JUNE 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1765

EVIDENCE having been furnished of the loss of Crown Lease 1619, Register-book, Vol. 218, folio 34, comprising Section 139, Rosewill Settlement, situated in Block VIII of the Arowhenua Survey District, whereof CHARLES HENERY EBZERY, of Waimate, General Worker, is the registered Lessee, and application having been made to me to issue a provisional Crown lease, I hereby give notice that I will issue such provisional Crown lease at the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 28th day of May, 1907, at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch.

G.G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," and its amendments, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

9962. ANNIE LYTTELTON BRADWELL.-6 acres, part of Rural Section 3, Block VII, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by - Poulson.

9963. WILLIAM EDWARD PEARCE.-12⅝ perches, part of Rural Section 235, Sydenham Ward, City of Christchurch. Occupied by Frank Rooks.

9964. EDMUND VAGUE.-5 acres 2 roods 1 perch, parts of Rural Sections 3 and 304, Block VII, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by Peter MacCabe, H. Wood, and C. Smith.

9965. HENRY FLAVEL.-1 rood 4 perches, Lot 168, Plan 2374, part of Rural Section 243r, St. Albans Ward, City of Christchurch. Occupied by Applicant.

9966. The Honourable GEORGE WILLIAM SPENCER LYTTELTON.-6 acres, Lots 30, 31, and 32, Plan 2134, part of Rural Section 76, Block XV, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by James Peter Diack.

10513.-EDWARD SMITH and HOWARD SMITH.-20⅜ perches, part of Lot 82, Christchurch Town Reserves. Occupied by Alfred Ernest John Palmer.

10515. RICHARD DOBSON.-20 acres, Rural Section 6454, Block VIII, Grey Survey District. Occupied by Applicant.

10516. JOHN WILLIAM BLANCHARD and CHARLOTTE BLANCHARD.-18⅛ perches, part of Rural Section 33, City of Christchurch. Occupied by Applicants.

10517. ROSEMOND LAURAH PAIN.-32 perches, part of Rural Section 917, Borough of Rangiora. Occupied by Applicant.

10518. ALBERT THOMAS CHARLES HULSTON.-16 perches, part of Town Section 689, City of Christchurch. Occupied by Applicant.

10519. GEORGE SIMPSON.-9⅙ perches, parts of Town Sections 689 and 691, City of Christchurch. Occupied by Applicant.

10520. PHILIP LAWRENCE BYRNE.-5 acres 3 roods 4⅕ perches, Lots 9, 10, and 11, Plan 1944, part of Rural Section 76, Block XV, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by Joshua Farrar.

10521. MARIA WORTH SWINTON.-1 rood, part of Rural Section 4930, Block XIV, Geraldine Survey District. Occupied by Applicant.

10522. ELIZA HANNAY WITHELL.-2 roods 38 perches, Lots 1, 2, and 14, Plan 472, parts of Rural Section 110, Block X, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by weekly tenants.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 4th day of June, 1907, at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch.

G.G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," and its amendments, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month from the date of publication of the Gazette containing this notice.

2890. EDWARD GATES and WILLIAM JAMES ANAN McGREGOR.-1,991 acres 2 roods 22 perches, Sections 1 and 2 and part of Section 6, District of Wairaki. Occupied by William James Annan McGregor.

Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 26th day of May, 1907, at the Lands Registry Office, Invercargill.

C.E. NALDER,
District Land Registrar.

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

COMPANIES ACTS, 1862 TO 1900.

In the matter of the Otago and Southland Investment Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that the OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND INVESTMENT COMPANY (LIMITED), a company incorporated outside the Colony of New Zealand, and which has heretofore carried on business at Dunedin and Invercargill, in the said Colony of New Zealand, will cease to carry on business in the said colony at the expiration of three months from the date hereof.

Dated this 23rd day of May, 1907.

GEORGE HUTTON MOODIE, Lower High Street, Dunedin, Attorney for the Liquidator, AFFLECK DUNCAN FRASER, F.C.I.S., of 2 Great Winchester Street, London, E.C.

MESSRS. SMITH, MACGREGOR, AND SINCLAIR, Solicitors, Liverpool Street, Dunedin.

In the matter of "The Public Works Act, 1905"; and in the matter of "The Road Boards Act, 1882," and its amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of the Portobello Road Board, on behalf of "The Inhabitants of the Portobello Road District," to take for the purpose of a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road, all that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Otago, containing six acres and seventeen poles (more or less), being part of Sections Nine (9), Upper Harbour East District, and Seventy-one (71), Block Two (II), Otago Peninsular District, which piece of land commences at a point in the western boundary-line of the said Section Nine on the Beach Road, distant three hundred and ninety links (more or less) from the most northerly corner or angle of the said Section Nine, has a uniform width of one hundred links, measured at right angles, and extends by a devious course through the said sections till it joins a road forming the boundary between Allotments Ten and Eleven on the plan of the Camp Estate, deposited in the Land Transfer Office, at Dunedin, as Number 1453; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan hereinafter mentioned. And notice is hereby further given that a plan showing the lands required to be taken has been prepared, and a copy thereof deposited at my residence, North-east Harbour, where it is open for inspection in terms of the provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1905." All persons affected by the taking of the said lands as aforesaid are hereby called upon to set forth in writing any well-grounded objection to the execution of the said work or the taking of the said lands, and to send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the said Portobello Road Board.

Dated at Portobello, this twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

S. HINKLEY, Clerk to the Portobello Road Board.

THE BLENHEIM STEAMSHIP COMPANY (LIMITED), (IN LIQUIDATION).

MEETING of the shareholders of the above-named company will be held at the registered office of the company, W. M. Bannatyne and Co. (Limited), on Monday, the 17th day of June, 1907, at 12 o'clock noon.

Business: To consider the Liquidator's statement of accounts in connection with the winding-up of the company.

W. BROWN, Liquidator.

FEATHERSTON COUNTY COUNCIL.

In the matter of "The Public Works Act, 1905."

TAKE notice that the Featherston County Council intends, under the provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1905," to take the lands hereinafter described for the purposes of a gravel-pit: All that piece or parcel of land, containing 1 acre 3 roods 24 perches, being part of Section 2B, Ngawaka-a-Kupe No. 2, having a frontage to the Pahaua Road of 503 links ; and also, for the use, enjoyment,