Jan. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 119

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. xxiv., folio 225, in favour of FANNY GARDINER, of England, Widow, for Allotment 343b of Section 1, Town of Tauranga, having been lodged with me, and application made to issue a provisional certificate of title, notice is hereby given of my intention to issue a provisional certificate of title accordingly at the expiration of fourteen days after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 13th day of January, 1898, at the Lands Registry Office, Auckland.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.

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

714 to 717. MOSES SOMES BREACH.—1 acre and 5⁴⁄₁₀ perches, Town of New Plymouth. Occupied by Joseph West, Chew Chong, and Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office (Plan 1109).

Dated this 17th day of January, 1898, at the Lands Registry Office, New Plymouth.

R. L. STANFORD,
District Land Registrar.

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APPLICATION having been made to me to register a transfer of lease No. 2194, from JAMES ELWYN DAVIS to WILLIAM AKERS, of Palmerston North, sheep-farmer, being the block of land known as Tuwhakatupua No. 1r, and the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. lxx., folio 72, and evidence having been lodged of the loss of the original copy of the said lease, I hereby give notice that I intend to dispense with the production of the said lease and register the transfer as requested, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 3rd day of February, 1898.

Dated this 19th day of January, 1898, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

W. STUART,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 21st day of February, 1898.

2740. JOHN REED.—11·8 perches, part Section 744, City of Wellington. Occupied by — Osborne, as weekly tenant.

2741. ROBERT MARTIN.—33 perches, part Section 202, City of Wellington. Occupied by Applicant and his tenants.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 19th day of January, 1898, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

W. STUART,
District Land Registrar.

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

8194. THOMAS JAMES MALING.—20 acres, Rural Section 13590, Fighting Hill Survey District. Unoccupied.

Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 15th day of January, 1898, at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch.

G. G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month from the date of publication hereof in the Gazette.

Sections 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, Block VII., and Section 18 and part of 19, Block VIII., Anderson’s Bay District.—ROBERT BRUNTON, Applicant. Occupied by Applicant. No. 4228.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 17th day of January, 1898, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

H. TURTON,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 31st day of March, 1898.

Allotments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Block XX., Township of South Kaitangata.—WILLIAM GORDON RICH, Applicant. Occupied by Applicant’s tenant. No. 4226.

Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 17th day of January, 1898, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

H. TURTON,
District Land Registrar.

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APPLICATION having been made for the issue of a provisional title for Section 22, Block LXIV., Town of Invercargill, registered, in the name of ANNA ULRICA TWINEM, in Register-book, Vol. iii., folio 36, and evidence having been lodged as to the loss of the original certificate of title, I hereby give notice that I shall issue a provisional title as requested unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within fourteen days from the date of the gazetting of this notice.

F. G. MORGAN,
District Land Registrar for the District of Southland.

The Lands Registry Office,
Invercargill, 11th January, 1898.

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Private Advertisements.

BOROUGH OF SUMNER.

RESULT OF POLL UNDER “THE RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE ACT, 1896.”

THE following is the result of poll taken on the 23rd December, 1897, to decide whether or not “The Rating on Unimproved Value Act, 1896,” should be adopted in the Borough of Sumner:—

Number of burgesses on roll .. .. 228
Number of votes .. .. .. 280
Votes for the proposal .. .. .. 27
Votes against the proposal .. .. 1
Informal .. .. .. .. 1
Number of voters .. .. .. 21

The requisite number of ratepayers not having recorded their votes, I therefore declare the proposal to be not carried.

WILLIAM ROLLITT,
Mayor.

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THE AUSTRALIAN WIDOWS’ FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (LIMITED).

In the matter of “The Foreign Companies Act, 1884.”

I, CHARLES JOHN FOWLER, of Wellington, Attorney of the Australian Widows’ Fund Life Assurance Society (Limited), a company duly incorporated and registered under Acts of the Parliament of Victoria (“The Companies Statute, 1864,” and “The Life Assurance Companies Act, 1873”), do hereby give notice, pursuant to the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, that the above-named company has fixed the situation and locality of its office or place of business at which service of legal proceedings may be made in accordance with the provisions of the above Act as at the Phoenix Assurance Company’s Building, No. 6, Customhouse Quay, in the City of Wellington.

Dated this 13th day of January, 1898.

CHARLES J. FOWLER,
Resident Secretary.

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TO SOLICITORS, NATIVE AGENTS, ETC.

THE following Rules can be obtained from the Government Stationery Office, Wellington, on application to the undersigned:—

RULES OF THE NATIVE LAND COURT. In English, price 1s.; in Maori, 1s.

ADDITIONAL RULES OF THE NATIVE LAND COURT, 19th March, 1896. In English, 6d.; in Maori, 6d.

RULES OF THE NATIVE LAND COURT RE NATIVE LAND ADMINISTRATION, under Division II., Part II. of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.” In English, price 6d.; in Maori, price 6d.

REGULATIONS UNDER “THE NATIVE TOWNSHIPS ACT, 1896.” In English, 6d.; in Maori, 6d.

JOHN MACKAY,
Government Printer.