Oct. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1533

Officiating Ministers for 1893.—Notice No. 27.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 20th 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 in-
tituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are
published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend William Anderson Kyd.
The Reverend James Swanson Reid.
E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

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 Depart-
ment, 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.

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.

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.

Town, Suburban, and Rural Lands for Sale, Auckland Land District.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 13th October, 1893.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned town,
suburban, and rural lands will be submitted for sale
by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 29th day of
December next, at 11 o'clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

TERMS OF SALE.

One-fifth of purchase-money to be paid on fall of hammer,
and the balance, with Crown-grant fee, within thirty days
thereafter.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs, Auckland Land District, open for Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 16th October, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small
grazing-runs will be open for lease on application,
at this office, on and after Wednesday, the 27th day of
December, 1893, at annual rentals noted below.
In the event of more applications than one being received
on the same day for the same run, priority of selection will
be decided by ballot on the following day at 11 a.m.

WAIKATO COUNTY.—PARISH OF TAUPIRI.
(Being Subdivisions of Section 463, Auckland University
College Endowment.)

Run No. 1, 1,300 acres; upset annual rent, £3 2s. 6d.
Run No. 2, 1,820 acres; upset annual rent, £11 7s. 6d.
Run No. 3, 1,350 acres; upset annual rent, £8 8s. 9d.
Run No. 4, 1,900 acres; upset annual rent, £11 17s. 6d.
Run No. 5, 1,530 acres; upset annual rent, £9 11s. 3d.
Run No. 6, 1,400 acres; upset annual rent, £8 15s.
Valuable for position near Huntly Railway-station, sixty-
five miles from Auckland, on the main trunk line. The land
is very broken, and of inferior quality. Each run is part open
and part mixed bush.
Conditions of lease and other particulars may be obtained
on application.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.