THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 253

Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; at the Government House at
Wellington, this thirteenth day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Deputy of the Clerk of the Writs appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th April, 1875.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to make the following appointment under "The
Regulation of Elections Act, 1870," viz., -
AMELIUS MORLAND SMITH, Esq.,
to be Deputy of the Clerk of the Writs.
DANIEL POLLEN.

Delegation under "The Prisons Act, 1873," to
Superintendent of Auckland.
(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifty-first section of an Act
of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
intituled "The Prisons Act, 1873," it is enacted that
the Governor in Council may, under his hand and the
Public Seal of the colony, from time to time delegate
to the Superintendent of any province the powers
by the forty-seventh and fiftieth sections of the said
Act vested in the Governor, to be exercised within
such province and not elsewhere, and may from time
to time in like manner rescind any such delegation:
Now therefore I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the said colony,
in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the said in part recited Act, do
hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, delegate unto

Sir GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.,
as Superintendent of the Province of Auckland,
all the powers vested in me by the forty-seventh and
fiftieth sections of the said Act, to be exercised with-
in such province and not elsewhere so long as he
shall remain Superintendent of the said province,
and no longer.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages &c. appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th April, 1875.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
GEORGE BOTSFORD GORDON, Esq.,
to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages, and
of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of
Hokitika, as the same is defined in Proclamation of
the 8th day of May, 1873, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette, No. 28, of the 9th day of May, 1873.
DANIEL POLLEN.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House at
Wellington, this thirteenth day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Member of Licensing Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th April, 1875.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
CHARLES LAMBERT, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Member of the Licensing Court for the
Licensing District of Waipaoa, vice D. Gollan, Esq.,
J.P., resigned.
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1875.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to make the under-mentioned appointments in
The Queenstown Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant John Scott Worthington to be Captain.
Date of commission, 11th January, 1875.
Sub-Lieutenant Denis Patrick Powell to be Lieuten-
ant. Date of commission, 11th January, 1875.
George Mico Ross to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 11th January, 1875.
The Nelson (City) Rifle Volunteers.
Arthur McKellar Wix to be Captain. Date of com-
mission, 12th March, 1875.
The Nelson (Port) Naval Volunteers.
Ralph Richardson to be Captain: Date of commis-
sion, 19th March, 1875.
DANIEL POLLEN,
(in the absence of the Native Minister).

Resignation of Volunteer Officer accepted.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1875.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by
Honorary Assistant-Surgeon C. Scott, Riverton
Rifle Volunteers.
DANIEL POLLEN,
(in the absence of the Native Minister).