Nov. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2939

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 October, 1909.

• Includes suburban boroughs—Invercargill East, North, and South, with Avenal and Gladstone.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1909.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1909.—NOTICE No. 38.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 10th November, 1909.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII, and intituled "The Marriage Act, 1908," the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information :—

Church of Christ.
Mr. Charles A. Wilson.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

PASTORAL RUNS in WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT for LICENSE by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Hokitika, 8th November, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be offered for license by public auction, at this office, at 11 o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 12th day of January, 1910, under the provisions of "The Land Act, 1908."

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—GREY COUNTY.
Class A.

• National endowment.

• Part national endowment.
  † Weighted with £20, valuation for clearing, grassing, and hut.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

Run 619 occupies the upper watershed of the New River, with Cockabulla and Eight-mile Creeks and other branches of the New River. Almost wholly covered with bush, and mainly suitable for cattle, with a little sheep-feed in the river-beds. Access by Marsden-Dunganville Road.

Run 620 occupies part of the New River Valley and its northern watershed. Wholly rough bush-covered terrace country; suitable for cattle only. Access by Marsden-Maori Gully Road.

Run 621 occupies the valleys of Cockeye, Irishman's, and Mosquito Creeks, branches of the New River. Almost wholly covered with bush. Chiefly low terrace land; suitable for cattle, with a little sheep-feed in the river-beds. Access by Marsden Road.

Run 623 occupies the head-waters of the New River and Maori and Eight-mile Creeks. Comprises rough bush-covered terrace country; suitable for cattle only. Access by Greenstone-Lake Brunner Road and Morgan Road, which is formed for part of the distance.

Run 624, Harata. Altitude, from 600 ft. to 5,000 ft. above sea-level. Comprises mostly forest-clad hillsides, with the open top of Mount Harata. There is some good flat land near the Grey River. Situated thirteen miles from Ikamatua-nine miles by dray-road and four miles by bridle-track to junction of Clarke and Grey Rivers.

Run 625, May, comprises part of the upper valley of the Grey River and the valleys of the May and Brown Grey Rivers, with a considerable area of open mountain-tops. About 1,000 acres is fairly flat land, heavily timbered, and there are some grass flats in the river-beds. A large part of the area consists of steep hillsides, covered with birch forest. Greatest altitude, about 5,000 ft. Accessible by horse-tracks from Reefton and Ikamatua.

Run 626, Christobel, occupies the head-waters of the Grey and Mary Rivers. Practically the whole consists of bush-covered hillsides, with a small proportion of open hilltops. Greatest altitude, 4,500 ft. Distant about forty-four miles from Reefton-twenty miles by dray-road and twenty-four miles by horse-track.

Run 627, Elliot, occupies the open tops of Mount Elliot, with the bush-covered slopes into the Clarke and Nancy Rivers. The greater part of the area comprises rough hillsides, with a small proportion of flat land near the rivers. There is good sheep-feed on the top of Mount Elliot. Greatest altitude, 4,700 ft. Accessible by dray-road, twenty-one miles from Ahaura.

Run 628, Pohaturoa, comprises that portion of the valley of the Grey River between Paddy's Creek and a point about one mile above the junction of the Grey and Robinson Rivers, together with the hillsides and open mountain-tops lying between that portion of the Grey River and the Clarke River. Mostly bush-covered land, with some flats near the rivers, and some open grass land in the river-beds. Accessible by horse-track, twenty miles from Ikamatua.

Run 629, Robinson, comprises the valley of the Robinson River from a point about one mile and a half above its