MAY 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 697

Upper Moutere Road District, County of Waimea:
William Drogmuller.
William Perry.
John Diederich Benke.
Frederick Heine.
Frederick Böckman.
James Harvey.
Ashley Road District, County of Ashley:
Robert Duncan.
James Dothie Milton.
Edwin George Philpott.
Josiah Hodges.
John Stewart.
Kowai Road District, County of Ashley:
Richard Bristow.
Thomas Henry Evans.
Robert Bingley Holdsworth.
Herman Mahler.
John Mathers.
Malvern Road District, County of Selwyn:
George Rutherford.
Henry Williamson.
Thomas Wallace.
Joseph Charles Evans.
John Traves.
South Malvern Road District, County of Selwyn:
William Hitchell.
Patrick King.
William Leeming.
Jesse Prestidge.
George Rutherford.
Mount Peel Road District, County of Geraldine:
Charles George Tripp.
George James Dennistoun.
Robert Thew.
Robert Mackay.
John Dyke Acland.
Geraldine Road District, County of Geraldine:
Kyran Brophy.
William DeRenzy.
Frederick Robert Flatman.
John Kelland.
Anthony Metcalf.
Wyndham Road District, County of Southland:
Oware Subdivision—Henry Munro.
" John Cary Strangman.
" Andrew Noble.
Redan Subdivision—George Playfair.

Commissioner's Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 10th May, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Hon. the Commissioner of Trade and Customs has decided to interpret "The Customs and Excise Duties Act, 1898," in relation to the under-mentioned articles as follow:—

NOTE.—"Not otherwise enumerated" appears as n.o.e.; "other kinds" as o.k.; "articles and materials suited only for, and to be used solely in, the fabrication of goods in the colony" as a. & m.s. Articles marked thus * are revised decisions.

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.
Commissioner's Order No. 421.]

Designation of Post and Telegraph Office changed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1892.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the designation of the post and telegraph office in the Timaru Postal District, known as Fairlie Creek, will, from the 1st proximo, be changed to

FAIRLIE.

By order of the Postmaster-General.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1892.—Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 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 intituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend Sidney James Baker.
E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Deputy Registrar-General.

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 deferred 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 improvements.

These are forfeited sections in the Gordon Special Settlement, 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 occupation for a period of six years, and has fulfilled all the conditions.