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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

pursuance and exercise of the said power and autho-
rity, do hereby appoint

JOHN CAREY, M.R.C.S.,
EDWARD WADDINGTON, M.R.C.S.E., L.R.C.P.E.,
BERNARD CHARLES BEALE, M.R.C.S E., L.S.A.L.,
to constitute a Board of Medical Officers for the
purpose of carrying out the provisions of the said
recited Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this eighteenth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th March, 1869.

THE following Ordinance, passed by the Provincial
Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of
the Province of Southland for the signification of the
Governor's pleasure thereon, intituled

"The Appropriation Ordinance, No. 1, 1869,"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th March, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN HENRY LOWE, Esq.,

to be Returning Officer for the Grey District, for
the election of Members of the Provincial Council of
the Province of Nelson.

This appointment to take effect on and from the
first day of April next.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th March, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN HENRY LOWE, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Cobden, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of the 12th January,
1867, and published in the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 5, of 19th January, 1867.

This appointment to take effect on and from the
first day of April next.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th March, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint

JOHN HENRY LOWE, Esq.,

to be a Resident Magistrate for the Resident Magis-
trate's District of Nelson South-west Goldfields,
from and after the 1st April next.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th March, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Justices
of the Peace for the Colony:—

JOHN HENRY LOWE, of Nelson, Esq.;
GEORGE FORBES MACKAY, of Teviot, Otago, Esq.;
JOHN BEIGHTON, of Roxburgh, Otago, Esq;
CHARLES O'NEILL, of Shortland, Esq.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th March, 1869.

THE following Certificate and Declaration are pub-
lished in conformity with the provisions of
"The Execution of Criminals Act, 1858."

E. W. STAFFORD.

CERTIFICATE.

I, ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, the Medical Officer in
attendance at the execution of Whakamau, at the
Gaol of Wellington, do hereby certify and declare
that I have this day witnessed the execution of the
said Whakamau at the said gaol: And I do further
certify and declare, that the said Whakamau was, in
pursuance of the sentence of the Supreme Court,
hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Given under my hand this twenty-third day
of March, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine, at the Gaol of
Wellington.

ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, M.D.

DECLARATION.

WE do hereby testify and declare that we have this
day been present when the extreme penalty of the
law was carried into execution on the body of
Whakamau, convicted at the Criminal Session of
the Supreme Court, held at Wellington on the fifth
day of March instant, and sentenced to death; and
that the said Whakamau was, in pursuance of the
said sentence, hanged by the neck until his body
was dead.

Dated this twenty-third day of March, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine, at the Gaol of Wellington.

JAMES C. CRAWFORD, Sheriff.
MICAIAH READ, Gaoler.
JAMES DONALDSON, Turnkey.
HEMI PARAI. x
MOHI NGAPONGO. x
MITAI PENE TAUI.
JAMES OSGOOD.
F. GIFFARD.
R. B. HAYBITTLE.
HENRY ANDERSON.
M. MOSLEY.
JACOB MONTEITH.
FREDERICK JNO. AKERS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th March, 1869.

THE following section of "The Registration Act,
1858," is reprinted here for the information of
Coroners, Constables, and others:—

"XIII. In case any new-born child or any dead
body shall be found exposed, a Constable of the
district shall forthwith inform the Registrar [of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages] thereof, and of the
place where such child or dead body was found; and
where an inquest shall be held on any dead body,
the Coroner or Justice of the Peace holding the
same shall notify to the Registrar of the district the
verdict of jury, with all other particulars re-
quired to be registered concerning the death, and
such Registrar shall make the entry in his Register
Book accordingly, and the same shall be signed by
the Coroner or Justice of the Peace by whom the
information has been given."

E. W. STAFFORD.