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CONTENTS.
PAGF
APPOINTMENTS
.. 1642
BANKRUPTCY NOTICES
.. 1656
CROWN LANDS NOTICES
.. 1648
LAND—
For Sale by Public Auction
.. 1634
Increasing the Holding-area to Settlers
.. 1631
Notice of Intention to take for Roads
.. 1646
Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Native
.. 1644
Proclaiming a Road as closed
.. 1628
Rural, open for Sale or Selection
1637, 1642
Set apart for Improved-farm Special Settlements
1629
Taken for a School-site
.. 1630
Taken for Defence Purposes
.. 1630
Taken for Railway Purposes
.. 1629
Taken for widening a Street
.. 1642
Withdrawn from Selection on Lease
.. 1636
LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES
.. 1658
MINING NOTICES
.. 1657
MISCELLANEOUS—
Agricultural and Pastoral Associations incorporated
1630
Application to proclaim certain Rivers and Creeks
Watercourses for Deposit of Tailings
.. 1644
Arrangements for First Election, &c., Borough of
Whangarei
.. 1643
Bonuses
.. 1646
Closing Streets in the Town of Orari
.. 1629
Coromandel County Council to exercise the Powers
of a Harbour Board
.. 1631
Declaring Port of Shipment and Cool-store under
“The Dairy Industry Act, 1894”
.. 1630
Issue of New Zealand War Medals
.. 1645
Letters of Naturalisation issued
.. 1643
N.Z. Railways.—Oils, &c., Supply, 1896
.. 1647
Notice to Mariners
.. 1645
Powers delegated under “The Public Domains
Act, 1881”
.. 1631
Proclaiming a Borough
.. 1628
Proposed Loans
.. 1643
Public Offices to be closed on 14th October
.. 1644
Public Notice under “The Stock Act, 1893”
.. 1647
Recreation-ground brought under “The Public
Domains Act, 1881”
.. 1631
Regulations for Surveys under the Mines Act
.. 1633
Road Board Elections
.. 1647
Special Order
.. 1644
Te Makarini Scholarships
.. 1648
Tender
.. 1645
Vesting Control of Bridges in County Councils
.. 1627
NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES
.. 1652
PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS
.. 1659
VOLUNTEERS
.. 1645
By Authority: JOHN MACKEY, Government Printer, Wellington.