1080
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the Charge of the Public Trustee for Management during the Month of April, 1902.

Dated the 14th day of May, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Tenders for Mail Steam Service between Wellington and Motueka.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1902.

SEPARATE TENDERS will be received at the General Post Office, Wellington, until noon of Wednesday, the 21st May, 1902, for the performance of one of the following mail steam services between Wellington and Motueka:—

1. A weekly service each way from the 1st November to the 31st May, and a fortnightly service between the 1st June and the 31st October.

2. An alternative service each way twice weekly, from the 20th December to the end of February; weekly, from the 1st March to the 30th June; fortnightly, from the 1st July to 19th December. Or,

3. A service three times a fortnight, from the 20th December to the end of February; once a week, from the 1st March to the 30th June; and fortnightly, from the 1st July to the 19th December.

Motueka is to be the final port of departure of the steamer on the voyage to Wellington. The service to be performed by a steamer of not less than 75 tons register, with a maximum draught of 7 ft., and capable of steaming not less than eight knots an hour. The vessel’s hold or holds to be suitably ventilated, to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, for the stowage and carriage of fruit.

Tenderers are required to state the rates to be charged for passengers, for fruit, agricultural, garden, and dairy produce of all descriptions, and general merchandise.

Tenders, to be indorsed “Tenders for Wellington–Motueka Mail-service,” must be made on the printed form of inland mail tender (which may be obtained at any Chief Post-office), and addressed to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington.

Names, tonnage, and horse-power of steamers proposed to be used to be stated.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

W. GRAY.

Adoption of Child under Section 50 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901.”

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the adoption, particulars of which are set out hereunder, has been duly registered by me under the provisions of section 50 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901.”

R. O. SIM, Registrar.

PARTICULARS OF ADOPTION OF CHILD.

To the Registrar of the Native Land Court, Whanganui District.

I, MERE PAERAU, of Whangaehu, the wife of Hirini Mohuia, of Whangaehu, hereby give notice that I have taken Rapana Paki, a child of Paki te Hunga and Roka Hakaraia, to be my adopted child according to Maori custom; and I request that such adoption be registered under the provisions of section 50 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901.”

As witness my hand, this 3rd day of May, 1902.

Her
MERE X PAERAU.
mark.

Signed by the said Mere Paerau (by her making her mark, she being unable to write) in the presence of—C. E. Mackay, Solicitor, Whanganui; W. R. Borlase, Licensed Interpreter, First Grade, Whanganui.

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the contents of the above notice of adoption were explained by me in the Maori language to Mere Paerau at the time of her signing the same, and that she appeared to fully understand the meaning thereof.

W. R. BORLASE,
Licensed Interpreter, First Grade,
Whanganui.