JULY 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2157

SUMMARY FOR JUNE, 1907.

The total rainfall for the month of June was considerably below the average in all parts of New Zealand, except in the Province of Wellington. In the south of the South Island, where this deficiency follows several months of light rainfalls, the shortage is especially marked, and Central Otago and South Canterbury are now experiencing a very dry winter.

The temperature was below the mean in all parts of the country, and frosts were common in places rarely visited. Frequent fogs were also a consequence of the low temperature and absence of high winds.

On the 3rd June a small secondary or westerly wave of low pressure was responsible for scattered showers in the South. This was followed by an anticyclone and remarkably fine weather everywhere until the 11th. Atmospheric conditions in the middle of the month were very unsettled during the passage of an extensive area of low barometric pressure from west, which embraced all parts of the country, but without causing either much wind or rain except in a few localities.

On the 25th a cyclonic disturbance of great dimensions from about W.N.W. made its first appearance in the extreme North, and spread its influence rapidly over the whole colony. This untimely visitor no doubt originated in tropical latitudes; but, excepting in those districts nearest to the centre, where the wind was of nearly hurricane force, the storm did not have such intensity as might have been expected from the rapid decline and rise in the barometer. The centre passed near to and to the north of Auckland, which experienced the usual sudden shift of wind to the opposite quarter after the centre had passed and after about four hours and a half of remarkable calm. The lowest pressure was about 28·6 in. The westerly winds that followed were strongest in the extreme north, but extended southwards as the cyclone moved in its easterly path. The highest barometric pressure recorded was 30·6 in. on the 7th June, and so the range of about 2 in. occurred in the month.

Sitting of the Native Land Commission at Napier.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Land Commission, to inquire into the blocks of land named in the Schedule hereto, will be held at the Court-house, Napier, on Saturday, the 10th day of August, 1907, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of July, 1907.

ROBERT STOUT,
Chairman.

SCHEDULE.

RAKAUTATAHI.
OTAWHAO.

Tenders for Supply of Bicycles.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1907.

TENDERS, to be addressed to “The Storekeeper, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington,” will be received up to 5 p.m. on the 31st July, 1907, for the supply of fifty (50) bicycles for the Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington. Delivery to be made as required by specifications. Copies of specifications may be obtained on application to any Chief Postmaster, to the Officer in Charge, Telegraph-office, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier, or Wellington, or to the Storekeeper, Post and Telegraph Department.

D. ROBERTSON,
Secretary.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 16th July, 1907.

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.

John McConville, late of Waiuku, in the Provincial District of Auckland, old-age pensioner. Filed on the 21st day of June, 1907.

John Brown Williams, otherwise John Williams, late of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, stonemason. Filed on the 21st day of June, 1907.

Ah Kee, late of Waitahuna, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 21st day of June, 1907.

Josiah Earle, late of Munro’s Gully, in the Provincial District of Otago, miner. Filed on the 21st day of June, 1907.

Isaac Davies, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, yardsman. Filed on the 27th day of June, 1907.

John Wilson Welsh, late of Kimbolton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 29th day of June, 1907.

William Richard Irwin, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, police constable. Filed on the 29th day of June, 1907.

Thomas Kernaghan, late of Te Kopuru, in the Provincial District of Auckland, gum-digger. Filed on the 1st day of July, 1907.

Philemon Palmer, late of Taradale, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, carter. Filed on the 1st day of July, 1907.

Herbert Frank Starmer, late of Oropi, in the Provincial District of Auckland, settler. Filed on the 3rd day of July, 1907.

Frederick Easton Putt, late of Methven, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, painter. Filed on the 3rd day of July, 1907.

Margaret Davidson, late of Tapanui, in the Provincial District of Otago, married woman. Filed on the 9th day of July, 1907.

Abraham Gregg, late of Nelson, in the Provincial District of Nelson, settler. Filed on the 9th day of July, 1907.

Joseph Bourgois, late of Waikaka Valley, in the Provincial District of Otago, fireman. Filed on the 9th day of July, 1907.

Donald McRae, late of Lyttelton, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, fireman. Filed on the 13th day of July, 1907.

Concetto Russo, late of Waipiro Bay, in the Provincial District of Auckland, seaman. Filed on the 13th day of July, 1907.

Mary O’Connor, late of Tomoana, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, mental patient. Filed on the 13th day of July, 1907.

Frederick Baughan, late of 38 Avenue Road, Aston, in the County of Warwick, in England, brass-finisher. Filed on the 15th day of July, 1907.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Pastoral Run in Marlborough Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 16th July, 1907.

NOTICE is hereby given that, the undermentioned pastoral run having been forfeited by resolution of the Marlborough Land Board, the said run has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands