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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

GEORGE REID, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Manuherikia, as
the same is defined in Proclamation of 30th day of
November, 1865, and published in New Zealand
Gazette, No. 48, of 11th day of December, 1865, in
the room of Richard Edward Field, Esq., transferred.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Registrars
of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
for the Districts set opposite their names respectively,
as the same are defined in Proclamation of this day's
date, and published in this Gazette, viz.:-

WILLIAM BERESFORD CHAMBERS CHRISTY, ESq.,
Ellesmere.

BURRELL PARKERSON, Jun., Esq., Christchurch.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, Esq.,

to be Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages, and of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of
Dunedin, as the same is defined in Proclamation of
30th day of November, 1865, and published in New
Zealand Gazette, No. 48, of 11th day of December,
1865.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

FREDERICK DE CARTERET MALET, Esq.,

to be Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages, and of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of
Christchurch, as the same is defined in Proclamation
of this day's date, and published in this Gazette.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1871.

IN conformity with the provisions of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867," the following
Petition from Inhabitant Householders of Wanganui
for the Town of Wanganui to be constituted a
Borough, and Letter of Assent from His Honor the
Superintendent of Wellington, are published for
general information; and it is hereby notified that
His Excellency the Governor will consider the
Petition on the 19th day of September next.

W. GISBORNE.

[A.]

To His Excellency Sir GEORGE FERGUSON
BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Honorable Order of St. Michael and St.
George, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over the Colony of New
Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

PETITION of the undersigned Inhabitant House-
holders resident within the Town of Wanganui,
in the Province of Wellington, in the Colony
of New Zealand, the boundaries whereof are
hereinafter more particularly set forth.

SHOWETH-

That the undersigned are Inhabitant Householders
resident within the district comprised within the
Town of Wanganui, mentioned and described in the
First Schedule to "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1867."

That the boundaries of the said district and town
are towards the North-east in part a portion of
country section number nineteen, and in part the
River Wanganui; towards the East and towards the
South-east the River Wanganui; towards the South-
west the country sections numbers seven, eight, nine,
and eleven; and towards the North-west the country
sections twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen, as the same are
delineated on the official map or plan of the right
bank of the River Wanganui, deposited in the Survey
Office, at Wellington.

That the said Town of Wanganui, with regard to
the management of the streets, and the sewerage and
drainage, and preservation of the health of the inha-
bitants, and other matters for the order and good
government of the said town, is now under the
management and control of a Town Board, established
by the following Acts of the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington,
that is to say,-

First. An Act intituled "An Act to provide
for the Management of the Streets, Sewerage,
and Drainage in Towns and Populous Places,
and the Preservation of the Health of the
Inhabitants thereof," made and passed in the
second Session of the said Council, and num-
bered seventeen.

Secondly. An Act intituled "An Act to author-
ize the Establishment of Boards of Wardens
for the Management of Local Public Works,
and other Matters," made and passed in the
third Session of the said Council.

Thirdly. An Act intituled "An Act to vest in
a Board of Wardens for the Management of
Local Public Works and Matters, the Manage-
ment of the Streets, Sewerage, and Preserva-
tion of the Health of the Inhabitants of the
Town of Wanganui," being made and passed
in the ninth Session of the said Council, and
numbered eight.

That on the ninth day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two, by Proclamation of
that date, the Superintendent of the Province of
Wellington did proclaim and declare that a Board of
Wardens for the management of the local public
works and matters should be established at and for
the said Town of Wanganui, and that the boundaries
thereof should be the Town of Wanganui as laid
down in the official maps thereof.

That the petitioners are desirous that the Town of
Wanganui. should be constituted a Borough, under
"The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your
Excellency will constitute the said Town of Wanganui
a borough, under "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1867."

William Hutchison, Wanganui, Printer, &c. J.W.R.
Geo. Beaven, Wanganui, Merchant J.W.R.
Thos. Powell, Wanganui, Merchant J.W.R.
H. Ireson Jones, Wanganui, Bookseller J.W.R.
Arthur Beauchamp, Victoria Avenue, Auctioneer J.W.R.
P. A. Chavannes, Victoria Avenue, Hotel Proprietor J.W.R.
J. W. Robinson, Ridgway Street, Watchmaker J.W.R.
Jas. Nicholson, Wanganui, Butcher J.W.B.
John Ballance, Wanganui, Journalist J.W.B.
Jno. Duthie, Taupo Quay, Wanganui, Ironmonger J.W.R.
Thomas Waters, Wanganui, Merchant J.W.R.
Joseph Willcox, Victoria Avenue, Chemist and Druggist J.W.R.
Thomas Allan, Wanganui, Merchant J.W.R.
Frederick A. Cooper, Victoria Avenue, Barrister-at-Law J.W.R.
Chas. H. Blake, Victoria Avenue, Saddler J.W.B.