THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 337

JOHN CRERAR,
ROBERT ECCLESFIELD,
WILLIAM EVANS,
GEORGE FINLAY,
GERARD GEORGE FITZGERALD,
MALCOLM FRASER,
DUNCAN MACFARLANE,
GEORGE A. PATERSON,
WALTER SCOTT REID,
JAMES ROCHFORT,
ARCHIBALD SCOTT.

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 ninth day of
July, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th July, 1869.

THE following Ordinances, passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Otago, intituled—

"The University of Otago Ordinance, 1869;"
"The Southern Trunk Railway Guaranteed
Interest Amendment Ordinance, 1869;"
"The Southern Trunk Railway Guaranteed
Interest Amendment Ordinance (No. 2),
1869;"
"The Licensed Auctioneers Ordinance, 1862,
Amendment Ordinance, 1869;"
"The Cattle Ordinance, 1864, Amendment
Ordinance, 1869;"
"The Grammar Schools Ordinance, 1869;" and
"The Appropriation Ordinance, 1869-70;"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has not been advised to exercise his power of dis-
allowance in respect of them.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th July, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY ARROW, Esq.,

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages, and of Births,
Deaths and Marriages, for the District of Waipu-
kurau, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 5th
day of May, 1863, and published in New Zealand
Gazette, No. 17, of 12th day of May, 1863.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th July, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters of Registration in favour of

THOMAS SUTCLIFFE MORT,
of Green Oaks, near Sydney, in the Colony of New
South Wales, Esquire, on Letters Patent granted in
the Colony of Victoria to Jean Baptiste Chatain,
of Sydney aforesaid, Gentleman, for an Invention
intituled " An improved method of preserving the
Skins of Animals, and of removing the wool or hair
from the same."

Dated 8th July, 1869.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th July, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent under "The Patents Act,
1860," in favour of

CHARLES JAMES POWNALL,
of Wellington, Gentleman, for an Invention for
"Preparing and treating Flax and similar vegetable
fibres."

Dated 8th July, 1869.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 13th July, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM COBDEN

to be Clerk to the Bench at Clutha, under "The
Resident Magistrates Act, 1867."

W. GISBORNE.

Treasury,
Wellington, 9th July, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignations by the under-mentioned
gentlemen of their appointments, respectively, as
Receivers of Gold Revenue for the Districts herein-
after specified:—

CHARLES BROAD, Charleston and Brighton;
J. GILES, Westport;
J. H. LOWE, Cobden.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Treasury,
Wellington, 9th July, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be
Receivers of Gold Revenue for the Districts herein-
after specified opposite their names respectively,
in the room of the former Receivers, who have
resigned, namely:—

CHARLES H. W. BOWEN, Charleston and Brighton;
CALEB WHITEFOORD, Westport;
SKELTON GEORGE ROWLEY, Cobden.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Native Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1869.

IT is hereby notified that the License as Interpreter
under "The Native Lands Act, 1865," and "The
Native Lands Act, 1867," issued to

ALFRED EDMONDS

on the eighth day of April, 1868, has been revoked.

DONALD MCLEAN.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT

WHEREAS by "The Public Debts Sinking Funds
Act, 1868," it is provided that if and when-
ever it shall be made to appear to the Commissioners
of the Public Debts Sinking Funds, that any of the
debentures issued under any of the Acts specified in
the first or second Schedules thereto have been
converted or exchanged for debentures issued under
"The Consolidated Loan Act, 1867," the Com-
missioners shall, from time to time, determine what
amount of the Sinking Fund held by them and created
for the payment of such first-mentioned debentures