1784
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

the 28th August, 1901, on the proposal of the Rangitikei County Council to borrow the sum of £2,500 for the construction of roads and streets in the Taihape Township, and to levy a special rate within the Taihape Special Rating District as security for the said loan:—
Number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 88; number of votes recorded against the proposal, nil.
The number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal being more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded, I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

J. W. MARSHALL,
Chairman.

Marton, 29th August, 1901.

Notice to Mariners No. 58 of 1901.

OTAGO HARBOUR.—POSITION OF BUOY OFF BOILER POINT.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 28th August, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the small red conical buoy off Boiler Point, Otago Harbour, was fouled lately by a vessel sailing up the harbour, and dragged out of position. It has now been removed, in 18 ft., low water, springs, to mark, as before, the western edge of the dredged channel. The following are the magnetic bearings from the buoy:—

Observation Point .. .. .. S. 24° E.
Acheron Head .. .. .. N. 33° E.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty chart No. 2411; “New Zealand Pilot,” 6th edition, 1891, pages 305 to 312.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Altering the Hours of Attendance of Customs Officers in the Customhouses of the Colony.

IN exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby order and direct that on days other than Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays the Long Rooms of the Customhouses of the colony shall be open to the public for receiving entries and transacting other business from half-past nine o’clock in the morning until half-past three o’clock in the afternoon throughout the year; but no entries for duty are to be received after three o’clock in the afternoon except in cases of emergency, at the discretion of the Collector. On Saturdays the hours for receiving entries for duty will be from half-past nine o’clock in the morning until twelve o’clock noon.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and one.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner’s Order No. 666.]

Result of Election of Trustees of a Land-drainage District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1901.

THE following result of the election of Trustees of the Inch Clutha 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.

Inch Clutha Drainage District, County of Bruce:
George Anderson.
James Bell.
Joseph Mosley.
George McDonald.
John Smith.
William Weir.

Judges to try Petition against Return of Frederick Henry Haselden.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

In the matter of “The Election Petitions Act, 1880.”

IT is hereby notified that I have, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Election Petitions Act, 1880,” named myself and his Honour Mr. Justice Williams to be the Judges of the Supreme Court before whom shall be tried the petition presented by William Parker against the return and election of Frederick Henry Haselden as member of the House of Representatives for the Patea Electoral District.

Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of August, 1901.

ROBERT STOUT,
Chief Justice.

Fixing Time and Place for Trial of Election Petition.

IN exercise of all powers and authorities enabling us in this behalf, we, being the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand named and appointed to try the petition presented under “The Election Petitions Act, 1880,” by William Parker against the return and election of Frederick Henry Haselden as member of the House of Representatives for the Patea Electoral District, do hereby fix the Supreme Court House, in the Town of Wanganui, as the place at which, and 11 o’clock in the forenoon of Monday, the 7th day of October, 1901, as the time when, the said petition shall be tried.

Dated this 26th day of August, 1901.

ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS, J.

Commissioner under “The Supreme Court Act, 1875,” appointed.

NOTICE.—JAMES AITKEN the younger, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of that Colony, has this day been appointed by his Honour Joshua Strange Williams, Esq., a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the said Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria, under section 2 of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking any oath, affidavit, or affirmation as in the said section mentioned.

Dated this 6th day of August, 1901.

A. STUBBS,
Deputy Registrar.

“The Education Reserves Act, 1877.”

IN exercise of the powers and authorities vested in them by “The Education Reserves Act, 1877,” the School Commissioners of the Otago Provincial District have, by resolution dated 16th July, 1901, appropriated and set apart the parcel of land hereinafter described as a site for a public school.

ALFRED BALDEY, Chairman.
C. MACANDREW, Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 3 roods, more or less, being part of Section No. 1 of 13, Block I., Hawksbury District. Bounded towards the north-west and south-west by a road-line, 1820 links; towards the east by other part of Section 1 of 13, 1088 links; towards the south by Section 2 of 13 of same block, 620 links; and towards the west as above; and intersected by a road-line 100 links wide: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Dunedin. For a school-site.

Notice of Vesting of Lands 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 lands described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owners thereof respectively, and have, in respect of the said lands, 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 of either parcel of land is, and believe that such owners are or owner is not in the colony, nor has the owner of either parcel of land established his title to any part of the said lands, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said lands respectively are, 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 each parcel of the said land being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of August, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 1 acre, more or less, being Allotment 173, Section 2, Town of Opotiki, in the Provincial District of Auckland; and also all that parcel of land, containing 1 acre, more or less, being Allotment 174, Section 2, Town of Opotiki aforesaid.