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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 8]

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 3.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 30th 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 Otago and Southland.
The Reverend William Miller Nicolson.

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend Alfred Hodge.

Baptists.
The Reverend Walter Lawry Salter.

Primitive Methodist Connexion.
The Reverend George P. Hunt.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

ERRATUM.—In Notice No. 1, under heading “Congregational Independents,” for Carr, Greenwill, read Carr, Greenwell.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is,

under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act, the assessed value of the said land being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of January, 1900.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 1 rood, more or less, being Section 322, Town of Lyttelton, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, having frontages to Christchurch Road and St. David Street.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 32 perches, more or less, being Section 155 on the plan of the Town of Cobden, in the Provincial District of Nelson, having a frontage to Weld Street of 200 links by a depth of 100 links. The grantee and registered owner is William Gray, described as of Cobden, boatman, who cannot 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 26th day of January, 1900.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Tenders for Castor-oil, New Zealand Railways.

Railway Department (Head Office), Wellington, 30th January, 1900.

THE under-mentioned successful and unsuccessful tender rates for the supply of 8,000 gallons of castor-oil for the New Zealand Railways are published for general information.

T. RONAYNE,
General Manager, New Zealand Railways.

Crown Lands Notices.

Pastoral Run, Waimate County, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 20th January, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned pastoral run will be offered for lease by public auction, for the term of twenty-one years, at the Lands and Survey Office, Timaru, on Tuesday the 27th February, 1900, at 12 noon.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMATE COUNTY.—WAIHAO SURVEY DISTRICT.

This run is situated on the slopes of the Station Peak Range, which flanks the eastern side of the Hakataramea Valley, South Canterbury. It lies on the north side of the Meyer’s Pass Road, near the source of the South Waihao River, about twenty-three miles from Waimate and fourteen miles from Hakataramea. It comprises high open hill country, the spurs being intersected by deep rough gullies, making the block difficult of access. The country is of purely pastoral character, the vegetation consisting of native and English grasses, with snow-grass only on the higher altitudes. It is fairly well watered by springs and streams, but is liable to burn up in a dry summer, and, as the elevation ranges from about 1,500 ft. up to about 3,500 ft. above sea-level, it is liable to heavy falls of snow in winter.

The run is weighted with a valuation of £660 for improvements, consisting of two huts, boundary and subdivision fencing, and surface-sowing; this sum must be paid by the successful lessee before being admitted to possession of the run.

In the event of the run not being sold at auction, it will immediately thereafter be open for application at the upset annual rental.

CONDITIONS.

1. Possession of the run will be given to the purchaser of the license on the 1st March, 1900, or on approval of application by the Land Board.