AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

NOTICE TO HIGHWAY TRUSTEES.

DOG COLLARS, for the year 1870, can be supplied to the Highway Trustees of those Districts which have been proclaimed under the Dog Nuisance Act, 1854, upon application to the Office of the Commissioner of Police at Auckland.

The collars will be supplied at the contract price, with a small charge added to cover cost of carriage.

JOHN R. NICHOLSON,
Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 22nd February, 1870.

Schedule, are now ready for delivery at the Office of the Registrar of Deeds, High-street, Auckland.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Alderson, William (2)
Morris, Thomas Henry
Allen, James (2)
Winwood (2)
Barton, Mary Annie (2)
O’Gorman, Timothy (2)
Bidgood, John (2)
Palmer, William (2)
Blencoe, Richard (2)
Rogers, Peter (2)
Clifford, Henry George (2)
Sherrett, James (2)
Empson, Anna (2)
Simpson, Frank (2)
Hick, William Henry (2)
Sturmer Edward (2)
Jones, William (2)
Tisdall, Gordon Charle
Long, Walter (2)
Vernon (2)
McColl, Dugald Charles
Wiggins, Charles Lewis (2)
Stewart (2)
Wood, Thomas (2)
Marsh, Nicholas (2)
Wooster, Charles (2)
Matthews, John (2)

NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given, that a Reward of Five Pounds will be paid by Government on the apprehension of any Deserter from Her Majesty’s Naval Forces while serving in New Zealand. This Reward is in addition to that paid by the Admiralty. The most rigorous proceedings will be taken against any person enticing away, harbouring, concealing, or employing Naval Deserters. The enactments relating to the above offence are subjoined for general information.

W. GISBORNE,
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1870.

CLAUSES OF IMPERIAL ACTS RELATING TO NAVAL DESERTERS.

NAVAL DESERTION.

10 and 11 Vict., cap. 62 sec. 11:

"And be it enacted, that every person who, by words or any other means whatsoever, shall persuade any person in Her Majesty’s Navy to desert or improperly absent himself from his duty, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds for every such act; and every person who shall assist or procure any person in Her Majesty’s Navy to desert, or improperly absent himself from his duty, or shall conceal, employ, or continue to employ any person belonging to Her Majesty’s Navy who shall be a Deserter, or improperly absent from his duty, knowing him to be such a Deserter or so improperly absent, shall forfeit and pay the sum of Thirty Pounds for every such assistance, procurement, concealment, employment, or continuing of employment, as aforesaid."

MARINE DESERTION.

32 Vict., cap. 5, sec. 54:

"Any person who shall, in any part of Her Majesty’s Dominions, by any means whatsoever, directly or indirectly, procure any Marine to desert or absent himself from his duty without leave from his Commanding Officer, or attempt to procure or persuade any Marine to desert or absent himself from his duty, and any person who, knowing that any Marine is absent from his duty without leave from his Commanding Officer, shall harbour or conceal such Marine, or aid or assist such Marine in concealing himself, or aid and assist in his rescue, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall, on conviction thereof before any two Justices acting for the county, district, city, borough, or place where any such offender shall at any time happen to be, be liable to be committed to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to be Imprisoned, with or without Hard Labour, for such term not exceeding Six Calendar Months as the convicting Justices shall think fit."

CROWN GRANTS.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 22nd February, 1870.

I HEREBY notify that Crown Grants (Militia), in favour of the persons named in the following Schedule, are now ready for delivery at the Office of the Registrar of Deeds, High-street, Auckland.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Abraham, Thomas Edward
Mander John
Amphlett, Edward Albert
Mossman, Thomas
Baber, Richard Kemm
Muir, John
Buckland, William Thorne
Orum, Hamlet
Comrie, David
Reid, Thomas
Cruickshanks, David Boosie
Ridgway, Alexander
Davis, Henry Samuel
Scott, William
Farrow, Robert
Seddon, Samuel Thos.
Heavey, Andrew
Sinclair, Andrew
Kelly, Matthew
Steele, William
Mackinder, George
Taylor, William Innes
Malcolm, Edward
Waddington, Henry

CROWN GRANTS.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 22nd February, 1870.

I HEREBY notify that Crown Grants in favour of the persons named in the following Schedule are now ready for delivery at the Office of the Registrar of Deeds, High-street, Auckland.

D. A. TOLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Auld, John Maxwell
Organ, Frances
Ashforth, Henry William
Orchard, Henry William
Coombes, George
Kiely, Walter
Crippen, Frederick Horton Oldroyd, Edwin
Foster, Isabella
Porch, James
Gee, Samuel
Perrin, William
Hally, John
Davidson, Rachel
Jackson, William Richard Davidson, Mary Anne
Lyell, James Leitch and Owen, George Newton
Poyner, George
Rogers, William
Montgomerie, James
Raynor, Edward Richard
May, Joseph
Sinclair, Murdoch
McGrath, James
Spragg, Charles
McCutcheon, Rebecca
Sexton, Emily
Melluish, Peter
Salmon, John
Organ, Sarah Ann
Winter, Thomas William
Organ, Richard
Williams, Edward
Organ, Eliza
Wadham, Henry John White
Organ, Thomas