Mayor elected.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1875.

IT is hereby notified, that, in conformity with clause
133 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,"
the name of the under-mentioned person has been
sent in to this office by the Town Clerk, as having
been elected Mayor for the borough set opposite
his name:-
JOSEPH HENRY LEVIEN, Esq.-Nelson.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Chairman of Local Cattle Board appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
GERARD GEORGE FITZGERALD, Esq.,
to be Chairman of the Local Cattle Board of the
District of Westland, vice H. L. Robinson, Esq.,
resigned.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Registrar of Marriages &c. appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HENRY CHUDLEIGH WILMER, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, and also Vaccination Inspector, for
the District of Wellington, as the same is defined
in Proclamation of the 20th day of July, 1874, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 39, of the
23rd July, 1874. This appointment to take effect
from the 1st March instant.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,

Commissioners of Waste Lands Board, Taranaki,
appointed.
General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
confirm the appointment by His Honor the
Superintendent of Taranaki, of
WILLIAM MORGAN CROMPTON, Esq., and
WILLIAM NEILSON SYME, Esq.,
as Commissioners of the Waste Lands Board for the
Province of Taranaki.
H. A. ATKINSON.

Certificate of Execution of a Criminal.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1875.

THE following Certificate and Declaration are
Publishing conformity with the provisions of
"The Execution of Criminals Act, 1858."
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

CERTIFICATE.
I, T. M. Philson, M.D., the Medical Officer in at-
tendance at the execution of Nutana (a Maori), at
the Gaol of Auckland, do hereby certify and declare
that I have this day witnessed the execution of the
said Nutana at the said Gaol; and I do further
to be a Member of the Licensing Courts for the

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certify and declare that the said Nutana was, in
pursuance of the sentence of the Supreme Court,
hanged by the neck until his body was dead.
Given under my hand, this nineteenth day of
February, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five, at the Gaol of Auckland.

T. M. PHILSON, M.D.,
Provincial Surgeon.

DECLARATION.
We do hereby testify and declare, that we have this
day been present when the extreme penalty of the
law was carried into execution on the body of Nutana
(a Maori), convicted at the Criminal Session of the
Supreme Court held at Auckland on the eighth day
of January last (instant), and sentenced to death;
and that the said Nutana was, in pursuance of the
said sentence, hanged by the neck until his body was
dead.
Dated this nineteenth day of February, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, at the
Gaol of Auckland.

H. C. Balneavis, Sheriff.
R. A. Eyre, Gaoler.
B. L. O'Brien, Turnkey.
Wm. J. Pardy,
R. Wainhouse,
Joseph Williams,
Joseph Smyth,
Michael Naughton,
J. H. Bratby,
T. Flaherty,
John Dunn,
E. Rickerby,
C. Fetherstonhaugh,
Other spectators.

Auditor of the Courts of Law Trust Accounts
appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington; 3rd March, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN TURNBULL, Esq., R.M.,
to be Auditor of the Courts of Law Trust Accounts
for the District of Southland. This appointment
dates from the 28th January, 1875.
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court, appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint
HENRY CHUDLEIGH WILMER, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar at Wellington of the
Supreme Court, vice R. C. Hammerton, Esq., pro-
moted. This appointment dates from the first
instant.
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Member of Licensing Courts appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ALFRED JONES, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Member of the Licensing Courts for the