9260. ALBERT SHEPHERD GEORGE. - 19½ acres,
      Rural Section 10076, Block IV., Grey Survey District.
      Occupied by Applicant.

9261. WILLIAM JEFFERSON BOWMAN. -233 acres
      1 rood 5 perches, Rural Sections 7985 and 7986, and part of
      7987, Blocks II., III., VI., and VII., Grey Survey District.
      Occupied by Applicant.

9262. CHARLES ADAMS. -50 acres, Rural Section 9126,
      Blocks XIV. and XV., Hawkins Survey District. Occupied
      by Applicant.

9263. JOHN WILLIAM MACALPINE. -3 acres 2 roods
      13 perches, Lot 18, Plan 1750, part of Rural Section 251,
      Block VII., Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by
      George Webster Anderson.

9264. BENJAMIN TAYLOR WATKINSON. - 1 acre
      1 rood 12 perches, Lot 2, Plan 1629, Part of Rural Section
      76, Block XV., Christchurch Survey District. Occupied
      by Applicant.

9265. CORNELIUS O'CONNOR. -3 acres, Lot 24, and
      part of Lot 26, Plan 56, parts of Rural Section 4949, Town
      District of Hampstead. Occupied respectively by Marion
      Roulston and George Kealey.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 29th day of April, 1902, at the Lands Registry
Office, Christchurch.

G. G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

644 NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land
hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," unless caveat be
lodged forbidding the same within one month from the date
of the Gazette containing this notice.

917. JAMES PHINEAS CLIFFORD. - Part of Native
     Reserve No. 7, Fitzroy District, 16 acres 3 roods 16 perches.
     Occupied by Applicant.

Diagram may be inspected at this office (Plan 1747).

Dated this 28th day of April, 1902, at the Lands Registry
Office, New Plymouth.

R. L. STANFORD,
District Land Registrar.

645 A PPLICATION having been made to me to register
a dealing affecting memorandum of lease No. 3185,
from GEORGE TAYLER SMITH to TOM PITT, over part
of Rural Section 15471, District of Ashburton, comprised in
certificate of title, Vol. xx., folio 143, and evidence having
been furnished of the loss of the outstanding duplicate of
the said memorandum of lease, I hereby give notice that
the production of the said duplicate will be dispensed with
and the dealing registered at the expiration of fourteen days
from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 29th day of April, 1902, at the Lands Registry
Office, Christchurch.

G. G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

646 E VIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. xciii.
folio 204, of the Register-book, for Allotment 127A
of the Parish of Waipa, in favour of WALTER SEAVILL
and RONALD SEAVILL, both of Waingaro, Farmers,
having been lodged with me, and application made to issue
a provisional certificate of title, notice is hereby given of my
intention to issue a provisional certificate of title accordingly
at the expiration of fourteen days after the date of the
Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 11th day of April, 1902, at the Lands Registry
Office, Auckland.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.

637 PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately
subsisting between the undersigned, ANDREW GORDON
SMITH and ALEXANDER MCAKILL, carrying on business at
Chatton under the style of “Smith and McAskill,” has
been dissolved by mutual consent as from this day.

All debts due to or owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said ANDREW GORDON SMITH, who
will continue the business under his own name.

Dated this 25th day of March, 1902.

A. G. SMITH.
A. MCASKILL.

Witness—E. R. Bowler, Solicitor, Gore.

638 LOWER HUTT BOROUGH.

"THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1894," AND ITS AMENDMENTS.

NOTICE TO TAKE LAND FOR A BRIDGE.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of the
Council of the Borough of Lower Hutt to take, for
the purpose of a bridge over the Hutt River, all those pieces
or parcels of land situate within the banks of the Hutt
River, and unoccupied, and comprising-(1) all that piece or
parcel of land, covered by water, coloured yellow on plan,
and containing 1 rood 15·4 perches, being part of Section 25,
Block XIV., Belmont Survey District, and situated in Lower
Hutt Borough, commencing at the north-west corner of
Mr. Joumnax's land, and proceeding thence in a north-easterly
direction for 51 links along the east bank of the Hutt River;
thence in a direction bearing 286 degrees 5 minutes, 345 links,
to west bank of Hutt River; thence along bank of river in
a south-westerly direction, 101 links; thence in a direction
bearing 106 degrees 5 minutes, 345 links, to east bank of
Hutt River; thence along bank of river in a north-easterly
direction, 51 links, to starting-point: (2) also all that
piece or parcel of land, coloured blue on plan, and containing
20·8 perches, being part of Section 25, Block XIV., Belmont
Survey District, and situated in Lower Hutt Borough,
commencing at the south-west corner of the piece coloured
yellow on plan, and proceeding in a direction bearing
286 degrees 5 minutes, 125 links; thence in a direction
bearing 20 degrees 32 minutes, 100·9 links, along part of the
eastern boundary of Government land; thence in a direction
bearing 345 degrees 45 minutes, 11 links, along part of the
boundary of Government land; thence in a direction
bearing 106 degrees 5 minutes, 134 links, to bank of Hutt
River; thence in a south-westerly direction along bank of
river, 101 links, to starting-point.

And take further notice that a survey of the aforesaid
piece of land required to be taken has been made and a
plan thereof prepared, a copy of which said plan has been
deposited at the Borough Council Office, Lower Hutt, and
is now open to inspection thereat by all persons at all
reasonable hours.

And take further notice that all persons affected by the
taking of the aforesaid pieces of land are hereby called upon
to set forth in writing any well-grounded objection, and to
send such objection, in writing, within forty days from the
present date hereof (being the first publication of this notice)
to the Lower Hutt Borough Council, at its office at Lower
Hutt.

Dated this 29th day of April, 1902.

ORTON STEVENS, Mayor.
J. H. WHITTON, Councillor.

641 SCHOOL FOR DEAF-MUTES, SUMNER, NEAR
CHRISTCHURCH.

Under the control and supervision of the Education Department.

Director: Mr. G. VAN ASCH.

FOR Deaf Children of sound intellect. The pupils are
taught to use and understand ordinary speech. The
best age for entrance is between six and seven.

The full charge for board and education is £40 a year,
but less is accepted from parents who cannot afford to pay
this amount. In case of necessity admission is free.

Parents having dumb children between the ages of four
and seven, and other persons desiring information with
regard to the school, are invited to apply to

THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION,
Wellington.

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