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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 7

Tenders for Mail Steam Service to Chatham Islands.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th January, 1906.

TENDERS will be received at the Chief Post-office, Christchurch, until noon of Wednesday, the 22nd February, 1906, for the conveyance of mails once every month, and also once every two months, by steamer to and from the Chatham Islands, calling at such places, inclusive of Pitt Island, in the group as may be determined upon by the Postmaster-General, for two years from the 1st April, 1906, with Lyttelton or Wellington as the port of departure and Lyttelton the port of arrival.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tenders for Chatham Islands Mail-service,” and addressed to the Chief Postmaster, Christchurch.

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,
Secretary.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1906.

THE Bay Lodge, No. 18, situated at Anderson’s Bay, Dunedin, is registered as a branch of the Grand Lodge of Otago and Southland District of New Zealand of the United Ancient Order of Druids Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 25th day of January, 1906.

GEO. LESLIE,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Officiating Ministers for 1906.—Notice No. 3.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th January, 1906.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1904,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand.
The Reverend John Dukes.

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 5, of 25th January, 1906, page 216, Officiating Ministers for 1906, Notice No. 2, Congregational Independents, for “The Reverend Greenwill Carr” read “The Reverend Greenwell Carr.”

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, 31st January, 1906.

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 deceased persons 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.

James Hamil, late of Te Awamutu, in the Provincial District of Auckland, farm labourer. Filed on the 8th day of December, 1905.

James Espey, late of Ashburton, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, farm labourer. Filed on the 8th day of December, 1905.

John Herbert Skerrett, late of Blenheim, in the Provincial District of Marlborough, horse-breaker. Filed on the 18th day of December, 1905.

Thomas Porter, late of Maitland Village, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 18th day of December, 1905.

Mary Charlotte Taylor, late of Lincoln, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, spinster. Filed on the 18th day of December, 1905.

Alfred Henry Baigent, late of Carterton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, clerk. Filed on the 18th day of December, 1905.

William Hansen, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, oilskin-maker. Filed on the 18th day of December, 1905.

Robert Tuffs, late of Raglan, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1906.

Mary Ryan, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, old-age pensioner. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1906.

Joseph Porter, late of D’Urville Island, in the Provincial District of Marlborough, bushfeller. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1906.

Thomas Robertson, late of Yedo, in the Empire of Japan, master mariner. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1906.

Ellen Painton, late of Wakefield, in the Provincial District of Nelson, widow. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1906.

Albert Ernest Ashman, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, brass-finisher. Filed on the 10th day of January, 1906.

Enoch Frederick Charles, late of Palmerston North, in the Provincial District of Wellington, settler. Filed on the 18th day of January, 1906.

Emily Charlotte Smith, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, married woman. Filed on the 18th day of January, 1906.

Henry Richard Baker, late of Kaikohe, in the Provincial District of Auckland, gardener. Filed on the 18th day of January, 1906.

Martin Thomas Lampshire, late of Okoia, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 18th day of January, 1906.

Eliza Hooper, late of Addington, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, widow. Filed on the 25th day of January, 1906.

Daniel Mahoney, late of Antonio’s Flat, in the Provincial District of Nelson, gold-miner. Filed on the 25th day of January, 1906.

Thomas Richards, late of Broken River, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, miner. Filed on the 26th day of January, 1906.

Barbara McLennan, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, asylum patient. Filed on the 26th day of January, 1906.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Canterbury Land District surrendered.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 24th January, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that, a surrender of the lease of the undermentioned land having been accepted by the Canterbury Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—PIGEON BAY SURVEY DISTRICT.—MORICE SETTLEMENT.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Land in Morice Settlement, Canterbury Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 29th January, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 14th day of March, 1906, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.

If more than one application is received for the allotment on the same day, the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.