April 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 507

Additional Land taken in Block XV., Ikataa Survey District, for the Purposes of the Longburn-Waitara Railway.

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Longburn-Waitara Railway, to take further land in Block XV., Ikataa Survey District, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on us by "The Government Railways Act, 1887," and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in that behalf, do hereby notify and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Wellington; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 5715, deposited in the office of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red and green.

Given under the common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of (L.S.) April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

JAMES McKERROW.
J. P. MAXWELL.
W. M. HANNAY.

Officiating Ministers for 1893.—Notice No. 12.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 15th April, 1893.

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:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Reverend JOHN DE BURGH GALWEY.

Wesleyan Methodist Church.
The Reverend JOHN SMITH.
GEO. DRURY.
Deputy Registrar-General.

Governor of Auckland College and Grammar School elected.

Auckland, 11th April, 1893.

IN accordance with "The Auckland College and Grammar School Act, 1877," and with the regulations thereunder for the election of Governors by the Education Board of the District of Auckland, I hereby notify that, at a meeting of the said Board held this day,
RICHARD UDY, Esq.,
was duly elected a Governor of the Board of Governors constituted by the said Act.
R. UDY,
Chairman of Meeting.

Crown Lands Notices.

Leases of Small Grazing-runs, Otago, open for Application.

District Land Office,
Dunedin, 17th April, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the undermentioned small grazing-runs will be open for application, at this office, on Wednesday, the 7th June, 1893, at the rental noted opposite each run.

SCHEDULE.
SECOND-CLASS LAND.—OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—WAITAKI COUNTY.

The above are subdivisions of Pastoral Run No. 17 (portion of Otekaike Station), held by Messrs. R. Campbell and Sons (Limited) under license which expired on the 28th February, 1893.

Run No. 17 is very rugged and broken, and extends from the top of Ben Lomond to the Otekaike River. Soil light, covered with tussock; well watered, with a number of sheltered gullies. Distance from Otekaike Siding about six miles by road and track. Average altitude, 2,000ft.

Run No. 17A is very steep and broken where it faces the Otekaike and towards the Maruwenaua, but there are very good slopes near the top of it; soil light, growing tussock; well watered. Distance from Kyeburn, on west, six miles; from Otekaike, to north-east, nine miles (both accessible by track); and from Livingstone, to the south-east, seven miles by road. Altitude averages 2,500ft.

Run No. 17B includes the southern slope from the Ben Lomond range to the Maruwenaua River; soil light, growing tussock; well watered. Distance from Livingstone by road, seven miles. Average altitude, 2,000ft.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years, at a rent to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to lessee as provided by "The Land Act, 1892," section 182. Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form printed hereon.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on the run is compulsory, and commences within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one year's rental by the end of the first year, two years' rental by the end of the second year, and four years' rental at the end of the sixth year; and on bush land, in addition thereto, improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year's rent and £1 1s. for the lease must accompany the application; the rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease. The next payment of rent will become due on the 1st March, 1894.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

DECLARATION.

I, , of* , do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.
2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892," am desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of Run No.†
3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use of any other person or persons whatever.
4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such lease.
5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.
6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the colony, either by myself or jointly with any other person, which, exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease of, will exceed in area 1,000 acres.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."

(Signature.)

Declared at , this day of , 18 , before me, , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.