APRIL 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 625

Land Transfer Act Notices.

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.

3248. JAMES SIMPSON.—Part of Lot 123 of Allotment 21, Section 8, Suburbs of Auckland, containing 9 perches. Occupied by tenant.

3249. JOHN HAROLD GREGORY.—Part of Allotments 11 and 12, Section 8, of the Suburbs of Auckland, containing 1 acre and 30 perches. Occupied by tenant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 2nd day of April, 1896, at the Lands Registry Office, Auckland.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.

448

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 date of Gazette containing this notice.

7441. JAMES GUILD, MALCOLM MACFARLANE, and DAVID DUNCAN MACFARLANE.—400 acres, Rural Section 4251, Block V., Teviotdale Survey District. Occupied by Robert Sloper.

7442. MICHAEL BARRETT and JOHN BARRETT.—4 acres 2 roods 35 perches, part of Rural Section 138, Block XV., Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by John Barrett.

7443. JOHN AMOS.—32 perches, part of Lot 76, Christchurch Town Reserves. Occupied by Applicant.

7444. ELIZABETH ROSE REBECCA CREYKE.—96 acres 1 rood 14 perches, Rural Sections 5222 and 5626, Block II., Halswell Survey District. Occupied by J. C. Witte.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 2nd day of April, 1896, at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch.

G. G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

449

LEASE No. 2124, of part of Allotment 46 of Block I., Township of Normanby, and part of Allotment 2 of Block I., Township of Normanby, from WILLIAM GWYNN to JOHN JAMES SPEIGHT.—The Lessor having re-entered for non-payment of rent, it is my intention to notify such re-entry upon the Registers, in Vol. iv., folio 205, and Vol. vi., folio 233, at the expiration of one month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 2nd day of April, 1896, at the Lands Registry Office, New Plymouth.

W. STUART,
District Land Registrar.

450

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month from the date of the gazetting of this notice.

FRANK ROBERT BOYD.—8 acres 1 rood 33 perches, being part of Section 47, Block XI., New River Hundred. Occupied by John Brook. No. 2628.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 31st day of March, 1896, at the Lands Registry Office, Invercargill.

F. G. MORGAN,
District Land Registrar.

451

Private Advertisements.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto existing between WILLIAM SHACKSON PROVIS and ALFRED WALTER BEACH, at Napier, as General Carriers and Shipping Agents, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent, and that the business will in the meantime be carried on by the said Alfred Walter Beach. All debts due to the said Partnership will be received by Mr. Francis Howse, of Napier, Accountant, by whom also all debts of the Partnership will be paid.

Dated this 24th day of March, 1896.

W. S. PROVIS.
A. W. BEACH.

Witness to the signature of William Shackson Provis—F. Rhodes, Solicitor, Napier.

Witness to the signature of Alfred Walter Beach—F. Logan, Solicitor, Napier.

452

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR THE KAKARIKI ROAD.

WAIRoa COUNTY.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for a certain public work, to wit, the construction of part of the Kakariki Road, Wairoa County. And notice is further given that the plan of the said land so required to be taken is deposited in the County Council Office, Clyde, Wairoa County, and is there open for inspection, and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth such objections in writing, and send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Wairoa County Council, Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay.

SCHEDULE.

The several parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G. deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Clyde, this 21st day of March, 1896.

JOS. POWDRELL,
Chairman, Wairoa County Council.

455

NOTICE.

In the matter of a Bill intituled “An Act to vest in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in New Zealand the Lands in New Zealand belonging to or held in Trust for the United Methodist Free Churches and the Bible Christian Church, or any of them, and to amend ‘The Wesleyan Methodist Church Property Trust Act, 1887,’ and ‘The Wesleyan Methodist Church Property Trust Act 1887 Amendment Act, 1892,’ and for other collateral purposes.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Reverend William Baumber, of Wellington, President of the New Zealand Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in New Zealand, and the Reverend Daniel J. Murray, of Waimate, Authorised Representative of such Church, intend to present a petition to the General Assembly of New Zealand at the ensuing session thereof, praying for leave to introduce a Bill to be intituled “An Act to vest in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in New Zealand the Lands in New Zealand belonging to or held in Trust for the United Methodist Free Churches and the Bible Christian Church, or any of them, and to amend ‘The Wesleyan Methodist Church Property Trust Act, 1887,’ and ‘The Wesleyan Methodist Church Property Trust Act 1887 Amendment Act, 1892,’ and for other collateral purposes.”

The objects of the said Bill are,—

1. To give effect to an agreement made between the Wesleyan Methodist Church in New Zealand, the United Methodist Free Church in New Zealand, and the Bible Christian Church in New Zealand, to unite as one Church.

2. To declare that all lands and properties in New Zealand which, on the 13th day of April, 1896, might belong to, or might be held in trust for, the United Methodist Free Churches or the Bible Christian Church, or any of them, shall, from the said date (subject to and without prejudice to any mortgage, charge, encumbrance, lien, lease, agreement, or other transaction affecting the same respectively), be held upon the trusts and subject to the provisions of the Wesleyan Methodist Model Deed of New Zealand, 1887.

3. To validate all appointments, resolutions, and orders of the annual Conference of 1896 of the New Zealand Wesleyan Methodist Church in reference to the said lands, and to churches, parsonages, and other buildings.

4. To repeal section 3 of “The Wesleyan Methodist Church Property Trust Act 1887 Amendment Act, 1892,” and substitute new provisions in lieu thereof.

5. To vest all such lands and properties in the Trustees for the time being thereof, according to the provisions of