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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 34

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 liter-
ature 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.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th April, 1892.

THE following notices of Road Board elections have been
received at this office, and are published in accordance
with the provisions of "The Road Boards Act, 1882."

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Parata Road District, County of Manukau :
George Balme.
John Henry Parker.
John Newman Sawyer.
F. W. Manning.

Woodville Road District, County of Waipawa :
Andrew Clark.
William Lewis.
John Lowman.
James Henry Morgan.
Archibald McCormick.

Eketahuna Road District, County of Wairarapa North :
Alexander Anderson.
Thomas Bayliss.
Frederick Dowsett.
William Brooklyn Matheson.
Herbert Edwin Mowbray.
Magnus Neilson.
Thomas Parsons.

Makara Road District, County of Hutt :
Henry Cook.
William Robert Trotter.
Patrick Monaghan.
James McMenamen.
William Sievers.

Issue of Money-order Telegrams up to £20.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th April, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that, on and after the 1st May next,
money-order telegrams will be issued and paid in New
Zealand up to twenty pounds sterling.

The commission, in addition to the telegraph-fee of one
shilling (1s.) for each order, will be at the rate of threepence
for each pound or fraction of a pound.

By order.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1892.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1892.

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 in-
titled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following name of an
Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called
the Church of England.

The Reverend Frederick William Walker.
Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General

Goldfields Notices.

Special Claim cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 20th April, 1891.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Adminis-
trator of the Government has been pleased to pro-
nounce the under-mentioned special claim cancelled, and
that the ground is now open for application as if no lease of
the said ground had ever been applied for:—

The Phoenix Extended Gold-mining Company (Limited);
Section 143, Block XIV., Reefton, Karamea Mining District,
39 acres 2 roods 9 perches. No. 1457.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Coal-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 20th April, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned coal-mining lease cancelled, and that the
ground is now open for application as if no lease of the said
ground had ever been applied for :—

Joseph Taylor and E. J. Lord ; Section 734, Blocks X. and
XI., Arnold Survey District, Westland Mining District,
640 acres. No. 734.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Crown Lands Notices.

Forfeited Deferred-payment Lands in the Gordon Special Settlement.

District Land and Survey Office,
Auckland, 21st April, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of the Land Acts, that the
under-mentioned sections within the Gordon Special
Settlement will be offered at auction, for selection on de-
ferred payments, under the amended regulations relating to
special settlements made by Order in Council issued on the
5th December, 1885, at this office, on Thursday, the 9th
June, 1892, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

WAIRERE SURVEY DISTRICT, PIAKO COUNTY.

Block X.: Section No. 2, open fern land, well watered;
No. 6, open land with a little swamp; No. 7, about two-
thirds open land, with a little swamp and small quantity of
mixed bush, near main road; No. 9, open land with a little
bush in gullies. Block XI.: Sections Nos. 1 and 2, nearly
all open land, with a little bush on ranges; Nos.
6 and 8, open land, with about one-third mixed forest in
each. Section No. 8 is weighted with £20 for improve-
ments.

These are forfeited sections in the Gordon Special Settle-
ment, and purchasers under the regulations will stand in
the place of original settlers; and will become members of
the association.

A deposit of one-twentieth of the total purchase-money,
together with license-fee £1 1s., shall be paid on the fall of
the hammer, such deposit to be in satisfaction of the first
half-yearly instalment to be reckoned from the 1st July
next; thereafter the payments shall be made every six
months in advance, at the rate of one-twentieth of the price
of the land, until the whole price has been paid, when the
purchaser shall be entitled to a Crown grant of the land
upon proof to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown
Lands that he has been continuously in residential occupa-
tion for a period of six years, and has fulfilled all the con-
ditions.

No person who is the holder of land on deferred payments,
or who has acquired any freehold under that system, or who
is the holder of land on perpetual lease, and no person who
is the owner of a pre-emptive right, or who is the owner in
fee of land anywhere in the colony which, together with
any of the areas now offered, would exceed 320 acres, shall
be entitled to become a settler under these regulations.

The stated value of the improvements (if any) must be
paid in cash to the Receiver of Land Revenue on the fall of
the hammer.

Further information may be obtained on application at
this office.

GERHARD MUELLER;
Commissioner of Crown Lands.