 600 0 0
Professor Watt, twelve months’ salary .. .. .. 100 0 0
Audit fees (two years) .. .. .. 2 2 0
Janitor .. .. .. 5 0 0
Insurance, manse and books .. .. 4 11 0
Rates on manse .. .. .. 7 10 0
Assessment, Synod expenses .. .. 35 0 0
Commission .. .. .. 39 1 10
793 4 10

Balance in hand .. .. £135 11 9

E. and O. E. E. SMITH,
General Treasurer, Presbyterian Church of Otago.

Dunedin, 30th September, 1891.

STATEMENT of RECEIPTS and PAYMENTS under “The Dunedin Church Lands Ordinance, 1861,” during the Year ended 30th September, 1891.

RESERVE No. 10.

Receipts.

£ s. d.
1890.
Sept. 30 Balance in hand .. .. .. 904 12 2
1891.
Sept. 30 Rents .. .. .. 1,614 12 3
£2,519 4 5

Payments.

£ s. d.
Property-tax .. .. .. 142 7 8
Rates on vacant land .. .. .. 74 0 0
Assessment, Synod expenses .. .. 100 0 0
Audit fees (two years) .. .. .. 8 8 0
Legal costs .. .. .. 12 5 0
Advertising vacant sections .. .. 10 2 0
Signboard for vacant sections .. .. 0 6 6
Commission .. .. .. 80 14 6
Otago and Southland Company, balance of loan .. .. 1,000 0 0
Otago and Southland Company, interest .. .. .. 40 0 0
1,468 3 8

Balance in hand .. .. £1,051 0 9

E. and O. E. E. SMITH,
General Treasurer, Presbyterian Church of Otago.

Dunedin, 30th September, 1891.

Officiating Ministers for 1891.—Notice No. 25.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1891.

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 Frederick William Boys.
The Reverend Greenwell Carr.
The Reverend George Grindley.

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

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1891.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1893, the period of literature will be the reign of Elizabeth, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macaulay’s Essays on Bacon and Walpole.

W. P. REEVES.
Minister of Education.

Rainfall for September, 1891.

Meteorological Office.

THE following is the rainfall for the month of September, 1891:—

Station.	Observer.	Total Fall in Inches.	Days of Rain.	Maximum Fall and Date.
Pakaraka (Bay of Islands)	H. Williams ..	6·12	12	1·37 on 10th.
Auckland	Govt. Observer	1·96	13	0·86 on 15th.
Cuvier Island (Hauraki Gulf)	Lightkeeper ..	..	..	..
Omokoroa (Tau-ranga)	L. A. Shadwell	3·25	12	0·62 on 11th.
Te Aroha	P. Snewin ..	4·71	12	1·63 on 15th.
Rotorua	Dr. Ginders ..	3·83	16	0·87 on 12th.
Gisborne	Archd. Williams	4·54	15	0·88 on 15th.
Mahia Peninsula	G. C. Ormond	3·32	13	0·74 on 18th.
Matahiia (Gisborne)	F. J. Kemp ..	11·50	11	2·92 on 16th.
Papatu Station (Poverty Bay)	H. N. Watson	4·52	17	1·36 on 15th.
Waipiro (Gisborne)	S. Dodgshun..	8·23	14	2·08 on 14th.
Napier..	E. Lyndon ..	2·36	10	0·76 on 17th.
Onepoto (L. Waikaremoana)	F. R. Phillips	5·70	13	1·68 on 15th.
Waimarama, H.B.	W. Davidson	2·42	15	0·81 on 17th.
Mt. Vernon, H.B.	E. H. Wright	2·65	13	0·62 on 17th.
Gwavas, H.B. ..	J. Nicoll ..	3·38	14	0·78 on 17th.
Inglewood	Miss N. Trimble	4·28	15	1·22 on 21st.
Ngatimaru	Miss A. Hutchinson	3·63	12	1·36 on 21st.
Opunake	A. H. Moore ..	1·76	11	0·73 on 30th.
Manaia	G. A. Hurley	..	..	..
Kaponga (Wanganui)	E. J. Ellerm..	2·95	8	1·00 on 11th.
Hawera (Waipapa)	J. Livingston	1·94	6	1·06 on 26th.
Wanganui	W.L. Mountfort	1·14	7	0·56 on 26th.
Feilding	S. Goodbehere	1·45	14	0·50 on 26th.
Palmerston North	Capt. S. Brown	2·09	14	0·54 on 26th.
Ashurst	Claude Francis	2·33	14	0·50 on 26th.
Masterton	B. Couborne ..	1·92	14	0·25 on 15th, 16th, 17th, and 26th.
Otahuaoc	J. Bennett ..	1·79	13	0·40 on 26th.
Carterton	H. Braithwaite	1·13	9	0·43 on 26th.
Featherston	H. C. Smith ..	1·48	9	0·71 on 23rd.
Dry River (near Martinborough)	C. Phillips ..	1·61	11	0·77 on 26th.
Summit (Rimutuka)	M. Cronin ..	5·31	13	1·04 on 19th.
Upper Hutt	T. Lewis ..	1·88	5	0·88 on 26th.
Taita ..	T. Mason ..	1·48	9	0·81 on 26th.
Petone..	Sir J. Hector	0·65	10	0·35 on 26th.
Wellington	Govt. Observer	1·28	13	0·52 on 26th.
Wainuiomata Reservoir	Keeper ..	2·48	7	0·41 on 12th.
Wellington Reservoir	W. Edmonds	1·08	9	0·55 on 26th.
Flaxbourne	W. Tatchell ..	3·40	8	1·00 on 17th.
Cape Campbell ..	Lightkeeper ..	1·98	8	0·70 on 16th.
Kaikoura	Miss E. Collins	2·76	10	1·21 on 16th.
The Brothers	Lightkeeper ..	0·99	7	0·32 on 30th.
Farewell Spit	Lightkeeper ..	3·62	9	2·25 on 12th.
Lincoln	E. Wilkinson	1·13	7	0·45 on 26th.
Rangiora	T. W. Rowe ..	2·92	14	0·63 on 26th.
Hororata (Selwyn)	Sir J. Hall, M.H.R.	1·51	8	0·83 on 25th.
Kapunatiki (Bulmer)	Hon.W. Rolleston, M.H.R.	1·74	9	0·90 on 26th.
Methven	E. Chapman..	2·04	7	1·13 on 26th.
Winchmore (Ashburton)	R. W. Hart ..	1·82	6	1·15 on 26th.
Dunedin	Govt. Observer	1·15	13	0·41 on 26th.
Greymouth	J. Conner ..	5·60	11	1·03 on 11th.
Milford Sound ..	W. J. Mullin..	21·51	16	7·10 on 3rd.
Balclutha	W. McHutcheson	1·09	6	0·45 on 25th.
Bealey..	J. Ryan ..	3·01	13	1·30 on 5th.
Maheno (Otago)..	R. A. Chaffey	0·97	9	0·31 on 4th.
Dipton	R. D. MacLachlan	2·45	7	1·04 on 25th.
Invercargill	J. L. Bush ..	5·00	11	1·25 on 25th.
Puysegur Point..	Lightkeeper ..	..	..	..
Queenstown	L. Hotop ..	2·08	7	0·80 on 25th.
Chatham Islands	A. Shand ..	1·17	13	0·56 on 24th.

J. HECTOR, Director.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1891, No 79

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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💰 Statement of Receipts and Payments under Dunedin Church Lands Ordinance (continued from previous page)

Domain💰 Finance & Revenue
Dated30 September 1891
KeywordsDunedin Church Lands, Financial Statements, Presbyterian Church, Otago
👩‍💼 Officials

E. and O. E. E. Smith, General Treasurer, Presbyterian Church of Otago

⚖️ Officiating Ministers for 1891

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
Dated25 October 1891
KeywordsMarriage Act, Officiating Ministers, Primitive Methodist Connexion
👱🏽 Names

Frederick William Boys (Reverend), Officiating Minister
Greenwell Carr (Reverend), Officiating Minister
George Grindley (Reverend), Officiating Minister

👩‍💼 Officials

WM. R. E. Brown, Registrar-General

👷 Civil Service Senior Examination

Domain👷 Labour & Employment
Dated16 September 1891
KeywordsCivil Service Reform Act, Senior Examination, Literature, Special Books
👩‍💼 Officials

W. P. Reeves, Minister of Education

🏥 Rainfall for September 1891

Domain🏥 Health & Social Welfare
KeywordsMeteorological Office, Rainfall, Weather Data, Stations, Observers
👩‍💼 Officials

J. Hector, Director

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