THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 489

John Beck,
J. Harding,
D. McIntyre,
F. C. Kreeft,
J. Compton,
J. Warmoll,
E. Blaker,
J. Kershaw,
William Taylor,
Isaac Plimmer,
John McIntosh,
W. W. Johnson,
William Fife,
William Anderson,
George Denton,
D. Anderson,
James Barber,
Hayward A. Owen,
Edward Bull,
John Martin,
Francis Sidey,
F. Webbe,
Denison Cochran,
B. Beddows,
J. Nancarrow,
William Allen,
William Boyd,
Hunter Shaw,
William Wylie,
James M. Lloyd,
Benjamin Levy,
Edward Greaves Smith,
H. Read,
J. A. Cleland,
W. Moxham,
D. Anderson, junr.,
W. Freeman,
Peter Laing,
James Hughes,
Thomas Whitehouse,
R. Port,
Lorenz Riesterer,
George Waters,
J. H. Wallace,
W. Andrews,
C. E. Zohrab,
John Gell,
James M. Balfour,
John Rigg,
Nicholas Marchant,
C. J. Pharazyn.

We, John Rigg, Clerk, and James Ames, assistant
Clerk, of the Board of Works, Wellington, do
solemnly and sincerely declare that the signatures
affixed to the above Petition are the genuine signa-
tures of the persons whose they purport to be, and
that such persons are Ratepayers of the City of
Wellington.

J. RIGG, Clerk.
J. AMES.

Superintendent's Office,
Wellington, 14th October, 1868.

SIR,—I do myself the honor to inform you, in reply to
your letter of the 11th September, that I do not
dissent to the petition therein enclosed, praying the
Governor to constitute the City of Wellington a
Borough, under "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1867."

I have, &c.,
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

The Hon. E. W. Stafford.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HENRY ALDBOROUGH STRATFORD, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Blackstone, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of thirtieth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five,
and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 48, of
11th December, 1865.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent under "The Patents Act,
1860," in favour of
JOHN MASON,
of Auckland, in the Province of Auckland, for an
invention or improvement of a machine in the
nature of a mill, to be worked by hand, water, or
steam power, for crushing or grinding auriferous
quartz or other gold-bearing stone, and preparing
such quartz or other stone for the process of amalga-
mation.

Dated 14th October, 1868.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th October, 1868.

ENQUIRIES having been made respecting the
under-mentioned person, any one who can furnish
any information respecting him is requested to com-
municate the result to this Office.

Name—Henry Hunt, or Houd.
Usual residence before coming to this Colony—
Amsterdam, Holland.
When last heard of, and at what place—In 1866,
at Auckland or Dunedin.

W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1868.

TENDERS will be received at this Office until the
thirtieth of November, 1868, from persons
willing to supply the New Zealand Government with
Stationery, to be delivered free of expense in this
Colony, at such Port as the Government may indicate,
for the Twelve Months commencing on the first June,
1869.

1. The value of all necessary packages, whether
   bulk be broken or not, must be included in the prices
   demanded, and the net weight or quantity only will
   be paid for.
2. A bond for the sum of £1,000, the Contractor in
   the sum of £500 and two approved sureties £500
   each, for the due performance of the contract, will be
   required to be entered into within a month of the
   acceptance of the contract.
3. The Tenderers will be required to forward
   samples of the articles marked with an asterisk.
4. The supplies are to be according to sample and
   of the particular manufacture indicated in the
   Schedule.
5. In the case of different makers' goods, the Con-
   tractors will be required to supply the kind ordered.
6. Orders must receive prompt execution.
7. The Contractor will be required to furnish his
   account in the prescribed form simultaneously with
   delivery of the full quantity of goods ordered, the
   account being rendered with the order to which it
   relates.
8. The acceptance of the supplies will be subject
   to the approval of the officers in the various Provinces