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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

the Jury District of the said Town, and all Justices
of the Peace, and the Registrars, Clerks, or other
officers of Courts, constables and officers of Police,
and Sheriffs, shall, before the fifteenth day of Febru-
ary next, do and perform all such acts, matters, and
things, in and towards preparing, collecting, allowing,
sending, and delivering the lists of men qualified and
liable to serve on juries, and making out the jury
books for the Jury District of the said Town, as are
in the said Act ordinarily required to be done at a
different time or period.

And I do order that, for the purposes aforesaid,
the words in the sections of the said "Juries Act,
1868," specified in the first column of the Schedule
hereto, shall respectively be construed and read as if
the words in the second column of the said Schedule
were inserted in lieu of such words in the said sec-
tions respectively.

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; and issued at
Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of No-
vember, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that
sittings of the District Court of the Otago Gold
Fields, in lieu of those heretofore appointed, shall be
held as follows:—

In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby
on the second Wednesday in January next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde
on the Monday next after the second Wed-
nesday in January next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queens-
town on the Monday second after the second
Wednesday in January next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence
on the second Tuesday in February next.

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the
Court appointed for that day shall be holden on the
first day thereafter, not being a holiday.

Issued this eighteenth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred, and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

Private Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th November, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
The Hon. HENRY SEWELL
of his office as Commissioner of Stamps.

By command.
HENRY D. PITT,
Private Secretary.

Private Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th November, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
The Honorable JULIUS VOGEL
to be Commissioner of Customs.
This appointment dates from the 30th October,
1871.

By command.
HENRY D. PITT,
Private Secretary.

Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 27th November, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has this day been
pleased to appoint
The Honorable WILLIAM REEVES
to be a Member of the Executive Council, and His
Excellency directs it to be notified that that gentle-
man has taken the necessary oath.

By command.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 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 29th day of January next.

W. GISBORNE.

To His Excellency Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Honorable Order of Saint Michael and
Saint 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 bound-
aries whereof are hereinafter more par-
ticularly 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 (19), 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 (7),
eight (8), nine (9), and eleven (11); and towards the
North-west the country sections numbers twelve (12),
thirteen (13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), sixteen (16),