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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ALFRED WILLIAM SMITH, Esq.,
to be Sheriff of Otago, from the 1st proximo, vice
A. R. C. Strode, Esq., resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th December, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the undermentioned persons to be
Clerks to the Bench under "The Resident Magis-
trates' Act, 1867," at the places set opposite their
names.

E. W. STAFFORD.

William Francis Lodge, Auckland.
Charles Durbridge, Onehunga.
John Charles Irvine, Howick.
Frederick William Ruck, Papakura, Drury, and
Pokeno.
Philip Henry King, Waiuku.
Charles Marshall, Port Waikato.
David Anderson Brodie, Wangarei.
James Hamlyn Greenway, Russell.
Hopkins Clarke, Waimate and Hokianga.
James John Piercy, Maketu.
Henry Giles, Kaipara.
Henry Grover, Mongonui.
Frederick Augustus Blaydes, Coromandel.
Andrew Barton, Ngaruawahia.
Herbert William Brabant, Raglan.
Richard John Gill, Tauranga.
Timotheus Spencer, Waiapu.
Henry Eyre Kenny, New Plymouth.
James Grindell, Napier.
George Preece, Wairoa.
Ebenezer Baker, Wellington.
John Anthony Knocks, Otaki.
Richard Watson Woon, Wanganui.
Joseph John Freeth, Wairarapa.
John Sharp, Nelson.
Francis Harris, Westport.
John William Lynch, Brighton.
Charles Hugh Webb Bowen, Charleston.
John Barleyman, Blenheim.
Duncan Guy, Picton and Havelock.
Thomas Brown Bain, Christchurch.
James Townsend, Lyttelton.
Gecrge Freeman Hewlings, Kaiapoi.
William Anthony Benn, Rangiora and Leithfield.
Cyprian Wynward Bridge, Akaroa.
John Knight, Waimate.
Frederic de Carteret Malet, Hokitika.
Harry Kenrick, Greymouth.
James Philip Simpson, Ross.
Charles James Halliday, Okarito.
Thomas Calcutt, Dunedin.
Thomas Hinchliff, Port Chalmers.
Peter Farrell, Tokomairiro and Woolshed.
Alfred G. Gill, Hawkesbury and Palmerston.
Joseph Barnes Borton, Lawrence, Waitahuna and
Waipori.
Edgar Hall Carew, Naseby, McRaes, and Hamilton's
Henry J. Abel, Blacks.
Thomas Stanistreet Harvey, St. Bathan's.
Arthur David Harvey, Clyde.
Richard Edward Field, Alexandra.
William Darling, Cromwell.
John Scott Worthington, Queenstown.

Owen Machin, Upper Shotover.
Thomas George Dugard, Arrow.
James Cosgrove, Switzers and Nokomai.
John Hare, Invercargill.
Alexander Shand, Chathams.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 27th December, 1867.

THE following Certificate and Declaration are
published in conformity with the provisions of
"The Execution of Criminals Act, 1858."

E. W. STAFFORD.

CERTIFICATE.

I, C. E. COTTERELL, jun., the Medical Officer in
attendance at the execution of Robert Wilson, at the
Gaol of Nelson, do hereby certify and declare that I
have this day witnessed the execution of the said
Robert Wilson at the said gaol; and I do further
certify and declare that the said Robert Wilson was,
in pursuance of the sentence of the Supreme Court,
hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Given under my hand this twentieth day of
December, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven, at the Gaol of Nelson.

C. E. COTTERELL, jun.
Surgeon.

DECLARATION.

We do hereby testify and declare that we have this
day been present when the extreme penalty of the
law was carried into execution on the body of Robert
Wilson, convicted at the Criminal Session of the
Supreme Court held at Nelson, on the 16th day of
November last past, and sentenced to death; and
that the said Robert Wilson was, in pursuance of
the said sentence, hanged by the neck until his body
was dead.

Dated this twentieth day of December, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven, at the Gaol of Nelson.

B. WALMSLEY, Sheriff.
HENRY CLOUSTON, Gaoler.
R. SHALLCRASS, Inspector of Police.
GEORGE NAYLOR, Turnkey.
EDWIN EDWARDS, Sergt.-major of Police
JOHN BLACKETT, Visiting Justice.
WM. NATION.
D. BURNS.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, pursuant to the
terms of a Report of a Committee of the House
of Representatives, dated the 10th day of August,
1866, upon the petition of Edward Broughton, been
pleased to appoint

JAMES BOOTH, of Patea, Resident Magistrate,
and
EDWARD BROUGHTON, of Wanganui, Merchant's
Clerk,
to be Trustees for the purposes mentioned in the
said report.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of the
Wellington Volunteer Fire Brigade. Date of
acceptance, 4th December, 1867.

T. M. HAULTAIN.