THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships, and may limit the operation of such Order, and may render the operation thereof subject to such conditions and qualifications, if any, as may be deemed expedient: And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities are given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British ships in the territories of His Majesty the King of Hawaii:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in Her by the said “Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,” and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that, from and after the publication hereof in the London Gazette, seamen not being slaves, and not being British subjects, who within Her Majesty’s dominions desert from merchant ships belonging to the Kingdom of Hawaii, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships.

Provided always, that if any such deserter has committed any crime in Her Majesty’s dominions he may be detained until he has been tried by a competent Court, and until his sentence, if any, has been fully carried into effect.

And the Secretaries of State for India in Council, the Home Department, and the Colonies, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

Members of Patea Harbour Board appointed.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 22nd February, 1877.

IT is hereby notified, that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY WILLIAMSON, Esq.,
WILLIAM WILSON, Esq., and
CHARLES ALLAN WRAY, Esq., R.M.,

to be Members of the Patea Harbour Board.

D. REID,
(in absence of Commissioner of Customs).

Fixing time for first Meeting of Patea Harbour Board.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 22nd February, 1877.

IT is hereby notified, that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to fix Friday, the 2nd March next, to be the day on which the Patea Harbour Board shall hold its first meeting.

D. REID,
(in absence of Commissioner of Customs).

Appointments for the purposes of “The Public Works Act, 1876.”

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has this day been pleased to make the following appointments:—

JOHN CARRUTHERS, Esq., Engineer-in-Chief;
JOHN BLACKETT, Esq., Assistant Engineer-in-Chief;
CHARLES BENJAMIN KNORPP, Esq., Superintending Engineer for the North Island of New Zealand;
HARRY PASLEY HIGGINSON, Esquire, Superintending Engineer for the South Island of New Zealand;

for the purposes of “The Public Works Act, 1876.”

J. D. ORMOND.

Appointments in the Constructed Railways Branch of the Public Works Department.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has this day been pleased to make the following appointments in the Public Works Department:—

WILLIAM CONYERS, Esq., a Superintending Engineer of Opened Lines;
JOHN LAWSON, Esq., Traffic Manager on the Railway from Amberley to Moeraki, and all Branch Lines connected therewith;
JOHN HENRY LOWE, Esq., Resident Engineer of Constructed Railways at Christchurch.

J. D. ORMOND.

Appointments in the Public Works Department.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments in the Public Works Department:—

RICHARD CARROW, Esq., Stores Manager at Wellington, from 1st February, 1877.
CHARLES JAMES HOLLMER PIAYTER, Esq., Assistant Stores Manager at Wellington, from 18th December, 1876.

J. D. ORMOND.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1877.—NOTICE No. 2.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1877.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1854,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend JAMES TORRY.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Auction Sale of Crown Lands on Deferred Payments, Wellington Provincial District.

THE under-mentioned Sections, situate in the Manawatu District, having been applied for by more than one applicant, will, in terms of Section 4, Part I., of “The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871,” be offered for sale by public auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, at noon on Friday next, the 23rd instant, at the upset price of 20s. per acre.

Jos. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Chief Commissioner, Waste Lands Board.
Wellington, 20th February, 1877.