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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
of the House of Representatives for the Electoral
Districts of Hokitika and Totara. Appointment to
date from 1st January, 1878.
J. BALLANCE,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Registrar of Dogs appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN MCCULLOCH
to be Registrar of Dogs for the district comprised
within the County of Manawatu, vice W. Osborn,
resigned.

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

Trustees for the Hokonui Rabbit District appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ROBERT TAYLOR,
GEORGE MEREDITH BELL,
PATRICK KINNEY MCCAUGHAN,
CUTHBERT COWAN, and
ALEXANDER MCNEIL,
to be Trustees under "The Rabbit Nuisance Act
1876 Amendment Act, 1877," for the Rabbit Dis-
trict of Hokonui.

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

Trustees for West Oreti Rabbit District appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ROBERT FERGUSON CUTHBERTSON,
JOHN CHUTE ELLIS,
ROBERT WALTER AITKEN,
WILLIAM JOHNSTON, and
JAMES HOLMES,
to be Trustees under "The Rabbit Nuisance Act
1876 Amendment Act, 1877," for the Rabbit Dis-
trict of West Oreti.

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

Rangers appointed under "Protection of Animals
Act, 1873" (Hawke's Bay).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
CHARLES MORGAN
to be a Ranger under "The Protection of Animals
Act, 1873," within the Provincial District of Hawke's
Bay; and also to appoint the under-mentioned mem-
bers of the Armed Constabulary Force to be Rangers
under the said Act within the same provincial
district:-

Sergeant David McGuire.
Constable Joseph Strandwick.
Constable Joseph Motley.
Constable Alfred James Mitchell. -
Constable Gerald Tronson.
Constable James Robinson.

Constable David Shaw.
Constable John Ryan.
Constable Thomas Hervey.

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

Rangers appointed under "Protection of Animals
Act, 1873" (Wellington).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN GOSLING and
J. C. FULTON,
to be Rangers under "The Protection of Animals
Act, 1873," within the Provincial District of Wel-
lington.

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

Judges of Assessment Courts for Counties of Ash-
burton, Waipawa, and Hawke's Bay appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
RICHMOND BEETHAM, Esq., R.M.,
to be Judge of the Assessment Courts for the district
comprised within the Counties of Waipawa and
Hawke's Bay; and
ALEXANDER LE GRAND CAMPBELL, Esq., R.M.,
to be Judge of the Assessment Court for the district
comprised within the County of Ashburton.

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

Notice of Petition for certain Land to be added to the
Borough of Ross.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be
notified that unless within two months after
the publication of this notice a petition is presented
to His Excellency the Governor, signed by not less
than one-third of the burgesses of the Borough of
Ross, or a petition signed by not less than one-third
of the resident householders in the district proposed
to be added to the aforesaid borough, praying that
such district may not be incorporated into the said
borough, His Excellency will, by Proclamation, in-
corporate into the said borough the said district.
The boundaries of the district proposed to be incor-
porated are as follows:-

Starting from the junction of Donnelly's Creek
with the Jones' Creek Storm Channel; and bounded
towards the North-east by a right line from the said
junction to Trigonometrical Station A, thence by a
right line to the source of Quartz Creek (left branch
of Donnelly's Creek); thence towards the South-east
by a right line to the western end of the Mikonui
Water-race Tunnel; thence towards the South-west
by a right line to the southernmost corner of the
existing Borough of Ross; and towards the North-
west by said borough.

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