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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 55

Officiating Ministers for 1895.—Notice No. 21.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 22nd July, 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 in-
titled "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 Hewitson.
The Reverend Edmund James Carter.

Baptists.
The Reverend Albert Ager.
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 sec-
tion 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 fit-
tings, &c., shall be removed, except under the direction of an
Inspector of Stock.
JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 24th September, 1894.

IN pursuance of regulations under "The Civil Service
Reform Act, 1886," notice is hereby given that for the
Senior Examination of January, 1896, the period of literature
will be the first half of the nineteenth century, and the
special books will be Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" and
Milton's "Samson Agonistes."
W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Crown Lands Notices.

Lands in Taranaki District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lands have
been forfeited by resolutions of the Taranaki Land
Board dated the 6th and 20th May, 3rd and 17th June, and
1st July, 1895.

SCHEDULE.

Section 15, Block IX., Ngatimaru: Held by J. Kenning-
ton; lease in perpetuity.
Section 21, Block IX., Ngatimaru: Held by W. Irving;
lease in perpetuity.
Section 4, Block V., Ngatimaru: Held by J. Kippen-
berger; lease in perpetuity.
Section 3, Block XIV., Ngatimaru: Held by Charles
Waller; lease in perpetuity.
Section 23, Block IV., Huiroa: Held by F. Williamson;
perpetual lease.
Section 9, Block XVI., Ngatimaru: Held by H. Wright;
lease in perpetuity.
Section 4, Block V., Kaupokonui: Held by H. T. Jeffree;
perpetual lease.
Section 5, Block V., Kaupokonui: Held by H. T. Jeffree;
perpetual lease.
Section 11, Block V., Ngatimaru: Held by John Grim-
wood; lease in perpetuity.
Section 22, Block IX., Ngatimaru: Held by W. Robert-
son; lease in perpetuity.
Section 20, Block XII., Huiroa: Held by J. Duffill and
W. Simmons; perpetual lease.
Section 13, Block VIII., Huiroa: Held by J. A. B. Voul-
lair; occupation with right of purchase.
JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Lands in the Cheviot Estate open for Sale upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 19th July, 1895.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of "The Land Act, 1892,"
and "The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893," that
the under-mentioned lands will be open for application on
and after Wednesday, the 11th September, 1895 :—

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.
GRAZING-FARMS OPEN FOR LEASE ON APPLICATION.

Section. | Block. | Area. | Capital Value. | Rent per Acre. | Half-yearly Rent.
| | | Per Acre. | Total Value. | |

Cheviot Survey District.—First-class Pastoral Land.
A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
28 | VII. | 1,286 0 0 | 2 12 6 | 3,375 15 0 | 2 7 5 | 84 7 10

This section comprises open, hilly, and undulating land,
and low flat-topped downs, intersected by gullies with gene-
rally easy faces. The formation consists of sandstone, slate,
limestone, and clay, the soil being of fair depth and good
quality; a few of the gullies are ferny and rough. The
vegetation consists of tussock, clover, and other native and
cultivated grasses. The section is watered by springs. The
elevation ranges from about 200ft. to 1,200ft., the mean being
about 500ft. above sea-level. The section has a northerly
aspect, and is well sheltered. There is a good homestead-
site about two miles and a half by road from the Township
of Mackenzie. A large proportion of the area is capable of
improvement by clearing and sowing, the whole being well
adapted for grazing. The improvements comprise the
original Government fence along the western and southern
boundaries, and half the fence separating this section from
Mr. Anderson's farm, Section 1, Block V., Cheviot Survey
District; for the latter the sum of £67 must be paid on
allotment.

The successful applicant shall be responsible for and shall
refund to the adjacent owners half the cost of all boundary-
fences not previously paid for.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE OF GRAZING-FARMS.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years.
2. Every applicant shall make the declaration prescribed,
   and shall, immediately after the application has been ap-
   proved or declared successful at the ballot, deposit a sum
   equal to one half-year's rent of the land applied for. Such
   payment shall be in discharge of the half-year's rent due on
   the 1st day of September or 1st day of March following the
   date of application. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for
   the preparation of the lease and the registration thereof.
3. In case of more than one application being lodged on
   the same day for the same farm, priority of selection shall be
   decided by ballot.
4. No person can lease more than 5,000 acres, or an area
   of leasehold and freehold combined which shall exceed 5,000
   acres.
5. Residence on the farm is compulsory, and shall com-
   mence within one year, unless the lessee obtain the consent
   of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.
6. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one
   year's rental by the end of the first year, to one and a half
   years' rental by the end of the second year, and to two and a
   half years' rental at the end of the sixth year. The improve-
   ments which have been already made upon the land shall be
   reckoned as improvements under this clause.
7. The lessee must once a year properly clean, clear from
   weeds, and keep open all creeks, drains, ditches, and water-
   courses which now are or may be upon the land, and the
   Commissioner of Crown Lands shall have the power at any
   time to enter upon and make any drain or road through the
   land that he may deem necessary.
8. The lessee must once a year properly cut and trim all
   live fences now on the land, or which may be planted upon
   the land during the term, and stub all gorse not growing as
   fences, and also stub all broom, sweetbriar, and other
   noxious plants.
9. In the event of the lessee cultivating any of the land
   included in his lease, he must take alternately white and
   root or green crops, or three green crops; and on the removal
   of the third crop the land must be sown with good permanent
   cultivated grasses and clovers, and be allowed to remain as
   pasture for at least two years from the harvesting of the last