Mar. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 713

scribed in the Schedule hereunder written and the owner
thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the
notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in
all respects complied with the provisions of the said section:
And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner
is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has
such owner established his title to the said land as required
by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is,
under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the
Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publica-
tion hereof, and will be administered under the said Act,
the said land being valued at under £100.
Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of March, 1897.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 18½ perches, more or
less, being allotment numbered 10 of Block XV. on the map
of the Township of St. Kilda, having frontages to Scott and
Lambert streets, and adjoining the Borough Council Office.
JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Notice by the Public Trustee under "The Unclaimed Lands,
Act, 1894."

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing
1 rood, more or less, being Lot 53, part Rural Section 14,
Township of Woolston, fronting Princes Street. A Mr.
Gilbert Scott has been until lately in occupation. Nothing
definite can be ascertained as to who may be the owner.
WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries,
and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or
owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes
that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:
Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within
six months of the date of the publication of this notice in
this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public
Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice;
and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time
limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will
exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and
by "The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894."
Dated this 15th day of March, 1897.
JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

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 Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end
of the month preceding the date of the examination: the
other two scholarships are junior scholarships, one of which
is open to all Maori boys under fifteen years of age at the
end of the month preceding the date of the examination
who have attended a Native school or schools other than
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 other is open
to boys whose attendance at any school during the previous
year has been similarly 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 Maka-
rini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools
Code, 1897. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be
examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV. in the
Native Schools Code, 1897. The questions will, however, be
more difficult than those set for the standard examinations.
The examination will be held at convenient centres on the
20th and 21st December, 1897.
Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers,
send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education
Department, Wellington, of their intention to present them-
selves 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 insti-
tutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secre-
tary for Education.
JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.
Wellington, 15th March, 1897.

Crown Lands Notices.

Small Grazing-runs, Otago, open for Lease on Application.

Crown Land Office,
Dunedin, 9th March, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
small grazing-runs will be open for lease on applica-
tion at the District Land Office, Dunedin, on and after
Wednesday, the 14th April, 1897, at the rental noted below.
In case of more than one application for the runs on the
same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

Otago Land District.—Waimo County.—Moeraki
Survey District.

First-class Pastoral Country.

Open pastoral land, easy rolling hills, containing about
300 acres of agricultural land; soil good; well watered.
Situated about three-quarters of a mile from Dunback Rail-
way-station, by dray-road. Improvements at present on
the section, 430 chains of post-and-wire fencing. Altitude,
1,500 ft.

Open land, of limestone formation, undulating to hilly;
about 100 acres agricultural, remainder pastoral; soil good,
well watered. Situated about one mile from Dunback Rail-
way-station, by dray-road. Improvements at present on the
section, 420 chains post-and-wire fencing.
J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs, Nelson, open for Lease on Application.

Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 8th March, 1897.

IN accordance with section 197 of "The Land Act, 1892,"
I hereby give notice that the under-mentioned pastoral
runs, having been submitted to public auction and not sold,
will be open for application as under on and after the 21st
day of April, 1897.

Run No. 13 (Class I.), Skiddaw and Mytholm Survey
Districts: Area, 45,500 acres; term, 21 years; rent, £60 per
annum. This run is situated on the southern side of the
range between the Rivers Hope and Hurunui, fronting on
Lake Sumner, and adjoining Glens of Tekoa Estate. The
country is partly bush, consisting of white- and silver-
birch, and partly open land, with tussock and sown grasses.
The average altitude above sea-level is about 4,000 ft. Dis-
tance from Culverden, about twenty miles.

Run No. 14 (Hoosack) (Class I.), Percival, Waiau, Lyndon,
and Terako Survey Districts: Area, about 37,500 acres; term,
21 years; rent, £200 per annum. Open broken country,
well watered. Average altitude, from 3,000 ft. to 4,000 ft.
above sea-level. Situated about five miles from Hanmer
Plains. This run was formerly occupied as part of the
Lyndon Run. Improvements on this run are estimated at
over £900, being about twenty-five miles of fencing, and
yards, huts, &c., which are thrown in with the lease. Bound-
aries subject to survey. Formerly held by John Tinline
and Messrs. Macfarlane.

Run No. 15 (Cloudy Range) (Class I.), Terako Survey
District: Area, about 23,400 acres; term, 21 years; rent,
£120 per annum. Chiefly open broken country, well watered,
with some patches of manuka scrub. Average altitude,
about 3,000 ft. above sea-level. Situated between the Rivers
Conway and Clarence, and adjoining the Highfield Estate.
Distant about twenty miles from Waiau, by the Kaikoura
Road. This run has been worked in conjunction with the
Highfield Station. This run is weighted with £750, valuation
for improvements, consisting of woolshed, four-roomed cot-
tage, men's quarters, sheep-dip, orchard, and fencing, to be
paid by the incoming tenant. Boundaries subject to survey.
Formerly held by Wharton and Co.

The above runs will be sold generally in accordance with
the provisions of Part VI. of "The Land Act, 1892."
Possession will be given on the date of the granting of the
application.