THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Members of South Waimakariri Board of Conservators
appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

The Rev. ARTHUR PYNE O'CALLAGHAN, M.A., and
ANDREW DUNCAN, Esq.,
to be Members of the Board of Conservators for the
South Waimakariri River District, vice the Hon. J.
T. Fisher and the Hon. J. T. Peacock, resigned.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Judge of Assessment Courts for Counties appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ROBERT STUART, Esq., R.M.,
to be the Judge of the Assessment Courts for the
districts comprised within the Counties of Hawke's
Bay and Waipawa.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Commissioner for Bull's Local Board elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1879.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under
the hand of the Returning Officer (Mr. T. F.
Munro), that

Mr. CHARLES BULL
was, on the 28th instant, duly elected a Commis-
sioner for the Bull's Local District, vice Mr. F. W.
Evans, resigned.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Chairman of Petty Sessions Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN SHEPHERD, Esq., J.P.,
to be Chairman of the Petty Sessions Court for the
District of Port Albert.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st February, 1879.

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

JOHN CARGILL, Esq.,
of Dunedin, of his appointment as a Justice of the
Peace for the Colony.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint

George Charles Bowman, Esq., of Greymouth;
William Evans Dive, Esq., of Havelock, Marl-
borough;
Lipman Levy, Esq., of Wellington;
John Mills, Esq., of Port Chalmers;

Richard Nancarrow, Esq., of Greymouth;
Thomas Redwood, Esq., of Wairau;
Andrew Thomson, Esq., of Port Chalmers,
to be Justices of the Peace for the colony.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

Registrar of Supreme Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

COLIN MCKENZIE GORDON, Esq.,
to be Registrar at Dunedin of the Supreme Court
of New Zealand, vice Edward Ffrancis Ward, Esq.,
resigned.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister of Justice.)

Interpreters appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 29th January, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

THOMAS TREVOR HULL, of Otamatea,
WILLIAM ARTHUR THOMS, of Matata,
WILLIAM OLIVER, of Alexandra, and
JAMES S. MASTER, of Napier,
to be Interpreters under the twelfth section of "The
Native Land Act, 1873."

G. S. WHITMORE,
(in the absence of the Native Minister.)

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 5 of 1879.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th February, 1879.

THE following regulation of the Victoria Steam
Navigation Board, received from the Commis-
sioner of Trade and Customs, Melbourne, is published
for general information.

G. GREY.

REGULATION OF THE VICTORIA STEAM NAVIGATION
BOARD.

THE following regulation of the Victoria Steam
Navigation Board, which has been approved by the
Governor in Council under the 116th section of
"The Passengers, Harbours, and Navigation Statute,
1865," is published for general information; to take
effect on and after the date of the publication hereof.

PETER LALOR,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Department of Trade and Customs,
Melbourne, 27th December, 1878.

Regulation.

Every steam vessel navigating any river or narrow
channel within any port shall keep, as far as prac-
ticable, to that side of the fairway or mid-channel
thereof which lies on the starboard side of such
vessel, and shall, at least for a distance of five
hundred yards before approaching, and whilst round-
ing, any bend in the said rivers or narrow channels,
sound the steam whistle at least once every half
minute, so as to give sufficient warning to any
approaching vessel, and thereby lessen the risk of
collision.