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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Notice on Order of Court vesting the Lands in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

In the matter of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894”; and in the matter of Allotment No. 308, in the Parish of Te Rapa, in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing 50 acres, more or less.

I HEREBY give notice that, by an order of Edward Tennyson Conolly, Esq., a Judge of the Supreme Court at Auckland, made on the 20th day of December, 1898, the above-mentioned land was vested in the Public Trustee under the provisions of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated at Wellington, this 31st day of January, 1899.

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, 7th February, 1899.

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.

Martha Russell, late of Blackbridge, in the Provincial District of Wellington, widow. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1899.

John Crosby Bannatyne, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, hotelkeeper. Filed on the 26th day of January, 1899.

Thomas Whittick, otherwise known as William Whittick, late of Thames, in the Provincial District of Auckland, miner. Filed on the 26th day of January, 1899.

William Armstrong, late of Waikawa, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 26th day of January, 1899.

William Henry Guyatt, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, sailor. Filed on the 28th day of January, 1899.

Peter Bancroft, late of Preservation Inlet, in the Provincial District of Otago, gold-miner. Filed on the 28th day of January, 1899.

John Hicks, late of Rotorua, in the Provincial District of Auckland, auctioneer. Filed on the 28th day of January, 1899.

Elizabeth Haddon, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, governess. Filed on the 2nd day of February, 1899.

Robinson Coupe, late of Wanganui, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 2nd day of February, 1899.

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 situate in the Town of Cromwell, in the Provincial District of Otago, containing 15 poles, more or less, and being Sections 18, 19, and 20, Block II., on the record map of the said town, situate at the corner of Melmore Terrace and Sligo Street. This land belonged to David Weaver, of Cromwell, Storekeeper, who died in or before 1870, and who by his will devised one moiety of the land to Esther Margaret Weaver (his wife), and the other moiety to David Edward Shirley, Annie Mary Elizabeth Gipparat, and William Harding Weaver (nephews and a niece of his), upon the youngest attaining sixteen.

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 8th day of February, 1899.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1899.

THE Court Viking, No. 7630, situated at Norsewood, is registered as a branch of the Hawke’s Bay District Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 7th day of February, 1899.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Officiating Ministers for 1899.—Notice No. 5.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1899.

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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Primitive Methodist Connexion.
The Reverend John B. Merrett.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

[Erratum.—General List of Officiating Ministers, Notice No. 1: Under “Wesleyan Methodist Church,” for “Thomas N. Newbold,” read “Thomas Walter Newbold.”]

Crown Lands Notices.

Canterbury Runs classified.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 28th January, 1899.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of section 189 of “The Land Act, 1892,” have reported to His Excellency the Governor that the lands described in the Schedule hereto have been classified by them as therein noted.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Class I.—Pastoral Lands, being Lands suitable exclusively for Pasturage, and not capable of being used with Profit in Areas of a Carrying-capacity of less than Five Thousand Sheep.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,\
JOHN McLACHLAN,\ Classification
DAVID McMILLAN,\ Commissioners.