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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF OTAGO.
Municipality of North-East Valley ... Isaac Newton Watt, Esq., R.M.
Municipality of Caversham ... John Bathgate, Esq., R.M.

PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF WESTLAND.
Borough of Hokitika ... Matthew Price, Esq., R.M.
Hokitika Harbour Board ... Matthew Price, Esq., R.M.

Appointing Day for Election of Board of Governors,
Auckland College.

NORMANBY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority for that purpose vested in me by "The
Auckland College and Grammar School Act, 1877,"
I, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
hereby notify that the first election of the Board of
Governors of the Auckland College not having been
held on the 25th day of January last, as originally
appointed, I do hereby appoint Friday, the 5th day
of April next, as the day for holding the first elec-
tion of the said Board of Governors.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this sixth
day of March, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-eight.

Resignation of Minister accepted.

Government House,
Auckland, 5th March, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

The Hon. WILLIAM JAMES MUDIE LARNACH,
of the offices of Colonial Treasurer, Minister of
Public Works, and Commissioner of Stamps.

IRWIN C. MALING,
Captain, 23rd Regiment,
Private Secretary.

Despatch from the Secretary of State.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th March, 1878.

THE following despatch from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
is published for general information.

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

Downing Street, 29th August, 1877.

MY LORD,—With reference to my circular despatch
of this day's date, I have the honor to inform your
Lordship that the Queen has been graciously pleased
to approve of Mr. H. B. Gresson, and Mr. H. S.
Chapman, who have retired from the Bench of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand, being permitted to
bear the title of "Honorable" for life, within the
colony, and to take precedence next after the Puisne
Judges of the Supreme Court.

I have, &c.,
CARNARVON.

Governor the Most Hon. the
Marquis of Normanby, G.C.M.G., &c.

Importation of Sheep into New South Wales.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th March, 1878.

THE following letter from the Colonial Secretary
of New South Wales is published for general
information.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Sydney, 22nd February, 1878.

SIR,—In acknowledging the receipt of your telegram
of the 14th instant, stating that the sheep in the
whole of New Zealand are perfectly free from all
diseases which the prohibition of importation was
designed to bar, and that neither foot and mouth
disease, pleuro-pneumonia, nor rinderpest exist in
any part of your colony, I have the honor to invite
your attention to the provisions of the New South
Wales "Sheep Act of 1866," and of "The Diseases in
Sheep Act Amendment Act of 1876" (copies of which
were forwarded to you in my letter of the 2nd of
this month); and to request that you will be good
enough to state whether scab exists in New Zealand,
as, if it does, it would preclude the landing of sheep
therefrom in this colony except for quarantine.

I have, &c.,
M. FITZPATRICK.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary of
New Zealand, Wellington.

Notice by Mayor of Hokitika under Section 145 of
"The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1878.

THE following notice, received from his Worship
the Mayor of Hokitika, is published for general
information, in accordance with section 145 of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

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

Town Clerk's Office,
Hokitika, January, 1878.

SIR,—I have the honor to give you notice that, at a
poll of the burgesses of the Borough of Hokitika,
taken at Hokitika, under section 142 of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1876," on the twenty-eighth
day of December, 1877, a resolution was carried to
raise a special loan of £16,000 for water supply
to the said borough, £8,000 for drainage works,
£4,000 for beach protective works, and £7,000 for
public works, roadways, and footways in the said
borough, and to pay the Bank overdraft.

It is proposed to pledge as security for above loan
a special rate of one shilling in the pound on all
rateable property within the borough; the balance
of interest and sinking fund to be made chargeable
against the Borough Fund Account (exclusive of
grants from the General Government).

I have the honor to request that you will have
the goodness to cause this notice to be published in
the New Zealand Gazette, in accordance with the
provisions of section 145 of the said Act.

I have, &c.,
F. A. LEARMONTH,
Mayor of Hokitika.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
Wellington.