JULY 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1453

ARAWHATA SPECIAL RATING DISTRICT.
Result of Poll.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that at the poll taken on Tuesday, 25th June, 1901, upon the proposal to borrow £3,000 for the purpose of forming, draining, culverting, and metalling the Arawhata Road from the Main South Road to the Wiremu Road, under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and amendments thereof, the result was as follows:—

Number of ratepayers on roll, 20; number of votes on roll, 20: Number of votes in favour of proposal, 13; number of votes against proposal, 0.

As the prescribed majority of votes were recorded in favour of the proposal, I hereby declare the proposal carried.

W. ARMSTRONG,
Returning Officer.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Arch Hill Road Board, County of Eden.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th July, 1901.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Arch Hill Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

J. G. WARD.

ARCH HILL ROAD DISTRICT.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a poll of ratepayers, taken on the 29th day of June, 1901, on a proposal to raise a loan of £1,500, under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and amendments thereof, to provide a system of drainage for the Arch Hill Road District, the result of the poll was as follows:—

Number of ratepayers on the roll, 286, representing 313 votes: Recorded for the proposal, 79 votes; recorded against the proposal, 14 votes; number of ratepayers who did not vote, 208, representing 220 votes.

The number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal being at least three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded, I therefore declare the above proposal to be duly carried.

GEO. BAILDON,
Chairman.

Arch Hill, 29th June, 1901.

Swine prohibited from landing in South Australia.— Notice No. 653.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 5th July, 1901.

IT is hereby notified for public information that swine from New Zealand are prohibited from landing in South Australia.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Notice to Mariners No. 44 of 1901.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 3rd July, 1901.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 26 of 1901, published by this department on the 2nd May, 1901, the following Notice, received from the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA. — APPROACH TO SPENCER GULF AND INVESTIGATOR STRAIT.

Neptune Island Lighthouse.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 11 of 1901, mariners are hereby informed that the proposed light on the South Neptune Island will probably be exhibited about the 1st November, 1901. The structure will be made of braced wrought-iron, painted red, and situated on the highest point of the most southern island, in lat. 35° 20′ 10″ S., long. 136° 6′ 45″ E. (approx.). The light is to be of the second order, revolving once in fifty seconds, and showing all round the horizon a group of three white flashes at intervals of ten seconds and an eclipse of thirty seconds—that is to say, the first two flashes and eclipses will occupy ten seconds each, and the third flash and eclipse thirty seconds. Its focal plane will be 179 ft. above high-water mark, and it will be visible f.om a vessel’s deck for a distance of about twenty miles in clear weather. The cottages and stores, which will be built on the north side of the island, are to be composed of granite, with roofs of red tiles, and will not be visible from the southern side.

This affects Admiralty Chart No. 2389.

THOS. N. STEPHENS,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
31st May, 1901.

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Sheriff appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st June, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE ALFRED KING, Esq.,

to be Sheriff for the District of Otago, vice C. M. Gordon, deceased.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Registrar of Supreme Court, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd July, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE ALFRED KING, Esq.,

to be Registrar of the Supreme Court and Marshal of the Colonial Court of Admiralty at Dunedin, vice C. M. Gordon, deceased.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Auditor of the Affairs of the Stratford Farmers’ Co-operative Association (Limited) appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 8th July, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

MR. REGINALD CHARLES TEMPLER

to be Auditor of the affairs of the Stratford Farmers’ Co-operative Association (Limited), under the provisions of section 91, Table A, of “The Companies Act, 1882.”

C. A. HICKSON,
Registrar of Joint-stock Companies.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 50 acres, more or less, being Allotment 225, Parish of Waioeka, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The Land was Crown-granted to Henry William Mills, described as a private in 1st Waikato Militia, who has not so much as lifted his title.

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 3rd day of July, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 9th July, 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.

John Allen Harvey, late of Ottoshop, in the Colony of South Africa, Captain, 4th New Zealand Contingent. Filed on the 28th day of June, 1901.

Annie Mitchell, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, married woman. Filed on the 28th day of June, 1901.

James Condie, late of Ravensbourne, in the Provincial District of Otago, miner. Filed on the 4th day of July, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.