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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Receivers of Gold Revenue authorized to collect
Rents, &c.

Secretary for Gold Fields' Office,
Wellington, 16th May, 1878.

H
IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize the Receivers of Gold Revenue
under-mentioned to collect rents, &c., under the
Gold Fields Acts:-

FREDERICK HENRY IBBETSON, Esq., Lyell.
ERNEST CHARLES KELLING, Esq., Ahaura.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister of Lands.

Gold-Mining lease cancelled.

Secretary for Gold Fields' Office,
Wellington, 16th May, 1878.

I
T is hereby notified that His Excellency the Go-
vernor has been pleased to pronounce the under-
mentioned gold-mining lease cancelled:-

No. 787, Edward Masters and others, 16 acres
2 roods, in the District of Grey Valley, Provincial
District of Nelson.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister of Lands.

Board of Inquiry appointed at Westport for hearing
and deciding Applications for Mineral Leases.

Secretary for Gold Fields' Office,
Wellington, 16th May, 1878.

H
IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint, under the provisions of "The Mines
Act, 1877,"

CHARLES BROAD, Esq., Warden,
ARTHUR DUDLEY DOBSON, Esq., Resident En-
gineer, and
ROBERT WHYTE, Esq., J.P., Mayor,

all of Westport, to be a Board of Inquiry for the
purpose of hearing and deciding all applications for
mineral leases (of which Board the Warden shall be
Chairman), within the division of the Nelson South-
West Mining District for which the Warden is
acting.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister of Lands.

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

I
N conformity with the thirty-seventh section of
“The Mines Act, 1877,” and with the regulations
made under that Act for the granting of leases for
gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it is
intended to grant a lease for gold-mining purposes of
Crown lands to the applicant specified in the annexed
Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections
against such lease.

Objections to granting such lease, stating the
grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and
lodged with the Warden at Greymouth, on or before
the 27th day of May, 1878.
Copy of the application made and plan annexed
may be seen at the Warden's office, at Greymouth.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Edward Rigg. Style under which it is
intended to conduct the business: "New Cornstock
Gold-Mining Company;" 400 by 200 yards, in the
Nelson South-West Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
eleventh day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister of Lands.

R
EGISTRAR-GENERAL'S REPORT on the Vital Statistics of the Boroughs of Auckland, Thames,
Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Hokitika, during the Month of April, 1878.

TABLE showing the Number of Births, the actual Mortality of Males and Females, and the Proportion of Deaths to Popula-
tion, in the Boroughs of Auckland, Thames, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Hokitika, during the Month
of April, 1878.

DEATHS IN THE BOROUGHS REGISTERED IN APRIL, 1878.

The deaths of persons not residents of the boroughs, occurring at hospitals, have been excluded in all cases.

The births were 8 more than in March.

The deaths were 14 less in number than the deaths in March.

Of the deaths, males contributed 49; females, 53: 50 of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 49.02
per cent. of the whole number; 40 of these were of children under 1 year of age.

There were 7 deaths of persons over 65 years of age: 1 of these persons was a male and 6 were females; 3 females, 2 of 78
and 1 of 84, died at Wellington; 1 male of 68 and 1 female of 66 at Nelson; 1 female of 82 at Christchurch; and 1 female of
92 at Dunedin.