May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 809

Application to the Validation Court under “The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893.”

IN THE VALIDATION COURT, HELDEN
AT WELLINGTON.
In the matter of “The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893”; and in the matter of the Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 7D Block, Section 3.

A. WE, Archibald Paisley Stuart, of Wellington, Merchant, and John Davies, of Whirokino, in the Provincial District of Wellington, Sheep-farmer, hereby apply to the Validation Court for validation of an agreement bearing date the 30th day of November, 1881, made between the said applicants and Mihipeka Tatana, Raniwahaiō Hakaraia, Kereama Pita, Wireti Riunui, and Kireona Tuhēra.

B. We desire to appear before the Validation Court on Friday, the 26th day of June, 1896, at 10.30 in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard.

C. The nature of the transaction proposed for validation is an agreement made between us, the said applicants, and Mihipeka Tatana, Raniwahaiō Hakaraia, Kereama Pita, Wireti Riunui, and Kireona Tuhēra, for the sale by them the said Mihipeka Tatana, Raniwahaiō Hakaraia, Kereama Pita, Wireti Riunui, and Kireona Tuhēra, to us, the said applicants, of all their interests in the above-mentioned block, which said agreement bears date the 30th day of November, 1881.

D. The title to the above block is Crown grant.

E. The estate or interest in the said land which the said applicants seek to obtain is an estate in fee-simple of Kereama Pita’s (sometimes called Kereama Kaiaho) interest.

F. The place in the City of Wellington for service of notices, orders, or other documents upon us, the applicants, is at the office of Messrs. Bell, Gully, and Izard, solicitors, Panama Street, Wellington.

G. The applicants desire that the estate and interest of the said Kereama Pita be bound by the decree of this Court, and for that purpose require that copies of this application shall be served upon him or his representative. The address of the said Kereama Pita is Poroutawhao.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of May, 1896.

ARCHIBALD PAISLEY STUART and
JOHN DAVIES
(By their Solicitors and Agents,
BELL, GULLY, AND IZARD).

To the Registrar of the Validation Court,
Wellington.

548

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

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maoris under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination; the other 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. The senior scholarship is offered for competition among Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1893, and in the supplementary regulations that have been sent out to all teachers. Candidates for the junior 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 examination will be held at convenient centres on the 21st and 22nd December, 1896.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves 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, 24th March, 1896.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 24th September, 1895.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1897, the period of literature will be the reign of Elizabeth, and the special books will be George Eliot’s “Romola” and Shakespeare’s “Tempest.”

W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Offices opened and closed; Designations changed.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office, Wellington, 15th May, 1896.

THE following particulars of offices opened and closed, and of designations changed, are published for general information.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

*No post-office.

DESIGNATIONS CHANGED.

• Post- and Telegraph-offices now named alike.

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