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No. 66. "The Botanic Garden Act, 1869;"
No. 67. "The Public Libraries Act, 1869;"
No. 68. "The Whiteley Pension Act, 1869;"
No. 69. "The Walsh and Others Pension Act,
1869;"
No. 70. "The Stamp Duties Act Amendment
Act, 1869;"
No. 71. "The Public Revenues Act, 1869;"
No. 72. "The Public Debts Sinking Funds Act,
Amendment Act, 1869;"
No. 73. "The Consolidated Loan Application
Act, 1869;"
No. 74. "The Treasury Bills Regulations Act
Amendment Act, 1869;"
No. 75. "The Treasury Bills Act, 1869 (No.
2);"
No. 76. "Appropriation Act, 1869:"
having been laid before the Queen, in conformity
with the provisions of "The Constitution Act," His
Excellency the Governor has been informed by the
Secretary of State that Her Majesty will not be
advised to exercise Her power of disallowance with
respect to these Acts.

W. GISBORNE.

fiscated Land Regulations, to frank and receive free
from prepayment of postage, Letters and Packets sent
from or to him, through the Post, on the public
Service.

W. GISBORNE
(for the Postmaster-General).

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 9th April, 1870.

IT is hereby notified, that His Excellency the
Governor, in pursuance of the powers vested in
him by "The Merchant Shipping Acts Adoption
Act, 1869," and the Imperial "Merchant Shipping
Act, 1854," has by Warrant under his hand, dated
the 31st day of March, 1870, directed that the
whole of the business of the Mercantile Marine
Office shall be conducted at the Custom House; and
by the same Warrant has committed the whole of
such business at the several Ports in New Zealand
to the respective persons who shall for the time
being be the Principal Officers present and acting
at the Custom Houses at the said several Ports
respectively.

W. GISBORNE
(in the absence of the Commissioner
of Customs).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ROBERT PHARAZYN, Esq.,
to be a Commissioner for the purpose of carrying
out the Regulations for the Sale and Disposal of
Confiscated Lands, made by Order in Council bearing
date the 13th day of April, 1870.

W. GISBORNE.

Government Annuities Office,
Wellington, 1st March, 1870.

NOTICE is hereby given, that Government
Insurance and Annuities Offices, under "The
Government Annuities Act, 1869," have been opened
at the Chief Post Offices at Auckland, New Plymouth,
Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Blenheim, Christchurch,
Dunedin, and Invercargill, and at the Post Offices at
Hokitika, Greymouth, Westport, and Charleston.

All persons wishing to obtain Annuities, immediate
or deferred, Life Insurances, or other advantages
under the Act, will receive every information and
the necessary forms on application at either of the
above-named offices.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1870.

IT is hereby notified, that the reward of five pounds
offered by the Colonial Government (in addition
to the Military reward) for the apprehension of
deserters from Her Majesty's Military Forces, will
cease to be paid in future. The notice offering this
reward, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the
seventeenth December, 1869, is withdrawn.

W. GISBORNE.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 16th April, 1870.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an Officiating Minister,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information:---

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend J. B. COLOMB.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 29th of January; No 7, of
the 5th of February; and No. 13, of the 12th of
March, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1870.

WITH reference to the notice published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-ninth
January, 1870, offering a reward of five pounds, to
be paid by the Colonial Government, for the appre-
hension of deserters from Her Majesty's Navy, it is
hereby notified that the above reward will be paid
only in the case of deserters leaving Her Majesty's
ships on the New Zealand Station.

W. GISBORNE.

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867," notice is hereby given, that transcripts of
the Bye-laws of
"The Court Robin Hood, No. 3991, No. 3

Native Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
license
JOSEPH PATRICK, Esq.,
of Shortland, to survey lands under "The Native
Lands Act, 1865."

W. GISBORNE
(for the Native Minister).

General Post Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
ROBERT PHARAZYN, Esq.,
the Commissioner of Crown Lands under the Con-