Nov. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1307

Fixing Sittings of the Supreme Court in the Otago and Southland Judicial District.

WE, five of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in us by “The Supreme Court Act, 1882,” hereby make the following rules respecting the places and times for holding sittings of the Supreme Court and sittings in Chambers, in the Judicial District of Otago and Southland, for the year 1892:—

Sittings for the trial of criminal cases will be held at the Supreme Courthouse, DUNEDIN, to commence on the following days, at 10 a.m. :—

Monday, 7th March.
Monday, 6th June.
Monday, 5th September.
Monday, 5th December.

Sittings for the trial of civil actions will be held at the Supreme Courthouse, DUNEDIN, to commence on the following days, at 10 a.m. :—

Monday, 22nd February.
Monday, 21st March.
Monday, 27th June.
Monday, 1st August.
Monday, 12th September.
Monday, 21st November.

The trial of causes under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867,” may take place at any of the above-mentioned sittings for the trial of civil actions.

Sittings of the Court in Banco will be held at the Courthouse, DUNEDIN, every Wednesday, except during vacation, or in the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers will be held at the Judge’s Chambers, in the Courthouse, DUNEDIN, every Tuesday and Friday, except during vacation, or in the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers at other times and during vacation, in respect of urgent business, may be held at such times and places as may suit the convenience of the Judge.

Sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases, and of causes under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867,” will be held at the Courthouse, INVERCARGILL, to commence on the following days, at 10 a.m. :—

Tuesday, 9th February.
Tuesday, 14th June.
Tuesday, 27th September.

Sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases, and of causes under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867,” will be held at the Courthouse, OAMARU, to commence on the following days, at 10 a.m. :—

Tuesday, 15th March.
Tuesday, 6th September.

Business in Chambers may be disposed of in the course of these sittings, at such days and hours as the Judge may appoint.

If any of the days above appointed for sittings should be a public holiday, the sittings will commence on the first day after the day so appointed which is not a holiday.

Given under our hands, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

JAMES PRENDERGAST.
C. W. RICHMOND.
JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS.
J. E. DENNISTON.
EDWARD T. CONOLLY.

Judges of the Supreme Court under “The Election Petitions Act, 1880,” named.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF }
NEW ZEALAND. }

In the matter of “The Election Petitions Act, 1880.”

IT is hereby notified that I have, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Election Petitions Act, 1880,” named

JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS, Esq., one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and

JOHN EDWARD DENNISTON, Esq., another of such Judges,

to be the Judges of the Supreme Court before whom shall be tried the petition presented by Eden George against the return of Ebenezer Sandford as a Member of the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of the City of Christchurch.

Dated this 14th day of November, 1891.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Chief Justice.

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.

Crown Lands Notices.

Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Auckland, 1st October, 1891.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, in terms of sections 3 to 11 of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887,” either for cash, on deferred payments, or for perpetual lease, at the option of the selector, on and after Wednesday, the 25th November, 1891. In cases where more than one application is received for the same section, priority of choice will be decided by priority of application :—

SECOND-CLASS UNSURVEYED LAND.

Coromandel and Raglan Counties.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Moehau and Cape Colville Survey Districts, and containing approximately 1,450 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by the Poihakene No. 1 Block; towards the east by a right line running due south from the south-eastern angle of the last-named block, 12000 links; thence towards the north-east by a right line to the northernmost angle of Section No. 1 of Block I., Moehau Survey District; towards the south-east by that section; and towards the west generally by the sea to the point of commencement.

Generally very broken land, covered with scrub and mixed bush. Cash price, 5s. per acre.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Cape Colville Survey District, and containing approximately 1,400 acres. Bounded towards the east generally by the sea; towards the south-east by Section No. 1, Block II., Moehau Survey District; towards the south-west by a right line from the westernmost angle of Section No. 1 aforesaid to the southernmost angle of the Moehau No. 1m Block; and towards the north-west by the Moehau No. 1m Block aforesaid to the point of commencement.

Generally very broken land, covered with scrub and mixed bush. Cash price, 5s. per acre.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Moehau and Harataunga Survey Districts, and containing approximately 1,700 acres. Bounded towards the north-east generally by the sea; towards the south-east generally by the Tapapakaroro, Okahutahi, and Motukahakaha Blocks to the westernmost angle of the last-named block; thence towards the south-west by a right line to the southernmost angle of Section No. 1 of Block II., Moehau Survey District; and towards the north-west by that section and Stony Bay to the point of commencement.

Generally very broken land, covered with scrub and mixed bush. Cash price, 5s. per acre.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Parish of Whangape, and containing approximately 17,000 acres. Bounded towards the north generally by a public road and by Section No. 5, Parish of Opuatia; towards the east generally by Sections Nos. 30, 84, 81, and 82, Parish of Whangape; towards the south generally by a public road, by Sections No. 32, Block VIII., and Section No. 26, Block VII., Awaroa Survey District, by a public road, by Section Nos. 4, 3, 2, and 1, Block VII., Awaroa Survey District aforesaid, and by the northern boundary of Block VI. of the same survey district; and towards the south-west by Section No. 3, Parish of Putataka, to the point of commencement.

All mixed forest, with a few fern openings; soil generally very good, and a large proportion of it is limestone. Roads have been graded through the block, and will in some places be partially cleared so that selectors can trace the lines. Cash price, 15s. per acre.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.