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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land
hereinafter described will be brought under the pro-
visions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be
lodged forbidding the same within one month from date of
Gazette containing this notice.

8229. JOHN GEORGE ALEXANDER RUDDEN-
      KLAU, FREDERICK WILLIAM RUDDENKLAU, and
      CHARLES RUDDENKLAU.—678 acres and 8 perches,
      Rural Section 10813 and part of Rural Section 3773,
      Rangiora and Mairaki Survey Districts. Occupied by
      J. G. A. Ruddenklau.

8230. FANNY LUCY FISHER and HENRY SLATER
      (executors of Stephen Fisher, deceased).—67 acres 2 roods
      12 perches, Rural Section 2046 and parts of Rural Sections
      551 and 1335, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by
      various purchasers.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 22nd day of April, 1898, at the Lands Registry
Office, Christchurch.

G. G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

513

Private Advertisements.

THE partnership hitherto existing between the under-
signed as Stock and Share Brokers and Commission
Agents, under the style of “Quick and Smith,” at Princes
Street, Dunedin, is this day dissolved by effluxion of time.

Dunedin, 1st April, 1898.

EDMUND E. C. QUICK.
EDMUND R. SMITH.

With reference to the above, I beg to announce that,
having purchased Mr. Quick’s interest in the business, I
shall continue it as heretofore, under the style of “Quick
and Smith.”

E. R. SMITH.

519

I, ALEXANDER LANG MURRAY, Licentiate of the
Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians, Edin-
burgh, and Licentiate of the Faculty of Surgeons and
Physicians, Glasgow, now residing in Wellington, hereby
give notice that I intend applying on the twenty-sixth of
May next to have my name placed on the Medical Register
for the Colony of New Zealand; and that I have deposited
the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Registrar-
General.

ALEXANDER LANG MURRAY,
Pukekohe, Auckland.

Dated at Wellington, 25th April, 1898.

522

I, RICHARD SIMMONDS, of Coromandel, in the Pro-
vincial District of Auckland, Clerk, do hereby give
public notice that by deed-poll bearing date the 6th day of
April, 1898, I did, for and on behalf of myself and my heirs
lawfully begotten, formally wholly and absolutely renounce
and relinquish the use of my proper surname of Smith, and
therein did declare that I had assumed adopted determined
and intended thenceforth in all records deeds documents
and writings, in all actions suits and proceedings, in all
dealings transactions and things, and upon all occasions
whatsoever, to use and subscribe myself by the name of
Richard Simmonds instead of Richard Simmonds Smith, so
as to be at all times thereafter called known described and
distinguished by the name of Richard Simmonds exclusively.
And furthermore, as regards and for the purposes of all
records deeds documents writings actions and proceedings,
dealings transactions and things, in which I had used or
subscribed or been called or known by the said name of
Richard Simmonds since my arrival in the Colony of New
Zealand until the date of such deed, I did in the said deed
declare and acknowledge that I had assumed and adopted
the said name of Richard Simmonds instead of the said
name of Richard Simmonds Smith.

Dated at Coromandel, this 18th day of April, 1898.

RICH. SIMMONDS.

Witness—Chas. B. Walker, Solicitor, Coromandel.

516

I, EMILY SELINA SIMMONDS, wife of Richard Sim-
monds, of Coromandel, in the Provincial District of
Auckland, Clerk, do hereby give public notice that by deed-
poll bearing date the 6th day of April, 1898, I did formally
wholly and absolutely renounce and relinquish the use of
the surname Smith, in which name the said Richard Sim-
monds was married to me, and therein did declare that I
had assumed adopted and determined and intended thence
forth in all deeds documents and writings, in all actions
suits and proceedings, in all dealings transactions and things,
and upon all occasions whatsoever, to use and subscribe
myself by the name of Emily Selina Simmonds exclusively.

And furthermore, as regards and for the purposes of all
records deeds documents writings actions and proceedings,
dealings transactions and things, in which I had used or sub-
scribed or been called or known by the said name of Emily
Selina Simmonds since my marriage with the said Richard
Simmonds until the date of such deed, I did in the said deed
declare and acknowledge that I had assumed and adopted
the said name of Emily Selina Simmonds instead of the said
name of Emily Selina Smith.

Dated at Coromandel, this 18th day of April, 1898.

EMILY SELINA SIMMONDS.

Witness—Chas. B. Walker, Solicitor, Coromandel.

517

NELSON SAVINGS-BANK.

NOTICE is hereby given that the rate of interest upon
deposits with this bank will be reduced to three per
centum per annum on and after 1st May, 1898.

Nelson, 4th February, 1898.

H. EDWARDS,
Vice-President.

215

BOROUGH OF KARORI.

NOTICE is hereby given that, on the 26th day of April,
1898, in accordance with “The Rating on Unimproved
Value Act, 1896,” a poll was taken over the borough on the
proposal, “That ‘The Rating on Unimproved Value Act,
1896,’ be adopted in the Borough of Karori, and henceforth
property be rated on the basis of the unimproved value
thereof.”

The following was the result:—

Total number of ratepayers .. .. 222
Number of ratepayers who voted at the poll.. .. 86
Votes for the proposal .. .. 93
Votes against the proposal .. .. .. 3
Informal .. .. .. 1

As more than one-third of the ratepayers voted, and a
majority of votes being in favour, I hereby declare the pro-
posal carried.

RICHARD C. BULKLEY,
Mayor of the Borough of Karori.

27th day of April, 1898.

526

I, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD LOGAN, Bachelor of Medi-
cine and Bachelor of Surgery of the University of New
Zealand, now residing in Dunedin, hereby give notice that
I intend applying on the 23rd May, 1898, to have my
name placed on the Medical Register for the Colony of New
Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of my
qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and
Deaths at Dunedin.

W. A. LOGAN, M.B., Ch.B.,
Dunedin.

Dated at Dunedin, 23rd April, 1898.

523

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honour John Edward
Denniston, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New
Zealand, has this day appointed HERBERT WARREN, of 32,
Bedford Row, in the City of London, in the County of
Middlesex, in England, a Commissioner of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand, in England, for the purpose of ad-
ministering and taking oaths, affidavits, and affirmations
under section 2 of “The Commissioners of the Supreme
Court Act, 1875.”

Dated at Christchurch, this 1st day of April, 1898.

R. G. THOMAS,
Registrar.

525

CONTENTS.

APPOINTMENTS .. .. .. .. .. 691
BANKRUPTCY NOTICES .. .. .. .. .. 713
CROWN LANDS NOTICES .. .. .. .. .. 696
LAND .. .. .. .. .. 685, 690
LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES .. .. .. .. .. 715
MINING NOTICES .. .. .. .. .. 714
NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES .. .. .. .. .. 702
PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS .. .. .. .. .. 716
VOLUNTEERS .. .. .. .. .. 691

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington