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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

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.

Additional Land taken at Maheno Station for the Purposes of the Lyttelton-Bluff Railway.

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Lyttelton-Bluff Railway to take further land at Maheno Station, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway, which is a railway vested in the New Zealand Railway Commissioners under the provisions of “The Government Railways Act, 1887.”

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 lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.
The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder :—

| Approximate Area of | Being Por- | Situated | Situated in the |
| each of the Parcels | tion of | in | Survey |
| of Land taken. | | Block No. | District of |
| A. R. P. | | | |
| 0 0 51 | Section 23 | VI. | Otepopo. |
| 0 1 10 | Township | VI. | Otepopo, and |
| | Section 42 | | extension |
| | | | of Maheno |
| | | | Township. |

All in the Provincial District of Otago; as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked 6023, deposited in the office of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red and green.

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

JAMES McKERROW,
T. RONAYNE,
JOHN L. SCOTT,
} Railway
Commissioners.

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares and Charges in Force upon the New Zealand Government Railways.

THE New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” do hereby make the following alterations in and additions to the scale of fares, rates, and charges on the New Zealand Government Railways, to come into force on and after the twenty-third day of April, 1894 :—

PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES.
GREYMOUTH-BRUNNERTON SECTION.

Haulage of timber loaded at Greymouth, from sidings to ships, including wharfage, will be charged 3d. per 100 superficial feet.

GREYMOUTH-HOKITIKA SECTION.

Timber for export, consigned to Greymouth from the Hokitika line, as follows, will be charged, at per 100 superficial feet: From 12 to 18 miles, 1s. 1d., including all charges.

PART VI.—WHARVES.
GREYMOUTH SECTION.
Greymouth Wharf Rates.

Timber for export, carried by rail to Greymouth Station, free.

The common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners was hereunto affixed, this thirteenth day of April, (L.S.) one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, in the presence of

JAMES McKERROW,
T. RONAYNE,
JOHN L. SCOTT,
} Railway
Commissioners.

Member of the House of Representatives elected, Waitemata District.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 17th April, 1894.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 21st day of March, 1894, for the election of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Waitemata, and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that

WILLIAM FERGUSON MASSEY

has been duly elected to serve as a Member for the said district.

HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.

Notice by the Public Trustee of his Election to administer Intestate Estates.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 17th April, 1894.

NOTICE.—It is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the provisions of section 8 of “The Public Trust Office Acts Amendment Act, 1893,” the Public Trustee, having elected to administer the property of the following persons, who, so far as is known, have died intestate within the Colony of New Zealand, did file his election in writing at the Supreme Court Office, at the place stated after the name of each such deceased person :—

Thomas McInerney, late of Amuri, in the Provincial District of Canterbury. Filed at Christchurch, on the 6th day of April, 1894.

Thomas Hughes, late of Kumara, in the Provincial District of Westland. Filed at Hokitika, on the 5th day of April, 1894.

Archibald Wilson, late of Hastings, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay. Filed at Napier, on the 7th day of April, 1894.

Marion Allen, late of Wadestown, in the Provincial District of Wellington. Filed at Wellington, on the 12th day of April, 1894.

James Hart, late of Nelson, in the Provincial District of Nelson. Filed at Nelson, on the 12th day of April, 1894.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE is hereby given that FRANCIS BEDE FREEHILL, Esq., of 42, Hunter Street, Sydney, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, has been this day appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in New South Wales, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of April, 1894.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE is hereby given that THOMAS NAPOLEON WOODWARD, Esq., of Albion Chambers, Bendigo, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has been this day appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of April, 1894.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Officiating Ministers for 1894.—Notice No. 11.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 17th April, 1894.

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 Reihana Ngatote.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

Mr. David Arthur Anderson.

[This name is published in substitution for that of David D. Anderson, which appeared in the Gazette of the 18th January.]

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.