1154
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

Notice of Intention to take Land in Taieri County for the Berwick-Waipori Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under the provisions of “The Public Works, Act, 1894,” for a certain public work, to wit, the construction of the Berwick-Waipori Road, Taieri County: And notice is further given that the plan of the said land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office, Berwick, and is there open for inspection, and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objection to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth such objection in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Otago; as the same are more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 18232, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red and green.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Examination of Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 18th July, 1898.

IN accordance with the regulations for the examination of surveyors under “The Land Act, 1892,” as published in the New Zealand Gazette of 5th March, 1896, it is hereby notified that the following persons have been granted certificates:—

UNDER CLAUSE 19.
Thure Gustaf Lilliecrona.

UNDER CLAUSE 21.
Gerald Arthur Jackson.

S. PERCY SMITH,
Chairman of the Board of Examiners.

Appointment of Agent to the Public Trustee at Lawrence.

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

IT is hereby notified for general information that

JAMES JOHN GIBSON, Esq.,

has been appointed to be Sub-agent to the Public Trustee at Lawrence from the 1st day of August, 1898.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 62 acres, more or less, being Section 31, Parish of Pakiri, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The land was Crown-granted to George William Friend, described as of Auckland, clothier, who never lifted his title and who cannot be traced. The land is in the occupation of Mr. James Greenwood.

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 the 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 15th day of July, 1898.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 19th July, 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.

Walter Cecil Scott, late of Onga Onga, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, settler. Filed on the 1st day of July, 1898.

James Brown, late of Patea, in the Provincial District of Wellington, mariner. Filed on the 7th day of July, 1898.

William Woodhouse, late of Sydenham, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, platelayer. Filed on the 7th day of July, 1898.

William Foster, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, restaurant-keeper. Filed on the 7th day of July, 1898.

Charles Frederick Lange, otherwise known as Carl Friedrich Langen, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, tobacconist. Filed on the 14th day of July, 1898.

Albert Mewett, late of Waitekauri, in the Provincial District of Auckland, miner. Filed on the 14th day of July, 1898.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Banking Returns.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 30th June, 1898.

LIABILITIES.

ASSETS.

4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £2,000,000.
Preferred shares subscribed for by the Government of New Zealand, £500,000.
Capital payable by shareholders, £500,000.
Reserve fund, £23,474 7s. 4d.

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of July, 1898.

C. G. TEGETMEIER,
General Manager.

RICH'D. W. GIBBS,
Accountant.