Mar. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 507

SCHEDULE.

As the said areas are delineated upon the plans marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at New Plymouth, in the Taranaki Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 17th day of March, 1898.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of Road through the Mangapapa No. 2 Block, in the Taranaki Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 1st December, 1897, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 22nd January, 1897.

SCHEDULE.

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at New Plymouth, in the Taranaki Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 17th day of March, 1898.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads over Lands in the Auckland Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were duly taken on the 8th day of June, 1895, and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated 31st March, 1894.

SCHEDULE.

ROADS IN BLOCKS X., XI., AND XIV., ROTOITI SURVEY DISTRICT.

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As the said areas are delineated upon the plans marked as above noted, and deposited in the District Office of the Department of Lands and Survey at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Lands reverted to the Crown.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st March, 1898.

IT is hereby notified that, the leases and licenses of the under-mentioned Crown lands having been voluntarily surrendered by the lessees and licensees, or forfeited by resolution of the Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to incorporate Samaritan Home, Christchurch, as a Separate Institution.

Charitable Department,
Wellington, 18th March, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council directs it to be notified, in terms of section 43 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” that he has received a petition from not less than fifty subscribers to the Samaritan Home, Christchurch, praying that the said Home may be incorporated as a separate institution; and that, if no counter-petition, signed by an equal or greater number of subscribers, shall have been delivered at the office of the Colonial Secretary within one month after the publication of this notice, or if the District Board shall not have lodged with the Colonial Secretary within the same time an objection to such petition, the Governor in Council will declare the said Home to be a separate institution under the said Act.

W. C. WALKER.

Certificate and Declaration of Execution of Criminal.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1898.

THE following certificate and declaration are published in conformity with the provisions of “The Criminals Executions Act, 1883.”

T. THOMPSON.

IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF NEW ZEALAND,
WELLINGTON DISTRICT.

In the matter of “The Criminals Executions Act, 1883”; and in the matter of the execution of Frank Philpott.

CERTIFICATE.

I, JOHN TEARE, the Medical Officer in attendance at the execution of Frank Philpott, at the prison known as the Terrace Gaol, Wellington, do hereby certify and declare that I have this day witnessed the execution of the said Frank Philpott at the said prison; and I do further certify and declare that the said Frank Philpott was, in pursuance of the sentence of the Supreme Court, hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Given under my hand, this twenty-third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, at the prison known as the Terrace Gaol, Wellington.

JOHN TEARE, M.B., Ch.B.