Dunedin, 5th April, 1869.

A Meeting of the Board for examining Surveyors held this day—Present:

Mr J. T. Thomson,
Mr George Barr,
Mr James McKerrow.

Mr Thomson was elected Chairman, and Mr McKerrow was elected Examiner.

The following rules were passed unanimously:—

Surveyors desiring to obtain certificates of competency from the Board will require to forward to the Chairman of the Board an application in writing, accompanied by testimonials.

After examination of these, the applicant will be informed whether it will or will not be necessary for him to submit to a test of competency.

The test of competency will consist in the production of properly executed plans, and good survey instruments, in correct reduction of traverses, and a sufficient knowledge of arithmetic, practical geometry, plane trigonometry, and the use and adjustment of the theodolite.

True extract.

J. T. Thomson, Chairman.

TOWNSHIP OF FAIRFAX.—The following allotments in the Township of Fairfax will be offered for sale by public auction, in the Land Office, on Friday, the 7th day of May next, at 12 o’clock noon.

Upset price £5 per Section

Sections 1, 8 and 12, block vi.
Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 to 6, 8 to 14, block vii.
Sections 6, 14, 16 and 17, block viii.
Section 12, block x.
Sections 3, 4 and 5, block xi.
Sections 11 and 17, block xii.

J. T. Thomson,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 6th April, 1869.

PUBLIC NOTICE, under Regulation VI of the Otago Gold Field Rules and Regulations.

Sufficient proof having been shown to me that the portion of the Otago Gold Field, described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, has been fairly tested, and is either wholly, or for the greater part, of an inferior character as regards the value of its gold deposits—I hereby give notice that the same may be occupied by holders of miners’ rights, in claims of the undermentioned size—namely, one acre for each holder of a miners’ right, provided that no block claim shall exceed more than six (6) acres.

R. Beetham, Warden.

Schedule.

All that portion of the Otago Gold Field included by the bed of the Arrow River, starting from the Gorge, Arrow town, and terminating at a point on the Arrow River, known as “The Falls.”

March 31, 1869.

Office of the Commissioners of the Public Debts Sinking Funds,
Wellington, 25th February, 1869.

THE Commissioners for the Public Debts Sinking Funds, appointed by “The Public Debts Sinking Funds Act 1868,” hereby give notice that all moneys heretofore by law payable to the Trustees of the Sinking Funds of any of the Loans hereunder mentioned, are now payable by the said Act to either of the undermentioned persons, who are authorised by the Commissioners to receive and to give receipts for the same; that is to say—

For the Sinking Funds of the Auckland Loan: The Hon. Dr Pollen, Auckland;

For the Sinking Funds of the Otago Loans: A. R. C. Strode, Esq., Dunedin; and

For the Sinking Funds of all other Loans: James Clark Gavin, Secretary to the Commissioners.

By order of the Commissioners,
James G. Gavin,
Secretary to the Commissioners.

I, THE UNDERSIGNED, JAMES JOHN TAINE, hereby make application to register “The Duke of Edinburgh Quartz Mining Company, Macraes, Registered,” under the provisions of “The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act 1865,” and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is, to my belief and knowledge, true in every particular, namely—

1. The name and style of the Company is “The Duke of Edinburgh Quartz Mining Company, Macraes, Registered.”
2. The place of operation is at Macraes Flat.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is £6,000, in 1,200 shares of £5 each.
4. The amount already paid up is £191 10s.
5. The name of the Manager is James John Taine.
6. The Office of the Company is at Dunedin.
7. The names and several residences of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each at this date are as follows:—

James John Taine, Dunedin, 200 shares
John Bathgate, ,, 100 ,,
James Manning ,, 100 ,,
Alfred Burton ,, 100 ,,
Walter Burton ,, 80 ,,
Henry Horatio Kitchener, Dunedin, 100 ,,
William Imerie, Macraes 80 ,,
John Chisholm, Taieri Lake Station, 55 ,,
George Walker, Macraes 55 ,,
Charles Seymour, ,, 55 ,,
John Douglas, Palmerston 55 ,,

James J. Taine, Manager.

Dated this 30th day of March, 1869.

Witness to signature—
Thomas Dick, Justice of the Peace.

(Copy.)

THE Partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned, as Sheep Farmers, &c., has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

Dated at Dunedin this sixth day of March, 1869.

Matthew Holmes,
T. L. Barnhill,
M. R. Buchanan.

Witness to the signatures of Matthew Holmes, T. L. Barnhill, and M. R. Buchanan,
2t—12s.

Jas. Crichton.

From the New Zealand Gazette, March 3, 1869, No. 13.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 2nd March, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by John Richard Jones, Esq., of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace.

E. W. Stafford.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of February, 1869.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act 1865,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time appoint in and for each mining district some proper person to be Official Agent in and for such district, and may require of such person such security as he shall think fit:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby nominate and appoint...