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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

clamation of eighteenth day of September, 1871, and
published in this Gazette :-
JAMES EDWARD IND BOYS, Esq., Greytown;
HOLMES CRAYNE, Esq., Masterton;
ROBERT LANGDON, Esq., Castle Point:
GEORGE MATHEW SNELSON, Esq., Palmerston
North;
JOHN BATTEN SMITH, Esq., Foxton.
These appointments to take effect on and from the
second day of October, 1871.
W. GISBORNE.

WHEREAS by the Regulations for the Sale and
Disposal of Lands taken under the authority of
"The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and
"The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and
Continuance Act, 1865," contained in the Schedule
to an Order in Council made and issued, bearing
date the eleventh of May, 1871, it is provided that
reserves for roads, and all other public purposes
whatever, and for education, and the sites for
churches and chapels or other places of worship for
different religious denominations, may be made
by Government out of any confiscated lands, and
that notices of all such reserves shall be published
in the New Zealand Gazette: It is hereby notified
that the lands specified in the Schedule hereunder
written shall be reserved for the purposes therein
mentioned and set opposite the descriptions of the
said parcels of land respectively.

W. GISBORNE,
Colonial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Reserve.
PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.
Tauranga Town.
Allotments Nos. 164 and 165.

Purpose of Reserve.
As a site for Mechanics'
Institute.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th September, 1871.

NOTICE.-A Discharge Certificate of JOHN
HAMPTON, late a Private in H.M.'s 2-18th
Regiment, has been forwarded to His Excellency
the Governor of New Zealand in a Despatch from
H.M.'s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,
and will be delivered to the above-named John
Hampton on application to this office.

By command.
G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 13th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM MORGAN CROMPTON, Esq.,
HARRY EYRE KENNY, Esq.,
THOMAS KING, Esq., and
JOHN STEPHENSON SMITH, Esq.,
to be Visiting Justices of the Gaol at New Plymouth,
in the Province of Taranaki.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 13th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
CHARLES RUCK KEENE, Esq.,
of Kaikoura, Marlborough, to be a Coroner within
the Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 13th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HENRY ALDBOROUGH STRATFORD, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at
Naseby, vice E. H. Carew, Esquire, promoted; and

RICHARD EDWARD FIELD, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at
Arrowtown, vice T. G. Dugard, Esquire.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 13th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HENRY ALDBOROUGH STRATFORD, Esq.,
to be Clerk at Naseby of the District Court of the
Otago Gold Fields, vice E. H. Carew, Esq., promoted.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 5th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
JOHN SANGSTER MACFARLANE, Esq.,
of Auckland, of his appointment as a Justice of the
Peace for the Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 13th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointments, viz. :-

In the New Zealand Militia.
Captain Henry Lufkin Skeet, Auckland Engineer
Volunteers, to be Captain. Date of commission,
13th October, 1870.

In the Aramoho Light Horse Volunteers.
Edward Daniell, to be Captain. Date of commission,
25th February, 1871.
George Small, to be Cornet. Date of commission,
25th February, 1871..

In the West Taieri Rifle Volunteers.
James McBrearty, L.F.P.S.G., to be Honorary
Assistant-Surgeon. Date of commission, 13th
June, 1871.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 13th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
disband the under-mentioned Corps at their
own request:---
The Whakapuaka Artillery Volunteers.
The Auckland Engineer Volunteers.

The under-mentioned gentlemen have therefore
ceased to hold the rank of Officers in the Corps,
their commissions having, under the provisions of
"The Volunteer Act, 1865," lapsed :-
Daniel Slater, Esq., late Captain, Whakapuaka Ar-
tillery Volunteers.
W. J. Gundry, Esq., late Lieutenant, Auckland
Engineer Volunteers.
A. A. Crapp, Esq., late Lieutenant, Auckland Engi-
neer Volunteers.

DONALD MCLEAN.