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it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Government Life Insurance Department.—Agency opened at Kimbolton.

Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 11th January, 1901.

AN agency of the above department will be opened at the

Post-office, Kimbolton,

as from the 14th January, 1901.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 80 acres, more or less, being north-western part of Allotment 69 and south-eastern part of Allotment 70, Parish of Ruarangi, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The registered owner is Henry Greenacre, described as of Auckland, settler, 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 11th day of January, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

[NOTE.—This notice is a republication, former notices having by accident partially misdescribed the land.]

Officiating Ministers for 1901.—Notice No. 2.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th January, 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 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 Richard Twitchell Mathews, B.A.

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend Christopher Anderson Lyon.
The Reverend David McKee Wright.

Baptists.

The Reverend R. S. Gray.

Church of Christ.

Mr. Joseph Foster.

E. J. Von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 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.

Robert Porter, late of Stafford, in the Provincial District of Westland, miner. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1901.

John Lace, late of Fernside, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, sawmiller. Filed on the 12th day of January, 1901.

Barbara Gunn, late of Geelong, in the Colony of Victoria, spinster. Filed on the 14th day of January, 1901.

Joseph Hayton Mills, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, railway clerk. Filed on the 15th day of January, 1901.

George Slater, late of Macrae’s Flat, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 15th day of January, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of December, 1900. Altitude above the sea, 140 ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means, &c. † Same month previous years.

REMARKS.—Generally showery, especially towards end of month; the maximum rainfall recorded on 26th—1·25 in.; prevailing N.W. winds, and, on the whole, moderate; cool weather for time of year. Hail on 25th. Maximum temperature in shade 78°, minimum 45°; mean temperature of dew-point, 47·4°; mean humidity, 67.

R. B. GORE, Observer.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 6th December, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application on that behalf made to me by the Christchurch Bookbinders and Paper-rulers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 175, situated at Christchurch, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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