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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 19th November, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ALAN BAILLIE, Esq.,
of Shortland, in the Province of Auckland, to be a
Coroner for the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 16th November, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY JOHN PERHAM, Esq.,
to be Deputy Judge of the District Court of
Wanganui.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 21st November, 1867.

IT is hereby notified for public information that
George Brodie, Esq., having been appointed
Accountant in Bankruptcy, all Returns which by law
are to be made to the Accountant, should be
addressed to Mr. Brodie, at his office in Dunedin.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th November, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
license

GEORGE J. WINTER, Esq.,
to be a Surveyor under "The Native Lands Act,
1865."

E. W. STAFFORD.

APPEALS under "The Appeals from Justices Act,
1867." - General rule under "The Appeals
from Justices Act, 1867," section four, for the
Wellington District.

Supreme Court of New Zealand: Wellington
District.

By virtue of the powers conferred upon the Judges
of the Supreme Court by "The Appeals from
Justices Act, 1867," section four,

I do order that until further order all cases stated
under the said section of the said Act shall be
transmitted by the appellant under the provisions of
the said Act:

1. When the Justice or Justices against whose
   adjudication the appeal is made were at the making
   thereof, sitting within the Province of Wellington,
   to the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wellington.

2. When the Justice or Justices against whose
   adjudication the appeal is made were at the making
   thereof, sitting within the Province of Hawke's Bay,
   to the Deputy-Registrar of the Supreme Court at
   Napier.

ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON,
(the Judge of the Supreme Court to whom
the Wellington Judicial District has
been assigned.)

Wellington, 14th November, 1867.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1867.

SCHEDULES of Lands for sale in districts confis-
cated under the New Zealand Settlements Acts,
will in future be open for inspection from time to
time, at the offices of the Commissioners of Crown
Lands in the various Provinces.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1867.

SCHEDULES of Confiscated Lands in the Province
of Auckland, at Tauranga, Waikato, &c., to be
sold at Auckland, on the 2nd of December next, may
be seen at the offices of the Commissioners of Crown
Lands in the various Provinces.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1867.

PLANS of the Township of RALEIGH, in the
Waitara District, Province of Taranaki, to be
sold on the 30th of November, 1867, may be seen
at the offices of the Crown Lands Commissioners of
the various Provinces.

Also, Schedules of the Sections, and particulars of
sale, published in the Gazette 30th September, 1867.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

NOTICE.-Attention is called to section fourteen
of "The Stamp Duties Act Amendment Act
1867," which enacts that-

"Where any deed or instrument liable by law to any
stamp duty shall be written on parchment or paper and
shall be signed or executed by any person before it
shall be duly stamped for denoting the payment of the
said duty there shall be due and paid to the Commis-
sioners the whole or the deficiency as the case may
be of the stamp duty payable upon or in respect of
such deed or instrument and there shall also be paid
over and above the said duty or deficiency a sum by
way of fine if such deed or instrument shall be pre-
sented to be stamped more than one month and less
than three months after execution at the rate of
twenty pounds per centum on the value of the stamps
to be affixed and if such deed or instrument shall be
presented to be stamped more than three months
after execution at the rate of one hundred pounds
per centum on the value of the stamps to be affixed
but in no case shall the last-mentioned fine be less
than the sum of five pounds."

Stamp Office, Wellington,
14th November, 1867.

C. T. BATKIN,
Secretary.

NOTICE.-At a meeting of the Otago Steamship
Company (Limited), held this day at the office
of the Company, in Princes Street, Dunedin, the
following special Resolution was passed:--"That the
Otago Steamship Company (Limited), be forthwith
wound up voluntarily."

E. B. CARGILL,
Secretary.

Dunedin, 18th November, 1867.