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10877. ALFRED HERBERT BAMFORD.—2 roods 19⁸⁄₁₀ perches, part of Rural Section 144, Borough of Sumner. Occupied partly by Emma M. Jackson and partly by Applicant.

10878. ROBERT KINGSBURY.—365 acres 3 roods 13 perches, parts of Sections 57, 59, and 245, Square 90, Blocks V, Culverden, and VIII, Mandamus Survey Districts. Occupied by Applicant.

10879. WILLIAM CHARLES GREEN.—2 roods, part of Lot 113, Plan 2374, part of Rural Section 243r, St. Albans Ward of the City of Christchurch. Occupied by Applicant.

10880. HARRIET ELLEN TAYLOR.—2 roods, part of Rural Section 9, Block XI, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by monthly tenants.

10881. JOHN NIXON.—20 acres, Rural Section 2008, Block V, Tengawai Survey District. Occupied by Charles William Ensor and Edmund Harper.

10882. WILLIAM ALLISON. — 106 acres 2 roods 5 perches, part of Rural Section 3996, Block XII, Grey Survey District. Occupied by Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 26th day of January, 1909, at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch.

G. G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

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EVIDENCE having been furnished of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 124, folio 266, for Allotments 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, Block VII, Township of Barrfield, whereof SARAH SPEARS, of Dunedin, Widow, is the registered proprietress, and application having been made to me to issue a provisional certificate of title for the said land, I hereby give notice of my intention to issue such provisional certificate at the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof.

Dated at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin, this 18th day of January, 1909.

W. WYINKS,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1908,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the publication hereof.

WILLIAM JUSTICE.—Part of Section 43, Block XXXI, City of Dunedin. Occupied by Walter Perry. No. 4869.

JOHN FLEMING DOUGLAS.—Allotment 37, Township of Kensington. Occupied by John J. Purdie. No. 4870.

JOHN MAINS, JAMES McKERRAS, and WILLIAM JAMES MAINS.—Section 91 and parts of Sections 92 and 112, Block V, Otepopo District. Occupied by John Budge. No. 4871.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 25th day of January, 1909, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

W. WYINKS,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1908,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month from the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

2913. JOHN HUGHES.—1 acre 1 rood 31 perches, Allotments 1, 2, and 3, Block V, Township of Gladstone. Occupied by Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 25th day of January, 1909, at the Lands Registry Office, Invercargill.

C. E. NALDER,
District Land Registrar.

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PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE OF ALTERATION OF SURNAME.

I, ALEXANDER SMITH, an Officer in the Mercantile Marine, and at present second officer of the steam-ship “Koromiko,” registered at Dunedin, in the Dominion of New Zealand, and for many years past known as “Alexander Coe-Smith,” hereby give notice that by a deed poll dated the 15th day of December, 1908, and filed in the Supreme Court at Wellington on the 17th day of December, 1908, I formally abandoned the surname of “Smith” and adopted the surname of “Coe-Smith,” and declared my intention thenceforth to use, and subscribe, and be known by, the name of “ALEXANDER COE-SMITH” exclusively.

Dated the 21st day of December, 1908.

A. SMITH.
A. COE-SMITH.

Witness—J. J. Molony, Solicitor, Westport.

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In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1908.”

NOTICE is hereby given that A. FALK COMPANY (LIMITED), a company incorporated in England, proposes to commence and intends to carry on business in the Dominion of New Zealand, and that the situation and locality of the office or place where such business will be carried on is at Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin.

Dated this 14th day of January, 1909.

WILLIAM JOSEPH SAYER,
Attorney for A. Falk Company (Limited).

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INVERCARGILL BOROUGH COUNCIL.

“Motor Regulation Act, 1908.”—Registration of Motors.

IN pursuance with the provisions of Part II of “The Motor Regulation Act, 1908,” public notice is hereby given that the Invercargill Borough Council decided, by resolution passed on the 17th day of December, 1908, that the said Act shall be brought into force in the Borough of Invercargill on the 30th day of January, 1909.

T. W. WALKER,
Town Clerk.

Invercargill, 30th December, 1908.

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SPECIAL ORDER MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” the Tauranga Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

“That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £12,000, authorised to be raised by the Tauranga Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of constructing and making waterworks, reservoirs, and water-races, and laying mains and connections, and supplying water to the inhabitants of the Borough of Tauranga, and acquiring the necessary land, buildings, machinery, plant, pipes, and property, the said Tauranga Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 2s. in the pound upon the annual rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Tauranga, comprising the whole of the said Borough of Tauranga; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.”

The above special order was passed at a special meeting of the Council held on the 14th day of December, 1908, and confirmed at a special meeting held on the 15th day of January, 1909.

The common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Tauranga was affixed to the above-written special order in the presence of—

J. C. ADAMS,
Councillor.

A. F. TUNKS,
Councillor.

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WE, the undersigned, ARTHUR DEWHURST RILEY and FRANCIS HOLMES, hereby give notice that the Partnership hitherto subsisting between us in the trade or business of Importers and Manufacturers’ Agents, carried on by us in the City of Wellington, under the style or firm of “Riley and Holmes,” has been dissolved as from the 31st day of December, 1908, by mutual consent. All moneys payable to the firm will be received by Mr. Arthur Thomas Clarke, of 197 Lambton Quay, Wellington, Chartered Accountant, who will also pay all liabilities of the late partnership.

Dated this 21st day of January, 1909.

ARTHUR DEWHURST RILEY.
FRANCIS HOLMES.

Witness to the signatures of Arthur Dewhurst Riley and Francis Holmes—Arthur T. Clarke, Chartered Accountant, Lambton Quay, Wellington.

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