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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Judges of Assessment Courts for Counties under "The Rating Act, 1876," appointed.

NORMANBY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities vested in me by "The Rating Act, 1876," I,
do hereby appoint the persons named in the Schedule hereto to be the Judges of the Assessment Courts for
the districts comprised within the counties placed opposite the name of each such person respectively.

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 Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ire-
land; a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable 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 fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

SCHEDULE.

Judges of Assessment Courts resigned.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th February, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept resignation by
JAMES FULTON, Esq.,
of the office of Judge of the Assessment Court for
the district comprised within the County of Taieri.
His Excellency has also been pleased to accept the
resignation by
JOSEPH GILES, Esq.,
of the office of Judge of the Assessment Court
for the district comprised within the County of
Wanganui.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Judges of Assessment Courts resigned.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th February, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
JAMES FULTON, Esq.,
of the office of Judge of the Assessment Court for
the following districts:—
North Taieri Road District,
Taieri Road District,
Outram Road District,
Kuri Bush Road District,
Seaside Road District,
Gray Road District,
Kaikorai Road District,
Suburban Road District,
Green Island Municipality.

His Excellency has also been pleased to accept the
resignation by
JOSEPH GILES, Esq.,
of the office of Judge of the Assessment Court for
the following districts:—
Wangaehu Highway Board District,
Wanganui and Waitotara Highway Board District,
Wanganui Borough.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Despatch from Secretary of State announcing appoint-
ment of Cavalière Luigi Marinucci to be Consul-
General for Italy for the Australasian Colonies.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th February, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
direct that the following Despatch, with its
enclosure, received from Her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Colonies, be published for
general information.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

[CIRCULAR.]

(New Zealand, No. 50.)

Downing Street, 12th December, 1876.

MY LORD, —I have the honor to transmit to you a
copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, notifying
the issue of the Queen's Exequatur empowering
Cavalière Luigi Marinucci to act as Italian Consul-
General at Melbourne.

In the notification of the appointment, which
appears in the London Gazette of the 5th instant, the
jurisdiction of the Consul-General is defined as ex-
tending over Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and
the Fiji Islands.

I have, &c.,
CARNARVON.

Governor the Most Honorable
the Marquis of Normanby, &c.

LORD TENTERDEN presents his compliments to Mr.
Herbert, and, with reference to the letter from the
Colonial Office of the 30th September, is directed by
the Earl of Derby to state, for the information of
the Earl of Carnarvon, that the Queen's Exequatur
empowering Cavalière Luigi Marinucci to act [as
Italian Consul-General at Melbourne has this day
received Her Majesty's signature.

The notification of Her Majesty's approval of
Cavalière Luigi Marinucci's appointment will appear
in the Gazette of the 5th instant.

Foreign Office,
1st December, 1876.