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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

Borough of Pahiatua be abolished, and that the borough be
an undivided one. The alteration to be carried out under
section 182 of ‘The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.’”
I hereby certify that the above special order was made in
accordance with section 73 of “The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1900.”
G. C. MILLER,
Town Clerk.
Sealed with the seal of the Pahiatua Borough, in the
presence of—
J. D. WILSON,
Borough Council Chambers,
Mayor.
Pahiatua, 21st February, 1901.

Result of Election of a Trustee of a Land-drainage District.
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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1901.
THE following result of the election of a Trustee of the
Manawatu Drainage District has been received from
the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with
the provisions of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893.”
HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Manawatu Drainage District.—County of Manawatu.
HENRY JAMES MANSON.

Easter Holidays.
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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1901.
IT is hereby notified for general information that Friday
the 5th, Saturday the 6th, and Monday the 8th April
next will be observed as holidays in the public offices of the
Government of New Zealand.
By order.
HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1901.—Notice No. 13.
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Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1901.
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 late 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:—
Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Augustine Keogh.
Primitive Methodist Connexion.
The Reverend John Olphert.
E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of
“ The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”
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Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1901.
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.
Joseph Oswald Baker, late of Avondale, in the Provincial
District of Auckland, asylum attendant. Filed on the 19th
day of March, 1901.
John Halliday, late of Southbridge, in the Provincial
District of Canterbury, farm-labourer. Filed on the 19th
day of March, 1901.
George Frederick Wealleams, late of Auckland, in the
Provincial District of Auckland, bootmaker. Filed on the
19th day of March, 1901.
William Murrish, late of Queenstown, in the Provincial
District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 19th day of March,
1901.
Joseph Pearson, late of Harris Park, in the Colony of
New South Wales, gardener. Filed on the 20th day of
March, 1901.
James Dobbin, late of Warrington, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Otago, farm-manager. Filed on the 21st day of
March, 1901.
Robert Gabriel Lawrence, late of Waimatua, in the Pro-
vincial District of Otago, bushman. Filed on the 21st day
of March, 1901.
J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The
Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”
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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 sec-
tion: 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 21st day of March, 1901.
J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.
All that parcel of land, containing 27 perches, more or less,
being Allotment 2 of Block E, Section 2, Block I., Jacob’s
River Hundred, in or near Riverton, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Otago.

Crown Lands Notices.
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Forfeiture of Leases, Nelson Land District.
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Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th March, 1901.
IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned leases
were forfeited by resolution of the Nelson Land Board
on the 4th March, 1901.
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SCHEDULE.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land in Barnego Settlement, Otago, open for Selection on
Lease in Perpetuity.
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District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 26th March, 1901.
NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
Crown land will be open for selection on lease in
perpetuity at this office on Tuesday, the 4th June, 1901.
In the event of more than one application being received
for the allotment on the same day, priority of selection will
be decided by ballot on the following day at 11 a.m.
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SCHEDULE.
BRUCE COUNTY.—BARNEGO SETTLEMENT.

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings.
Open for selection as one allotment. Mixed agricultural
and pastoral land, at an elevation varying from 500 ft. to
700 ft. About 570 acres are ploughable, and the balance
consists of deep gullies of tussock, fern, and tutu; the soil
is fair to good, with clay subsoil. Access by road, and dis-
tant about five miles from Lovell’s Flat Railway-station.
The improvements (which go with the land) consist of half
value of 272 chains fencing and gorse hedge; full value of
206 chains fencing, three gates: total value, £79 6s. 6d.
The buildings on Section No. 10A comprise a barn, with
sheds attached, valued at £50; hut, valued at £7; stable,
valued at £10: total value of buildings, £67, repayable by
the tenant in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments
of £2 12s. 4d.
D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.