JULY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 951

Trustees of Drill-shed resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 5th July, 1892.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignations of

WILLIAM HAROLD SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Esq., and
HENRY SMART ELGAR HOBDAY, Esq.,

as Trustees of the Wellington Volunteer Drill-shed, under “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” and the Acts amending the same. Date of resignations, 28th June, 1892.

R. J. SEDDON.

Trustee of Drill-shed resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 5th July, 1892.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of

Lieut.-Colonel ARCHIBALD HILL JACK,

Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers, as a Trustee of the Dunedin Garrison Hall, under “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” and the Acts amending the same. Date of resignation, 16th March, 1892.

R. J. SEDDON.

Arbor Day.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th July, 1892.

T HURSDAY, the 4th day of August next, will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout New Zealand for the celebration of Arbor Day.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
Colonial Secretary.

Arson.—Free Pardon.—£150 Reward.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th July, 1892.

W HEREAS on or about the 19th June last the school-house situated in Hampden Street, Nelson, was set on fire :

This is to notify that His Excellency the Governor will grant a free pardon to any person implicated in the said fire, not being the principal offender, who will give such information as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of any one or more of the other offenders ; and that a reward of £150 is offered to any person, not being the principal offender, who shall first give such information.

A. J. CADMAN.

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads over Lands in the Nuhaka No. 2 Block, Hawke’s Bay Land District.

N OTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, under the authority of “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” and the amendments thereof, that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were, on the 25th day of May, 1890, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant of the date mentioned therein.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land situated in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 28 acres 2 roods 6 perches, more or less, being a road, 100 links wide and upwards, traversing the Nuhaka No. 2 Block, in Blocks III. and VIII., Nuhaka Survey District, the centre line of which commences at a point on the north side of the Wairoa-Mahia Road 2019·7 links west of the Nuhaka River ; and proceeds thence in a north-easterly direction 25418·3 links to the Nuhaka River, about 18 chains south of the Tunanui Junction : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less ; as the same is delineated on Map No. 708, deposited in the Survey Office, Napier.

Also all that parcel of land situate in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 9 acres 2 roods 5 perches, more or less, being a road, 100 links wide and upwards, traversing part of the Nuhaka No. 2 Block, in Block VIII., Nuhaka Survey District, the centre line of which commences at a point on the south side of the Wairoa-Mahia Road 512·5 links west of peg 1 ; and proceeds thence in a southerly direction 9239 links to the Road Reserve 1 chain from high-water mark : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less ; as the same is delineated on Map No. 708, deposited in the Survey Office, Napier.

Date of Governor’s warrant, 22nd October, 1889.

Dated this twenty-second day of June, 1892.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Altering Time of Meeting of the Auckland Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 6th July, 1892.

I T is hereby notified for public information that His Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 43 of “The Land Act, 1885,” approved the following resolution of the Land Board of the Land District of Auckland, viz. :

“17th June, 1892.

“That the day of meeting be changed from Fridays to Tuesdays, at 10 o’clock a.m., commencing on Tuesday, the 12th July.”

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Special Claim cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th May, 1892.

I T is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce 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 :

Just-in-Time Gold-mining Company ; Section 44, Block XI., Reefton, Karamea Mining District, 21 acres 2 roods 27 perches. No. 1065.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Notice to Mariners, No. 22 of 1892.

PORT OF FOXTON, MANAWATU RIVER.—EXHIBITION OF ADDITIONAL LEADING-LIGHTS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 2nd July, 1892.

N OTICE is hereby given that, owing to changes in the line of banks at the entrance to the Manawatu River, two additional white lights will be temporarily exhibited.

Vessels entering should cross the bar with the green and red lights in one as before, and, keeping on that course until the two white lights are in line, the course should then be altered by steering for these lights until fairly inside the bar.

R. J. SEDDON.

Notice to Mariners, No. 23 of 1892.

Marine Department.
Wellington, 4th July, 1892.

T HE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, is published for general information.

R. J. SEDDON.

INNER ROUTE TO TORRES STRAIT.—POSITION OF HEATH ROCKS.

Notice is hereby given that the position of Heath Rocks has been found to be E. ½ N. (magnetic), three-quarters of a mile from that assigned to it on the charts.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 11th June, 1892.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1891.

I N 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.