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and also Vaccination Inspectors, for the districts set
opposite their names:—

Name. District.
FREDERICK JOSEPH POPPLEWELL ... Winton.
GRAHAM LORD GREENWOOD ... Turanga.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be
the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of
Births and Deaths, for the districts set opposite
their names:—

Name. District.
JAMES LOVELL NEIGHBOUR ... Tauranga.
JAMES MCINNIS ... Kumara.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Summons to Legislative Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in Her Majesty's
name, summoned

HORI KEREI TAIAROA; Esq.,
of Otago, to the Legislative Council of New Zealand,
by writ of summons under the Seal of the Colony.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Clerk of Assessment Courts appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HERBERT BROWN BRIDGE
to be Clerk of the Assessment Court under "The
Rating Act, 1876," for the following districts within
the County of Akaroa: Okain's Bay Road District,
Pigeon Bay Road District, Port Levy Road District,
Little River Road District.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th February, 1879.

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

Name. Occupation. Residence.
Antonio Matacero ... Fishmonger ... Wellington.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Notice of Intention to constitute a new Road Dis-
trict, to be called the North Ashburton Road
District.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be
notified, in pursuance of the provisions of "The

Canterbury Roads Ordinance Amendment Act, 1877,"
that he has received a petition praying that the
portion of the Lower Ashburton Road District
north of the River Ashburton, as described here-
under in Schedule A, may be severed from the afore-
said district and constituted a new district, to be
called the North Ashburton Road District. The
boundaries of the Lower Ashburton Road District
will, after such subdivision, be those described here-
under in Schedule B.

G. S. WHITMORE.

SCHEDULE A.

DESCRIPTION OF THE NORTH ASHBURTON ROAD
DISTRICT.

THE North Ashburton Road District comprises all
that portion of the Provincial District of Canter-
bury bounded towards the North-east by the
South Rakaia Road District; towards the North-west
by the Great Southern Railway and by the Town of
Ashburton; towards the South-west by a line
running along the middle of the Ashburton River;
and towards the South-east by the South Pacific
Ocean: as the same is delineated on the plan
deposited in the Survey Office, Christchurch.

SCHEDULE B.

DESCRIPTION OF THE LOWER ASHBURTON ROAD
DISTRICT.

THE Lower Ashburton Road District comprises all
that portion of the Provincial District of Canter-
bury bounded towards the North-east by a line
running along the middle of the Ashburton River;
towards the North-west by the Great Southern
Railway; towards the South-west by the Rangitata
River; and towards the South-east by the South
Pacific Ocean: as the same is delineated on the
plans deposited in the Survey Office, Christchurch.

Australian International Exhibition.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1879.

REFERRING to the notice published in the New
Zealand Gazette No. 36, of the 26th of April,
1878, relative to the Australian International Ex-
hibition to be held in Sydney, New South Wales, in
August, 1879, it is hereby further notified that the
Government of New Zealand will be prepared to
receive and to forward to Sydney any articles for
exhibition which may be prepared by persons resi-
dent in this colony.

A Royal Commission will be appointed immediately,
who will prepare and publish regulations under which
they will receive exhibits for transmission.

As articles for exhibition should be shipped from
Wellington not later than June next, persons wish-
ing to exhibit are invited to communicate with Dr.
Hector, the Chairman of the Royal Commission,
without delay.

All expenses of transmitting and exhibiting ap-
proved articles will be defrayed by the Government;
but, as experience has proved that in exhibitions of
this kind the best effect is produced by a few well-
displayed objects of considerable size, and as the
space allowed to the colony for exhibition will be
limited, a careful selection will have to be made, so
that the representation may be complete.

The Collectors of Customs at the various ports
have been instructed to receive exhibits, and to for-