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Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
14th May, 1855.
HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be
Comptrollers of Customs and Navigation
Laws for the places set opposite their names,
viz:
F. D. FENTON, Esq., Kaipara,
G. M. MITFORD, Esq., Kawhia.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
15th May, 1855.
HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
appoint
HENRY GODFREY GOULAND, Esq.,
to be a Resident Magistrate.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Registrar General's Office,
Auckland, May 12th, 1855.
PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act
of the General Assembly of New Zea-
land, intituled "The Marriage Act, 1854,"
the following additional name of an Offi-
ciating Minister within the meaning of the
said Act is published for general information.
United Church of England and Ireland.
The Rev. JAMES CHARLES BAGSHAW.
I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-general
for New Zealand, do hereby certify that the
foregoing name of an Officiating Minister has
been duly sent in to me, in addition to the
names which appeared in the Lists respec-
tively published in the New Zealand Govern-
ment Gazettes of the 18th and the 26th of
January, and the 15th and the 30th of March
in the present year.
Given under my hand this 12th day of
May 1855.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

ERRATUM. In the List of Officiating
Ministers of the United Church of England
and Ireland published in the Gazette of Jan.
18th, for "The Rev. C. Cotterell," read
"The Rev. G. Cotterill."
JOHN B. BENNETT.

Commissioner of Crown Lands Office,
Otago, 8th December, 1854.
I, WALTER MANTELL, a Commis-
sioner duly appointed by virtue of
the Ordinance No. 15, Session xi, of the Le-
gislative Council of the Islands of New Zea-
land, to hear and decide claims to land by
persons claiming title thereto, from, through,
or under the New Zealand Company, report
that the claims of the persons named
in the annexed Schedule having been duly re-
ferred to me for investigation, I hereby decide
the said persons to be respectively entitled to
the Crown Grants set against their names in
the said Schedule.

No. of Report. No. of Claim. Claimants. Commissioner's
Decision.
1 1 William Johnston. Entitled to a grant of
Rural Section No 4,
Block XXIX, Waihola
District.
2 3 William Ferguson. Entitled to a grant of
Rural Section No. 11,
Block X., Inchclutha
District.
3 4 Emma Hepburn Entitled to grants of Sec-
Brown. tion No. 12, Block VI.
in the Town of Dan-
edin, of Suburban Sec-
tion No. 8 in the North
East Valley District,
and of Rural Section
No. 40 "Irregular," in
the East Taieri Dis-
trict.
4 8 Thomas Trumb Entitled to a grant of
Rural Section No. 3, b
Block XXIX., Wai-
hola District.
5 20 James Harrold. Entitled to a grant of
Suburban Section No.
1, Waihola Suburban
District.
6 22 Alfred Chetham Entitled to a grant of
Strode. Suburban Section No.
4, Block I., Upper
Kaikorai District.
7 16 John Black. Entitled to a grant of
Suburban Section No.
3, North East Valley
District.
8 23 W. B. D. Mantell. Entitled to a grant of
Suburban Section No.
'87, Green Island Bush
District, and of See-
tions Nos. 45, 46, and
47, Block XVI., in the
Town of Dunedin.
9 2 & 24 Robert Chapman. Entitled to a grant of
Rural Section No. 26,
" Irregular," West
Taieri District; also,
to a grant of Suburban
Section No. 6, Block
I., Upper Kaikorai
District; also to grants
of Town Sections Nos.
11 and 18, Block VI.,
and Nos. 20, 21, 22,
23, and 24, Block
XIX, Dunedin.

WALTER MANTELL,
Commissioner under the New
Zealand Company's Land
Claimants' Ordinance.

Crown Land Office.
Wellington, 19th February, 1855
I, FRANCIS DILLON BELL, a Com-
missioner duly appointed by virtue of
the Ordinance No. 15, Session 11, of the
Legislative Council of the Islands of New
Zealand, to hear and decide claims to land by
persons claiming title thereto, from through
or under the New Zealand Company, report
that the claim of the person named in the
annexed Schedule having been duly referred
to me for investigation, I hereby decide the
said person to be entitled to the Government