Mar. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 471

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.

Commissioner’s Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 15th March, 1898.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Hon. the Commissioner of Trade and Customs has decided to interpret the Customs and Excise Duties Acts in relation to the under-mentioned articles as follows:—

NOTE.—“Not otherwise enumerated” appears as n.o.e.; “other kinds” as o.k.; “articles and materials suited only for, and to be used solely in, the fabrication of goods in the colony” as a. & m.s. Articles marked thus * are revised decisions.

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.

Commissioner’s Order No. 590.]

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Native Assessor elected.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th March, 1898.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under the hand of the Returning Officer, that

PIAHANA TIWAI

has been elected to be the Native Assessor for the Native Licensing District of Waioeka.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Under-Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1898.—Notice No. 7.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th March, 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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend Joseph Parker.

Baptists.
The Reverend Ernest H. Howard.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 10th March, 1898.

THE Auckland Labourers’ Accident Fund Association, situated at Auckland, is registered as a friendly society under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 10th day of March, 1898.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 100 acres, more or less, being Allotments 181 and 184, Parish of Mangapiko, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The land was Crown-granted to Matilda Amelia Ogbourne, who is stated to have married a Sergeant Ogg, and is believed to have gone to England in 1864, of whom nothing can be traced, and it was last in the occupation of Mr. Jabez Westeney.

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 10th day of March, 1898.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Crown Lands Notices.

Totara and Kauri Timber for Sale at Auckland.

Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 12th March, 1898.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned totara and green and dead kauri timber, standing on Section 176, Parish of Oruawharo, will be offered for sale by public auction at this office on Friday, the 13th day of May, 1898, at 11 o’clock a.m.

41 totara-trees, containing 30,000 superficial feet.
78 green kauri-trees and 129 dead kauri-trees, containing 180,000 superficial feet.

Upset price, £105.

Conditions of Sale.—One-half the purchase-money to be paid in cash or by marked cheque on the fall of the hammer, the balance within three months thereafter. Timber to be removed within two years from date of sale.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.