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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

Civil Service Examinations, January, 1894.

Education Department,
Wellington, 13th September, 1893.

CANDIDATES are reminded that the regulations require
that applications for admission to the Civil Service
Examinations, Junior and Senior, be sent in to the office of
the Education Department, Wellington, by 31st October.
WM. JAS. HABENS,
Secretary for Education.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the
month of August, 1893. Altitude above the sea,
140ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means. † Same month previous years.

REMARKS. — Heavy showers of rain up to 7th, 1·26in.
recorded on 3rd, and 1·65in. on 5th, the maximum for month ;
also showery on 10th and 11th, then some fine weather for
remainder of month, with showers at intervals ; prevailing
N.W. winds, and frequently strong ; snow on hills on 11th ;
hail on 11th ; fog on 3rd and 4th ; maximum temperature
in shade, 62°·3 ; minimum, 35° ; mean temperature of dew-
point, 44°·4 ; mean humidity, 75 ; earthquake on 4th, at
2.44 p.m., smart, and on 23rd, at 8 a.m., very slight ; lunar
rainbow, 25th.
R. B. GORE, Observer.

Patent Office Supplement.

A SEPARATE Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette is
now published fortnightly, containing all notices con-
cerning patents and trade-marks required by law to be
gazetted ; also, particulars of lapsed applications for patents,
expired letters patent, and other information useful to in-
ventors, manufacturers, and others. The Supplement will
be issued free to subscribers to the Gazette, and to others on
payment of a special subscription of ten shillings per annum,
payable in advance to the Government Printer.
SAMUEL COSTALL.

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 In-
spector 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, 1893. Candidates for the
junior scholarships will be examined in the subjects specified
for Standard IV. in the Native Schools Code, 1893. The
questions will, however, be more difficult than those set for
the standard examinations. The examination will be held
at convenient centres on the 18th and 19th December, 1893.
Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers,
send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education
Department, Wellington, of their intention to present them-
selves 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 insti-
tutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secre-
tary for Education.
JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.
Wellington, 25th April, 1893.

Crown Lands Notices.

Pastoral Lands, Westland, open for Lease on Application.

District Land and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 30th August, 1893.

IN accordance with section 197 of "The Land Act, 1892,"
I hereby give notice that the under-mentioned pastoral
runs have been submitted for sale by public auction and not
sold, and will be open for application, at the upset rental, on
and after the 12th day of October next :—

Run No. 23, Clarke and Landsborough Rivers, 21,000 acres ;
Run No. 24, Waiatoto River, 10,000 acres ;
Run No. 36, Oinemaka (Black) River, 15,000 acres ;
Run No. 49, Gordon River (Happy Valley), 12,000 acres ;
Run No. 74, south side Haast River, 10,000 acres ;
Run No. 75, south side Haast River, 6,000 acres ;
Run No. 98, Copland Range, 5,000 acres ;
Run No. 99, Whitcombe River, 5,000 acres ;
Run No. 100, Gribben Spur, 5,000 acres ;
Run No. 101, Dickie Spur, 5,000 acres.

Subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892,"
Part VI. All for the terms of ten years each, and at the
annual rental of £1 per 1,000 acres. Possession to be given
on the date of granting application, after necessary declara-
tion taken, with the exception of Run No. 75, of which
possession cannot be given until on or after the 1st day of
March, 1894.
DAVID BARRON,
Commissioner, Crown Lands.

Land in Town of Opotiki for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 5th August, 1893.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lease will
be submitted to public auction at the Land Office,
Tauranga, on Wednesday, the 4th October proximo, at 11
a.m.

TOWN OF OPOTIKI.

The lease for a term of fourteen years of Lot 15, Section 2,
containing 1a. 1r. 27p.; upset annual rent, £1.
Terms of lease: Rent to be paid yearly in advance. Lessee
may remove all fencing and buildings that may be erected
by him prior to the expiration of the term of lease, but will
have no right to valuation or compensation for improvements
or right of renewal of lease.
GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.