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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 29·5 perches, more or less, being Lot 246 on deposited Plan No. 91, on subdivision of part of Rural Section 6023, District of Ashburton, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, situate at the corner of Charles and Graham Streets. Also, to the owner or owners of a parcel of land containing 38 perches, more or less, being Lot 81 on deposited Plan No. 264, on subdivision of part of Rural Section 4904, in the said District of Ashburton. The last registered owner of both parcels of land is Margaret Annie Fidler, described as of Christchurch, spinster, who cannot be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owners of either of the above-described lands are, and believes that such owner or owners respectively are not in the colony: Now, this notice calls upon such owners respectively, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee her or their titles respectively to the lands respectively specified in this notice; and, if such owner or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish her, their, or either of their titles, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” in respect of both the said parcels of land, or such one of them as to which the owner shall not appear.

Dated this 15th day of December, 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, 16th December, 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.

William Little, late of Dannevirke, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, labourer. Filed on the 6th day of December, 1898.

Walter David Basstian, late of North-east Valley, in the Provincial District of Otago, farmer. Filed on the 6th day of December, 1898.

John Tweedie, late of Mataura, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 6th day of December, 1898.

Martin Herighty, late of Wrey’s Bush, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 6th day of December, 1898.

Mary McDonald, late of Sunnyside Asylum, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, domestic servant. Filed on the 23rd day of November, 1898.

James Lehy, late of Ophir, in the Provincial District of Otago, bacon-curer. Filed on the 29th day of November, 1898.

Elizabeth O’Hollerin, late of Ophir, in the Provincial District of Otago, domestic servant. Filed on the 29th day of November, 1898.

Thomas McCafferty, late of Marsden, in the Provincial District of Nelson, miner. Filed on the 29th day of November, 1898.

Henry Michael Healey, late of Kumara, in the Provincial District of Westland, fisherman. Filed on the 1st day of December, 1898.

Mary Purvis, otherwise called Mildred Hadfield, late of Greymouth, in the Provincial District of Westland, domestic servant. Filed on the 10th day of December, 1898.

James Scott, late of Lowburn, in the Provincial District of Otago, shepherd. Filed on the 10th day of December, 1898.

Daniel Towzer, late of Hokitika, in the Provincial District of Westland, gold-miner. Filed on the 10th day of December, 1898.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Offices opened and closed.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office, Wellington, 13th December, 1898.

THE following particulars of offices opened and closed are published for general information.

W. C. WALKER,
For Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

• Now post and telephone, combined
  † Also post-office, combined.
  ‡ No post-office.