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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1872.
It is hereby notified, that His Honor Chief Justice
Arney has reported that he has appointed
LAUGHLIN O'BRIEN, Esq.,
to be Revising Officer for the Districts of Mongonui
and Bay of Islands, Marsden, Rodney, Waitemata,
City of Auckland East, of Auckland West,
Parnell, Newton, Town of Onehunga, Eden, Franklin,
Waikato, and Thames; and

WILLIAM HALSE, Esq.,
to be Revising Officer for the Districts of Town of
New Plymouth, Grey and Bell, and Egmont.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1872.
T is hereby notified, that His Excellency the
Governor has been instructed by the Right
Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies
to recognize the appointment of

JOSEPH MCMULLEN DARGAVILLE, Esq.,
as Consular Agent for the United States at Auckland,
and

GEORGE P. ABBOTT, Esq.,
as Consular Agent for the United States at Dunedin.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th April, 1872.
INFORMATION is requested respecting a missing
person named Andrew Lyster, who was last
heard of in Melbourne, and was about to proceed to
New Zealand; was a jeweller by trade when in
Dublin, but did not follow a trade in the Colonies.
His general personal appearance was--Height
about 5 feet 7 inches, dark hair, sallow complexion,
slender build, greyish blue eyes, and beard or mous-
tache sandy if any, about 39 years of age, supposed
to be single, peculiar nail of blackish appearance on
first finger of right hand.
ALEX. C. P. MACDONALD
(for the Under Secretary).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th April, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HENRY TACY CLARKE, Esq., R.M.,
to be a Resident Magistrate for the District of
Tauranga, vice W. Moule, Esq., and as such to
exercise the extended jurisdiction to one hundred
pounds.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th April, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN MCINTOSH ROBERTS, Esq.,
of Tauranga, Auckland, to be a Justice of the Peace
for the Colony.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th April, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN MCINTOSH ROBERTS, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Resident Magistrate for the District of

Tauranga, with jurisdiction to twenty pounds, to act
during the absence of H. T. Clarke, Esq., R.M.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th April, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar at Nelson of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand.
W. GISBORNE.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
The RESIDENT ENGINEER for the Auckland and
Waikato Railway
to frank and receive free from prepayment of postage,
Letters and Parcels posted on the Public Service.
W. Fox
(for the Postmaster-General).

Colonial Architect's Office,
Wellington, 25th April, 1872.
THE Tender of Mr. H. TAYLOR, of New Plymouth,
amounting to six hundred and ninety-eight
pounds, for the erection of a Post Office and Tele-
graph Station at New Plymouth, in the Province of
Taranaki, has been accepted.
W. H. CLAYTON,
Colonial Architect.

Colonial Architect's Office,
Wellington, 25th April, 1872.
THE Tender of Mr. JOHN SCOTT, of Nelson, amount-
ing to two hundred and fifty-two pounds, for
the erection of a Post Office at Motueka, in the Pro-
vince of Nelson, has been accepted.
W. H. CLAYTON,
Colonial Architect.

JUST PUBLISHED,
A KEY to the Stamp Acts; being a Digest of the
Stamp Duties payable in New Zealand, with
Directions on stamping Instruments and cancelling
Stamps.
By H. B. SEALY, R.M.,
Late Deputy Commissioner of Stamps at Napier.
Published by Dinwiddie, Morrison, and Co., Napier.
Sold by Chapman, Auckland; Lyon, Wellington;
Stanton, Nelson; Hughes, Christchurch; Living-
stone, Dunedin; and all Booksellers.
Price Eighteen Pence. Free by post for twenty
stamps.

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