THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 401

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
WHEREAS by "The Otago Municipal Corpora-
tions Empowering Act, 1865," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint
the person elected to be Mayor of any city or incor-
porated town as therein mentioned, to be a Justice of
the Peace for the Colony, provided that in every such
case such appointment shall continue no longer than
the mayoralty of such person. And whereas Thomas
Birch, of Dowling Street, Dunedin, Esquire, has been
elected Mayor for the City of Dunedin: Now
therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in
exercise of the power and authority vested in me in
that behalf do hereby appoint the said
THOMAS BIRCH, Esq.,
to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New
Zealand.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this sixth day of
August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th August, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint the following gentlemen to be
Registrars of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages, for the districts set opposite their names
respectively, as the same are defined in proclamation
of sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, and published in this Gazette, viz.:---
JAMES PREECE, Esq., Coromandel;
JOHN LAMBERT TOLE, Esq., Shortland.
These appointments to take effect on and from the
first day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th August, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint the following gentlemen to be
Registrars of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages, for the districts set opposite their names
respectively, as the same are defined in proclamation
of sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, and published in this Gazette, viz.:-
CHARLES BROAD, Esq., Charleston;
JAMES ROGER DUTTON, Esq., Cobden;
WILLIAM SYDNEY MUNDAY, Esq., Buller.
These appointments to take effect on and from the
first day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1868.
THE following Bills passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Auckland, intituled-
"The Licensing Act 1863 Amendment Act,
1868;"
"The Appropriation Act, 1868, No. 2;"
"The Sick and Destitute Act, 1868;"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been advised not to exercise his powers of
disallowance in respect of those Bills.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th August, 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.

REPUBLISHED in pursuance of "The Diseased
Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865."

I, WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Superintendent of the Pro-
vince of Canterbury, in pursuance of the powers
delegated to me under "The Diseased Cattle Act
Amendment Act, 1865," do hereby appoint
Constable THOMAS MAHON MINCHIN,
to be an Inspector under the Diseased Cattle Acts.
This appointment to take effect from and after the
day following the date of publication in the New
Zealand Gazette.

Given under my hand this seventh day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
W. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

[Passed by Order in Council, 27th June, 1868.]
REGULATIONS for the sale of rural lands in the
Districts of Ngatiawa, Middle Taranaki, and
Ngatiruanui.

1. Unless otherwise especially ordered by the
   Governor in Council, all rural lands shall be offered
   in the first instance for sale by public auction, at
   such place and time as the Colonial Secretary may
   direct.
2. Notice of every such sale shall be published in
   the New Zealand Gazette not less than thirty days
   before the date thereof.
3. Auctions shall be conducted by the Commis-
   sioner of Crown Lands for Taranaki, or such other
   person and at such place as the Colonial Secretary
   may authorize in that behalf.
4. The bidding shall be for priority of choice, and
   every choice shall be put up at such rate per acre,
   not being less than ten shillings in the case of
   open land, or five shillings in the case of forest land,
   as the Colonial Secretary may direct.
5. No single order of choice shall entitle the pur-
   chaser to select more than five hundred nor less
   than one hundred acres, or to select in several allot-
   ments: Provided that where small pieces of land
   have been left intervening between previous
   selections, the Commissioner or other person con-
   ducting the auction may allow them to be taken
   under one order of choice: Provided also that several
   divided only by roads may be chosen
   under one order of choice.
6. Immediately upon any order of choice being
   knocked down, the purchaser shall describe the
   position and area of the allotment he chooses, and
   such allotment shall be at once drawn provisionally
   on the plan of the block.