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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

PROCLAMATION.

NEW SOUTH WALES, TO WIT.

By Deputation from His Excellency :

(L.S.) FREDK. M. DARLEY, Lieutenant-Governor.

By His Excellency the Right Honourable William, Earl Beauchamp, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependencies.

WHEREAS the Governor is empowered by section 1 of “The Vegetation Diseases Act, 1897,” to prohibit, by Proclamation in the Gazette, the introduction into this colony of any plant or fruit which is likely to introduce any disease or insect into the said colony: Now, therefore, I, William, Earl Beauchamp, the Governor aforesaid, with the advice of the Executive Council, do, by this my Proclamation, prohibit the introduction into this colony from any place outside the colony of any plant or fruit affected by the fungus known as Colletotrichum adustum, or by any species of Colletotrichum which produce any diseases known as black spot of citrus fruit, or by the species of fungus which produces the disease known as melanose.

Any plant introduced in contravention of the above Proclamation may be forthwith destroyed, or otherwise dealt with as the Minister may direct.

Given under my hand and seal, at Government House, Sydney, this eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred, and in the sixty-third year of Her Majesty’s reign.

By His Excellency’s command.

JOHN L. FEGAN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notice of the Laying-off of Road through Toko A Block, Ngai re Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, in August, 1899, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by warrants dated the 31st July, 1891, and the 17th June, 1898.

SCHEDULE.

WAIHAPA ROAD.

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at New Plymouth, in the Taranaki Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 6th day of February, 1900.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1900.

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.

George Robinson Laurensen, late of Palmerston North, in the Provincial District of Wellington, clerk. Filed on the 9th day of February, 1900.

Catherine Peat, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, housekeeper. Filed on the 9th day of February, 1900.

Eleanor Rosa Haylock, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, married woman. Filed on the 12th day of February, 1900.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Resignation of Deputy Public Trustee, and Appointment of District Agent, Christchurch.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor having been pleased to accept the resignation of

JOHN JOSEPH MONTGOMERY HAMILTON

as Deputy Public Trustee as from the 17th ultimo, his appointment as from the same date as District Agent of the Public Trustee, Christchurch, has been approved.

JAMES C. MARTIN.

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 5.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1900.

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:—

Hebrew Congregation.

The Reverend A. T. Chodowski.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of January, 1900. Altitude above the sea, 140 ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means, &c.

† Same month previous years.

NOTE.—Small total rainfall, but some nice light showers during month. Prevailing winds, N.W., and generally moderate. Maximum rainfall recorded on 7th, 0·66 in.; thunder on 13th. Maximum temperature in shade, 76°; minimum, 45°. On the whole a pleasant month. Mean temperature of dew-point, 49°·8; mean humidity, 67.

R. B. GORE, Observer.