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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirtieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Notice of Petition.—Certain Land to be added to the Borough of Maori Hill.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st May, 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 signed by not less than one-third of the burgesses of the Borough of Maori Hill, or a petition signed by not less than one-third of the resident householders in certain land adjoining the said borough, praying that such land may not be incorporated into the said borough, His Excellency will, by Proclamation, incorporate into the said borough the said land.

The boundaries of the district proposed to be incorporated are as follows:—

Bounded towards the North by a right line due east from Swampy Hill to the north-eastern corner of Section numbered 44, Block VIII., North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District; thence towards the East and South-east by a line due south to Section numbered 55, by said Section numbered 55, Section numbered 58, a road line, Sections numbered respectively 35, 8, 7, a road line, Sections numbered respectively 5, 6, 14, 17, 10, a road line, Sections numbered respectively 9, 50, 15, 13, and 12, and a road line to the Borough of North-East Valley; thence by that borough to the Town Belt of Dunedin; thence by the said Town Belt to Section numbered 7, Block I., Upper Kaikorai Survey District; thence towards the South-west by Section numbered 7 aforesaid, across a road line, by Sections numbered respectively 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19, Block III., Upper Kaikorai Survey District, to Section numbered 104; thence by said Section numbered 104, a road line, Section numbered 10, a road line, and Section numbered 51, to the Bush Reserve, Block V., Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District; towards the West by Bush Reserve aforesaid, by a road line, Sections numbered respectively 4 of 40, 3 of 40, 2 of 40, 2 of 38, 61, 4 of 49, 3 of 49, 50, 51, 1 of 52, 53, 54, 55, 9, 10, 11, a road line, and Section numbered 3, to Swampy Hill, the starting point: excluding from the above area the existing Borough of Maori Hill.

G. S. WHITMORE.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st May, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned members of the Armed Constabulary Force to be Rangers, under "The Protection of Animals Act, 1873," within the Provincial District of Wellington:—
JOHN GILLESPIE,
JOHN PURCELL,
THOMAS PRICE, and
JAMES COOTES;
and has also been pleased to appoint
MARTIN BURNS
to be a Ranger under the said Act within the Provincial District of Canterbury.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Members of Wakaia Road Board appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st May, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
GEORGE ROBERT HANSON,
GEORGE MOFFATT, and
JOSEPH GEORGE BROWN
to be Members of the Wakaia Road Board for the Nokomai Subdivision of the Wakaia Road District, as constituted under "The Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871."

G. S. WHITMORE.

Members of Licensing Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th May, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
JOSEPH GODFREY HOLDSWORTH, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Member of the Licensing Courts for the Districts of City of Wellington, Thorndon; City of Wellington, Lambton; City of Wellington, Te Aro; Karori-Makara, and Porirua, vice David Lewis, Esq., J.P., resigned; and
ALFRED DILLON BELL, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Licensing Court for the District of Macraes, vice Edward Wingfield Humphreys, Esq., J.P.

ROBERT STOUT,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

Prison Surgeon appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th May, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
ROBERT WITHERS, Esq., M.R.C.S.,
to be Surgeon to the Prison at Lawrence, vice Dr. Stewart, deceased.

ROBERT STOUT,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

Receipt of "Conscience Money" acknowledged.

Treasury,
Wellington, 30th May, 1878.

THE Receiver-General acknowledges the receipt, on the 4th instant, of an envelope posted in Sydney, addressed to the Collector of Customs at Auckland, and containing two one-pound notes of the Oriental Bank, Sydney, with a slip attached bearing the words "Conscience Money."

C. T. BATKIN,
Receiver-General.