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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Ranger of Crown Lands, Westland, appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

THOMAS KNOWLES CHRISTIAN,
to be a Ranger of Crown Lands for the Westland
Land District, as from the 1st of January instant.

J. MACANDREW.

Sheep Inspector's Notice.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1878.

THE Inspector for the Wanganui District reports
that the number of sheep within his boundaries
on which assessment has been paid are 139,875, being
an increase of 10,419 over the years 1876, 1877;
and that the fees paid amount to £291 7s. 7\u00bdd.
Two or three flocks only are reported diseased.

Jos. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Notification of Resignation of Seat in the House of
Representatives for Electoral District of the City
of Wellington.

IN compliance with the provisions of the thirteenth
section of "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1870," I hereby notify that William Thomas Locke
Travers, Esquire, resigned his seat in the House of
Representatives for the Electoral District of the
City of Wellington, on the twenty-fifth day of
January, 1878; and that the said seat is vacant by
reason of such resignation.

Dated at Wellington, the twenty-eighth day of
January, 1878.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Speaker.

Notification of Resignation of Seat in the House of
Representatives for Electoral District of Parnell.

IN compliance with the provisions of the thirteenth
section of "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1870," I hereby notify that Reader Gilson Wood,
Esquire, resigned his seat in the House of Repre-
sentatives for the Electoral District of Parnell, on
the twenty-first day of January, 1878; and that the
said seat is vacant by reason of such resignation.

Dated at Wellington, the twenty-eighth day of
January, 1878.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Speaker.

Officiating Ministers under "The Marriage Act,
1854."

"MARRIAGE ACT, 1854."

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1878.—NOTICE No. 1.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1878.

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 LIST OF OFFICIATING MINISTERS
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information :--

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.

The Reverend Philip Cuthbert Anderson
"
John Chapman Andrew, M.A.

The Reverend T. E. Ash, B.A.
"
Benjamin Yate Ashwell
"
William Aylmer, M.A.
"
Frederick Thomas Baker
"
William Ballachey
"
Joseph Bates
"
George Philip Beaumont, M.A.
"
Robert O'Callaghan Biggs
"
William Booth
"
Croasdaile Bowen, B.D.
"
Reginald Robert Bradley, B.A.
"
Laurence Carsley Brady
"
Edward Nugent Bree
"
Frederick George Brittan, M.A.
The Venerable Archdeacon Alfred Nesbitt Brown
The Reverend Henry Handley Brown, M.A.
The Venerable Robert Burrows
The Reverend Henry Francis Butt
The Reverend Charles John Byng
"
William Calder
"
George James Cholmondeley
The Venerable Archdeacon Edward Bloomfield Clarke,
D.D.
The Reverend Jeffrey Fynes Clinton
"
Charles Coates
"
Harry Bromley Cocks, M.A.
"
Richard Coffey, B.A.
"
Henry Collins
"
William Henry Cooper
"
George Cotterill, B.A., Canon
The Right Reverend William Garden Cowie, D.D.,
Bishop
The Reverend Edward Samuel Cross
"
Lyttelton Lucas Cubitt
"
Alexander Dasent
"
Charles Daniel De Castro
"
John Dewe
"
Benjamin Thornton Dudley
The Venerable Archdeacon Benjamin Woolley Dud-
ley, M.A.
The Reverend Christopher Blencoe Dunn
"
Herbert Edward East
"
John Charles Eccles
The Venerable Archdeacon Edward George Edwards,
B.A.
The Reverend William Henry Elton
"
Thomas Fancourt
"
Henry Fendall, B.A.
"
Thomas Flavell
"
George Foster
"
Edward Freeman, M.A.
"
Algernon Gifford
"
Hannibal John Corydon Gilbert
"
Henry Glasson, B.A.
"
Charles Kilgrove Gosset
"
Frank Gould
"
Henry George Gould
The Venerable Archdeacon Henry Govett, B.A.
The Reverend Thomas Samuel Grace
"
Thomas Samuel Grace, jun.
"
Edward Hadden Granger, M.A.
The Right Reverend Octavius Hadfield, Bishop
The Reverend Richard Augustus Hall, M.A.
"
Hugh Henry Scriven Hamilton, B.A.
"
David Orr Hampton
"
Francis Augustus Hare, M.A.
The Most Reverend Henry John Chitty Harper,
D.D., Primate
The Venerable Archdeacon Henry William Harper,
M.A.
The Reverend Walter Harper, M.A.
"
Bache Wright Harvey, M.A.
"
John Haselden
"
John Hobbs
"
De Berdt Hovell
"
Tamihana Huata