ASSURANCE FUND.

60. The value of land for the purpose of the Land Assurance Fund shall be estimated according to the value declared by the Applicant. If the District Registrar shall be dissatisfied with such declared value he may surcharge the applicant at such value as they may think fit. If the applicant shall be dissatisfied with such surcharge and the applicant and the District Registrar shall be unable to agree on the value, the Applicant may demand a valuation, and the value shall in that case be determined by some competent surveyor, to be nominated by the District Registrar. If such valuation shall amount to or exceed the amount surcharged, the cost of the valuation shall be borne by the Applicant, otherwise by the Government.

61. No Certificate of land shall be issued without pre-payment of the Assurance Fund Assessment.

NOTICES.

92. Every person making an application to Register, lodging an Inhibition or taking any other proceeding under the Land Registry Act shall, at the same time, specify in writing, some known place of address situate in the same town as the Register Office, at which place notices may be left. The leaving of notices at such places shall be deemed good service thereof under the Act and under these Regulations.

93. The same persons may, by writing left with the District Registrar, from time to time change such place of notices.

94. These Regulations may from time to time be altered and rescinded by the Governor in Council, and the Registrar General may rescind, alter, and vary the same so far as may be consistent with the powers vested in him in that behalf.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 16, May 11, 1865)

POSTAL.

Patterns of Merchandise may be sent by Post at the Merchandise (Book) Postage Rate.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 25th April, 1865.

IT is hereby notified for public information, that on and after the first day of May next, a system of Pattern Post will be established between places within the Colony of New Zealand, and also between the Colony and the United Kingdom, and the Colonies of Victoria and New South Wales, whereby patterns or merchandise of no intrinsic value may be sent by post under the same regulations and at the same rates of postage as those of the Book Post.

(1.) No packet of patterns must exceed 24 ounces.

(2.) The patterns must not be of intrinsic value. This rule excludes all articles of a saleable nature, and, indeed, whatever may have a value of its own apart from a mere use as a pattern; and the quantity of any material sent ostensibly as a pattern must not be so great that it can be fairly considered as having on this ground an intrinsic value.

(3.) There must be no writing or printing other than the address of the person for whom the packet is intended, the address of the sender, a trade mark and numbers, and the prices of the articles.

(4.) The patterns must be sent in covers open at the ends, so as to be easy of examination.

(5.) In all other respects the regulations of the Book Post will apply to the Pattern Post.

(6.) Any packets not in accordance with the above regulations will be treated as letters.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Postmaster-General.

COURT HOUSE, DUNEDIN.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Public Works, until noon of Monday, the 5th June proximo, for Contract No. 128, erection of certain additions and alterations to the Court House, Dunedin.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the office of the Engineer of Roads and Works, Dunedin.

Tenders to be endorsed, “Roads and Works—Tender for Contract No. 128.”

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

F. J. Moss,
Secretary for Public Works.

Dunedin, May 30th, 1865.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Daniel Campbell, of Dunedin, Printer to the said Provincial Government for the time being.