In Bankruptcy.

In the estate of MARY PATERSON, of Ashburton, Boarding-house Proprietress.
A FIRST and final dividend of 734d. in the pound on all proved and accepted claims in the above estate is now payable.
Dividends will only be paid to principals, their authorized agents, or on demand through banks.
J. B. CHRISTIAN,
Deputy Official Assignee.
Ashburton, 18th March, 1926.

In Bankruptcy.
NOTICE is hereby given that STUART ALLAN AITCHISON, of Timaru, formerly Grocer, but now Motor-painter, was this day adjudged bankrupt, and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office at Arcade, Timaru, on Thursday, the 25th day of March, 1926, at 2 o'clock.
F. A. RAYMOND,
Deputy Official Assignee.
9th March, 1926.

In Bankruptcy.
NOTICE is hereby given that PERCIVAL RICHARD JOHNSTON, of Fairlie, Labourer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office, at Arcade, Timaru, on Wednesday, the 31st day of March, 1926, at 11 o'clock.
F. A. RAYMOND,
Deputy Official Assignee.
17th March, 1926.

In Bankruptcy.
NOTICE is hereby given that GILBERT THOMAS NELSON, of Timaru, Plasterer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office, at Arcade, Timaru, on Wednesday, the 31st day of March, 1926, at 2 o'clock.
F. A. RAYMOND,
Deputy Official Assignee.
18th March, 1926.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

EVIDENCE of the loss of memorandum of mortgage No. 81894 of Lots 1 and 2 on deposited plan 7610, being part of Allotment No. 133 of the Parish of Komakorau, and being all the land in certificate of title, Volume 201, folio 158 (Auckland Registry), from LAURA BROKENSHIRE BIDDICK, of Ngaruawahia, Widow (mortgagor), to RUTH ANGUS, Wife of WILLIAM ANGUS, of Hamilton, Builder (mortgagee), having been lodged with me, together with a request to register (i) a transfer of the said mortgage No. 81894 to AUBREY FIELD BILLING, of Hamilton, Solicitor's Clerk, and (ii) a discharge of the said mortgage No. 81894, without requiring the production of the outstanding copy of the said mortgage No. 81894, notice is hereby given of my intention to register the above-mentioned documents accordingly, on the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.
Dated at the Land Registry Office at Auckland this 16th day of March, 1926.
A. V. STURTEVANT, District Land Registrar.
MEMORANDUM of Lease No. 9962 of Maungatautari No. 4B No. 7 Section 3B No. 1A Block, situated in Block XII of the Puniu Survey District, and being all the land in Provisional Register-book, Vol. 159, folio 29 (Auckland Registry), THE MAORI LAND BOARD FOR THE WAIKATO-MANIAPOTO MAORI LAND DISTRICT (lessor) to ELIZABETH BARKER, of Devonport, Married Woman (lessee).
The above-named lessor having re-entered and recovered possession of the above-described land for non-payment of rent, it is my intention to notify such re-entry on the Provisional Register-book on the expiration of one month from the 25th day of March, 1926.
Dated at the Land Registry Office at Auckland this 22nd day of March, 1926.
A. V. STURTEVANT, District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 25, folio 208 (Auckland Registry), for Section 8 of Block V of the Village of Waiomio, in favour of HENRY STEWART, of Kawakawa, Hotelkeeper, having been lodged with me, together with an application for a provisional certificate of title, notice is hereby given of my intention to issue such provisional certificate of title accordingly, on the expiration of fourteen days from 25th day of March, 1926.
Dated at the Land Registry Office at Auckland this 22nd day of March, 1926.
A. V. STURTEVANT, District Land Registrar.
NOTICE is hereby given that the parcels of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before 26th April, 1926.
7192. ELIZA CATHERINE CLEARY.-Allotments 41 and 42 of Section 2, Village of Panmure, containing 1 acre 3 roods 34 perches. Occupied by Mary Fleming. Plan 17364.
7468. FREDERICK ARNOLD.-Part Allotment 159, Parish of Hautapu, containing 5 acres 2 roods 19-7 perches. Occupied by Annie Maria Arnold. Plan 18941.
7470. ERNEST CHRISTIAN FOOTE.-Allotments 8 and 9 and part Allotments 14 and 15 of Section 2 of the Village of Papakura, containing 2 roods 8-2 perches, fronting Great South Road. Occupied by applicant. Plan 18959.
7487. JAMES ROBERT ROBERTSON.-Allotment 31 and part Allotments 30 and 32, Section 36, Town of Auckland, containing 15 perches, fronting Wakefield Street. Unoccupied. Plan 19114.
Diagrams may be inspected at this office.
Dated this 22nd day of March, 1926, at the Land Registry Office, Auckland.
A. V. STURTEVANT, District Land Registrar.
APPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of a certificate of title in the name of KARIRA TAHUAROA, THE YOUNGER, of Onauku, Sheep-farmer, for 50 acres, being Oamaru No. 4 Subdivision, Block XXI, Gore Survey District, and being the whole of the land in certificate of title, Vol. 17, folio 126, Marlborough Registry, and evidence having been lodged of the loss of the said certificate of title, I hereby give notice that I will issue the said certificate of title as requested, after fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.
Dated this 18th day of March, 1926, at the Land Registry Office, Blenheim.
E. G. FALCONER, Assistant Land Registrar.
APPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of a provisional certificate of title in favour of JOHN ADAMS WILSON, of Invercargill, Returned Soldier, for Lot 15, plan No. 1334, and being also part of Section 20, Block I, Invercargill Hundred, being the land contained in certificate of title, Vol. 107, folio 269, and evidence having been lodged of the loss of the said certificate of title, I hereby give notice that I shall issue a provisional certificate of title as requested, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within fourteen days from the date of publication of this notice in the Gazette.
Dated at the Land Registry Office, Invercargill, the 17th day of March, 1926.
J. A. FRASER, District Land Registrar.
APPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of a provisional lease, Register-book, Vol. 199, folio 88, for Sections 5, 6, 7, and 8, Block XIX, Tiger Hill Survey District, whereof JAMES ANTHONY TOHILL, of Alexandra, Labourer, is the registered lessee, and evidence having been furnished of the loss of the said lease, I hereby give notice that it is my intention to issue such provisional lease at the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.
Dated at the Land Registry Office at Dunedin this 22nd day of March, 1926.
WM. PHILIP MORGAN, 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, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one calendar month from the date of publication of the New Zealand Gazette containing this notice.