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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

period aforesaid shall be subject to the payment of
the sum of two shillings per ton per day until the
removal of the same from the railway premises.
39. Any goods, merchandise, or luggage arriving at
any station, which shall not be removed from the
railway premises within twelve working hours, may
be stored at risk and expense of the consignee or
owner.
40. All tolls and charges and warehousing charges
must be paid immediately to the person duly author-
ized to receive the same.
41. The above conditions, numbered from 32 to
40, both inclusive, apply to all parcels and goods
received by the railway at their respective offices and
warehouses, wherever situate.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Presiding.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Sittings of District Court, Otago Gold Fields.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir
James Fergusson, Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of
the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, during
the months of June and July next, shall be held
as follows:-

In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby,
on the second Wednesday in June next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde, on
the Monday next after the second Wednesday
in June next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queens-
town, on the Monday second after the second
Wednesday in June next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence,
on the second Tuesday in July next.

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the
Court appointed for that day shall be holden on the
first day thereafter, not being a holiday.

Issued this eighteenth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE.

Appointment of Chief Clerk, Colonial Secretary's
Office.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1874.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

AMELIUS MORLAND SMITH, Esq.,
to be Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office.
This appointment dates from the 19th March, 1874.

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

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1874.

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

THOMAS FREDERICK GOOCH, Esq.,
of Port Albert, Auckland, of his appointment as a
Justice of the Peace for the Colony.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE,
Acting Minister of Justice.

Notice to Coroners, &c.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1874.

THE following sections of "The Registration Act,
1858," are reprinted here for the information
of Coroners, Justices, Constables, and others:--

13. In case any new-born child or any dead body
    shall be found exposed, a constable of the district
    shall forthwith inform the Registrar thereof, and of
    the place where such child or dead body was found;
    and where an inquest shall be held on any dead body,
    the Coroner or Justice of the Peace holding the same
    shall notify to the Registrar of the district the
    verdict of the jury, with all other particulars required
    to be registered concerning the death, and such
    Registrar shall make the entry in his Register Book
    accordingly, and the same shall be signed by the
    Coroner or Justice of the Peace by whom the infor-
    mation has been given.

14. Every Registrar, immediately upon registering
    any death, or as soon thereafter as he shall be required
    so to do, shall without fee or reward deliver to the
    person giving information, or to the undertaker or
    other person having charge of the funeral, a certifi-
    cate under his hand, according to the form in
    Schedule C hereto annexed, that such death has been
    duly registered; and such certificate shall be delivered
    by such undertaker or other person to the minister
    or officiating person who shall be required to bury or
    perform any funeral or religious service for the
    burial; and if any dead body shall be buried for
    which no certificate shall have been so delivered, the
    person who shall bury the same, or perform any
    funeral or religious service for the burial, or who
    shall in any other way dispose of the body, shall
    forthwith give notice of the facts to the Registrar:
    Provided always that the Coroner or Justice of the
    Peace holding any inquest upon any dead body for
    which no certificate shall have been delivered as
    aforesaid, may order the body to be buried, if he
    shall think fit, before registration; and shall in such
    case give a certificate of his order in writing under
    his hand, in the form in Schedule D hereto annexed,
    to the undertaker or other person having charge of
    the funeral.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE,
Acting Minister of Justice.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 9 of 1874.
Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 24th April, 1874.

THE following Notice to Mariners is published
for general information.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
Commissioner of Customs.

NORTH ISLAND, EAST COAST.
Napier Bluff Light.

NOTICE is hereby given, that on and after the 5th
May next, a Fixed Bright Light, of the fourth
order dioptric, will be exhibited from sunset to
sunrise from a tower erected on the eastern side
of Napier Bluff, Hawke's Bay, one half-mile south-
ward of the extreme point, in lat. 39° 28′ 50″ S., and
long. 176° 56′ 25″ E., as measured on the Admiralty
chart.

The tower stands 20 feet high, and is painted
white; the focal flame of the light is 160 feet above
the ordinary sea level, and, allowing 15 feet for
the height of the observer's eye, the light will be
visible in clear weather at a distance of 18 nautic