THE GAZETTE.
Regulations for fixing the term 3 and conditions for occupation of the rural lands leased under "The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act 1893 " and " The Land Act 1892 " are g«zetted.
Mr Hall-Jones (Timaru), Mr F. J. S:nith (Cheviot), and Mr J. G. WarJ. (invercargUl) are appointed justices of the peace.
Mr H. Seth-Smith is gazetted chief judge of the Native Land Court. Mr R. Thomson is reappointed a member of the Auckland Land Board. Mr R. H. J. Reeves and Mr William Mahr are appointed members of the Westport Harbour Board . Mr Daniel Shelby is appointed member of the Greymouth Harbour Board.
A dispatch conveying the Queen's thanks for the congratulations on the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of York is gazetted.
The Gazette notifies that the public offices will be closed on demonstration days as follows : — Wellington, October 25 ; Otago, October 28.
A bonus of £2 per ton will be paid on 100 tons of starch manufactured in the colony iv each of the years 1894 and 1895.
The Public Trustee notifies that he intends to take lands in Tauranga, Poverty Bay, Hawke's Bay, and Sydenham under the Unclaimed Land 3 Act.
The immigration and emigration returns for the colony during September show the arrivals to have been 1381 persons and the departures 612 persons. The arrivals were:— From the United Kingdom, 268 ; New South Wales, 595 ; Victoria, 376 ; Tasmania, 64- ; other places, 79;— total, 1381. The departures were:— To the United Kingdom, 100 ; New South Wales, 303; Victoria, 132; Tasmania, 29; other places, 4-8 ; — total, 612. Daring the month 13 Chinese arrived and 14- left.
The following regulation under the Government Insurance Act is gazetted: — "Policies shall become void if the person whose life is insured shall die by suicide, whether sane or insane, within six months from the date of the policy. Provided, nevertheless, that it shall be lawful for the commissioner, in his absolute discretion, to pay the sum assured if he is satisfied, after careful inquiry, that the person whose life is insured had not at the date of the policy any suicidal intention."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2069, 19 October 1893, Page 18
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351THE GAZETTE. Otago Witness, Issue 2069, 19 October 1893, Page 18
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