THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 23

at self-government, and carried with it a good prospect
of future peace; and I therefore received the Taimua
(literally "leaders") on board the "Pearl," and
saluted their flag, in recognition of an authority
which has been properly constituted, and has a clear
right to exercise jurisdiction in Samoa.
The flag is a red one, with a blue jack in the left
upper canton, bearing a white star.
I have, &c.,
JAMES G. GOODENOUGH,
Captain and Commodore 2nd Class,
Commanding Australian Station.

His Excellency the Right Hon.
Sir James Fergusson, Bart., &c.,
Governor of New Zealand.

Notice of Claims for Bonus on certain Colonial
Industries.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th January, 1874.

IT is hereby notified for general information, that
notice of intention to claim the Bonus offered by
Government for the following Colonial Industries,
have been sent in, viz. :-

For Iron.
Manager, Collingwood Coal Company, Nelson.
Magnus Manson, Motupipi, Nelson.
J. C. Stovin, Awitu, Auckland.
Para Para Coal and Iron Company, Collingwood,
Nelson.
Richard Chilman, Agent for H. J. Walduck and
Company, New Plymouth.

For Sugar.
Ed. Woolfield, Onehunga.
W. J. Cawkwell, Auckland.
John Davis, Dunedin.
Samuel Begg, Napier.
R. R. Hunt, Newcastle, Waikato.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Provincial Registration Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th January, 1874.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
CYRUS GOULTER, Esq.,
to be Registration Officer under "The Provincial
Elections Act, 1858," for the Province of Marl-
borough.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Provincial Returning Officers appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th January, 1874.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint the following gentlemen to be
Returning Officers for the election of Members of
the Provincial Council of Marlborough for the Dis-
tricts set opposite their names respectively, viz. :-
CHRISTOPHER WHITNEY GRIFFITHS, - Spring Creek.
JOHN HADFIELD SMITH,--Gold Fields.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Registration and Returning Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th January, 1874.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ARTHUR CHILLAS HENDERSON, Esq.,
to be Registration and Returning Officer for the
election of Members of the House of Representa-
tives for the Electoral Districts of Invercargill and
Mataura, vice W. H. Pearson, Esq., resigned.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Mayors elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1874.

IT is hereby notified, that, in conformity with
Clause 133 of "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," the names of the following persons have
been sent in to this office by the Town Clerks as
having been elected Mayors for the places set oppo-
site their names, viz. :-
JOHN MACK HUTCHESON, -Blenheim.
JAMES WILSON HUMPHREY, -Westport.
EDWARD GEORGE KERR, -Kaiapoi.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Petition for Municipality at Nelson.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1874.

IN conformity with the provisions of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867," the following
Petition from Inhabitant Householders of the City
of Nelson for that City to be constituted a Borough,
and Letter of Assent from His Honor the Superin-
tendent of Nelson, are published for general infor-
mation; and it is hereby notified that His Excellency
the Governor will consider the Petition on the 16th
day of March next.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).

A.

To His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir
JAMES FERGUSSON, Baronet, a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.,

The Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants,
Householders of the City of Nelson, the
boundaries whereof are hereinafter more
particularly set forth.

HUMBLY SHOWETH,-

The City of Nelson, the boundaries of which are
hereinafter more particularly set forth, comprises the
site of the Town and the Wakatu District, and is
bounded as follows:-By a line drawn from the Light-
house on the Boulder Bank to the south-west angle
of section numbered 1 on the plan of Suburban
North; thence by the southern boundary of the said
section; thence by the boundaries of Block A in the
Wakatu District to the bank of the River Maitai;
thence by the western boundary of section numbered