THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 721

Justice of the Peace appointed under "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1867."

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if
he shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be
a Justice of the Peace, by Warrant under his hand,
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is
made under the one hundred and thirty-third section
of the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during the
Mayoralty of such person, and the person so ap-
pointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment, be
authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
said power and authority in me vested in that behalf,
do hereby appoint

ARTHUR STANDISH, Esq.,

the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of New Plymouth, to be a Justice of the Peace under
the one hundred and thirty-third section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

Given under the hand of His Excellency
the Most Honorable George Augustus
Constantine, 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 Mul-
grave of New Ross, in the County of
Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a
Member of Her Majesty's Most Honor-
able Privy Council; 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 Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; at the Government House, at Wel-
lington, this twenty-third day of October,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Appointment of Agent-General.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th October, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been
pleased to appoint

The Hon. Sir JULIUS VOGEL, K.C.M.G.,

to be Agent-General for the Colony of New Zealand
in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
vice I. E. Featherston, Esq., deceased.

This appointment to date from the 9th of Septem-
ber, 1876.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th October, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization, under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the under-mentioned
persons, viz.,—

Name. Occupation. Residence.
Anders Erikson ... Settler ... Norsewood,
Hawke's Bay.
Martin Müller ... Ditto ... Ditto.
August Wegner ... Ditto ... Ditto.
Gottlieb Schmidt ... Ditto ... Ditto.
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ditto ... Ditto.
Ebel
Torkil Olsen ... Ditto ... Ditto.
Anders Lundgren ... Ditto ... Ditto.
Carl Friedrich August Ditto ... Ditto.
Schmidt
August Pommeranz ... Ditto ... Ditto.
Christian Lehndorf ... Ditto ... Ditto.
Jöns Anderson... ... Ditto ... Ditto.
Hans Peder Pedersen. ... Ditto ... Ditto.
Olof Niklasson... ... Ditto ... Ditto.
Joseph Prussek ... Farmer ... Puhoi, Auckland.
Matthias Wulf... ... Ditto ... Buller, Nelson.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Tenders called for by Western Australian Government
for Removal of Guano from Lacepede Islands.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1876.

THE following letter, received from the Acting
Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, is
published for general information.

DANIEL POLLEN.

(Circular.) WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Perth, 28th September, 1876.

SIR,—I have the honor, by direction of Governor
Robinson, C.M.G., to transmit to you the enclosed
copy of a notice inviting tenders for the removal of
guano from the Lacepede Islands, on the North-
west Coast of this colony; and His Excellency
desires me to request that you will be good enough
to give all due publicity to the same.

I have, &c.,
A. O'GRADY LEFROY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
New Zealand.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Government of
Western Australia will be ready to enter into an
arrangement with some person or firm desirous of
taking guano from one of the Lacepede Islands,
situated in about 17° 6' S. lat., and 122° 10' E. long.,
the same being the second westernmost of the group.
The Government is willing to grant the exclusive
right of removing guano from the island in question
for a term of three years, to commence from the 1st
day of July, 1877; the licensee to guarantee to take
a minimum amount of 40,000 tons during the three
years, of which at least 5,000 tons must be taken in
the first year, and 20,000 tons within the two first
years. Tenders to state the royalty per ton to be
paid in each year, and the nature of the security (to
the extent of one thousand pounds) to be given for
such payment. The license to be granted will bind
the licensee to take the whole of the guano from any