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effect must be provided, signed by the secretary of the exhibition, before the goods can be received for transit free of charge.

PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES.

WHANGAREI SECTION.

Class K.—Timber.

Sawn timber consigned from Otonga to Opau will be charged 1s. 1d. per hundred superficial feet.

As witness my hand, this twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

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By-law for New Zealand Government Railways.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and “The Public Works and Government Railways Acts Amendment Act, 1895,” I, Alfred Jerome Cadman, the Minister for Railways, do hereby make the following by-law, and do hereby declare that the same shall come into force on the day of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, and shall apply to New Zealand Government railways generally, namely:—

BY-LAW.

If any person wilfully makes any false declaration or written statement, or gives any false certificate, whereby any concession of freight or any reduction of passenger-fare is made in connection with traffic on a Government railway, which, but for such declaration, statement, or certificate, would not have been so made, such person shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding £10.

Dated this 18th day of February, 1898.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

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Officiating Ministers for 1898.—Notice No. 5.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st February, 1898.

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:—

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend Christopher Anderson Lyon.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

[This name is entered in substitution for that of Christopher Alexander Lyon, previously entered in the general list, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 20th January, 1898.]

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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 Section 291, Town of Timaru, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, and having a frontage to Princes Street of 100 links, by a depth of 250 links. The grantee and registered owner is Frederick James Pearson, described as of Christchurch, compositor, reported to be now deceased. The land is at present occupied by Mr. Alfred Beswick.

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 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 23rd day of February, 1898.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

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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 assessed value of the said land being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of February, 1898.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 22 acres 1 rood 26 perches, more or less, being part of Section 1316, Omotumotu, in the District of Grey, in the Provincial District of Nelson.

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Notice under “The Victoria College Act, 1897,” and the Regulations relating thereto.

Education Department,
Wellington, 7th February, 1898.

THE first election of members of the College Council will be held on Monday, the 11th April, 1898; the poll closing at 5 o’clock p.m.

The members to be elected are,—

(a.) Three by members of the Legislature for the time being resident in, or representing electoral districts wholly or mainly within, the Wellington, Nelson, Westland, Marlborough, Hawke’s Bay, and Taranaki Provincial Districts;

(b.) Three by persons who, being holders of a degree of any university of the United Kingdom or of any British colony, are for the time being resident within any of the said provincial districts;

(c.) Three by such persons holding certificates under section 45 of “The Education Act, 1877,” as are over the age of twenty-one years and for the time being resident within any of the said provincial districts;

(d.) Three by members of the Education Boards of the education districts wholly or partly within any of the said provincial districts.

Electoral rolls for the four classes of electors above specified will be prepared, and, for the purposes of the first election, will be closed at 5 o’clock p.m. on Monday, the 28th March, 1898. Such rolls will be called respectively—(a) the “parliamentary,” (b) the “graduates’,” (c) the “teachers’,” and (d) the “Education Boards’” electoral roll.

Every candidate for election is to be nominated by one or more electors entitled to vote for his election, and the nomination is to bear the candidate’s consent thereto. Nominations will close at noon on Monday, the 4th April, 1898.

Applications for enrolment, and all notices, &c., relating to the election, are to be addressed to “The Returning Officer for the Victoria College Council Election, Education Department, Wellington,” from whom copies of the regulations and forms may be obtained. Copies of the Act are to be had from the Government Printer; price, 9d.

E. O. GIBBES,
Returning Officer.

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Invercargill Savings-bank Balance-sheet for 1897.

INVERCARGILL SAVINGS-BANK.—Balance-sheet on the 31st December, 1897:—

ASSETS.

To Amount invested on mortgage .. .. £14,854 3 11
Cash in National Bank .. .. .. .. 236 14 8
Deposits in National Bank .. .. .. 2,000 0 0
Fixed deposits with National Bank .. 4,124 19 0
Cash on hand .. .. .. .. .. 297 11 7
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£21,513 9 2
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To Balance .. .. .. .. .. £1,073 2 3
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LIABILITIES.

By Amount due depositors .. .. .. £20,440 6 11
Balance .. .. .. .. .. 1,073 2 3
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£21,513 9 2
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THOMAS BRODRICK, Manager.

We do hereby certify that, to the best of our belief, the above is a true and correct statement of the assets and