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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Fixing Sittings of District Court at Timaru.

NORMANBY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power in that
behalf enabling me, I, George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint
that sittings of the District Court of the Timaru and
Oamaru District shall be held as follows, on and
after the first day of March next:—

At the Courthouse in North Street, Timaru, for
the despatch of Civil business, on the first day
of every month; and for the despatch of
Criminal business, on the first March and
first September in each year:

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a Sunday or holiday,
then the Court appointed for that day shall be
holden on the first day thereafter not being a
holiday.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-seventh day of
February, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.

J. BALLANCE.

Authorizing the taking and laying down of Roads
over Land granted to Natives in the Auckland
Provincial District.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
intituled "The Native Lands Act, 1873," it is
enacted that from and out of any land which may
have heretofore been or may be granted under the
provisions of any of the Acts thereby repealed, or of
that Act, it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any
time thereafter, to take and lay off for public pur-
poses one or more line or lines of road or railway
through the said lands: Provided that the total
quantity of land which may be taken for such line or
lines of road shall not be more than after the rate of
five acres in every one hundred acres: Provided
always that this power shall cease and determine at
the expiration of ten years from the date of the
grant:

And whereas it is expedient that a fit and proper
person should be authorized to take and lay down
roads over the land specified in the Schedule hereto :

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of all powers
and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby
authorize Sidney Weetman, District Surveyor of
Auckland, to take and lay down roads over the land
specified in the Schedule hereto, and for that purpose
to exercise all such powers as by the said Act may
be exercised by a person legally authorized in that
behalf under the said Act.

SCHEDULE OF NATIVE LANDS.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-seventh day of

February, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.

J. BALLANCE.

Public Vaccinator appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1878.

IT is hereby notified that, under the provisions of
"The Public Health Act, 1876," His Excellency
the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-
mentioned gentleman to be a Public Vaccinator, to
perform gratuitous vaccination in accordance with
the provisions of the said Act, and any regulations
made or to be made thereunder, for the district men-
tioned in the Schedule hereto, and set opposite his
name.

SCHEDULE.
PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.
HENRY CLAYTON Drury.

J. BALLANCE,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Appointments in Lunatic Asylums.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointments :—
JOHN HENRY WHITELAW,
Keeper of the Wellington Asylum. Appointment to
date from 7th June, 1877.

EDWARD PHILPOT,
Clerk to the Wellington Asylum. Appointment to
date from 1st August, 1877.

JAMES WILLIAM HUME GORDON,,
Clerk to the Christchurch Asylum. Appointment to
date from 7th April, 1877.

J. BALLANCE,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Registration Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
MARCUS FURLONG SOUTH
to be Registration Officer for the Electoral Districts
of Hokitika and Totara, for the election of Members
of the House of Representatives. This appointment
to take effect from 1st January, 1878.

J. BALLANCE,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Medical Board for Christchurch Hospital appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint
James S. Turnbull, Esq., M.D.,
William Deamer, Esq., M.D.,
Patrick Doyle, Esq., M.D.,
John David Frankish, Esq., M.D.,
Thomas Bell Hay, Esq., M.R.C.S.E.,
Courtney Nedwill, Esq., M.D., and
Llewellyn Powell, Esq., M.D.,
to be the Medical Board for the Hospital at Christ-
church.

J. BALLANCE,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)