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Wainui and Waikanae Block to the sea coast; thence
northerly along the sea coast to the starting point.
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 Wellington, this twenty-first
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.

J. D. ORMOND.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st February, 1872.

THE following Bill, passed by the Provincial
Council and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Auckland, intituled
"The Education Reserves Management Act,
1871, Amendment Act, 1871,"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has not been advised to exercise his power of dis-
allowance with respect to it.

W. GISBORNE,

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1872.

IT is hereby notified that, in conformity with
clause 133 of "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," the name of the under-mentioned person
has been sent in to this office by the Town Clerk as
having been elected Mayor for the Borough of
Wanganui:-

WILLIAM HOGG WATT, Esq.,
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1872.

IT is hereby notified that Her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Colonies has in-
structed His Excellency the Governor to recognize
the appointment of

ANDREW WARDROP, Esq.,
as Hawaiian Consul for the City of Auckland and
the Ports and Cities adjacent, and

HENRY DRIVER, Esq.
as Hawaiian Consul in Otago.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,
to be Registration and Returning Officer for the
Electoral Districts of City of Nelson, Suburbs of
Nelson, and Waimea, for the election of Members of
the House of Representatives, on and from the 1st
day of March, 1872, vice Thomas Brunner, Esq.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,
to be Registration and Returning Officer for the
Electoral District of Motueka, for the Election of
Members of the House of Representatives, vice
Alexander Le Grand Campbell, Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

KENNETH ROSE, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages, and of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Inver-
cargill, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 16th
day of July, 1863, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette, No. 31, of 22nd day of July, 1863.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOSEPH HENRY, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Charleston, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of 24th day of March,
1870, and published in Gazette No. 16, of 25th day of
March, 1870, vice Chas. Broad, Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1872.

THE following Letter from Dr. Featherston, Agent-
General for New Zealand, in London, with
enclosures, on the subject of Phormium tenax, is
published for general information.

W. GISBORNE.

7 Westminster Chambers,
Victoria Street,
Westminster, S. W., 14th December, 1871.

SIR, —I have the honor to transmit herewith copies
of letters, dated as per margin, which have been re-
ceived from Mr. C. Thorne, of Mark Lane, respecting
the Phormium tenax*, and I beg to inform you that
the samples of yarn, cloth, &c., therein referred to,
are forwarded per sample post, by this mail, to your
address.†

I have, &c.,
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Agent-General.

James Hector, Esq., M.D.,
Chairman of Flax Commission,
Wellington, New Zealand.

16 Mark Lane, E.C.
London, 30th September, 1871.

DEAR SIR,—Agreeably to my promise, I now send
you a few samples, which will probably prove
interesting to your friends in New Zealand. On the
7th June last I handed you a sample of the fibre
extracted from dry leaves of the Phormium tenax
imported from New Zealand, and I then explained to
you that, owing to the gum in the fibre being dry and
very hard, I could not thoroughly redissolve it, yet I
had succeeded in rendering the fibre sufficiently soft
and fine to adapt it for spinning purposes. The
samples herewith form part of the same batch of
fibre from which the samples referred to were taken,
so you will be enabled by this means to follow my
progress.

No. 1 is a skein of bleached yarn made from pure
New Zealand flax. You will observe the gummy
matter remaining on the fibre has retained portions
of the straw, hence the appearance of the yellow
marks.

• 30th September, 1871; 17th October, 1871; 27th Novem-
  ber, 1871; 11th December, 1871.
  † The samples mentioned have been placed in the Colonial
  Museum.