THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 81

of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; 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 Wellington,
this twentieth day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Appointing person before whom Mayor &c. shall make
Declaration.

NORMANBY, Governor.

NOTICE.

INCORPORATED TOWN OF SOUTH INVERCARGILL.

WHEREAS by the twenty-eighth section of "The
Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance,
1865," it is provided that no person elected to be
Mayor, Councillor, or Auditor under the said Ordi-
nance shall be capable of acting as such until he
shall first, in the presence of any two Councillors
have made and subscribed the declaration therein set
forth: Provided that, at the first elections under
the said Ordinance for any incorporated town, such
declaration shall be made before a person to be
appointed for that purpose by the Superintendent of
Otago: And whereas by section seven of "The
Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," it is, among other
things, enacted that all powers, duties, and functions
which immediately before the date of the abolition
of any province under the said Act were vested in
the Superintendent of such abolished province should,
on the date of the abolition of such province, and
for the purposes of the district included within such
abolished province, vest in and be exercised and per-
formed by the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do, hereby, in pursuance of all
powers in this behalf vested in me, appoint

HENRY MCCULLOCH, Esq., Resident Magistrate,
as and to be the person before whom the persons
elected as Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors re-
spectively, at the first elections under the said
Ordinance for the Incorporated Town of South
Invercargill, shall make and subscribe the declara-
tion specified in the said twenty-eighth section of the
said Ordinance.

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
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 Go-
vernment House, at Wellington, this
twentieth day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Returning Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

CYPRIAN WYNYARD BRIDGE, Esq.,
a Returning Officer under the fifth section of "The
Ellesmere and Forsyth Reclamation and Akaroa
Railway Trust Act, 1876," for the District of the
Springs, vice Frederick Richard Inwood, Esq.

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

Commissioners appointed to manage Wallacetown
Hatching Ponds.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

The Hon. J. A. R. MENZIES,
The Hon. W. H. NURSE,
W. WOOD, Esq.,
J. R. CUTHBERTSON, Esq., and
Commander E. M. HANKINSON, R.N.,
Commissioners for the management of the Hatching
Ponds at Wallacetown, near Invercargill.

His Excellency has further been pleased to appoint
The Hon. J. A. R. MENZIES
Chairman of the Commissioners.

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

Notice of Cancelling Clean Certificate by Inspector
of Sheep for the East Coast District.

Provincial Buildings,
Wellington, 13th January, 1877.

NOTICE has been received by me from the In-
spector of Sheep for the East Coast District
that he has cancelled the Clean Certificate of
Rev. J. C. ANDREW for his Sugar Loaf (ewe)
flock of sheep.

Date, 11th December, 1876.

HENRY BUNNY.

Notice of Granting Clean Certificate by Inspector of
Sheep for Wanganui District.

Provincial Buildings,
Wellington, 13th January, 1877.

NOTICE has been received by me, from the In-
spector of Sheep for the Wanganui District,
that he has granted a Clean Certificate to
Mr. DUNCAN McGREGOR, No. 2 Line, for the
whole of his flock of sheep, numbering 700.

HENRY BUNNY.

Reports of Sheep Inspectors for the East Coast and
Wanganui Districts.

Masterton, 29th December, 1876.

SIR, -I have the honor to forward you my Report
for the year ending 29th December, 1876.

I am happy to say I have succeeded in collecting
all assessments.

With regard to the state of sheep in my district,
I very much regret that scab still exists in some of
the flocks, although to only a slight extent, except in
one instance, there being only one flock that is really
badly infected. And I trust that, through the exer-
tions of the owners of infected sheep, and the