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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, are
hereby reserved accordingly for a Racecourse.

SCHEDULE.

SEVENTY-NINE (79) acres, more or less, situate near
the south bank of the River Grey, commencing at a
point on the road reserved along the north-eastern
bank of the Omotomoto Creek, the same being six (6)
chains seventy (70) links south-east of the Omoto-
moto Bridge; thence following a line bearing North
64° 30′ East (magnetic), a distance of about thirty-five
(35) chains twenty (20) links; thence following
another line bearing South 40° 50′ East (magnetic),
a distance of about sixteen (16) chains forty (40)
links to the road before mentioned; and from thence
returning along the same to the commencing point,
and numbered thirty-four (34) (in red).

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Delegation under Public Health Act to
Superintendents.

WHEREAS by "The Public Health Act, 1872,"
it is, among other things, enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, as he thinks fit,
order that all or any of the powers, functions, duties,
authorities, or acts, vested in, conferred on, or
authorized or required to be performed by the
Governor within any Province, district, port, or
place in the Colony, by or under the fifty-third and
seventy-seventh sections of the said Act, shall be
exercised, performed, or done by the Superintendent
of such Province, with the advice of the Executive
Council of such Province (if any), as in the said Act
mentioned; subject, however, to any limitations or
restrictions as he may think fit:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority enabling him under the hereinbefore in part
recited Act, doth hereby order that all the powers,
functions, duties, authorities, or acts vested in, con-
ferred on, or authorized or required to be done by
him as such Governor as aforesaid, within the Pro-
vince of Auckland, under fifty-third and seventy-
seventh sections of the said Act, shall be exercised,
performed, or done by

THOMAS BANNATYNE GILLIES, Esq.,
the Superintendent of the said Province, as and in
manner by the said Act required: Provided that
this order shall only remain in force so long as the
said Thomas Bannatyne Gillies shall be and remain
such Superintendent as aforesaid, or until other pro-
vision in that behalf shall be made by the Governor
under the powers aforesaid.

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 Wel-
lington, this eighteenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two.

G. M. WATERHOUSE.

Note.—Similar delegations to the above issued to Superin-
tendents of Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Nelson, Marl-
borough, and Canterbury.

Registrar of Marriages appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

RICHARD W. RAYNER, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of the Chatham
Islands, as the same is defined in Proclamation of
6th day of July, and published in Gazette No. 21, of
6th July, 1859, in the room of Lieut.-Colonel Thos.
McDonnell, resigned.

G. M. WATERHOUSE
(for the Hon. Colonial Secretary).

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Office of the Minister of Justice,
Wellington, 18th December, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

MATTHEW ANGROVE, Esq., of Mahurangi,
ALEXANDER CRUICKSHANK, Esq., of Matakana,
JOSIAH HUDSON, Esq., of Warkworth, and
LEWES PETER JAKYL RYE, Esq., of Te Ihu,
Kaipara,

in the Province of Auckland, to be Justices of the
Peace for the Colony.

JOHN BATHGATE.

Resignation of a Justice of the Peace accepted.

Office of the Minister of Justice,
Wellington, 17th December, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

WILLIAM STEUART, Esq.,
of Blackmount, Otago, of his appointment as a Justice
of the Peace for the Colony.

JOHN BATHGATE.

Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court, Dunedin,
appointed.

Office of the Minister of Justice,
Wellington, 15th December, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM PARKER STREET, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at
Dunedin from and after the 1st January proximo,
vice Thomas Calcutt, Esq., resigned.

JOHN BATHGATE.

Appointment of Accountant in Auckland Savings
Bank.

Treasury,
Wellington, 11th December, 1872.

THE Trustees of the Auckland Savings Bank
having appointed

Mr. RICHARD CAMERON
Accountant to the above Bank, vice Mr. Joseph
Coombe, resigned, His Excellency the Governor has
been pleased to approve of the same.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Additional Money Order Offices.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1872.

IT is hereby notified, that information has been
received from the General Post Office, Melbourne,