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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

Officiating Ministers for 1896.—Notice No. 21.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 7th July, 1896.

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:—

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.

The Reverend James Alexander Somerville, M.A.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 7th July, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

Henry Selby Hobkirk, late of Pahaua Station, Martinborough, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 1st day of July, 1896.

Edward George Lott, late of Whananaki, in the Provincial District of Auckland, settler. Filed on the 1st day of July, 1896.

William Wilson, late of Foxton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 1st day of July, 1896.

Thomas Creedy, late of Milford, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, farmer. Filed on the 1st day of July, 1896.

Catherine Edwards, late of Waimate, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, married woman. Filed on the 1st day of July, 1896.

George Edwards, late of Port Ahuriri, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, labourer. Filed on the 1st day of July, 1896.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Appointment of Agents to the Public Trustee, as under.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1896.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the Postmasters have been appointed Agents for the Public Trustee at the under-mentioned places as from the 1st July, 1896, namely:—

Ashburton. Kaikoura.
Clyde. Oamaru.
Hawera. Tauranga.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Wellington, 2nd July, 1896.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 4th July, 1896.

THE Court Queen of Canterbury, No. 7756, situated at Christchurch, is registered as a branch of the Canterbury United District of the New Zealand Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 4th day of July, 1896.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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.

Crown Lands Notices.

Lands in Marlborough for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 4th June, 1896.

THE under-mentioned section, known as portion of Warwick Run, will be offered for sale by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Wednesday, the 12th August, 1896, at noon.

ORIERI SURVEY DISTRICT.—WARWICK RUN.

Section 3, Block IX.: Area, 474 acres; upset price, £296 5s. Weighted with £39 10s. cost of survey, and £700 value of improvements.

Broken pastoral country; fairly good soil; moderately well watered; 225 acres open and grassed, 65 acres bush, felled; 42 chains fencing, and cottage; accessible by 4ft. track from Torea Neck, about twenty miles.

Terms of Sale.—One-fifth of purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, together with Crown-grant fee, within thirty days thereafter; otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at this office.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in Raglan County, Auckland, for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 1st June, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned reserve at Karioi, Raglan, will be submitted for lease by public auction for a term of fourteen years, in terms of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” on Friday, the 21st day of August, 1896, at 11 a.m., at the Crown Lands Office, Auckland:—

Raglan County, Parish Karioi: Pilot and Signal Station Reserve, Section 15, containing 228 acres; upset annual rent, £5; term of lease, fourteen years.

No compensation for improvements will be allowed during either the currency or at the termination of the lease, but the lessee will have the right, on the termination of the lease, to remove any fences and buildings that he may have erected during the term of the lease.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 26th May, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned rural land will be submitted for sale at this office on Friday, the 4th September, 1896, at 11 a.m.:—

Parish of Okura, adjoining Wade Village, Section 39, 1 acre 2 roods 30 perches; upset price, £3 7s. 6d.

Terms of Sale.—One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee £1, within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.