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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

of the Bay of Islands, as the same is defined in
a proclamation of the eighteenth instant, and published
in this Gazette.
This appointment to take effect on the first day
of July, 1868.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.
IT is hereby notified that Mr. Justice Moore has
reported that he has appointed

WILLIAM HALSE, Esq.,
to be Revising Officer for the Electoral Districts of
Grey and Bell, town of New Plymouth, and Omata.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HERBERT WILLIAM BRABANT,
of Raglan, in the Province of Auckland, to be a
person to lay information or prefer indictments under
"The Arms Act, 1860," vice Charles William Jones,
resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

GEORGE COOK, Esq.,
to be Revising Barrister for the Province of Otago,
under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1867."

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

ALFRED WILLIAM SMITH, Esq.,
from the nineteenth instant, of his appointment as
Sheriff of Otago.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ISAAC NEWTON WATT, Esq.,
to be Sheriff of Otago, from the nineteenth instant.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the undermentioned officers, viz. :—

Lieutenant G. L. Mellish, Marlborough Rangers
Volunteers.
Assistant Surgeon H. J. Wilson, Auckland
Troop Royal Cavalry Volunteers.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Treasury,
Wellington, 31st March, 1868.
ALL persons having money to receive from the
Government, either as salary or for supplies,
are cautioned not to sign receipts without the money
having been actually paid. Persons residing at a
distance from a Paymaster can obtain forms which
will empower an agent to receive money on their
behalf, so as to obviate the necessity for personal
application to the Paymaster. Paymasters are also
specially charged not to allow signed vouchers to be
forwarded to them previous to the money having
been paid.

J. RICHARDSON.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1868.
PURSUANT 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 names of Officiating Ministers,
within the meaning of the said Act, are published for
general information :—

United Church of England and Ireland.
The Reverend MATTHEW HENRY MARTIN.
Wesleyan Methodists.
The Reverend DAVID MCNICOLL.
HENRY BULL.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAMES of Officiating
Ministers within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," have been sent into me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 30th of January; No. 9, of the
13th of February; No. 13, of the 3rd March; No.
14, of the 9th of March, and No. 18, of the 3rd of
April, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
seventh day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

CUSTOMS NOTICE.—The undermentioned per-
sons have been duly licensed to act as Custom
House Agents at the Port of Hokitika, for the year
ending 31st March, 1869, viz. :—
CHARLES LOUISSON,
WILLIAM DUNBAR BANKS,
MARK RYRIE,
WILLIAM WILKINSON,
ARCHIBALD SCOTT,
GEORGE WILLIAM SHEPPARD.

EDWARD PATTEN,
Deputy Commissioner.

Custom House, Hokitika,
1st April, 1868.

WAITARA RIVER, PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.—The following re-
marks on sailing directions for the Waitara
River, in the Province of Taranaki, are published for
general information.

JAMES M. BALFOUR,
Colonial Marine Engineer.

Remarks on the Entrance to the Waitara River,
Province of Taranaki, and Directions for
Vessels approaching it.