Nov. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2273

Application for Confirmation Certificate under Section 55.

Registrar’s Office, Gisborne, 13th November, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that an application has been made to a Judge of the Court for a certificate under section 55 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” confirming the alienation hereunder specified. All objections to the granting of such certificate must be lodged with me within fourteen days from the publication of this notice.

[Gisborne, 1901-28.] JOHN BROOKING, Registrar.

THE ALIENATION ABOVE REFERRED TO.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Whanganui.

Registrar’s Office, Wellington, 18th November, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Whanganui on the 25th day of November, 1901, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

[Wellington, 1901-35.] R. C. SIM, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE.

APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT OF NEW TRUSTEE IN SUBSTITUTION FOR EXISTING TRUSTEE.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that FRANK JOHN McDONALD (trading as “F. J. McDonald and Co.”), of Wellington, Wool and Skin Merchant, was this day adjudged bankrupt upon the petition of H. Matson and Co., of Christchurch, Auctioneers; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be held at my office, on Friday, the 22nd day of November, 1901, at 11 o’clock.

JAMES ASHCROFT,
Official Assignee.

Wellington, 15th November, 1901.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Blenheim.

NOTICE is hereby given that ALFRED GEORGE MATTHEW SOWMAN, of Blenheim, Cabinetmaker, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be held at the Courthouse, Blenheim, on the 22nd day of November, 1901, at 3 o’clock.

R. W. H. D. DUNN,
Deputy Official Assignee.

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, held at Christchurch.

NOTICE is hereby given that ROBERT SIMPSON MCDIARMID, of Woolston, Blacksmith, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors, to be held at my office, on Friday, the 22nd day of November, 1901, at 11 o’clock.

G. L. GREENWOOD,
Official Assignee.

16th November, 1901.

In Bankruptcy.—In the District Court of Westland, held at Westport.

NOTICE is hereby given that statements of accounts and balance-sheets in respect of the under-mentioned estates, together with the report of the Audit Office thereon, have been duly filed in the above Court; and I hereby further give notice that at the sitting of the said Court to be held on Monday, the 9th day of December, 1901, I intend to apply for an order releasing me from the administration of the said estates.

Dated this 15th day of November, 1901.

David Cosgrove, Teacher, Westport.
William Henry Gaze, Doctor, Westport.
Robert McAlpine, Storekeeper, Burnett’s Face.
Marshall Foreman, Carrier, Addison’s.
William Heywood, Engine-fitter, Westport.
Henry Smith, Miner, Denniston.
John Prout, Miner, Denniston.
Jeremiah Creed, Sawmiller, Cape Foulwind.
Francis Gospoderitich, Miner, Waimangaroa.

A. D. BAYFEILD,
Deputy Official Assignee.

MINING NOTICES.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A BRANCH RACE.—No. 89.

To the Warden of the Otago Mining District at Lawrence.

PURSUANT to “The Mining Act, 1898,” the undersigned William Forrest Smyth, John Donlan, and William Adams, all of Lawrence, miners, hereby apply for a license for a branch race as specified in the Schedule hereto, the course whereof has been duly marked out for the purpose.

Dates and numbers of miners’ rights: No. 23810, 20th July, 1901; No. 23811, 20th July, 1901; No. 20095, 3rd December, 1900.

Address for service: The office of Alfred Crooke, solicitor, Ross Place, Lawrence.

Dated at Lawrence, this 6th day of November, 1901.

SCHEDULE.

Locality of the race, and its starting and terminal points: Sections 12 and 5, Block XIII., Tuapeka East District: starting at a point in the Golden Crescent Company’s water-race, held under license No. 1013, dated 10th June,