Aug. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1129

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.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

THE INSPECTING ACCOUNTANT, LANDS AND SURVEY DEPARTMENT

to frank letters, telegrams, and parcels on the public service.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Money-order and Savings-bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1892.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a Money-order and Savings-bank Office will be opened at

WAIATAKI (Chief Office, Timaru),

from the 8th proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers, 1892.—Notice No. 23.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th July, 1892.

NOTICE has been received that

The Reverend Edward Armstrong and
The Reverend William Armstrong Wilmer

have ceased to be employed as Ministers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in New Zealand. Their names have been withdrawn from the list of Officiating Ministers, under “The Marriage Act, 1880,” at the request of the President of the Conference.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1892.—Notice No. 24.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Wesleyan Methodist Church.
The Reverend James Richard Clark.
The Reverend Thomas N. Newbold.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 21st July, 1892.

THE Rangitikei Lodge, No. 14, situated at Bulls, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 21st day of July, 1892.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maoris under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination; the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, and are open to all Maoris under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have not been pupils at Te Aute or St. Stephen’s, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory. The senior scholarship is offered for competition among Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1886, and in the supplementary regulations that have been sent out to all teachers. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV. in the Native Schools Code, 1886. The questions set will, however, be more difficult than those given at the standard examinations. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 19th and 20th December, 1892.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 31st May, 1892.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Town and Rural Lands, Auckland District.

District Land and Survey Office,
Auckland, 14th July, 1892.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned town and rural lands will be offered for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 9th day of September next, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

Section 1, very broken forest land, containing 30 kauri trees, or about 50,000ft. of timber. Section 3, very broken forest land, containing 140 kauri trees, or about 200,000ft. of timber. These sections are from one to two miles from Whananaki Inlet.

RODNEY COUNTY.—WAIWERA SURVEY DISTRICT.—BLOCK III.

17 | 3 3 0 | 3 15 0

Broken country, near Puhoi Township; subject to £48 for fencing and grassing.

Terms of Sale: One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee, within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land shall henceforth be null and void.

Plans may be seen and further information obtained on application at this office.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.