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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

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 Caesar" 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 rail-
way, 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 Commis-
sioners, 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:—

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.

[In substitution for notification published in New Zealand
Gazette of 19th April, 1894.]

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 fol-
lowing alterations in and additions to the scale of fares,
rates, and charges on the New Zealand Government Rail-
ways, to come into force on and after the thirtieth day
of April, 1894:—

PART I.—PASSENGERS.

GENERAL FARES AND REGULATIONS.—WORKMEN'S COM-
MUTATION TICKETS.

Twelve-trip tickets are issued for distances not over twenty
miles.

They will be sold only to persons resident in the neighbour-
hood of the issuing station.

They are available only for the purchaser, whose name
must be inscribed thereon.

They are available for a fortnight from date of issue.

Any portion punched, detached, or not used before the
ticket expires is not available for use.

No reduction in charge is made for children.

The tickets are not transferable.

They will be charged as follows:—

Scale.

PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES.

PICTON SECTION.

The maximum rate of 6s. per ton for straw, pressed, con-
sign to Picton for shipment, is hereby cancelled.

PART V.—CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS.

Gas, liquefied carbonic acid, in solid drawn steel
tubes. Owners' risk. . . . Class A.
Oilcake, New Zealand made. Owners' risk. . . Class E.

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

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 24th 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:—

James Fenton, late of Arrowtown, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Otago. Filed at Invercargill, on the 13th day of
April, 1894.

Agnes Grundy, late of Napier, in the Provincial District of
Hawke's Bay. Filed at Napier, on the 13th day of April,
1894.

David Rae, late of Napier, in the Provincial District of
Hawke's Bay. Filed at Napier, on the 21st day of April,
1894.

William Ellery Carr, late of Cullensville, in the Provincial
District of Marlborough. Filed at Blenheim, on the 17th
day of April, 1894.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1894.—Notice No. 12.

Registrar-Général's Office,
Wellington, 25th 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 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 Kerr Grant, M.A.

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Michael Glasheen.
The Reverend Edward F. Walsh.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—Alexander Davidson, of Bernard Street, in
the Town of Leith, in Scotland, Solicitor, has been
this day appointed by his Honour Mr. Justice Williams a
Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in
Scotland, under the 2nd section of "The Commissioners of
the Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of adminis-
tering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations
as in the said section mentioned.
Dated at Dunedin, this 10th day of April, 1894.
COLIN McK. GORDON,
Registrar, Supreme Court.