May 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1035

Greek.—Passages will be set for translation into English from the authors usually read in schools, and in other respects the examination will proceed on the same lines as in Latin.

French.—Translations of unseen passages from French into English, and from English into French. The passages for translation will be taken mainly from standard authors, and a few simple questions may be asked on the passages set, as to the structure and character of the language, and allusions of obvious and general interest. The vivâ voce examination will include dictation. Three hundred marks will be allotted to colloquial knowledge of the language.

German.—The passages for translation will be taken mainly from standard authors, and in other respects the examination will proceed on the same lines as in French.

English Composition.—Candidates will be tested by précis-writing as well as by an essay. The standard of positive merit will be looked for in logical arrangement of thought, and in accuracy and propriety of expression, but large deductions of marks will be made for faults of writing and spelling.

(Candidates are also warned that, for similar faults in the use of the English language, similar deductions will be made from the marks obtained in other subjects.)

Geometrical Drawing.—Practical plane geometry; the construction of scales; and the elements of solid geometry, and of simple orthographic projection. Great importance will be attached to neatness and exactness of drawing.

Geography.—Simple questions in descriptive and general geography.

English History.—The general paper in this subject will be confined to events subsequent to the Norman Conquest. It will test whether the candidates are accurately acquainted with the facts of English history, and also possess an intelligent knowledge of the meaning of the facts. The paper on the special period will be confined to distinctly modern history. It will require from the candidates more minute knowledge than the general paper. The special period will be, for 1902: From 1760 to 1815.

Natural Science Subjects.—The standard of examination in these subjects will be such as may be reasonably expected from the education given at schools possessing appliances for practical instruction, such as a laboratory, &c. A considerable portion of the marks will be given for proficiency shown in the practical part of the examination. A knowledge of the metric system will be expected.

Chemistry.—The laws of chemical combination and decomposition, and the preparation, classification, and properties of the principal metallic and non-metallic elements, and of such of their compounds as are treated of in inorganic chemistry. In the practical part of the examination only the more ordinary apparatus and the less dangerous reagents will be supplied, and no candidate will be allowed to bring his own apparatus or reagents.

Heat.—The elementary portion of the subject.

Physics.—The elementary properties of electricity, magnetism, light, and sound.

Physiography—i.e., physical geography.

Geology.—Chiefly economic, including the recognition of the more familiar minerals and rocks, and their properties and uses.

Botany.—The elementary parts of vegetable morphology, histology, and physiology, and the principles of a natural system of classification as illustrated by the more important British natural orders. Candidates will be required to describe plants in technical language.

(Questions will not be set on vegetable palæontology or on the geographical distribution of plants.) [D. 1902/984.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS the title to 390 acres of land, more or less, being Section 79, in the Parish of Pukiri and Provincial District of Auckland, is, according to the Crown grant thereof, vested in six persons as tenants in common, of whom two are named Felix Choisey and John Hill Carter: And whereas the other four owners are persons known and to be found: And whereas I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the beforementioned land, and the said owners of the said undivided shares or interests thereof and therein, and have in respect of the said shares or interests given the notice 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 owners or owner of the said undivided shares or interests, or either of them, in the said land are, or is, and believe that such owners are, or owner is, not in the colony, nor have such owners, any or either of them, established their or his title to any part or share in the before-described land, as required by the said Act: I therefore give notice that the said land, so far as the title to the said two undivided shares or interests is affected or concerned, and not further or otherwise, 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 two undivided shares or interests in the said lands being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of May, 1902.

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, 7th May, 1902.

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.

Trooper William Thomas, late of Vogelfontein, in the Colony of Cape Colony, soldier. Filed on the 1st day of May, 1902.

George Baker, late of Cheviot, in the Provincial District of Nelson, labourer. Filed on the 5th day of May, 1902.

James Clune, late of Italian Gully, in the Provincial District of Westland, gold-miner. Filed on the 5th day of May, 1902.

Richard Egbert Dowling, late of Great Barrier, in the Provincial District of Auckland, schoolmaster. Filed on the 5th day of May, 1902.

David Neal, late of Greatford, in the Provincial District of Wellington, farm-labourer. Filed on the 6th day of May, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 1 rood 1 perch, more or less, being Section 1582 in the Town of New Plymouth, and having a frontage of 125 ft. to Lemon Street. The grantee is John Fuller, described as of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, Esquire, also as having been captain of a trading-schooner, and who cannot be traced. The land is at present in the occupation of Mr. W. H. Free, of New Plymouth.

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 5th day of May, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

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

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 3 roods 8 perches, more or less, being Section 72, fronting Phillip Street, Township of Hampden, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay. The grantee is Michael Fitzgerald, described as of Napier, surveyor, 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 1st day of May, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.