SEPT. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1753

One half-year’s rent and £1 1s. lease-fee, with valuation for improvements, must be paid on the fall of the hammer. Special conditions will be inserted in the leases of Sections 60 and 61, Block V., Mount Fyffe, and 16 and 17, Block V., Puhipuhi, as to the accommodation of travelling stock; and the lessee of the Waipapa Reserve (Sections 16 and 17, Block V., Puhipuhi) will have to erect a suitable accommodation-house, valuation for which up to £600 will be allowed at the end of the term, and he will not be allowed to sublet any portion of the land.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination: the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, one of which is open to all Maori boys under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have attended a Native school or schools other than Te Aute or St. Stephen’s, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory; the other is open to Maori boys whose attendance at any school during the previous year has been similarly satisfactory. The senior scholarship is open to Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1897. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV. in the Native Schools Code, 1897. The questions will, however, be somewhat more difficult than those set for the standard examinations. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 18th and 19th December, 1899.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st of October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 5th September, 1899.

PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the Charge of the Public Trustee for Management during the Month of August, 1899.

Dated the 4th day of September, 1899.

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

Native Land Court Notices.

“The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

Native Land Court Office, Auckland, 29th August, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Maketu, Bay of Plenty, on the 25th day of September, 1899, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

[Auckland, 99-52.]

JAS. W. BROWNE, Registrar.

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