APRIL 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 677

Ellen Sophia Newson, late of Pine Bush, in the Provincial District of Otago, married woman. Filed on the 2nd day of April, 1900.

Mary Elliott, late of Invercargill, in the Provincial District of Otago, nurse. Filed on the 2nd day of April, 1900.

Toni Perdiga, otherwise known as Tom Perdia, late of Herekino, in the Provincial District of Auckland, gum-digger. Filed on the 2nd day of April, 1900.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend William Hooper, D.D.

Primitive Methodist Connexion.

The Reverend Jacob Featherstone.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Government Life Insurance Department.—Agency opened at Bombay, Auckland.

Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 28th March, 1900.

AN agency of the above department will be opened at the

POST-OFFICE, BOMBAY, AUCKLAND,

as from the 1st April, 1900.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.

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.

Grazing-farm, Cheviot Estate, for Lease upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 31st March, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned land in the Cheviot Estate will be open for lease, on application at the District Land and Survey Offices, Christchurch and Cheviot, on Tuesday, the 29th May, 1900, at the half-yearly rental noted below. In case of more than one application for the section on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot, at the District Land and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Thursday, the 31st May, 1900, at 12 o’clock noon.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT. — CHEVIOT COUNTY. — CHEVIOT SURVEY DISTRICT.

Surveyed Land.—Second-class Pastoral Land.

Lot 7, Block V., Cheviot Survey District, generally known as the Cheviot Bush Section, is situated on the north side of the Waiau River, about two miles and a half above its mouth, and about one mile eastward from the point where Swamp Stream (Cheviot Estate) flows into the Waiau River. The section consists of hilly country, broken by the gullies of streams flowing into the Waiau River; the south-western portion of the section is partly covered with bush, and the remainder is fair open tussock land. A fire has recently passed through a portion of the bush land, and this can now be profitably laid down in grass.

Possession of the land will be given to the successful applicant as soon as his application has been approved by the Land Board.

Special attention is drawn to the fact that the grazing-lease does not confer upon the holder thereof any rights of felling, splitting, sawing, or in any way using or removing any of the live or dead timber upon the land; and the lease is offered subject to the rights of any persons now or hereafter to be authorised by the Canterbury Land Board to split or saw timber upon any portions of the land.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is fourteen years.

2. Every applicant shall make the declaration prescribed, and shall, immediately after the application has been approved, or declared successful at the ballot, deposit a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the land applied for. Such payment shall be in discharge of the half-year’s rent due on the 1st day of March or 1st day of September following the date of application. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for the preparation of the lease and the registration thereof.

3. In case of more than one application being lodged on the same day for the section, priority of selection shall be decided by ballot.

4. The lessee shall prevent the destruction or burning of timber or bush on the land comprised in the lease.

5. The lessee shall prevent the growth or spread of gorse, broom, and sweetbriar on the land comprised in the lease, and shall with all reasonable speed remove or cause to be removed all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner.

6. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land comprised in the lease, and shall prevent their increase or spread, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner or an officer appointed by him to inspect the ground.

7. The lessee shall have the exclusive right of pasturage over the lands specified in his lease, but shall have no right to the soil, or timber or minerals thereon or therein.

8. The lessee must once a year properly cut and trim all live fences now on the land, or which may be planted upon the land during the term.

9. No liability is accepted by or on behalf of the Crown in respect of any fencing existing upon the Crown lands offered for lease.

10. All buildings erected upon the land shall be kept in good order and repair.

11. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and assessments during the term.

12. Rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance during the term of the lease.

13. The lessee shall have no right to purchase any part of the land.

14. A right to search for and take gravel for making or maintaining roads from any of the lands disposed of is reserved; payment to be made for surface-damage only.

15. On the expiration or other determination of the lease the former lessee shall not have any right of renewal, but shall be entitled to full valuation from the incoming lessee for any exterior fences, appropriate to the lease, erected and then existing on the land.

16. In any case where it is determined that any lands included in any lease shall not again be offered for further lease, then the amount of the valuation of the improvements as aforesaid shall be paid to the outgoing lessee or occupier, less any arrears of money due to the Crown by him in respect of such lands, and such amount shall be paid out of the Cheviot Estate Fund.

17. If a lease is forfeited for breach of conditions, such valuation shall be made on recovering possession of the land.

18. Payment of any valuation for improvements shall be made to the Receiver of Land Revenue by the new lessee of such land before he is admitted into possession, and moneys so paid to the Receiver shall not be deemed part of the Cheviot Estate Fund.

19. The amount of the valuation for such improvements, in case of the land being relet, when paid by the new lessee, shall be paid by the Receiver of Land Revenue to the original lessee or other person entitled, and, in case of forfeiture, less any rent which may be due to the Crown at the date of such forfeiture, and the cost of recovering possession of the land, and also the charges and expenses of reletting such land, and making, issuing, and completing any fresh lease.