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sergeants, and paid by him to the Commanding
Officer.
15. The property of the corps is by "The Volunteer
Act, 1865," legally vested in the Commanding Officer;
but a Committee to aid him in the management of
its finances shall be appointed yearly. This Com-
mittee shall consist of two Officers and five members
of the corps, and shall be convened according to the
regulations of each corps.
16. The Commanding Officer shall cause an abstract
of the accounts to be annually prepared for the
information of every member of the corps.
17. Honorary Members may, if they wish it, wear
the uniform of the corps, but they are not to interfere
in any way with the military duties of the corps.
18. Honorary Members will be permitted to use
the practice ground when it is not required by the
enrolled members.
19. Honorary Members shall severally pay a dona-
tion of £3 3s., or annual subscription of £1 1s.
20. Every member of the corps is expected to
provide himself with a copy of the rules of the corps.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th November, 1867.
THE following Bill passed by the Provincial
Council of the Province of Marlborough,
intituled-
"The Cattle Trespass Act, 1867,"
which Bill was reserved for the signification of
the Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid
before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased
to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "The Native Lands Act, 1867," it is
enacted that if the Governor shall so order with
respect to any district to be defined in such order, no
sitting of the Native Lands Court, shall be held
within such district for the purpose of hearing
claims to land within the same until notice of such
sitting shall have been published in the Kahiti for a
period of one month:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
New Zealand, doth hereby order that no sitting of the
Native Land Court shall be held within the district
hereinafter described for the purpose of hearing claims
to land within the same until notice of such sitting
shall have been published in the Kahiti for a period
of one month, such district being bounded by the
sea from the Eastern extremity of the Northern
boundary of the Province of Hawke's Bay to Lottin
Point, thence by the range of mountains forming the
watershed between the East Coast and the Bay of
Plenty to the extremity of the said range north-east
of Waikare Moana, thence by a straight line to the
junction of the River Waiau with the River Waikare
taheke, thence by a straight line running south-west
true bearing to the said northern boundary of the
Province of Hawke's Bay, thence by the said
boundary to the commencing point of the East
Coast.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th November, 1867.
THE following Bill passed by the Provincial
Council of the Province of Marlborough,
intituled-
"The Public Cemeteries Act, 1867,"
which Bill was reserved for the signification of
the Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid
before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased
to withhold his assent from the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th November, 1867.
IT is hereby notified for general information that
His Honor the Superintendent of the Province
of Canterbury has appointed

Mr. FRANK MATHIAS,

to be Inspector of Diseased Cattle for the District of
Westland, the appointment to take effect on and
from the 12th instant.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 26th October, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN EVANS BROWN,

of Swaunanoa by Eyreton, in the Province of
Canterbury, Esquire, to be a Justice of the Peace
for the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 26th October, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

GEORGE BRODIE,

of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Esquire, to be
Accountant in Bankruptcy under "The Bankruptcy
Act, 1867."

E. W. STAFFORD.

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, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st November, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of the undermentioned
corps, viz. :-

The No. 1 Company Wellington Rifle Volun-
teers. Date of acceptance, 21st October,
1867.
The Wellington Veteran Volunteers. Date of
acceptance, 29th October, 1867.

E. W. STAFFORD,
(in the absence of Colonel Haultain.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th November, 1867.
THE following Bill passed by the Provincial
Council of the Province of Nelson, intituled-

"The Patent Slip or Dry Dock Act, Session
XVI., No. 5,"
which Bill was reserved for the signification of
the Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid
before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased
to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.