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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

HERBERT WILLIAM BRABANT, Esq.,
to be Revising Officer for the Electoral District of
the East Coast.

damage to any such road, or to any bridge, hedge,
ditch, bank, fence, or protective work in connection
therewith; and any person or persons guilty of the
above-named offence shall, on conviction thereof, be
liable to forfeit and pay any penalty not exceeding
the sum of forty shillings for any one offence.

2. The word "cattle" shall, for the purposes of
   this by-law, be deemed to include horses, mules,
   asses, sheep, goats, and swine of all ages and of
   either sex, and to apply to any one of such animals
   as well as to a mob or herd.

Dated this 26th day of January, 1878.

B. MACMAHON,
Chairman.

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

I, Henry Alexander Tarrant, Secretary to the
Motueka Highway Board, do hereby certify that the
above is a true copy of by-laws passed by the
Motueka Highway Board on January 26th, 1878.

HENRY ALEXANDER TARRANT,
Secretary.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the under-mentioned
persons, viz. :-

I hereby approve these by-laws, this. 28th day of
March, 1878.

NORMANBY,
Governor.

Notice of Suspension of Native Interpreter cancelled.

Native Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1878.

IT is hereby notified that the Gazette notice of 25th
October, 1876, suspending the appointment of
ABRAHAM WARBRICK, Esq.,
of Tauranga, as Interpreter, under the twelfth section
of "The Native Land Act, 1873," has been cancelled
from this day.

J. BALLANCE,
(in the absence of the Native Minister.)

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

Ranger appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

DAVID DOUGLAS,

to be a Ranger under "The Protection of Animals
Act, 1873," within the Provincial District of Canter-
bury.

Change of Purpose of Reserve at Waipawa, Hawke's
Bay.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1878.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Go-
vernor has approved, under the provisions of
the 148th section of "The Land Act, 1877," of the
intended change of purpose of the reserve specified
in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Lands,

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

Member of Medical Board, Christchurch Hospital,
appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY HORSFORD PRINS, Esq.,

to be a Member of the Medical Board of the Christ-
church Hospital, Christchurch.

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

By-laws of Motueka Highway Board approved.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the following by-laws respecting
stray cattle passed by the Motueka Highway Board.

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

BY-LAWS PASSED BY THE MOTUEKA HIGHWAY BOARD
AT A MEETING HELD 26TH JANUARY, 1878.

1. No person shall permit any cattle to stray or
   depasture, whether under the tendence or control of
   any person or persons, or not, in or upon any road
   or the sides thereof, within the limits of the Panga-
   totara, Ngatimoti, Lower and Upper Moutere Sub-
   districts of the Motueka Highway District, defined
   as trunk roads in a Proclamation by the late
   Superintendent of Nelson, and published in a Pro-
   vincial Gazette, Vol. xv., No. 25, dated July 2nd,
   1867, thereby causing or being likely to cause any