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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

Notice to Imprestees under “The Public Revenues Act, 1891.”

The Treasury,
Wellington, 24th February, 1904.

EVERY officer holding advances of public money is hereby required to pay to the Public Account, at the nearest branch of the Bank of New Zealand, the unexpended balance of his account on or before Thursday, the 31st March proximo, and forthwith to transmit to the Treasury at Wellington the bank receipt for such repayment, together with an account of his expenditure to the same date, as required by clause 4 of the Treasury Regulations.

As respects disbursements which officers may require to make immediately after the close of the financial year, requisitions for the amount required are to be made in such time as to enable them to reach Wellington not later than the 14th March, so that the requisite funds may be placed at the disposal of the officer as soon after the 1st April as possible.

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

Easter Holidays.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th March, 1904.

IT is hereby notified for general information that Friday the 1st, Saturday the 2nd, and Monday the 4th day of April next will be observed as holidays in the public offices of the Government of New Zealand.

By order.

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 15th March, 1904.

THE St. Aloysius Branch, No. 399, situated at Newtown, Wellington, is registered as a branch of “The New Zealand District Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society” Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 15th day of March, 1904.

GEO. LESLIE,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 16th March, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Southland Carters’ Industrial Union of Workers, No. 312, situated at Trades Hall, Invercargill, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Monthly Steam Service between Bluff or Invercargill and Te Oneroa, Preservation Inlet.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 12th March, 1904.

TENDERS will be received by the Chief Postmaster, Invercargill, until Tuesday, 29th instant, for the performance of a steam mail-service between Bluff or Invercargill and Te Oneroa, Preservation Inlet, for a term of twelve months from the 1st May, 1904, to the 30th April, 1905.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tenders for Preservation Inlet Mail-service,” and addressed to the Chief Postmaster, Invercargill.

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

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. The Postmaster-General will reserve the right to terminate the service on giving one month’s notice in writing.

Forms of tender and terms and conditions of contract may be obtained on application to the Chief Postmaster, Dunedin or Invercargill; or the Postmaster, Bluff.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Notice of the Cancellation and of the Issue of a Surveyor’s License.

Office of the Surveyors’ Board,
Government Buildings,
Wellington, 9th March, 1904.

IT is hereby notified that the license issued to Mr. Henry Kinnaird Hovell has been cancelled; and it is notified that a license under “The New Zealand Institute of Surveyors and Board of Examiners Act, 1900,” has been issued to the following surveyor by the Surveyors’ Board:—

Surveyor. Address.
HOVELL, HARRY KINNAIRD Hokitika.
C. E. ADAMS,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Officiating Ministers for 1904.—Notice No. 9.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 12th March, 1904.

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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Edward Walker.

Seventh Day Adventists.
Paster Lyndon, Frank E.
Paster Paap, Charles A.
Paster Piper, Albert H.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—FREDERICK HENRY GARDNER TYNDALL, Esq., of 95, Colmore Street, Birmingham, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England, has this day been appointed by His Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in England, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of March, 1904.

W. A. HAWKINS,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

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

Native Land Court Office,
Gisborne, 8th March, 1904.

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.”

JOHN BROOKING,
Registrar.

PARTICULARS OF ADOPTION OF CHILD.

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

I, HOANI MATIAHA, of Pouawa, hereby give notice that I have taken Erueti Riire, or Wakowako, a child of Captain Read, 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 7th day of March, 1904.

HOANI MATIAHA.

Signed by the said Hoani Matiaha in the presence of — John Brooking, Registrar, Native Land Court, and W. Swanson, Clerk, Native Land Court.