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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

pursuance and exercise of the said power and
authority in me vested in this behalf, do hereby
appoint

SAMUEL BOYLE, Esq.,

the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough of
Hokitika, to be a Justice of the Peace under the
one hundred and thirty-third section of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867."

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; and issued at Wel-
lington, this sixteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.

WILLIAM Fox.

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

The Hon. WILLIAM GISBORNE

to be a Commissioner under "The Government
Annuities Act, 1869."

WILLIAM Fox.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1869.

IN consequence of further information which the
Government have received from His Honor the
Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, and the
Commissioner of Crown Lands at Nelson, on the
subject of the sale of certain sections of land,
supposed to be auriferous, at Wangapeka, in that
Province, the Government do not consider it, under
all the circumstances, conducive to the public in-
terests to enforce the right of the Crown to the Gold
in such lands, and have accordingly cancelled the
letter written to the Superintendent of Nelson on
the 1st instant in respect of the same.

Although this enforcement has been waived in
respect of those particular lands, the Government
reserve their right, in the interests of the public, to
that enforcement in respect of other sales of aurifer-
ous land; and Commissioners of Crown Lands and
Waste Lands Boards are cautioned against allowing
such sales to be made, and the public interests
thereby to be infringed.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1869.

IT is hereby notified, that Writs issued for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council
of the Province of Marlborough have been returned
with Certificates to the effect that,

For the District of Pelorus,
William Douslin, of Havelock, freeholder, and
George Edward Levien, of Havelock, free-
holder;

For the District of Upper Wairau,
Cyrus Goulter, of Hawkesbury, freeholder, and
Alexander Binning Monro, of Valley Field,
freeholder;

For the District of Clarence,
Henry Anthony Ingles, of Kincaid, Kaikoura,
freeholder, and Walter Gibson, of Waipapa,
Clarence, leaseholder;

For the District of Awatere,
Phillip Roderick McRae, of Blarich, Awatere,
freeholder, and Richard Beaumont, of Star-
borough, Awatere, leaseholder and householder;

For the District of Tua Marina,
William Douglas Hall Baillie, of Picton Road,
freeholder, and George Dodson, of Wairau
West, freeholder;

For the District of Town of Picton,
Edward Tennyson Conolly, of Picton, householder
and freeholder, Arthur Penrose Seymour, of
Picton, freeholder, and John Octavius Western,
of Picton, freeholder;

For the District of Queen Charlotte's Sound,
Alexander Scott Duncan, of the Grove, house-
holder;

For the District of Wairau Valley,
Thomas Carter, of Wairau Valley, freeholder, and
Joseph Ward, of Brookby House, Omaka,
householder and freeholder;

For the District of Town of Blenheim,
John Tucker Robinson, of Blenheim, freeholder,
and Henry Dodson, of Blenheim, freeholder;

For the District of Lower Wairau,
William Henry Eyes, of Lower Wairau, free-
holder, and James Sinclair, of Blenheim, house-
holder,

have been duly elected.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM THOMPSON, Esq.,

to be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of
Clarence, in the Province of Marlborough, for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council, vice
Thomas Porritt, Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

CHARLES HUGH WEBB BOWEN, Esq.,

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages, and of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Charleston,
as the same is defined in Proclamation of 31st August,
1868, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 51,
of the same date.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

THOMAS HODGSON, Esq.,

to be Deputy Returning Officer for the Electoral
District of Awatere, in the Province of Marlborough,
for the election of Members of the Provincial Council,
vice Thomas Porrit, Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the under-mentioned
persons, viz. :-