Mar. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 615

84 Opuatia No. 6 Block.—Revision of List of Owners.

Native Land Court Office, Auckland, 6th March, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that, at the Court which will sit at Mercer on the 6th day of April, 1899, inquiry will be held as to the alleged discrepancies in the schedule of the owners of Opuatia No. 6 Block; and the said schedule and subsequent orders, made on partition or otherwise, will, if necessary, be revised, and the shares of the said owners redefined.

JAS. W. BROWNE, Registrar.

Land referred to the Native Land Court for Inquiry under Section 14 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

Native Land Court Office, Auckland, 6th March, 1899.

IN pursuance of an Order in Council dated the 24th day of October, 1898, declaring that it shall be within the jurisdiction of the Native Land Court to determine whether or not the land set forth in the Schedule hereto, or any part thereof, was, on the investigation of title thereto, intended by the Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner or owners of such land, to be held by such nominal owner or owners in trust for Natives not named in the title, and to determine who are the Natives (if any) entitled beneficially to such land, and to order the inclusion of such Natives in the title, either together with or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of them, and for the purpose aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new Crown grants or other instruments of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said land all the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native Land Court by subsection (10) of section 14 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” it is hereby notified that at a sitting of the Native Land Court to be held at Mercer, Waikato, on the 6th day of April, 1899, and succeeding days, the Court will proceed to inquire into the above case, in accordance with the terms of the said Order in Council.

JAS. W. BROWNE,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Bankruptcy Notices.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, helden at Auckland.

NOTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM EARLE, late of Auckland, Restaurant-proprietor, was this day adjudged bankrupt on creditor’s petition; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be helden at my office, on Thursday, the 9th day of March, 1899, at 2.30 o’clock.

JOHN LAWSON,
Official Assignee.

Auckland, 3rd March, 1899.

In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that GEORGE HAYWARD, of Cheltenham, Carpenter, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be helden at Palmerston North, on Tuesday, the 7th day of March, 1899, at 2.30 p.m.

G. J. SCOTT,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Palmerston North, 27th February, 1899.

In Bankruptcy.—In the District Court of Wanganui, helden at Palmerston North.

NOTICE is hereby given that ENOCH FREDERICK CHARLES, of Ashhurst, Labourer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be helden at my office, on Friday, the 10th day of March, 1899, at 2.30 o’clock.

G. J. SCOTT,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Palmerston North, 4th March, 1899.

In Bankruptcy.—In the District Court of Wairarapa, helden at Masterton.

NOTICE is hereby given that GEORGE STOKES, of North Tiraumea Road, near Pahiatua, Settler, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be helden at the Courthouse, Pahiatua, on Tuesday, the 7th day of March, 1899, at 3 o’clock p.m.

W. B. CHENNELLS,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Masterton, 1st March, 1899.

In Bankruptcy.—In the District Court of Wairarapa, helden at Masterton.

NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-sheets in respect of the under-mentioned estates, together with the report of the Audit Office thereon, have been duly filed in the above Court; and I hereby further give notice that at the sitting of the said Court to be helden on Wednesday, the 22nd day of March, 1899, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates.

Henry John Lear, of Greytown, Gentleman.
John Alfred Jury, of Gisborne, Aboriginal Native.
John Price, formerly Pahiatua, Brickmaker.
Alexander Yule, of Carterton, Butcher.
Frederick W. B. Greville, of Pahiatua, Butter-maker.
James Baillie, of Greytown, Sawmiller.
Walter Morrison, of Pahiatua, Produce Merchant.
William Denis Jenkins, of Eketahuna, Draper.
Susan Goodall, of Masterton, Draper.
John Bell Shelbourne, of Pahiatua, Labourer.
Willie Waters, of Masterton, Engineer.
Alfred Vennell, of Wellington, Clerk.
Henry Vennell, of Kahumingi, Station Hand.
Henry and Alfred Vennell, of Tauern.
Davis Isaacs, of Pahiatua, Tailor.
Jacob Richard Hebley, of Greytown, Bootmaker.
Thomas Hawke, of Pahiatua, Cabinetmaker.
Richard Jones, of Masterton, Fruiterer.
Richard Nicholl, of Masterton, Manager for General Dealer.
William Henry Allsworth, of Masterton, Labourer.
George John Schofield (otherwise William Whybrow), of Konini, Labourer.
Robert B. Church, of Masterton, Storeman.
William Henry Armitage, of Pahiatua, Storekeeper.
Edward Milligan, of Pahiatua, Tailor.
Hugh Mitchell, of Carterton, Drover.
Thomas Ruane, of Masterton, Labourer.
Alexander T. Thompson, of Upper Tauern, Sawmiller.
William Bly, of Pahiatua, Settler.
John Blatchford Russell, of Hamua, Labourer.
Rupert Fairbrother, of Carterton, Storekeeper.

W. B. CHENNELLS,
Deputy Official Assignee.

Dated this 6th day of March, 1899.