Oct. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2245

Officiating Ministers for 1902.—Notice No. 33.

Registrar-General’s Office.
Wellington, 6th October, 1902.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

The Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
The Reverend John Irving Turnbull.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

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

Public Trust Office.
Wellington, 7th October, 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.

Jessie Smith, late of Te Aroha, in the Provincial District of Auckland, spinster. Filed on the 23rd day of September, 1902.

George Ashby, late of Krugersdorp, South Africa, soldier. Filed on the 29th day of September, 1902.

Edwin Walter Jackson, late of Napier, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, watch-examiner. Filed on the 29th day of September, 1902.

John Gray, late of Mikonui, in the Provincial District of Westland, Miner. Filed on the 29th day of September, 1902.

Sarah Ann Bristor, late of Longburn, in the Provincial District of Wellington, married woman. Filed on the 6th day of October, 1902.

Sarah Ann Kempt, formerly of Mangawai, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, but latterly of Penryn, Placer County, California, United States of America, married woman. Filed on the 6th day of October, 1902.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice of Cancellation of Registry under “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 7th October, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Hauraki Peninsula Engineers, Engine-drivers, and Firemen’s Industrial Union of Workers, No. 172, situated at Waihi, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Examination for Mine-managers’ and Battery-superintendents’ Certificates.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 25th September, 1902.

AN examination of candidates for certificates as First- and Second-class Mine-managers and Battery-superintendents, under “The Mining Act, 1898,” and First- and Second-class Mine-managers under “The Coal-mines Act, 1891,” will be held on Tuesday, the 27th January, 1903, and three following days, at places to be hereafter named. All applications, with necessary certificates, and fee of £1, must be addressed to “The Secretary of the Board of Examiners under the Mining Act or Coal-mines Act, Wellington,” and must be received before the 16th December, or they will not be dealt with until the following examination. Forms of application may be obtained at Schools of Mines, Thames, Waihi, and Coromandel, also from Inspector of Mines, Thames, Westport, and Dunedin.

T. H. HAMER,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

[NOTE.—No candidate will be permitted to present himself for examination unless he holds an authority from the Secretary stating that his certificate of service has been accepted by the Board.]

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination: the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, one of which is open to all Maori boys under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have attended a Native school or schools other than Te Aute or St. Stephen’s, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory; the other is open to Maori boys whose attendance at any school other than Te Aute and St. Stephen’s during the previous year has been similarly satisfactory. The senior scholarship is open to Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools Code, 1897. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV. in the Native Schools Code, 1897. The questions will, however, be somewhat more difficult than those set for the standard examinations. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 15th and 16th of December, 1902.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 17th of November, 1902.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 26th September, 1902.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Reserve in Town of Kaikoura, Marlborough, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 7th October, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction, at the District Survey Office, Kaikoura, on Wednesday, the 26th day of November, 1902, for the term and at the upset annual rental stated below.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 203, Block X., Mount Fyffe Survey District: Area, 29 acres; upset annual rental, £15. Term, fourteen years.

The land is limestone loam, upon limestone subsoil; is all in grass, and has permanent water; situated on South Coast Road, about one mile from Kaikoura Post-office.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Possession will be given on the 1st January, 1903.
2. The lessee shall have no right to compensation either for any improvements that may be placed upon the land or for any other cause.
3. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land during the term of the lease, without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first obtained.
4. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and shall prevent their increase and spread to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
5. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds or plants on the land comprised in the lease, and shall with all reasonable despatch remove or cause to be removed all gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.
6. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free from all deductions whatsoever.
7. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.