The advantages offered are ; — Ist. State Qttabantee against peculation, fraud, or dishonesty. 2nd. All proposed investments are con- sidered by a Board, consisting of the Honor, able Colonial Treasurer, the Attorney General the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Government Insurance Commissioner, and the Public Trustee. Careful consideration of all securities offered is therefore ensured. 3rd. The Public Trustee, in his corporate capacity, never dies, never leaves the country, and never becomes incapacitated, thus avoid- ing the many inoonreniences resulting from fnquent fresh appointments of Trustees, necessitated by death, change of abode, or mental or bodily infirmity. 4th. Punctuality and promptitude in the remittance of periodical payments to bene- ficiaries under trust or will to any part of the Colony or elsewhere at which it may be desired that payments should be made. sth. The effective check which is called into operation before any moneys can be drawn from the Public Trustee's account. 6th. Reasonable charges : On estates such as now beiDg considered, the Public Trustee is authorised to charge l£ per cent, on all receipts, and 1£ per cent, on disbursements, and 5s per cent, on all moneys invested. No charge is made for obtaining probate, nor for passing stamp and property tax returns, nor for correspondence howerer voluminous. Thus the saving to estates placed in this office is considerable. R. C. HAMERTON, Public Trustee. APPLICATION TO PURCHASE. jVTOTICE Is Hereby Given that the follow- ing application will be forwarded to the Waste Lands Board, Dunedin, for considera- tion at its first sitting after the expiration of three weeks from the date hereof :—: — Application of John Ross to purchase Sections 53 and 65, of Block IV., Table Hill, being land held under agricultural lease. J. NUGENT WOOD, Warden. Warden's Office, Lawrence, 22nd February, 1881. TUAPEKA GOLDFIELD. Application for an Agricultural Lease. I HEREBY give notice that I have applied to the Warden, under the Agricul- tural Lease Regulations made under the Mines Act, 1877, for a lease of surveyed land for agricultural purposes, situate at and being sections 8 and 10, block 1., Ben«mont District comprising 172 alr 04p or thereabout ; and that the said application will be heard at the Warden's Office at Lawrence, on 24th March, 1882. Persons objecting to the granting of such lease must lodge the same with the Warden before twenty-four hours of the day of hearing. 