APRIL 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

NOTICE UNDER “THE VICTORIA COLLEGE ACT, 1897,” AND THE REGULATIONS MADE BY VIRTUE THEREOF.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of “The Victoria College Act, 1897,” and the regulations made thereunder dated the 28th January, 1898, the under-mentioned persons have been duly elected members of the Victoria College Council, viz.:

By electors on the Parliamentary Electoral Roll—
The Reverend Felix Joseph Watters, D.D.,
William Allan Chapple, Esq., M.B., Ch.B.,
Charles Wilson, Esq., M.H.R.

By electors on the Education Boards’ Electoral Roll—
John Rutherford Blair, Esq.,
Arthur Penrose Seymour, Esq.,
Robert George Bauchope, Esq.

By electors on the Graduates’ Electoral Roll—
The Honourable Sir Robert Stout, K.C.M.G.,
The Right Reverend Frederic Wallis, M.A., D.D.,
Joseph Firth, Esq., B.A.

By electors on the Teachers’ Electoral Roll—
Thomas Reid Fleming, Esq., M.A., LL.B.,
Clement Watson, Esq., B.A.,
The Reverend William Albert Evans.

E. O. GIBBES,
Education Department, Returning Officer.
Wellington, 18th April, 1898.

Officiating Ministers for 1898.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 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:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend John Geoffrey Sherry Bartlett.
The Reverend Richard Twitchell Mathews, B.A.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend William Thomson, M.A., B.D.

Baptists.

The Reverend Edwin Herbert Soper.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1898.

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.

George Curle, late of Richmond, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, Farmer. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Catherine Maria Elizabeth Gerken, late of Hornby, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, Widow. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Cholmondeley Heaton Locke, late of Edenham, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, Gentleman. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Frank Edwin Chisnall, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, Salesman. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Henry Brown, late of Hanmer Plains, in the Provincial District of Nelson, Labourer. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Ann Walker, late of St. Albans, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, Widow. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Augusta Agnes Relph, late of Rangiora, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, Married Woman. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

James Young, late of Orepuke, in the Provincial District of Otago, Miner. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Hannah Ann Scott, late of Newmarket, in the Provincial District of Auckland, Widow. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Alfred Jennison, late of Mistake Station, Fairlie, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, Rabbiter. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Margaret Gibson, late of Timaru, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, Widow. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Robert Milburn, late of Hokitika, in the Provincial District of Westland, Labourer. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Henry Mudford, late of Rongotea, in the Provincial District of Wellington, Labourer. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

Elizabeth Hardesty, late of Upper Riccarton, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, Spinster. Filed on the 15th April, 1898.

J. C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of March, 1898. Altitude above the sea, 140ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means, &c. † Same month previous years.

NOTE.—Generally a fine month; light showers during middle and end. The maximum rainfall recorded on the 4th, 0·900 in.; prevailing winds from N.W. and S.E., and frequently strong from former quarter; some very fine warm weather in early part. Maximum temperature in shade 75°, minimum 42°; mean temperature of dew-point, 50°6; mean humidity, 75. Slight earth shock on 10th at 11.35 p.m.

R. B. GORE, Observer.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st October, 1897.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1899, the period of literature will be the reign of Queen Anne, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s “King Henry V.” and Lamb’s “Essays of Elia.”

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.