June 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1005

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 1 rood or thereabouts, having a frontage of 100 links to Barnard Street by a depth of 250 links, and numbered 52 on the plan of that part of Timaru District laid out by the Messrs. Rhodes for building and other purposes, being part of Section No. 8 on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Provincial District of Canterbury setting out the rural lands in the said district.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is or owners are not in the colony:

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish, to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee, his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not within the time limited so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated this 24th day of June, 1895.
J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1895.—Notice No. 18.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1895.

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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Baptists.
The Reverend Charles John Allen Newton Padley.
E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Public Notice under “The Stock Act, 1893,” re Swine-fever.—No. 413.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 3rd May, 1895.

IT having been reported to me that the disease known as “swine-fever” exists amongst pigs belonging to Mr. J. C. Anderson, of Stirling, farmer, and running on his farm-lands, comprising Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, in Block XIII., North Molyneux District, I therefore, in accordance with section 14, subsection (4), of “The Stock Act, 1893,” hereby declare such lands to be an infected place from which no swine, carcase, or any portion thereof, or any fodder or fittings, &c., shall be removed, except under the direction of an Inspector of Stock.

JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.

Crown Lands Notices.

Forfeiture of Lease, Hawke's Bay Land District.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st June, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned license was forfeited by resolution of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board at its meeting on the 17th May, 1895, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” :—

Occupation with right of purchase, License No. 18, Section 7, Block XVI., Pohui Survey District: Held by John Preston.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Land in Westland District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 24th June, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned land was forfeited by resolution of the Westland Land Board on the 15th May, 1895 :—

Section No. 349, Block IV., Arawata Survey District: Held by August Egelling on deferred payment.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Leases and Licenses forfeited and surrendered in Southland.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st June, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned leases and licenses were forfeited, or the surrender accepted, by the Southland Land Board on the dates undernoted.

SCHEDULE.

HELD UNDER PERPETUAL LEASE.

Section 98, Waiau District: Held by John Corkhill; forfeited 9th October, 1894.
Section 6, Block VIII., Longwood District: Held by George Evans; forfeited 9th October, 1894.
Sections 90 and 91, Waiau District: Held by William James Darley; forfeited 13th March, 1894.
Sections 2 to 6 and 11, Block IV., Centre Hill District: Held by William George Beer and brothers; forfeited 9th October, 1894.
Section 1, Block IV., Centre Hill District: Held by William George Beer; surrendered 26th March, 1895.
Sections 48 and 49, Block XXI., Chatton: Held by Joseph Thomson; forfeited 12th February, 1895.
Sections 18 and 19, Block III., Seaward Bush Township: Held by George Louis; surrendered 26th March, 1895.

DEFERRED-PAYMENT LICENSES.

Section 23, Block XIX., New River Hundred: Held by Louis Hitchcock; forfeited 11th December, 1894.
Section 88, Block I., Oteramika: Held by James Buchanan; forfeited 11th December, 1894.
Sections 6 and 7, Block V., Holmesdale: Held by John Charles Wilson; forfeited 11th December, 1894.
Section 1, Block III., Morley Village: Held by Thomas Quested; forfeited 11th December, 1894.

LEASE IN PERPETUITY.

Section 91, Block XX., Invercargill Hundred: Held by Robert Boyd; forfeited 9th April, 1895.
Sections 2 to 8, Block II., Fern Hill Village: Held by William Ross; forfeited 26th March, 1895.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Lands in the Town of Opunake for Lease.

Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 20th June, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the undermentioned Crown lands will be submitted to public auction, at the Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, the 14th August, 1895, at 12 o’clock noon.

SCHEDULE.

TOWN OF OPUNAKE.

Term of lease, seven years. Lessee to cut gorse during first year of lease, and keep it cut during the term. Lessee is given right to remove fencing erected by him, at the end of the term.

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

One half-year’s rent and lease-fee of £1 1s. to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and lease to be executed within thirty days of lessee being called upon to do so, otherwise the deposit of half-year’s rent and lease-fee to be absolutely forfeited, and the sale to be null and void.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.