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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
thousand eight hundred and seventy- to be Registrar at Napier of the Supreme Court
three, and in the thirty-seventh year of from and after the 17th instant, vice John Hare,
Her Majesty's reign.
By command.
A. H. PALMER.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Returning and Registration Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint, in the room of Singleton Rochfort,
HENRY BOWMAN SEALY, Esq.,
to the under-mentioned Electoral Offices, viz. :-
Registration and Returning Officer for the election
of Members of the House of Representatives
for the Electoral Districts of Napier and Clive;
Returning Officer for the election of Members of
the Provincial Council of the Province of
Hawke's Bay for the District of the Town of
Napier;
Registration Officer for the Province of Hawke's
Bay, to form Electoral Rolls for the election of
Members of the Provincial Council thereof.
DANIEL POLLEN.

Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages
appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN HARE, Esq.,
to be Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages, and of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of
Wanganui, as the same is defined in Proclamation
of 10th day of October, 1870, and published in New
Zealand Gazette, No. 56, of 11th day of October,
1870, vice Duncan Guy, Esq., transferred.
DANIEL POLLEN.

Deputy Sheriff appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 11th October, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
EDWIN BAMFORD, Esq.,
to be Deputy Sheriff for the District of Hawke's
Bay.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in the absence of the Minister of Justice).

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th October, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
FREDERICK WOLLASTON HUTTON, Esq.,
of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in the absence of the Minister of Justice).

Registrar, Supreme Court, appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 14th October, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
DUNCAN GUY, Esq.,

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in the absence of the Minister of Justice).

Clerk, Resident Magistrate's Court, appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 14th October, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
DUNCAN GUY, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at
Napier, from and after the 17th instant, vice John
Hare, Esq., transferred.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in the absence of the Minister of Justice).

Resignation of a Trustee, Dunedin Savings Bank,
accepted.

Treasury,
Wellington, 14th October, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
LATHAM O. BEAL, Esq.,
of his appointment as a Trustee of the Dunedin
Savings Bank.
JULIUS VOGEL.

Clerks in Treasury appointed.

Treasury,
Wellington, 9th October, 1873.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM THEODORE THANE, Esq.,
JOHN GANDY, Esq., and
CHARLES LANGSTONE WOLEDGE, Esq.,
to be Clerks in the Treasury, as from the 1st October
instant.
JULIUS VOGEL.

Oysters at Stewart's Island.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 13th October, 1873.
THE following Extract from a Report received
is published for general information.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Port William, 1st October, 1873.
During the season, or the greater part of it,
there have been employed in dredging for oysters,
which were nearly all sent to Dunedin, eight cutters,
varying in size from six to sixteen tons. The small-
sized ones are wrought by two men, the large by
three.
Their operations have this year been confined to a
space of ground about a mile broad and a mile and a
quarter long, situated immediately off Half Moon
Bay; and in such abundance is the oyster found
there, that three men, when all circumstances are
favourable, can draw up in one day five hundred
dozen.
The oyster, I am told, is found on any part of the
coast between Saddle Point and Port Adventure;
but part of the bottom is rocky, and it is only on
the sandy patches that the oyster dredge can be
wrought.
From instances I have heard of oysters having
been found between and outside of the islands, I