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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Chief engineers rank with but after lieutenants of eight years’ seniority.
Staff engineers rank with lieutenants above eight years’ seniority.
Fleet engineers rank with commanders according to date of commission.
Inspectors of machinery, under eight years’ service on full pay as such, rank with captains under three years.
Inspectors of machinery of eight years’ service on full pay as such rank with captains of three years. The captain to reckon his seniority from the date of completing three years in that rank. The inspector of machinery to reckon his seniority from the date of completing eight years’ service as such.
Chief inspectors of machinery rank with captains of three years’ seniority according to date of commission.

PAY, ETC., OF THE ROYAL CORPS OF NAVAL CONSTRUCTORS.

The number, the designation, and the salaries of the members of the corps are as follow:—

Admiralty.—Director of Naval Construction, £1,500 a year, rising to £1,800 after five years’ service. One senior chief constructor, £850 a year, rising to £1,000 by £50 a year, and a London allowance of £150 a year. One chief constructor, £850 a year, rising to £1,000 by £50 a year, and a London allowance of £150 a year. Two chief constructors, £700 a year, rising to £850 by £25 a year, and a London allowance of £150 a year. Three constructors, £400 a year, rising to £550 by £20 a year, and a London allowance of £120 a year. Six assistant constructors, first class, £300 a year, rising to £450 by £15 a year; duty-pay of £50 a year to assistant constructor in charge of foreign records; duty-pay of £50 a year to assistant constructor acting for chief constructor. One assistant constructor, first class (for scientific experiments), £250 a year, rising to £300 by £15 a year. Eight assistant constructors, second class, £160 a year, rising to £240 by £10 a year, and a London allowance of £50 a year.

Dockyards.—Three chief constructors, Chatham, Portsmouth, and Devonport Dockyards, £700 a year, rising to £850 by £25 a year, and a house. Two chief constructors, Sheerness and Pembroke Dockyards, £600 a year, rising to £750 by £25 a year, and a house. One chief constructor, Malta Dockyard, £650 a year, rising to £800 by £25 a year, and a house. One chief constructor, Hongkong, £600 a year, rising to £750 by £25 a year; a house, or an allowance of $1,066⅔ a year in lieu thereof; and a colonial allowance of $1,066⅔ a year. Seven constructors, £400 a year, rising to £550 by £20 a year, and a house. One constructor, Bermuda, £400 a year, rising to £550 by £20 a year, a house, and a colonial allowance of £100 a year. Ten assistant constructors, first class, £250 a year, rising to £300 by £15 a year. One assistant constructor, first class, Hongkong, £250 a year, rising to £300 by £15 a year, a house-allowance of $800 a year, and a colonial allowance of $533⅓ a year. Seventeen assistant constructors, second class, £160 a year, rising to £240 by £10 a year. Nine assistant constructors, third class, £110 a year, rising to £150 by £10 a year.

While appointed for service at sea they shall have the rank of assistant engineer for temporary service, and pay at the rate of 7s. 6d. per day, being the same as that of assistant engineers who have passed through a similar training.

They shall be paid a gratuity of £50 for uniform and outfit.

While appointed for service at sea their time shall count for purposes of civil superannuation.

All regulations as to pay, pension, retired-pay, allowances, are subject to alterations.

[D. 1900/158.

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 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:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Henry Kinnear Lawrie, M.A.

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend John Ferguson Macallister.

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Pierce Hearne.*
The Reverend James O’Malley.
The Reverend Michael Maria Ryan.

This name is entered in substitution for that of Patrick Hearne, published in Notice No. 1, in Gazette No. 6, of 18th January, 1900.

Baptists.
The Reverend William Barnett.
The Reverend Albert V. G. Chandler.
The Reverend W. Drew.

Church of Christ.
Mr. Joseph Foster.

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend Fredric Warner.
The Reverend Christopher Anderson Lyon.

Salvation Army.
Adjutant Samuel Hanna.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 60 acres, more or less, being middle portion of Allotment 74, Parish of Karioi, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The grantee is Bryan O’Loughlin, described as of Thames, miner, who never uplifted his title, and of whom nothing can be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated this 16th day of January, 1900.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 23rd January, 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.

John Kidd Wilson, late of South Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, storeman. Filed on the 16th day of January, 1900.

Herbert Challenger, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, settler. Filed on the 16th day of January, 1900.

Joseph Lamb, late of Oxford, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, shearer. Filed on the 18th day of January, 1900.

William McCallum, late of Pembroke, in the Provincial District of Otago, sawmiller. Filed on the 18th day of January, 1900.

Ephraim Roderick Byrne, late of Neavesville, in the Provincial District of Auckland, storekeeper. Filed on the 18th day of January, 1900.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Government Life Insurance Department.—Agency opened at Granity Creek.

Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 17th January, 1900.

AN agency of the above department will be opened at the

Post-office, GRANITY CREEK,

as from the 1st February, 1900.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.

Examination of Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 15th January, 1900.

IN accordance with the Regulations for the Examination of Surveyors under “The Land Act, 1892,” as pub-