THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 273

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

RICHARD EDWIN FIELD, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Manuherikia, as
the same is defined in proclamation of thirtieth day
of November, 1865, and published in New Zealand
Gazette, No. 48, of eleventh December, 1865, in the
room of James Charles Thompson, Esq.
This appointment to take effect from seventeenth
June, 1865.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ARCHER CHARLES CROFT, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Ashburton, as
described in a proclamation of sixth day of July,
1859, and published in New Zealand Gazette of same
date, in the room of William Spence Peter, Esq.
This appointment to take effect from the tenth
day of July, 1867.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 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 Waitahuna, as the
same is defined in proclamation of thirtieth November,
1865, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 48,
of eleventh December, 1865, in the room of John
Mackay, Esq.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

GEORGE CROCKETT, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of West Taieri, as
described in a proclamation of 30th day of November,
1865, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 48,
of eleventh December, 1865, in the room of James
Fulton, Esq.
This appointment to take effect from the fifteenth
day of July, 1867.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th June, 1867.

IN order to enable different Soils in New Zealand
to be chemically analyzed, and the results to be
published from time to time for general information,
it is requested that Samples of Soil, for chemical
analysis, may be forwarded to Dr. Hector, at the
Colonial Museum, Wellington.

The following instructions to contributors are
published, and printed Slips thereof, together with
the Form to be filled up and to accompany the
Specimens of Soil, will be sent to the several Super-
intendents of Provinces, for distribution in each
Province.

E. W. STAFFORD.

INSTRUCTIONS.
Attention is requested to the following instructions
by persons contributing samples of Soils to the
Colonial Museum for the purpose of being chemically
analyzed:—

1. The quantity transmitted should not be less
   than—
   6 lbs. weight of surface soil,
   2 lbs. weight of sub-soil.
2. The surface soil should be selected free from
   roots and undecomposed vegetable matter, and of
   uniform quality, gathered in several equal portions
   from different parts of the field, and from two inches
   below the surface.
3. The sub-soil should be taken in the same manner
   from a depth of twelve inches.
4. Small specimens of iron-pan, sole, or other con-
   cretionary bands that may occur in the soil, should
   be forwarded in a separate parcel.
5. Each sample of soil should be carefully secured
   in a calico bag, distinctly marked "surface soil" or
   "sub-soil," and also with the name of the contributor
   and a number, the same number being used for
   corresponding samples of surface and sub-soils.
6. A copy of the enclosed Form, distinguished by
   this number, must be filled up with the required
   particulars, and transmitted along with the specimen
   it refers to.
7. Parcels and letters are to be addressed—
   "On Public Service only.—Specimens for Analysis.—
   Dr. Hector, Colonial Museum, Wellington."
   N.B.—Under no circumstances will an analysis be
   made of a specimen unless the necessary information
   is supplied, and properly authenticated by the
   signature of the contributor.

Form to be filled up and transmitted to the Laboratory
of the Colonial Museum along with specimens of
soil for chemical analysis.

1. Name of contributor.
2. Number or marks on the specimen 2.
   or specimens referred to in this Form.
3. If the sample is from uncultivated
   land, state the nature of the vegetation,
   whether ever or frequently burnt,
   whether stocked, and for how long and
   to what extent.
4. If cultivated, state for what period, 4.
   the succession of crops, and nature of
   the present or last crop; also the
   nature of the original vegetation in
   the natural state.
5. State average depth of soil and 5.
   sub-soil, and the nature of the formation
   on which they rest, whether sand, gravel,
   clay, limestone, or rock, and whether
   porous or bound.
6. General remarks as to the nature 6.
   of the country, whether alluvial plains,
   low undulating hills, or steep broken
   hill surface, and any other points that
   occur to the contributor.

Date at which specimens were collected:
Date at which they were forwarded to Museum:
How transmitted:
Signature of contributor:

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 22nd June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JAMES ROGER DUTTON,
of the Nelson South-west Gold Fields, and