THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 561

Assessor of Pastoral Lands appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint

BENJAMIN P. BAYLY, Esq.,
to be an Assessor of Pastoral Lands within the Pro-
vincial District of Otago.

D. REID,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Officer under the Forests Trees Planting Acts
appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM HENRY VALPY, Esq.,
to be an Officer for reporting upon the fulfilment of
conditions prescribed by the Regulations under the
Forest Trees Planting Acts, in the Provincial District
of Otago.

D. REID,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Appointing Bank, under "The Public Buildings Act,
1875," of the Provincial Council of Auckland.

NOTICE is hereby given, that His Excellency the
Governor has appointed the Bank of New
Zealand to be the Bank in which moneys accruing
from the sales of the land described in the Second
Schedule to the Act of the Provincial Council of
Auckland intituled "The Public Buildings Act, 1875,"
under the powers contained in the said Act, shall be
deposited, as prescribed by the twenty-eighth section
of the said Act.

Dated 15th day of May, 1877.
H. A. ATKINSON.

Notice of intention to construct portion of Road
between Masterton and Opaki.

NOTICE is hereby given, that it is proposed, under
the provisions of "The Public Works Act,
1876," to execute a certain public work, to wit, the
construction of a portion of a road lying between
Masterton and Opaki, in the County of Wairarapa
West, and for the purposes of such public work the
lands described in the Schedule hereto are required
to be taken; and notice is further given that the
plans of the said portion of a road, and of the
lands so required to be taken, are deposited in the
Public Works Office, Masterton, and are there
open for inspection: And notice is hereby given
that all persons affected by the execution of the
said public work, or by the taking of the said lands,
shall, if they have any well grounded objections
to the execution of the said public work, or to the
taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing,
and send such writing, within forty days from the
first publication of this notice, to the Minister for
Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

PORTION of a road, Masterton to Opaki. Com-
mencing at a point about 5 miles, more or less,
south of Mauriceville, in the Provincial District of
Wellington (as described in a Proclamation dated
6th January, 1875, and published in New Zealand
Gazette of 7th January, 1875); thence in a south-
westerly direction about 35 chains; thence in a
generally south-easterly direction about 92 chains;
thence in a southerly and easterly direction about

92 chains; thence in a southerly direction about 26
chains; thence in a south-easterly direction about
19 chains; thence in a general south-easterly direc-
tion about 37 chains until it reaches the Main Road
from Masterton at a point in section No. 56 distant
about 40-20 chains from the north-western boundary
line of Section No. 7; the total length of the above
described portion of a road being 34 miles, or there-
abouts, and the breadth thereof, one chain, except
where otherwise shown on the plan; the said road
being delineated in red upon the said plan, which is
marked for reference P.W.D. 5451.

Dated this 15th day of May, 1877.
J. D. ORMOND.

Member of House of Representatives elected.

Clerk of the Writs Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1877.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to
the Writ issued by him on the 12th day of
April, 1877, for the election of a Member to serve
in the House of Representatives for the Electoral
District hereinafter specified; and by the indorse-
ment on such Writ it appears that the under-men-
tioned gentleman has been duly elected Member for
such district, viz. :-

For the District of City of Auckland West.
JAMES WALLIS.

G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Inquiry for a Missing Person.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1877.

INQUIRIES have been made respecting a person
named

CATHERINE WILKINS (maiden name YOUNG),
who sailed for Otago, New Zealand, in the "Wild
Deer" on the 31st October, 1874. She was accom-
panied by her child (Stephen Wilkins), aged 3 years
at date of embarkation.

She is by occupation a general servant, and her
husband (who sailed for New Zealand some time
previously to his wife) is an engineer. She is about
5 feet 1 inch in height, slim built, stoops slightly, has
blue eyes, fair complexion, and is somewhat near-
sighted.

Any one possessing information respecting the
above-named person is requested to communicate the
same to this office.

G. S. COOPER.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 9th May, 1877.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a
Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be
opened at

PUKEKOHE (Chief Office, Auckland),
from and after the 1st June next..

By order.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Designation of Post Office changed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1877.

IT is hereby notified, for general information, that
the designation of the Post Office in the Auck-