THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1815

HERBERT FITZWILLIAM WAY, Esq.,
of Wairoa, near Rotorua, County of Tauranga; and
HARTLEY MCINTIRE, Esq.,
of Blenheim, to be Justices of the Peace for the
colony.

JOHN SHEEHAN.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th December, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

THOMAS GEORGE BLAKEY, Esq., Mayor of
Onehunga;
THOMAS PEACOCK, Esq., Mayor of Auckland;
CHARLES SAMSON, Esq., Mayor of Green Island;
and
EDMUND JOHN SCHLOTEL, Esq., Mayor of North-
East Valley,
to be Justices of the Peace under "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1876."

JOHN SHEEHAN.

Master of Industrial School appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th December, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

CHARLES ROSEVEARE
to be Master of the Industrial School at Burnham,
vice R. A. Colee, deceased.

JOHN SHEEHAN.

Designation of Corps altered.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th December, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
alter the designation of the Invercargill
Engineer Volunteers to
The Invercargill Engineer Artillery Volunteers.
This corps will form part of the New Zealand
Regiment of Artillery Volunteers, as
Battery K.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Member of Land Board of the Land District of
Southland appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ANDREW KINROSS, Esq.,
to be a member of the Land Board of the Land
District of Southland, vice the Hon. Sir J. L. C.
Richardson, deceased.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Land.

Interpreter appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

CHARLES WILSON HURSTHOUSE,
of New Plymouth, to be an Interpreter under the
twelfth section of "The Native Land Act, 1873."

JOHN SHEEHAN.

Assessor appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

PATARA RANGI
to be an Assessor for the purposes of "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867," "The Native Circuit Courts
Act, 1858," and "The Native Circuit Courts Act
Amendment Act, 1862," within the District of
Poverty Bay.

JOHN SHEEHAN.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1878. - NOTICE No. 20.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 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 name of an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information:---

Church of Christ.
The Reverend MATTHEW WOOD GREEN.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Gold-Mining Lease Certificate declared void.

IN pursuance of "The Mines Act, 1877," and the
regulations thereunder for the granting and issue
of gold-mining leases, it is hereby notified that, in
consequence of the applicants for a lease of Section
6, Block VII., Table Hill District, having declined to
execute such lease, the Certificate No. 33c has been
declared void, and that the said land is now open to
persons holding miners' rights or business licenses,
or to applicants for a lease, as if no lease of the same
had been applied for.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this fifth day
of December, 1878.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Agricultural Lease Certificate declared void.

IN pursuance of "The Mines Act, 1877," and the
regulations thereunder for the granting and issue
of agricultural leases, it is hereby notified that, in
consequence of the person in whose favour Agricul-
tural Lease No. 1654c, of Section 3, Block IV.,
Wakefield, was issued, having refused to execute
such lease in terms of No. 14 of the said regulations,
the certificate under which the said section was
occupied has been declared void, and the land open
for application, as if no such certificate or lease had
been issued.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this 20th day
of November, 1878.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Sale of Crown Lands.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
allotments of Crown lands will be offered for
sale by public auction, at the Lands Office, Hokitika,
on Wednesday, the 8th day of January, 1879, at 2
o'clock p.m.
One-fourth of the purchase money to be paid at