Oct. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1457

5864, deposited in the office of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

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

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

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st September, 1893.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1895, the period of literature will be the latter end of the eighteenth century, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s “Julius Cæsar” and Thackeray’s “Esmond.”

W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Officiating Ministers for 1893.—Notice No. 25.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th October, 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:—

Primitive Methodist Connexion.
The Reverend John Robert Hindes.
The Reverend Edward Drake.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend William Hill Philip.

Scandinavian Methodist Mission.
The Reverend Otter Christoffersen.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 9th October, 1893.

THE Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, No. 250, situated at Milton, is registered as a branch of the New Zealand District Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society friendly society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 9th day of October, 1893.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

“The Education Reserves Act, 1877.”

IN exercise of the powers and authorities vested in them by “The Education Reserves Act, 1877,” the School Commissioners for the Otago Provincial District have, by resolution dated the 20th day of June, 1893, appropriated and set apart the parcel of land hereinafter described as a site for a public school.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Chairman.

ALL that piece of land situated in the Greenvale District, in the Provincial District of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement 8 acres 2 roods 35 poles, more or less, being section numbered 15 (formerly part of Section No. 8), Block XI., on the public map of the said District of Greenvale; as the same is shown on the plan of the said section deposited in the Survey Office at Dunedin.

Examination of Mine-managers and Engine-drivers.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 12th October, 1893.

AN examination of candidates for certificates as First- and Second-class Mine-managers and Engine-drivers under “The Mining Act, 1891,” and “The Coal-mines Act, 1891,” will be held on Monday, the 22nd January, 1894, and three following days, at places to be hereafter named. All applications, with necessary certificates, and fee of £1, must be addressed to “The Secretary of the Board of Examiners under the Mining Act or Coal-mines Act, Wellington,” and must be received before the 1st January, 1894, or they will not be dealt with until the following examination.

T. H. HAMER,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

Examination for Teachers’ Certificates, January, 1894.

Education Department,
Wellington, 13th September, 1893.

CANDIDATES are reminded that the regulations require that applications for admission to the examination of teachers be sent in to the office of the Education Department, Wellington, by 31st October.

WM. JAS. HABENS,
Secretary for Education.

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.

Notice by Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1892.”

In the matter of a parcel of land containing by admeasurement 1 rood (more or less), and being section numbered 134 of Block II., in Fifth Avenue, in the Township of Tauranga, of which one Alfred Campbell, now deceased, was the owner.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has been made aware of the above-described land having no known owner, and he, having made reasonable inquiry, can discover neither the owner nor any agent for the said land, nor any objection to the said land being declared subject to the above-named Act:

Now, this is to give notice to all whom it may concern that, unless on or before the 30th day of June, 1894, the owner of the above-described land establishes his title thereto to the satisfaction of the Supreme Court or any Judge of such Court, the Public Trustee will take the steps prescribed by “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” to be registered as the owner of such land.

Dated this 6th day of October, 1893.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice by Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1892.”

In the matter of a parcel of land containing by admeasurement 4 acres 3 roods 27 perches (more or less), being section numbered 1601, Kopuakairongona Block, situated at Makauri, near William King’s sawmill, Poverty Bay, of which Robert Newnham, deceased, was grantee, whose heirs are unknown.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has been made aware of the above-described land having no known owner, and he, having made reasonable inquiry, can discover neither the owner nor any agent for the said land, nor any objection to the said land being declared subject to the above-named Act:

Now, this is to give notice to all whom it may concern that, unless on or before the 30th day of June, 1894, the owner of the above-described land establishes his title thereto to the satisfaction of the Supreme Court or any Judge of such Court, the Public Trustee will take the steps prescribed by “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” to be registered as the owner of such land.

Dated this 6th day of October, 1893.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice by Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1892.”

In the matter of a parcel of land containing by admeasurement 63 acres (more or less), bounded towards the south by the Wainui River, being the block numbered XXIX. on the plan of the Tautane District, Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, of which John McAleavey, deceased, was the grantee, whose heirs are unknown.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has been made aware of the above-described land having no known owner, and he, having made reasonable inquiry, can discover neither