APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1033

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—STEWART ISLAND COUNTY.—
PATERSON SURVEY DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Situated from one to three miles and a half from Half-moon Bay. Land mostly covered with bush of no commercial value, part old sawmill workings; land hilly and undulating; soil fair; well watered; height above sea-level, 10 ft. to 100 ft. Subject to the reservation of all streams and watercourses, the lessees being allowed sufficient water for domestic use, in terms of “The Mining Act, 1898.”

| 2 | II. | 10 1 30 | 0 3 | 0 1 4 |
| 3 | " | 10 0 28 | 0 3 | 0 1 3 |
| 4 | " | 9 3 38 | 0 3 | 0 1 3 |
| 5 | " | 9 3 19 | 0 3 | 0 1 3 |
| 6 | " | 10 2 19 | 0 3 | 0 1 4 |
| 7 | " | 10 2 29 | 0 3 | 0 1 4 |
| 8 | " | 10 3 17 | 0 3 | 0 1 5 |
| 9 | " | 11 0 11 | 0 3 | 0 1 5 |

Situated about four miles from Half-moon Bay. Land mostly covered with bush of no commercial value; soil, peat; well watered; height above sea-level, 10 ft. to 60 ft. Subject to the reservation of all streams and watercourses, the lessees being allowed sufficient water for domestic use, in terms of “The Mining Act, 1898.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Southland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

RANFURLY, Governor

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

WALLACE COUNTY.
Wairio Survey District.

| 207 | ... | 310 0 21 | 0 2·4 | 1 11 0 |

Weighted with £3 8s., valuation for half of the boundary fences. Situated about one mile and a half from Nightcaps Railway-station. Open pastoral land, with a little light manuka scrub; soil inferior; well watered.

Longwood Survey District.

| 36 | IV. | 182 3 14 | 0 2·4 | 0 18 4 |

Situated about two miles from Hirst’s Crossing Railway-station. Land hilly, and covered with heavy bush; soil inferior; not well watered.

| 18 | XVIII. | 210 1 0 | 0 3 | 1 6 3 |

Situated about twelve miles from Orepuki Railway-station. No road access. Bush land; undulating to hilly; soil inferior; well watered.

SOUTHLAND COUNTY.
Oteramika Hundred.

| 8 | XIII. | 50 0 0 | 0 2·4 | 0 5 0 |

Situated about nine miles from Kapuka Railway-station. Open land; peaty in places, and somewhat sour; requires draining.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Returning Officer, Grey Lynn Electoral District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT HENRY IRWIN

to be Returning Officer, under “The Electoral Act, 1902,” for the Electoral District of Grey Lynn, vice H. Symons.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

Officer under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” South Canterbury District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1903.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”

FRANCIS PHILIP MOORHOUSE

has been appointed an officer for the purposes of that Act for the South Canterbury Acclimatisation District.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Acts, South Canterbury District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th April, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FRANCIS PHILIP MOORHOUSE

to be a Ranger, under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of South Canterbury.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

J. G. WARD.