THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 423
Thomas Hill, Collector of Customs, Dunedin.
Andrew Jamieson Elles, Collector of Customs,
Invercargill.
James Naughton, Commissioner of the Police,
Auckland.
John Dunn, Chief Officer of Police, Taranaki.
Frederick Atcheson, Inspector of the Police,
Wellington.
Thomas Scully, Inspector of the Police, Hawke's
Bay.
Robert Shallcrass, Inspector of the Police, Nelson.
John Emerson, Inspector of the Police, Marl-
borough.
Thomas Broham, Inspector of the Police, West-
land.
Robert Clarke Shearman, Commissioner of the
Police, Canterbury.
Peter Pender, Inspector of the Police, Christ-
church.
Gilbert Francis Percy, Sub-Inspector of the Police,
Otago.
Thomas King Weldon, Inspector of the Police,
Southland.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1869.

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867," notice is hereby given, that a transcript
of the Rules of
"The Wellington Co-operative Society, Limited,"
duly certified, has been lodged with the Registrar of
Friendly Societies, registered and recorded in his
Office under the provisions of "The Friendly Societies
Act, 1867."

Dated the 19th day of August, 1869.

ALEX. C. P. MACDONALD
(for the Registrar).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1869.

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

EDWARD METCALF SMITH,
of New Plymouth, Taranaki, Armourer and Artificer
in Metals, for an Invention or Process for producing
Iron or Steel from New Zealand Iron or Steel Sand
of the character of that on the Coast of Taranaki, or
of a similar character, called "The Metcalf Smith
Company's Process."

Dated 12th August, 1869.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1869.

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

JOHN BOOTH,
of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Gentleman, for
a new Invention or Improvement, "being a Machine
for the preparation of the fibre of the Phormium
tenax, and other fibrous Plants indigenous to New
Zealand."

Dated 19th August, 1869.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1869.

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

RICHARD GOULDING,
of Melbourne, gentleman, of Letters Patent granted
to him in Victoria, dated the 12th day of November,
1863, for an Invention for "Improvements in Extract-
ing Gold and Silver and other Metals from their Ores
and Matrices."

Dated 12th August, 1869.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 18th August, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

GEORGE BOUTFLOWER DAVY, Esq.,
of Shortland, Auckland, and

COOKE REYNELL, Esq.,
of Rangiora, Canterbury, to be Justices of the
Peace for the Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 18th August, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint GEORGE BOUTFLOWER DAVY, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Resident Magistrate for the District of
Hauraki, under "The Resident Magistrates Act,
1867."

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 16th August, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

EDWARD JERNINGHAM WAKEFIELD, Esq.,
of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 16th August, 1869.

NOTICE. - Whereas a house in Greymouth known
as the "Melbourne Hotel," was destroyed by
fire on the eleventh day of June last: And whereas
an attempt was made to set on fire a shop in Grey-
mouth belonging to Sampson and Cook, on the twelfth
day of July last, and it is supposed that the said fires
were caused wilfully by an incendiary or incendiaries,
and that the said attempt to set the said shop on fire
was wilful and felonious:

It is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor will grant a free pardon to any person
implicated in the said supposed crime, not being the
sole or principal offender, who shall give such infor-
mation as will lead to the apprehension and conviction
of the perpetrators, or of any one or more of them.

W. GISBORNE.

Office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Christchurch, 9th August, 1869.

I, EDWARD DENHAM, Registrar of Joint
Stock Companies for the Province of Canterbury,
do hereby notify that I have registered a Memorandum
of Association, with Articles of Association annexed,
establishing a Company, with limited liability of the
shareholders therein, intituled

"The Colombo Mining Investment Company,
Limited."

The objects for which the Company is established
are the investment of moneys in the purchase of