THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 107

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1868.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent, dated this day, under
"The Patents Act, 1860," in favour of ROBERT
HAWORTH and THOMAS HAWORTH, of Dunedin, in the
Province of Otago, for an Invention of Galvanized
Iron Piping, termed " Fluming," for mining purposes.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th February, 1868.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
SYDNEY WILSON, Esq.,
to be Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages, and of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of
Waitahuna.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th February, 1868.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the following appointment under "The
Provincial Audit Act, 1866,"
RICHARD CHILMAN, Esq.,
to be Auditor for the Province of Tararaki, from the
first day of April, 1868.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th February, 1868.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters of Registration, of this day's date,
under "The Patent Act, 1860," in favour of
FRANCIS BOWYER MILLER,
of the City of Sydney, in the Colony of New South
Wales, Assayer (who has previously obtained Letters
of Registration in the Colony of New South Wales,
dated the seventh day of November, 1867,) for an
Invention of "an improved method of toughening
brittle Gold Bullion, of refining alloyed Gold, and of
separating therefrom any silver they may contain."
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1868.
T HE following Bills, passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Taranaki, intituled
"The Supplementary Appropriation Ordinance,
No. 1, 1867-8;" and
"Town Buildings Roofing Ordinance, 1867;"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has not been advised to exercise his power of dis-
allowance in respect of those Bills.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 26th February, 1868.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
MAXWELL LEPPER, Esq.,
of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony of New Zealand.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 27th February, 1868.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

REGINALD NEWTON BIGGS, Esq., J.P.,
to be Resident Magistrate, under "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867," for the District of Waiapu.
This appointment to date from the 1st April, 1868.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1868.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WALTER HARRY ALZDORF, Esq.,
JAMES MITCHEL, Esq.,
CHARLES REED, Esq.,
JAMES THOMPSON, Esq.,
to be Surveyors under "The Native Lands Act,
1865."
J. C. RICHMOND.

General Post Offiec,
Wellington, 25th February, 1868.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
The COUNTY SECRETARY for Westland, and
The CHAIRMAN of the Westland County
Council,
to frank, free from prepayment, letters and packets
sent by them on the Public Service.
J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
(in the absence of Mr. Hall).

Office of the Commissioner of Customs.
IN exercise of the powers in me for this purpose
vested by "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,"
I, the Commissioner of Customs, do hereby approve
and appoint the undermentioned warehouse, viz. :-
A galvanized iron building situated in Hunter
Street, at the Port of Wellington, and known as
TURNBULL, REEVES AND Co.'S BOND,
to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under
Bond.
Given under my hand at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
J. C. RICHMOND.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1868.
P URSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information:-
Congregational Independents.
The Reverend STEPHEN SMITH.
I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 30th of January, and No. 9,
of the 13th February, in the present year.
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

NOTICE.—Mr. Robert Waterston has this day
retired from the firm of "Brown, Campbell
and Co."
Auckland, 31st December, 1867.