Oct. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2465

The subjoined table shows the mortality for the last two months at each of the four centres from six principal specific febrile or zymotic diseases, and also the deaths from certain inflammatory diseases of the lungs. These causes of death have been distinguished from the others of the classes to which they belong as being the most important special diseases which give rise to sudden increases in the death-rates of towns, and the prevalence of which is closely connected with sanitary condition and climatic influence of the season on health.

RETURN of the Number of Births, with the Actual Mortality of Males and Females, and the Proportion of Deaths to Population, in the undermentioned Boroughs, during the Month of September, 1904.

• At the census taken in March, 1901, the population of Invercargill and suburbs was 10,637 persons.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 18th October, 1904.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 19th October, 1904.

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.

Robert Ashurst, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, asylum attendant. Filed on the 5th day of October, 1904.

John Holder, late of Gloucester, England, lunatic. Filed on the 5th day of October, 1904.

Andrew Gordon, late of South Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, grocer’s assistant. Filed on the 7th day of October, 1904.

Denis McDevitt, or McDevitt, late of Staircase Gully, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, labourer. Filed on the 17th day of October, 1904.

Peter Murray, late of Livingstone, in the Provincial District of Otago; labourer. Filed on the 17th day of October, 1904.

Ellen McMaster, late of Greytown, in the Provincial District of Wellington, widow. Filed on the 17th day of October, 1904.

Emma Eleanor Bragg, late of St. Kilda, in the Provincial District of Otago, minor. Filed on the 17th day of October, 1904.

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 4 perches, more or less, being Section No. 263, Block IV., and situated at the corner of Junction Road and Standish Street, in the Township of Inglewood. The registered owner is Willian or William H. Seymour, described as of Penrith, in New South Wales, labourer, 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 6th day of October, 1904.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.