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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

Permissive License to occupy Artificial Oyster-bed in Arrowsmith Bay, Tory Channel, cancelled.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 26th March, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the permissive license to occupy part of Arrowsmith Bay, Tory Channel, and to form and plant any artificial oyster-bed therein, granted to William Davenport, of Tory Channel, settler, on the 12th March, 1895, is hereby cancelled, on account of a breach of the covenants and conditions contained in such license.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Easter Holidays.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1900.

IT is hereby notified for general information that Friday, the 13th, Saturday, the 14th, and Monday, the 16th April next, will be observed as holidays in the public offices of the Government of New Zealand.

By order.

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 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.

Bernard Langer, late of View Hill, Oxford, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, labourer. Filed on the 22nd day of March, 1900.

Thomas Johns, late of Stratford, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, labourer. Filed on the 22nd day of March, 1900.

Elizabeth Byrne, late of Lawrence, in the Provincial District of Otago, housekeeper. Filed on the 22nd day of March, 1900.

Jane McLaren, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, housekeeper. Filed on the 22nd day of March, 1900.

Patrick Murphy, late of Oroua Downs, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 26th day of March, 1900.

Richard Webster Littlewood, late of Wanganui, in the Provincial District of Wellington, settler. Filed on the 26th day of March, 1900.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 11.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd March, 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:—

Auckland Central Mission (Unsectarian).

The Reverend H. J. Walker.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 12.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 24th March, 1900.

IN accordance with request from the ecclesiastical head of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, the undermentioned name has been withdrawn from the List of Officiating Ministers in connection with that religious body, under “The Marriage Act, 1880,” for the year 1900:—

The Reverend JOHN OLPHERT.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1900.

THE Lily of the Valley Lodge, situated at North Dunedin, is registered as a branch of the District Grand Lodge of Otago and Southland United Ancient Order of Druids Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 19th day of March, 1900.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Bonus for the Production of Mineral Manure.—Notice No. 580.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 12th December, 1899.

THE following sum is hereby offered as a bonus for the discovery and working within the colony of a deposit or deposits of marketable mineral manure, viz.:—

£500 IF FOUND ON CROWN LANDS ;
£250 IF FOUND ON FREEHOLD LANDS.

The following are the conditions under which the bonus is offered and will be paid:—

1. That the raw material is easily accessible, and within reasonable distance of a railway or seaport.

2. That the committee appointed by the Minister for Agriculture to examine the deposit is satisfied that there is sufficient to meet all ordinary demands for five years.

3. That the manure can be disposed of at a price which will allow of it being remuneratively used for agricultural purposes.

4. That the composition of the phosphate shall average not less than 40 per cent. of phosphate of lime (tricalcic phosphate); provided, however, should a phosphate of a lower average composition be discovered, the committee may recommend that a portion of the bonus be granted.

The terms of payment will be—

One-fifth on the committee reporting favourably of the discovery;

One-fifth on delivery of first 200 tons;

The remaining three-fifths by equal payments on delivery of each additional 150 tons.

Applications addressed to “The Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington,” will be received up to and including the 1st day of July, 1900.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister for Agriculture.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th July, 1899.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1901, the period of literature will be from 1800 to 1850, and the special books will be Carlyle’s “Sartor Resartus” and Milton’s “Samson Agonistes.”

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

Crown Lands Notices.

Lands forfeited, Southland Land District.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1900.

IT is hereby notified that the leases of the undermentioned lands have been forfeited or surrender accepted by resolutions of the Southland Land Board, and that the said lands have reverted to the Crown.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.