THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 573

Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House at Wellington; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-
fourth day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS on the twenty-eighth day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one,
in pursuance of the powers vested in the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand by "The Westland
Waste Lands Act, 1870," certain days were appointed
to be the days on which the Waste Lands Board of
the County of Wesland should sit at the Principal
Land Office of the said County, in the Town of
Hokitika:

And whereas by the said recited Act it is among
other things enacted that the Principal Land Office
of the said County shall be kept at the Town of
Hokitika and the Waste Lands Board shall sit there,
and at certain stated times to be determined from
time to time by the Governor as therein mentioned,
and shall also sit for special purposes at such places
and at such times as the Governor shall from time to
time direct:

And whereas it is expedient to appoint a special
day for the sitting of the said Board:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
exercise of the power and authority vested in me in
that behalf by "The Westland Waste Lands Act,
1870," do hereby fix and determine that a special
sitting of the Waste Lands Board for the County of
Westland shall be held at the Warden's Court, in
the Town of Stafford, on the twenty-seventh day of
November next ensuing, at the hour of Noon, for the
purpose of the sale of lands in the said Town of
Stafford.

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, at the Government House at Wel-
lington, this twentieth day of October, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Regis-
trars of Marriages, and of Births Deaths and Mar-
riages, for the Districts set opposite their names
respectively, as the same are defined in Proclamation
of the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, and published in this
Gazette:-

JOHN STUART RUST, Esq., Wangarei.
WILLIAM HARRISON, Esq., Mangapai.
HUGH MCKENZIE, Esq., Waipu.
JOHN RYAN, Esq., Mangawai.
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Esq., Mahurangi.
JOHN MUIR WAYLAND, Esq., Auckland.
HOPKINS CLARKE, Esq., Tauranga.
STEPHEN FILGATE PRENTICE, Esq., Mohaka and
Wairoa.
THOMAS STIRRUP WEBB, Esq., Tokatoka.

Reverend WILLIAM GITTOS, Paparoa.
Reverend WILLIAM WORKER, Albertland.
PATRICK WARNER CROKER, Esquire, Matakana.
HENRY LLOYD, Esquire, Waiwera.
ALEXANDER PORTER, Esquire, Helensville.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

THOMAS KIRK, Esq.,

to be Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages, and of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of
Auckland, as the same is defined in Proclamation of
twenty-fourth day of October, 1871, and published in
this Gazette.

W. GISBORNE.

NOTICE TO MAGISTRATES.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 16th October, 1871.

AS the practice prevails amongst Magistrates of
committing prisoners for trial at a particular
date instead of at the next sittings of the Supreme
Court, it is hereby intimated to Magistrates that it
is intended shortly to alter the dates of the sittings
of the Supreme Court throughout the Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1871.

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

In the Lady Bowen Light Horse Volunteers.
William Osborn to be Lieutenant. Date of com-
mission, 7th September, 1871.

Porirua Rifle Volunteers.
Frank Greer to be Lieutenant. Date of commission,
13th May, 1871.

In the No. 1 Company, Clutha Rifle Volunteers.
James Pillans Maitland to be Captain. Date of
commission, 19th October, 1870.
Donald McKinlay to be Ensign. Date of commis-
sion, 11th November, 1870.
John Gibson Smith, M.R.C.S.E., to be Honorary
Assistant-Surgeon. Date of commission, 19th
October, 1870.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
disband

The Kai-Iwi Cavalry Volunteers.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Government Annuities Office,
Wellington, 20th October, 1871.

NOTICE is hereby given, that Government Insur-
ance and Annuity Offices under "The Govern-
ment Annuities Act, 1869," have been opened at the
under-mentioned Post Offices in the Province of
Wellington, viz. :—

MASTERTON.
FEATHERSTON.
MARTON.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.