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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

For the District of Pensioners' Settlements,
Frederick Morris Preston Brookfield, freeholder;
John George Freer, leaseholder; John Kerr,
freeholder:

For the District of Parnell,
Hugh Hart Lusk, leaseholder; Samuel John
Stratford, freeholder:

For the District of Newton,
Samuel Hague Smith, freeholder; James McCosh
Clark, householder:

For the District of the Thames,
Daniel Grove, householder; James Mackay,
junior, householder:

For the District of Northern Division,
John Sheehan, freeholder; Allen Kerr Taylor,
freeholder; Robert Coates Dyer, freeholder;
John Robinson Nicholson, freeholder; John
Mitchell Murray, freeholder:

For the District of Marsden,
Murdoch McLeod, freeholder; John Shepherd,
freeholder; Robert Reyburn, freeholder;

For the District of Mongonui,
Thomas Ball, freeholder:

For the District of Bay of Islands,
John McLeod, householder; Hugh Carleton,
freeholder and leaseholder:

For the District of Franklin,
William Thorne Buckland, freeholder; George
Alexander Douglas, freeholder; William Hay,
freeholder; Every McLean, freeholder;

For the District of Raglan,
John Gordon, freeholder; Ebenezer Hamlin,
freeholder; Joseph May, freeholder :
have been duly elected.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
delegate, under "The Waste Lands Act, 1858,"
to the Superintendents of the Provinces of Auck-
land, Taranaki, Nelson, and Southland, within those
Provinces respectively, the powers vested in the
Governor by section 14 of the said Act, subject to be
rescinded as in the said Act provided.
W. GISBORNE

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 7th January, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
DANIEL ROLFE, Esq., J.P.,
Mayor of Port Chalmers, to be a Resident Magistrate,
under "The Otago Municipal Corporations Em-
powering Act, 1865," and under "The Resident
Magistrate's Act, 1867," for the District of Dunedin.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
CHRISTOPHER JAMES WHITNEY GRIFFITHS, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the District of Awatere,
for the Election of Members of the Provincial
Council of the Province of Marlborough.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 13th February, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
EDWARD WALTER PUCKEY, Esq.,
of Auckland, to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 13th February, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation, by
PHILIP BURBRIDGE BOULT, Esq.,
of Arrowtown, of his appointment as a Justice of the
Peace for the Colony.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 12th January, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HENRY LLOYD, Esq.,
of Wade, Auckland, to be a Coroner for the Colony.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following persons to be Registrars
of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
for the Districts set opposite their names, as defined
in Proclamation of this day's date, to come into
effect on the 1st of March next, and published in
this Gazette,
ALEXANDER MURRAY, Esq., Lower Mataura;
JAMES ROY, Esq., Popotuna;
W. GISBORNE.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 12th January, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
The SECRETARY of the Timaru and Gladstone
Board of Works,
to frank, free from prepayment of postage, letters or
packets sent by him on the Public Service.
W. GISBORNE
(for the Postmaster-General.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1870.
IT is hereby notified that the Governor has dele-
gated to their Honors the Superintendents of
the Provinces of Auckland and Nelson, within those
Provinces respectively, His Excellency's powers
under "The Prisoners' Removal Act, 1865."
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 13th January, 1870.
PRIZE Firing Regulations, 1870. It is notified
for general information that the time fixed in
sub-section 2, of section 4, for sending in names of
Company Representatives to Officers Commanding
Districts, has been extended to the 28th February
next.
W. GISBORNE
(in the absence of Mr. McLean).