THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 367

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM JOHN WARBURTON HAMILTON, Esq.,
to be Returning and Registration Officer for the
Electoral Districts of Kaiapoi, Avon, City of Christ-
church, and Heathcote, for the election of Members
of the House of Representatives.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th July, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint, under the eighty-first section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,"
WILLIAM HORTON REVELL, Esq.,
to be the person by and before whom the first election
of Councillors for the Borough of Greymouth shall
be conducted.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN DOUGLAS HILL, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths
and Marriages, for the District of Alexandra, as the
same is defined in proclamation of 30th January,
1865, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No.
3, of 31st January, 1865, vice William St. Clair
Tisdall, Esq., resigned.
This appointment to take effect on and from the
tenth day of August, 1868.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN ROBERT MONSON, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Port Chalmers, as
the same is defined in proclamation of 30th day of
November, 1865, and published in New Zealand
Gazette, No. 48, of 11th day of December, 1865, vice
John Joyce, Esq., resigned.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 17th July, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
SETH SAM, Esq.,
of his appointment as a Coroner for the Colony.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentleman to be a Medical
Assessor in the Province of Otago, under the provi-
sions of "The Medical Practitioners Act, 1867," in
the room of Edward Hulme, Esq., M.D., resigned,
viz.:-
THOMAS MORLAND HOCKEN, Esq., M.R.C.S.,E.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th July, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the undermentioned
persons, viz. :-

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 17th July, 1868.
IT is hereby notified that the name of
WILLIAM GILBERT REES, Esq.,
of Oamaru, was accidentally omitted from the copy
of the Commission of the Peace published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the 6th instant, No. 38.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 13th July, 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:-

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend CHARLES WILLIAM RIGG.

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; No. 19, of the 20th April; No. 22, of the 7th
of May; No. 23, of the 14th of May; No. 25, of the
22nd of May; No. 27, of the 2nd of June, and No.
35, of the 29th of June, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
thirteenth day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

I the undersigned, ROBERT MURRAY MCTURK,
hereby make application to register "The
Prince Alfred Gold Mining Company, Registered," under
the provisions of "The Mining Companies Limited
Liability Act, 1865," and I do solemnly and sincerely
declare that the following statement is, to the best of
my belief and knowledge, true in every particular,
namely :-

1. The name and style of the Company is "The
   Prince Alfred Gold Mining Company, Registered."
2. The place of operations is at the Karaka Creek,
   Shortland.
3. The nominal capital of the Company is One
   thousand two hundred and fifty pounds, in five
   hundred shares of two pounds ten shillings each.
4. The amount already paid up is Nine hundred
   pounds.
5. The name of the Manager is Robert Murray
   McTurk.
6. The office of the Company is at Shortland.
7. The names and several residences of the share-
   holders and the number of shares held by each at
   this date are as follows:-