Nov. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1653

2453. JOHN THOMPSON.—103 acres, Section 5, Harbour District. In occupation of George William Banks.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 7th day of November, 1894, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

J. W. SHAW,
Deputy District Land Registrar.

587

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

1118. WIREMU PERE and PEKA KEREKERE, Applicants.—The Tutoko Block, Poverty Bay, containing 62 acres 2 roods. In occupation of Applicants.

1119. HUGH CAMPBELL, Applicant.—Part of Pekapeka No. 2c, Hawke's Bay, containing 150 acres. In occupation of Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 5th day of November, 1894, at the Lands Registry Office, Napier.

G. G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

588

Private Advertisements.

In the matter of “The Foreign Companies Act, 1884.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the office of the Kapai-Vermont Gold-mining Company (No Liability) is situated at the office of Mr. D. G. MacDonnell, Local Secretary of said company, Nos. 10 and 11, New Zealand Insurance Company's Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland.

GEORGE HARPER,
Attorney for the Kapai-Vermont Gold-mining Company (No Liability).

584

In the matter of the Straits Fire Insurance Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that the above-named company is now in voluntary liquidation, the reason for such voluntary liquidation being that the said company has sold its business to another company as and from the 1st day of July, 1894.

As attorney for the above-named company I am winding up the business in this colony.

Dated this 12th day of October, 1894.

G. JOHNSTON,
Attorney for the Straits Fire Insurance Company (Limited), Auckland.

590 Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand.

COMMISSIONER OF THE SUPREME COURT APPOINTED.

THE Honourable John Douglas, of Thursday Island, in the Colony of Queensland, Government Resident, has been appointed this day by his Honour Mr. Justice Conolly a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Thursday Island aforesaid, 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 Auckland, this 15th day of December, 1893.

HENRY C. BREWER,
Registrar Supreme Court at Auckland.

589

WAIMAKARIRI-ASHLEY WATER-SUPPLY DISTRICT.

BROWN'S ROCK AND COOPER'S CREEK SUBDIVISIONS.

I HEREBY certify that the special resolution hereto attached, and signed by me, was passed at a special meeting of the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board held on the 9th August, 1894, at 2 p.m., and confirmed at a special meeting of the Board held on the 20th September, 1894, at 2 p.m., and that the special order has been duly made.

27th September, 1894.

JOHN O'HALLORAN,
Chairman of the Board.

SPECIAL RESOLUTION.

That the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board, in the exercise of the power conferred upon it by section 9 of “The Water-supply Act, 1891,” and in accordance with the provisions of the same, do hereby resolve to divide the district, and hereby prescribe the boundaries of and assign names to the following subdivisions:—

1. All that portion of the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply District, being part of the Oxford, Cust, West Eyreton, Eyreton and Mandeville, and Rangiora Ridings of the afore-said district, commencing at a point on the north bank of the River Waimakariri, the said point being the southernmost corner of Rural Section No. 27755; thence northerly by the road forming the eastern boundary of Rural Section No. 27755 to its junction with the road at the southernmost corner of Rural Section No. 32335; thence south-easterly by the last-mentioned road to a point where such road intersects the western boundary of Rural Section No. 37080; thence northerly by the western boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 37080, 29947, 28027, 24534, 27041, and 30860, to the junction of roads at the northernmost corner of Rural Section No. 30860; thence easterly by the road forming the southern boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 31939 and 30172, to the western boundary of Rural Section No. 27037; thence northerly by the western boundary of Rural Section No. 27037, to the intersection of the aforesaid western boundary with the southern boundary of Rural Section No. 24129; thence westerly by the southern boundary of Rural Section No. 24129, and northerly by the western boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 24129, 24130, 34540, and 27039, to a point on the south bank of the River Eyre; thence easterly by the south bank of the River Eyre to its intersection with Starvation Road; thence northerly along Starvation Road to its intersection with the Oxford and Rangiora Road; thence across the Oxford and Rangiora Road, and northerly by the road forming the western boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 30354, 10506, 10507, Native Reserve. 2038, and Rural Section No. 27618, to the intersection of the said road with McJarrow's Road; thence easterly by McJarrow's Road to the south-western corner of Reserve No. 1186; thence easterly by the southern boundary of Reserve No. 1186, to the south-western corner of Rural Section No. 33090; thence northerly by the western boundary of Rural Section No. 33090, and north-easterly by the common boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 33090, 25874, and 31899; thence north-westerly by the common boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 32374 and 31899; thence north-westerly by the common boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 32374 and 31899; thence north-easterly by the north-western boundary of Rural Section No. 32374, to the intersection of that boundary with the Mairaki Downs Road; thence easterly by the Mairaki Downs Road to its intersection with the road forming the north-western boundary of Rural Section No. 31653; thence north-easterly by the last-aforesaid road and the north-western boundary of Rural Section No. 31787, and northerly by the western boundary of Rural Section No. 24303, and in continuation of the same to a point on the south bank of the River Ashley; thence easterly by the south bank of the River Ashley to the south-eastern boundary-line of the Oxford Road District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 36, 30th April, 1883; thence towards the south-west by part of the eastern boundary-line of the said Oxford Road District, to the intersection of the aforesaid boundary-line with Bowies' Road; thence south-westerly by Bowies' Road to its intersection with the Ashley Road; thence south-easterly by the Ashley Road to the northern corner of Rural Section No. 8147; thence southerly by the eastern boundary of Rural Section No. 8115; thence westerly by the southern boundary of Rural Section No. 8115 to the north-eastern corner of Rural Section No. 13619; thence southerly along the eastern boundary of Rural Section No. 13619, and westerly by the southern boundary of Rural Section No. 13619 to the road at the eastern boundary of Rural Section No. 32061; thence southerly by the eastern boundary-line of Rural Section No. 32061, Reserve No. 2256, and Rural Section No. 23352, to a road; thence westerly by the road to the bend at the north-western corner of Rural Section No. 27370; thence south-westerly by the road forming the western boundary of Rural Section No. 27370, to the north-eastern corner of Rural Section No. 11134; thence north-westerly by the northern boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 11134 and 32026; thence southerly by a road to the southernmost corner of Rural Section No. 31935; thence north-westerly along the north-eastern boundary of Rural Section No. 31934; thence south-westerly by a road forming the north-western boundary of Rural Section No. 31934; thence south-easterly by the common boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 31934 and 31604; thence northerly by the common boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 31934 and 30515; thence easterly by the common boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 31934 and 30515, and southerly by the common boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 30515 and 11326, to the Drain Reserve; thence easterly along the Drain Reserve to the south-eastern corner of Rural Section No. 11134; thence towards the south-east by the northern boundary-lines of Rural Sections Nos. 13684, 10578, 4466, 4214, 7332, 4215, 15466, and 5897; thence towards the south by the road at the eastern boundary of Rural Section No. 5897 to the Oxford and Rangiora Railway-line; thence towards the east by the Oxford and Rangiora Railway-line to a road forming the western boundary of Rural Section No. 11444; thence northerly by the road forming the western boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 11444 and 4090; thence easterly by the road