300
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
least one Native Assessor or Justice of
the Peace acting within such District to
grant licenses for the removal of spirit-
uous or fermented liquors into or withiu
the said District.
4. All fines levied by virtue of the pre-
ceeding Regulations will, pursuant to
the "Native Circuit Courts Act, 1858,"
be appropriated and disposed of from
time to time by the Governor in Council
for the purposes of Government within
the said District or otherwise for the
common benefit of the inhabitants
thereof,
And His Excellency the Governor by and
with the advice and consent aforesaid, doth
hereby further declare that this order shall
take effect from and after the date hereof.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

NOTICE.

WHEREAS by the 7th Section of the
"Native Lands Act, 1862, it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Courts estab-
lished thereby to define the right, title, estate,
or interest of any Tribe or Community of
Natives which may apply for the same, in
any land within the jurisdiction of the Court,
and such Court shall register such right,
title, estate, or interest in such manner as
may be in that behalf appointed.
Now I do hereby appoint that all such
rights, titles, estate and interests as aforesaid
shall be registered in a book to be kept for
such purpose by and in the Office of the
Secretary for Crown Lands. Every such
registration shall be signed in said book by
the said Secretary for Crown Lands for the
time being, and shall be, in addition to all
proper records to be kept by the said Courts.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLIAM Fox.
Auckland, 1st July, 1864.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 12th July, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
DAVID JOHNSTON, Junior, Esq.
to be Deputy to the Returning Officer for the
Election of Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives and Members of the Provincial
Council for the Electoral District of Colling-
wood.
WILLIAM Fox.

Registrar of Marriages, Mangawai—J. Ryan
appointed vice Charles Haselden.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, July 16th, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
JOHN RYAN,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and Registrar
of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the
District of Mangawai vice Charles Haselden,
this appointment to bear date from the 11th
instant.
WILLIAM Fox.

Tenders for supply of Coal.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 16th July, 1864.
TENDERS will be received at this office
until noon of Wednesday, the 27th
instant for the supply of coal to the
General Government in such quantities
as may be required up to the 31st of
October next. The rates per ton to be
specified for best English coal, screened and
delivered at the Public Offices in one cwt.
bags, and for best Newcastle (N.S.W.) coal
screened and delivered at the Public Offices in
one cwt. bags.
W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Native Department,)
Auckland, 15th July, 1864.
THE following report is published for
general information.
WILLIAM Fox.

Report by His Honor the Superintendent of
Wellington, of the battle of Moutoa, and
subsequent events on the Wanganui River.
Immediately on receiving intelligence on
the 11th May of an intended attack by the
rebel natives upon the settlement of Wanganui,
I made arrangements for taking up with me
in one of the N. Z. S. N. Company's steamers
some 25 men of the Colonial Defence Force,
for the purpose of strengthening the troops
stationed in the upper part of Rangitikei,
which, exposed as it is to attack from the
Taupo and Waikato natives, is perhaps the
most vulnerable point in this Province.
Owing to delay in the arrival of the
steamer in this port, we did not sail till the
evening of the 14th. On arriving at Wan-
ganui the following afternoon, I found the
whole population, European and Maori, in a
state of great excitement in consequence of
news having arrived early that morning, that
an engagement had taken place some sixty
miles up the river between the rebels (com-
posed chiefly of the adherents of the new
religious sect—or fanatics as they are appro-
priately termed) and the friendly natives, in
which the latter had gained a most signal
victory. As to the details of the battle the
most contradictory statements were afloat.
The settlers were enthusiastic in their praises
of their native allies, and the Maoris, elated
beyond measure with the success their friends
and relations up the river had achieved, were
prepared at once to clear the Wanganui River
of all Kingites, and at the same time to march
to Taranaki, sweeping all before them. Some
hundred natives were preparing to reinforce
their friends up the river. Having ascertained
that our native allies were really short of