JUNE 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 829

partly on the face, and to include provision for registered
age- and stud-marks. First prize, £10; second prize, £5.
2nd. The best combination of ear-marks made with punch
or nippers for ear only. (Samples of approved marks on
application to any Stock Inspector.) First prize, £5; second
prize, £2 10s.
All applications must be addressed "The Secretary for
Agriculture, Wellington"; and must reach this office not
later than the 30th June, 1894.
Each application must be marked with a motto only, and
be accompanied with a sealed envelope bearing the same
motto, and containing the name and address of the com-
petitor.
The prize-winners lose all right to their schemes, but those
of unsuccessful competitors will be returned to them on
application.
The judge or judges have power to withhold any or all of
the prizes if they are of opinion that none of the schemes
submitted are worthy of an award.
JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture.

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 1894.—Notice No. 19.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th June, 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 inti-
tuled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following name of an
Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act
is published for general information:—

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend Brabazon Tooke Hallowes, B.A.
E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

*Notice by Public Trustee under "The Unclaimed Lands
Act, 1892."

In the matter of a parcel of land containing by admeasure-
ment 1 acre, more or less, being Section 542, fronting
Hamilton Road and Vogel Street, in the Borough of Cam-
bride and Provincial District of Auckland, of which the
last registered owner was Thomas Lamb, described as of
Auckland, settler, whose whereabouts is 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 31st day of March, 1895, 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 1st day of June, 1894.
J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 5th June, 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 person,
who, so far as is known, has 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 such deceased person:—
Paul Frederick de Quincey, late of Auckland, in the Pro-
vincial District of Auckland. Filed at Auckland, on the 16th
day of May, 1894.
J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—WILLIAM BINDLEY WEBB, Esq., of Port
Adelaide, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of
South Australia, has been this day appointed by his
Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand in South Australia, 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 31st day of May, 1894.
D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke's
Bay.

TWO scholarships, of the yearly value of £35, tenable for
two years, are offered for competition. These 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
Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory.
Candidates for these 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 examina-
tion will be held at convenient centres on the 17th and 18th
December, 1894.
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
institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the
Secretary for Education.
JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.
Wellington, 1st June, 1894.

Crown Lands Notices.

Small Grazing-runs open for Lease on Application.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 14th May, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small
grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at
the District Lands Office, on and after the 4th July, 1894, at
the half-yearly rental noted opposite the runs. In case of
more than one application for the runs on the same day,
priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following
day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
WAITAKI COUNTY.

Survey District. | Section. | Block. | Area. | Rent per Acre. | Half-yearly Rent.
Domet .. | 2 | X. | A. B. P. | 13,540 0 0 | 3d. 84 12 6
" .. | 2 | XI. |
Kakanui | 1 | I. |
" .. | 1 | II. |
Kyeburn | 1 | VIII. |
" .. | 1 | XIII. |
" .. | 1 | XIV. |

Subdivisions of parts of Pastoral Runs Nos. 300 and 301.
The country is of sound grazing quality, containing about
4,000 acres of well-grassed land, about 4,000 acres fairly-
grassed, and the remainder poorly-grassed and broken. It
averages an altitude of 2,800ft., is well watered, and fronts
the main Livingstone-Naseby Road. The run contains a
capital homestead-site, around which are several hundred
acres of arable land. Livingstone is six miles and Tokarahi
Railway-station eleven miles distant. Valuation for house
and fencing, £57 14s., which amount must be paid imme-
diately the result of the ballot is declared. This run was
lately surrendered by James Chapman.

Domet .. | 1 | X. | 9,640 0 0 | 3d. 60 5 0
" .. | 3 | XI. |
Kyeburn | 1 | X. |
" .. | 2 | XIII. |
Kakanui | 2 | I. |