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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOSEPH BARNES BORTON, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Gabriels.
E. W. STAFFORD.
first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven, and in other cases shall be paid within
six calendar months from the day of the date of the
signing or execution, or the day of the date of the
deed of transfer, conveyance, lease, or other instru-
ment, whichever day shall be prior in time; and if
the person or persons from whom, under the
provisions contained in the said 'Native Lands Act,
1865,' any such duties shall hereafter be due to Her
Majesty shall neglect to pay the same within such
period as aforesaid, every such person shall be
liable to pay as a penalty a sum equal to three times
the duty by the said Act made payable, in addition to
the duties under the said Act, which penalty may be
recovered summarily before any two Justices of the
Peace, or may be sued for as a debt due to Her
Majesty, by and in the name of the Colonial
Treasurer, in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
And if any person shall give information to the
Colonial Treasurer whereby any such penalty shall
be recovered, he shall be rewarded by the Colonial
Treasurer out of the penalty recovered, to such
extent as the Colonial Treasurer shall think fit, but
not exceeding one-half what shall be so recovered,
and such penalty so recovered, or so much thereof as
shall not have been applied in rewarding any
informer, shall be paid over to the credit of 'The
Native Land Court Account.'"
The duties so payable within the Provinces of
Auckland, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington, should be
paid into the Treasuries of those Provinces
respectively.
Treasury,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT.
Wellington, 20th February, 1867.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Deputy
Returning Officers for the election of Members of
the Provincial Council, in the Province of Hawke's
Bay, for the districts set opposite their names
respectively :—
GEORGE ANDREW OLIVER, Esq., Town of Napier.
JOHN CURLING, Esq., { Napier Country.
Clive.
JOHN ALFRED COOPER, Esq., Mohaka.
GEORGE B. WORGAN, Esq., Wairoa.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, Esq., Havelock.
JAMES BUCHANAN MCKAIN, Esq., Petane.
WILLIAM RATHBONE, Esq., Te Aute.
SAMUEL WHITAKER HARDY, Esq., Hampden.
JAMES BALDWIN REDWARD, Esq., Porangahau.
GEORGE WILLIS, Esq., Waipukurau.
JOSEPH WITHEROW, Esq., Waimarama.
E. W. STAFFORD,
General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1867.
IN virtue of the powers delegated to the Postmaster-
General by His Excellency the Governor, the
following appointments have been made in the Postal
Service of the Colony.
JOHN HALL.

WELLINGTON.
William Candy, to be Postmaster at Taurenikau,
from 1st January, 1867.
James George Cox, to be Postmaster at Featherston,
from 1st January, 1867.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1867.
THE following Bill, passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Auckland, intituled
"The Wharfage Act, 1866,"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to leave the same to its operation.
E. W. STAFFORD.
OTAGO.
G. A. Harris to be Postmaster at Kakanui, from 14th
November, 1866.
Robert Anderson to be Postmaster at Franktown,
from 1st November, 1866.
William Wilson to be Postmaster at Puarua, from
24th November, 1866.
Harry William Barbor to be Postmaster at Lawrence,
from 1st March, 1867.
William Liddle McKay to be Postmaster at Taieri
Ferry, from 1st January, 1867.
James Mair to be Postmaster at Waikawa, from 12th
November, 1866.
William Rogers to be Postmaster at Nevis, from 1st
January, 1866.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1867.
THE following Ordinances, passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Taranaki, intituled
"The Scab Ordinance, 1866,"
"Dog Nuisance Ordinance, 1867,"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.
E. W. STAFFORD.
AUCKLAND.
Wm. McKenna to be Postmaster at Opotiki, from 1st
August, 1866.
John Douglas Hill to be Postmaster at Alexandra,
from 6th November, 1866.
Robert Ward to be Postmaster at Cambridge, from
1st December, 1866.
William Bodenay to be Postmaster at Henderson's
Mill, from 1st January, 1867.
Frederick Gandine to be Postmaster at Hamilton,
from 1st January, 1867.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent, dated this day, under
"The Patents Act, 1860," in favor of John Cox,
Auckland, in the Province of Auckland, millwright,
for an "Invention or Improvement in Machinery for
hackling and preparing Flax and other Fibrous
Substances."
E. W. STAFFORD.

NATIVE LANDS ACT, 1866.—Notice.—
Attention is called to Section XVI. of "The
Native Lands Act, 1866," which enacts that—
"The duties by the said Act (the Native
Lands Act, 1865) required to be paid on each first
sale or other disposal of the hereditaments or Native
land therein mentioned, shall in cases where the
transfers, conveyances, leases, or other instruments
affecting the same have been signed or executed
before the passing of this Act, be paid before the