THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 159

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1866.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
EDWARD JAMES LEE, Esq.,
to be Revising Officer for the Electoral Districts of
City of Christchurch and Town of Lyttelton.
E. W. STAFFORD.

NOTE.—This appointment was accidentally omitted in the
notification of the 10th instant, published in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 21 of 17th April, 1866, page 146.

Erratum.—In the notification of the appointment
of Revising Officers published in Gazette No. 21,
folio 146 for "Edmund James Lee," read "Edward
James Lee."

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 19th April, 1866.
THE following Certificate and Declaration are
published in conformity with the provisions of
"The Execution of Criminals Act, 1858."
E. W. STAFFORD.

CERTIFICATE.

I, THOMAS MOORE PHILSON, the Medical Officer in
attendance at the execution of James Stack, at the
Mount Eden Stockade Gaol, do hereby certify and
declare that I have this day witnessed the execution
of the said James Stack at the said gaol; and I do
further certify and declare that the said James Stack
was, in pursuance of the sentence of the Supreme
Court, hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Given under my hand this seventh day of
April, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six, at the gaol of Mount Eden,
Auckland. T. M. PHILSON, M.D.,
Provincial Surgeon.

DECLARATION.

We do hereby testify and declare that we have this
day been present when the extreme penalty of the
law was carried into execution on the body of James
Stack, convicted at the Criminal Session of the
Supreme Court held at Auckland on the ninth day of
March last, and sentenced to death; and that the
said James Stack was, in pursuance of the said
sentence, hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Dated this seventh day of April, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, at the gaol of
Mount Eden, Auckland.

H. C. BALNEAVIS, Sheriff.
JOSEPH TUCKWELL, Gaoler.
PATRICK MOYLAN, Turnkey.
J. H. HORNE, Justice of the Peace.
JAMES KINSELLA,
WILLIAM BERRY,
SAMUEL GRAY,
WILLIAM PIPER,
FRANCIS LIPSEY,
ROBERT FORSTER,
JAMES HOOPER,
DENIS MARKHAM,
EDWARD SCOTTER.
other Spectators.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1866.
IT is hereby notified for public information that on
and after the 30th current the Post Office at
Havelock will be reduced from a second-class office
to an ordinary sub-office.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th April, 1866.
THE following Letter is published for general
information:

Officers of the Native Department, and all others
interested in the matter, are requested to afford the
assistance therein required.
A. H. RUSSELL.

Napier, 26th March, 1866.
SIR,—The Government having appointed me to
prepare for publication a Maori-English Lexicon
(in conformity with a resolution of the House of
Representatives), I have the honor to request you to
invite the kind assistance of those officers of the
Government who may be acquainted with the Maori
language or who are visiting Maori districts, in order
to the more perfect as well as to the more speedy
completion of the said work.

You will find, Sir, on referring to correspondence
which has taken place between the Government and
myself on this subject—(particularly to my letter to
the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, of 17th December,
1863, and also to a subsequent letter to the Hon. the
Native Minister, dated 5th July, 1865,)—that such
valuable cooperation has been always by me con-
sidered as necessary to the better and early accom-
plishment of the Lexicon.

Such efficient aid may be rendered many ways by
those gentlemen, particularly by their forwarding to
me—

1. Any memoranda (however small or rough)
   which they may have already made of any
   local or strange Maori words or phrases, or of
   any peculiar local usage of common words:
2. Or of any songs, proverbs, sayings or recita-
   tions: especially of those that are old, local,
   or little known, or which may contain strange
   words or phrases (such as can be very well
   written by any intelligent Native).
3. By sending me from time to time, any words or
   expressions which may appear to them to be
   local or strange, or peculiar use among the
   Natives of their respective districts.
4. By pointing out to me those Maoris of their
   districts whom they consider to be well
   qualified to become correspondents to assist
   me in my linguistic inquiries.
5. And by stirring up and encouraging those
   Maoris to reply fully and promptly to all
   such inquiries when made by me.

As it is my intention in the prosecution of this
work hereafter to visit some of the less known Maori
districts, those officers may also have it in their
power still further to aid me in my inquiries, should
I visit any district in which they may be resident or
with which they may be connected.

And, as a copious and complete Maori-English and
English-Maori Lexicon is believed to be a work of
very great utility to both races in the Colony, as well
as of the highest importance to the scholar and
philologist,—and as the want of such a work has
long been felt,—it is confidently hoped that every
possible assistance will be readily afforded by all who
may have it in their power to aid in this truly
National undertaking.

I may also state, Sir, that it is purposed when
the Lexicon is published, to give due individual
acknowledgment to all who shall have assisted in its
preparation.

I have, &c.,
W. COLENSO.
The Hon. the Native Minister, Wellington.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 13th April, 1866.
PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,