Aug. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1411

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Ngatapa Road District, County of Cook.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1899.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Ngatapa Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886.”
J. CARROLL.

NGATAPA ROAD DISTRICT.

I HEREBY give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers in the Ngatapa-Motu Special District, taken on Saturday, 3rd June, 1899, upon a proposal by the Ngatapa Road Board to raise a loan of £2,000 in terms of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” the following votes were recorded:—

For the proposal, 13 voters exercised 22 votes: Number on the roll, 21 voters, capable of exercising 32 votes.

As a majority of the ratepayers exercised a majority of the votes in favour of the proposal, I declare it carried.
W. K. CHAMBERS,
Chairman.

Gisborne, 6th June, 1899.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE.

Education Department,
29th July, 1899.

WHEREAS William Chignell is at present detained as an inmate of the Auckland Industrial School (a school established under “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882”), and such inmate is entitled to certain funds or moneys, amounting to the sum of £94 13s. 9d., more or less, now in the hands of the Public Trustee, as a trustee for the said William Chignell, under an order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Northern Judicial District, Taranaki, made on the 16th day of December, 1898: And whereas it appears expedient to issue the direction hereinafter set forth:

Now, I, William Campbell Walker, the Minister of Education, do hereby, in exercise of the power conferred by section 3 of “The Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act, 1895,” direct the Public Trustee to take possession of and to apply the said moneys for the benefit of the said inmate, in accordance with the provisions of the last-mentioned Act.
W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

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Member of the House of Representatives elected, City of Wellington Electoral District.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 1899.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 8th day of July, 1899, for the election of a member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of City of Wellington, and by the endorsement on such writ it appears that

JOHN HUTCHESON

has been duly elected to serve as a member for the said district.

HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.

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Examination of Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 18th July, 1899.

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 next examination thereunder will be held on the 5th September next.

T. M. GRANT,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

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Officiating Ministers for 1899.—Notice No. 26.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 2nd August, 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:—

Free Methodist Church of Petone.
The Reverend Job Benning.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

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Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act, the assessed value of the said land being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of July, 1899.
A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 24 perches, more or less, being Lots 8 and 9 on deposited Plan No. 477, being also part of Rural Section 48, Borough of Linwood, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, having a frontage to Brotherstone Road of 100 links by a depth of 150 links.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 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.

Thomas Rush, late of Matakanui, in the Provincial District of Otago, miner. Filed on the 24th day of July, 1899.

William James Gawne, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, sauce-manufacturer. Filed on the 31st day of July, 1899.

Richard Domminney, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, paper-ruler. Filed on the 31st day of July, 1899.

George William Holt, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, newsvendor. Filed on the 31st day of July, 1899.

J. J. M. HAMILTON,
Deputy Public Trustee.

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Pelorus Sound Mail Steam Services.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1899.

TENDERS will be received at the General Post Office, Wellington, until noon of Monday, the 14th August proximo, for the performance of the following mail-services:—

1. Once every two weeks, from about the 1st September next to the 31st December, 1902, by steamer, from Wellington to Havelock and back to Wellington, calling at Hikoekoea, Te Puru, Ketu Bay, Elaine Bay, Brightlands, Waimaru, Hopai Bay, Marie’s Bay, Tira-ora, Homewood, Nydia Bay, Maori Bay, *Mahau Sound, and Havelock, and at such other places in Pelorus Sound as may be determined upon by the Postmaster-General.

Tenderers are also invited to state for what subsidy they would be prepared, if required, to perform a weekly service to and from the above-named places.

2. Once every two weeks, from about the 1st September next to the 31st December, 1902, by steamer from and to Havelock, calling at Mahau Sound, Maori Bay, Tira-ora, Homewood, Brightlands, Ketu Bay, and Te Puru, and at such other places in Pelorus Sound as may be determined upon by the Postmaster-General.

The names, tonnage, passenger-accommodation, and horsepower of the steamers proposed to be employed to be stated.

Forms of tender and conditions of contract may be obtained at the General Post Office, Wellington; the Chief Post-offices, Nelson and Blenheim; and the Post-offices, Picton and Havelock.

Tenders, indorsed “Tenders for Pelorus Sound Mail-service, No. ,” to be addressed to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

• Calling on return from Havelock only,