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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th May, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of the undermentioned
Corps, viz.:

The No. 2 Company, Westland Rifle Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 26th March, 1868.
The No. 1 Company, Totara Rifle Volunteers. Date
of acceptance, 31st March, 1868.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the third section of an Act of the
General Assembly, intituled "The Gold Fields
Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor from time to time by proclamation to
constitute and appoint any portion of the Colony to
be a gold field under the provisions of the said Act,
and the limits of such gold field from time to time to
alter as occasion may require, and also, if he shall
see fit, to revoke the proclamation by which such
gold field shall be constituted. And whereas by the
one hundred and ninth section of the said Act it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council, under his hand and the public seal of the
Colony, from time to time to delegate to such person
as the Governor may deem fit all or any of the
powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in
Council by the said Act, except the powers conferred
by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty,
ninety-six, and one hundred and seven thereof,
subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as
he may think fit. And whereas by an instrument in
writing, dated the twentieth day of January last and
published in the New Zealand Gazette on the same
day, His Excellency the Governor did, under his
hand and the public seal of the Colony, delegate to
me, John Hall, one of Her Majesty's Executive
Council in New Zealand, all the powers vested in
the Governor under or by virtue of "The Gold
Fields Act, 1866," except the powers conferred by
sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-
six, and one hundred and seven, to have, hold, and
exercise within the County of Westland the said
powers thereby given to me, the said John Hall, so
long as I shall continue and remain a Member of the
said Executive Council. And whereas it is expedient
that all that portion of the Colony of New Zealand
which is contained within the County of Westland,
the limits whereof are defined in the Schedule to
an Act of the General Assembly, intituled "The
County of Westland Act, 1867," should be consti-
tuted one gold field under the name of "The
Westland Gold Field:"

Now therefore I, John Hall, one of Her Majesty's
Executive Council in New Zealand, in exercise and
pursuance of all powers and authorities vested in
and delegated to me in this behalf, do hereby
proclaim, constitute, and appoint all that portion of
New Zealand which is contained within the said
County of Westland to be a gold field under "The
Gold Fields Act, 1866," to be called and known as

"The WESTLAND GOLD FIELD:"

And, in further exercise and pursuance of such
powers aforesaid, I do revoke all proclamations
heretofore made whereby such portion of New
Zealand aforesaid or any part thereof may have been
constituted a gold field.

Given under my hand at Takapo, this twenty-
second day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

JOHN HALL.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th May, 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 name of an Officiating Minister,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information :-

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend ALEXANDER GREIG.

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; No. 9, of the
13th of February; No. 13, of the 3rd of March; No.
14, of the 9th of March; No. 18, of the 3rd of
April; and No. 19, of the 20th April, in the present
year.

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

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Wellington, May 1st, 1868.

I, JOHN ELISHA SMITH, Registrar of Joint
Stock Companies for the Province of Welling-
ton, do hereby notify that I have registered a Memo-
randum of Association, with Articles of Association
annexed, establishing a Company (with limited
liability of the shareholders therein) entitled
"The Wellington Water Works Company, Limited;"
the objects of which are the procuring a sufficient
supply of water for the City of Wellington.

And that, in pursuance of the provisions of "The
Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860," I have issued a
certificate of incorporation of the said Company,
bearing date this first day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.

JOHN E. SMITH,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.

CUSTOMS NOTICE.—The undermentioned per-
sons have been duly licensed to act as Custom
House Agents at the Port of Bluff Harbour, for the
period set opposite their respective names :

Thomas Brodrick, year ending 17th September, 1868.
Richard Onyon, " 21st February, 1869.
Lewis Longuet, " 13th April, 1869.
James Waddel, " "
Samuel Nichol, " "

C. F. O'TOOLE,
Deputy Commissioner.

Custom House, Bluff Harbour,
17th April, 1868.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.—Under and in pur-
suance of the powers vested in me as Com-
missioner appointed by His Excellency the Governor
to carry out the Regulations for the Sale of Lands
taken for Settlement under "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," in the Province of Auck-
land, I do hereby notify that the Town, Suburban,
and Special Rural Lands specified in the Schedule
hereunder written will be offered for sale by public
auction, in accordance with the said Regulations, at