THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 149

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 26th February, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept resignations of
ARTHUR CUTHBERT BAINES, Esq.,
of Kowai Pass, Canterbury; and
BERNARD HENRY REINECKER, Esq.,
of Beaumont, Otago, as Justices of the Peace for the
Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 26th February, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,
to be Sheriff for the District of Nelson, on and
after the 1st proximo; vice T. Brunner, Esq.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 26th February, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
SAMUEL MUNCKLEY SOUTH, Esq.,
to be Crown Solicitor for the Judicial District called
the Westland District, and Crown Prosecutor for
the District of the County of Westland.

W. GISBORNE.

Treasury,
Wellington, 29th February, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM HENRY EYES, Esq.,
to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Province of
Marlborough.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th February, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointment, viz.:—
In the Porirua Rifle Volunteers.
James Pask, to be Ensign. Date of commission,
12th November, 1870.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th February, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers, viz.:—
Lieutenant W. Osborn, Lady Bowen Light Horse
Volunteers.
Honorary Ensign W. Hackworth, Wellington Gram-
mar School Cadets.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th February, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
form
The Bruce Rifle Volunteers,
The East Taieri Rifle Volunteers,
The West Taieri Rifle Volunteers,

The No. 1 Company Clutha Rifle Volunteers, and
The No. 2 Company Clutha Rifle Volunteers,
into a Battalion, under the designation of the
"2nd Battalion, Otago Rifle Volunteers;"
and to appoint
Captain Alfred Jones to be Major, and to command
the same. Date of commission, 30th January,
1872.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th February, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of the
Port Chalmers Naval Volunteer Cadet Corps. Date
of acceptance, 6th December, 1871.
And to disband
The St. John's (Canterbury) Rifle Volunteer Cadet
Corps.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Clerk of the Writ's Office,
Wellington, 29th February, 1872.
THE Clerk of the Writs has received a Return to the
Writ issued by him on the 23rd day of January,
1872, for the election of a Member to serve in the
House of Representatives of New Zealand for the
Electoral District hereinafter specified; and by the
indorsement on such Writ it appears that the under-
mentioned gentleman has been duly elected Member
for such District, viz.:—

For the District of Wairau,
ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR.
G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Governor of
New Zealand having, under the powers in him
vested by "The Immigration and Public Works
Act, 1870," deemed it expedient to open and make
a new line of road from Tauranga to Kati Kati,
which road is, in the opinion of the Governor and the
Executive Council of the Colony, not a road to be
constructed by the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of the Province of Auckland, and the course
and bearings of which said road, the admeasurements
required for the same, and the lands through which
the same passes, together with the names of the
owners and occupiers thereof, so far as known, are
respectively shown and delineated on certain plans
marked Nos. 1 and 2, and which said road is also
described in a certain Proclamation made under the
said Act, and published in the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 10, of 26th February, 1872.

Copies of the said plans, marked Nos. 1 and 2, are
deposited and may be seen and inspected at the office
of the Public Works Department at Tauranga.
And notice is hereby further given, that all or any
person or persons affected by the making of the said
line of road from Tauranga to Kati Kati, are required
to set forth in writing, addressed to the Governor,
and left at the office of the said Public Works
Department at Tauranga within forty days from the
first publication hereof, any well-grounded objection
he or they may have to the said line of road.
Dated this 4th day of March, 1872.
J. D. ORMOND.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1872.
IT is notified for general information that as, by
arrangements consequent on the opening of the
Mont Cenis Tunnel, the time required for the
journey from Calais to Brindisi has been much