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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Provincial Returning Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd January, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

DAVID MACRORIE, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the Electoral Districts of
Invercargill, Waiopai, and Oteramika, in the Pro-
vince of Otago. This appointment takes effect on
and from the 23rd ultimo.
JOHN HALL.

Registrar of Marriages appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th January, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOSEPH WARD, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Ashburton, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of 5th day of July,
and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 21, of
6th July, 1859; vice C. H. Greenstreet, Esq., re-
signed.
JOHN HALL.

Registrar of Marriages appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th January, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

SAMUEL DEIGHTON, 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
fifth day of July, and published in New Zealand
Gazette, No. 21, of 6th July, 1859.
JOHN HALL.

Members of Central Board of Health appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th January, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Members
of the Central Board of Health for the Provinces
shown above their names respectively.
JOHN HALL.

AUCKLAND.
Philip Aaron Phillips, Esq., Mayor of the City of
Auckland.
William Crush Daldy, Esq., J.P., Chairman of the
Auckland Harbour Board.
Thomas Moore Philson, Esq., M.D., Provincial
Surgeon.

HAWKE'S BAY.
Henry Bowman Sealy, Esq., Resident Magistrate.
Henry Stokes Tiffen, Esq., J.P.
William Isaac Spencer, Esq., M.R.C.S.L.

TARANAKI.
Thomas King, Esq., J.P.
Richard Chilman, Esq., J.P., Collector of Customs.
Thomas Edward Rawson, Esq., M.D., Provincial
Surgeon.

WELLINGTON.
Joe Dransfield, Esq., J.P., Mayor of the City of
Wellington.
William Seed, Esq., J.P., Secretary of Customs.
Alexander Johnston, Esq., M.D., Provincial Surgeon.

NELSON.
The Hon. Thomas Renwick, M.L.C., M.D.
Lowther Broad, Esq., Resident Magistrate.
William Westbrook Squires, Esq., M.D.

MARLBOROUGH.
George Henderson, Esq., Mayor of the Borough of
Blenheim.
Charles Redwood, Esq.
Lewis Keele Horne, Esq., M.R.C.S.L.

CANTERBURY.
John Thomas Peacock, Esq., M.H.R.
James Somerville Turnbull, Esq., M.D.
Edward Brenchley Bishop, Esq., Mayor of the City
of Christchurch.

WESTLAND.
Edward Patten, Esq., Collector of Customs at Ho-
kitika.
Gerhard Mueller, Esq., Chief Surveyor of the County
of Westland.
Henry Garland, Esq., M.D.

OTAGO.
Appointed previously, see Gazette, No. 65, of 12th
December, 1872, page 895.

Medical Practitioners and Householders to give notice
of dangerous Diseases.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th January, 1873.
THE following sections of "The Public Health Act,
1872," are published for general information;
and the particular attention of householders and
others affected thereby is invited to their provisions.
JOHN HALL.

17. It shall be the duty of every medical practitioner
    who shall attend upon or give medical or surgical
    advice to or about any person suffering from small-
    pox, cholera, or other highly infectious or contagious
    disease dangerous to the people, to give notice forth-
    with after he shall have commenced so to attend or
    give such advice, to the Local Board of the district
    within which such person so suffering then is, and
    every medical practitioner neglecting to give such
    notice shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten
    pounds.

18. When a householder knows that a person within
    the house occupied by him is taken sick of small-pox,
    cholera, or any other highly infectious or contagious
    disease dangerous to the people, he shall immediately
    give notice thereof to the Local Board of the district
    in which he dwells. If he refuses or neglects to
    give such notice, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding
    ten pounds.

Despatch from Secretary of State, enclosing Award of
Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd January, 1873.
THE following Despatch, with enclosures, from
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies, is published for general information.
JOHN HALL.

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street,
28th September, 1872.

SIR,—I have the honor to transmit to you, for
information in the Colony under your Government, a
copy of the Supplement to the London Gazette of the.