Aug. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1513

The committee shall supply a sufficient and equal quantity of the waste products to each process as a test.
On completion of the tests the committee shall report to the Minister, and shall give the following particulars of each process: (a.) The nature of the article made. (b.) The quantity produced, and the cost of production. (c.) The value of the product. (d.) Whether any of the processes are of sufficient importance to warrant the Minister in giving (1) the whole, or (2) any part, of the bonus; (3) if a part only, how much.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

Member of the House of Representatives elected, Awarua District.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 13th August, 1897.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 21st day of July, 1897, for the election of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Awarua, and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that

JOSEPH GEORGE WARD

has been duly elected to serve as a Member for the said district.

HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.

Results of Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1897.

THE following notices of elections of members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Waitoa Road District, County of Piako:
John Candlish Allen.

Wirokino Road District, County of Horowhenua:
No. 2 Ward—
Charles Frederick Johnston.
No. 3 Ward—
Archibald McPherson.
No. 5 Ward—
Peter Stewart.

Stoke Road District, County of Waimea:
Alfred Allport.
Henry Lankow.
Joseph E. Bartlett.

Officiating Ministers for 1897.—Notice No. 18.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1897.

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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend James Goggan.
The Reverend Patrick Quirke.
The Reverend Hugh Rafferty.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 22 acres 1 rood 26 perches, more or less, being part of Section No. 1316, Omotumotu, District of Grey. The grantee and last registered owner is Edward Shaw Lap-ham, described as of Greymouth, Banker, who is said to have died about 3rd January, 1880, and his family cannot be traced. The land has recently been occupied by Mr. John Anderson Hiller.

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 14th day of August, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Appointment of Agent at Pahiatua to the Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 17th August, 1897.

IT is hereby notified for general information that

HENRY W. BRIGGS, Esq.,

has been appointed to be Agent to the Public Trustee at Pahiatua from the 1st day of August, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described 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 publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act. The ascertained value of the land is less than £100.
Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of August, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 3 roods, more or less, being lots numbered 8, 10, and 12, Block IV., on a subdivision forming the Township of Lincoln, and being part of Rural Section 1880, Provincial District of Canterbury, having a frontage to Robert Street of 300 links by a depth of 250 links.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, New Zealand, 17th August, 1897.

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.

William Henry Barnes, otherwise known as William Barnes, late of Westport, in the Provincial District of Nelson, labourer. Filed on the 28th July, 1897.

Harold Petrie Clark, late of Napier, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, clerk. Filed on the 31st July, 1897.

David Stewart Roy, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, engineer. Filed on the 31st July, 1897.

Duncan Collie, late of Barrytown, in the Provincial District of Nelson, gold-miner. Filed on the 31st July, 1897.

James Robertson, late of Naseby, in the Provincial District of Otago, gold-miner. Filed on the 9th August, 1897.

John Allen, late of Masterton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, builder. Filed on the 9th August, 1897.

Robert Mann, late of Greymouth, in the Provincial District of Westland, settler. Filed on the 9th August, 1897.

John Williams, late of Culverden, in the Provincial District of Nelson, gardener. Filed on the 9th August, 1897.

James Marshall, late of Collingwood, in the Provincial District of Nelson, miner. Filed on the 9th August, 1897.

Daniel George Farmer, late of Awharoa, Ohinemuri, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 9th August, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.