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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At Wellington, the twenty-eighth day of June, 1867.
Present:
THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it
is amongst other things enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council,
from time to time to constitute for any Gold Field,
or for any part thereof, Wardens' Courts for the
administration of justice therein, and to appoint
Wardens of such Courts with power to act alone or
with assessors, and in such manner and to exercise
all or any of the powers thereinafter mentioned as
the Governor shall think fit to direct:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor,
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, doth hereby, in pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority vested in
him for this purpose, appoint

JAMES ROGER DUTTON, Esq.,

to be a Warden of all Wardens' Courts now consti-
tuted or hereafter to be constituted within the
Nelson South-west Gold Fields, with power to him
to act alone or with assessors, and to exercise all or
any of the powers vested in or imposed on Judges
of Wardens' Courts.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.
Governor's Order, No. 81.

IN exercise of the power in me for this purpose
vested by "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,"
I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby appoint that the Port of
Westport shall be a Warehousing Port for the purpose
of "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858," and do
hereby approve of the same as a port for the importa-
tion of tobacco.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight Commander of the
Most Honorable Order of the Bath,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, dated at
Auckland, this seventeenth day of June,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.

JOHN HALL,
(in the absence of Mr. Richmond.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th July, 1867.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
JAMES HECTOR, Esq., M.D.,
Director of the Geological Survey, has been appointed
Director of Meteorological Stations in New Zealand,
and Officers in charge of Stations in the various
Provinces, are requested to address their correspond-
ence, in future, to Dr. Hector, at Wellington.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th July, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

EDWARD CROKER, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Gabriel's, as the
same is defined in a proclamation dated 30th Novem-
ber, 1865, and published in New Zealand Gazette No.
48, of the 11th December, 1865, vice J. B. Borton,
Esq., resigned.

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-