THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

WHANGAREI RAILWAY (KAMO CONTRACT).
Accepted.
Thomas Jones, Auckland
... 3,936 4 6
Declined.
Hart and Horn, Auckland
... 3,954 6 0
Robert Ferrall, Auckland
... 3,997 1 6
James Lanigan, Auckland
... 4,299 0 0
William Foughey, Auckland
... 4,336 13 7
Akerley and Nicolson, Auckland
... 5,220 5 3
Malcolm McInnes, Auckland
... 5,525 5 0
John Taylor, Auckland
... 5,550 11 0
Alexander Sutherland, Auckland
... 6,484 1 8
Daniel Fallon, Auckland
... 7,221 15 6

Member of House of Representatives elected.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 14th March, 1879.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to
the Writ issued by him on the seventeenth day
of February, 1879, for the election of a Member to
serve in the House of Representatives of New Zea-
land, for the electoral district hereinafter specified;
and by the indorsement on such Writ it appears that
the under-mentioned gentleman has been duly elected
Member for such district, viz.:

For the District of City of Auckland West:
DAVID GOLDIE.

G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Accountant and Chief Clerk, Government Insurance
Department, appointed.

Government Insurance Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
HUGH SCOTT HEPBURN LYALL, Esq.,
to be Accountant and Chief Clerk in the Government
Insurance Department.

D. M. LUCKIE,
Commissioner.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1879.—NOTICE No. 5

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 14th March, 1879.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information: —

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.

The Reverend John Lloyd Keating, M.A.
The Reverend Edward Eliot Chambers.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—His Honor the Chief Justice has, this
eleventh day of March, 1879, appointed
EDWARD AUGUSTUS ATKYNS, of Melbourne, in the
Colony of Victoria, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court
of Victoria, to be a Commissioner of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand, for the purpose of taking
any oath, affidavit, or affirmation; also for taking
acknowledgments of married women, under the
second and fourth sections of "The Commissioners
of the Supreme Court Act, 1875."

ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 11th March, 1879.

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Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—His Honor the Chief Justice has, this
thirteenth day of March, 1879, appointed
LLEWELLYN CHARLES RUSSELL JONES, of Sydney,
New South Wales, Solicitor, to be a Commissioner
in New South Wales for the purpose of taking any
oath, affidavit, or affirmation, and for taking acknow-
ledgments of married women, under the second and
fourth sections of "The Commissioners of the
Supreme Court Act, 1875."

ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 13th March, 1879.

Balance-Sheet of the Auckland Savings Bank for the
Year 1878.

STATEMENT of the Receipts and Payments of
the Auckland Savings Bank for the Year end-
ing 31st December, 1878.

RECEIPTS.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Cash in hand 1st January, 1878 4,465 19 5
Amounts lodged by Depositors... 105,282 16 7
Interest added during the year... 568 13 0
Interest added 31st December,
1878 ... 4,477 3 6 110,328 13 1
Interest on Mortgages and Debentures 6,511 14 9
Interest on Deposit with Bank of Australasia... 2,253 16 9
Mortgages repaid... 7,205 0 0
Insurances repaid 13 16 3
£167,779 0 3

PAYMENTS.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Repaid Depositors ... 87,374 6 6
Interest credited to Depositors 5,045 16 6 92,420 3 0
Excavations and laying water service, &c. 104 11 6
Charges ... 1,162 18 10
Insurances prepaid 12 6 3
Invested on Mortgage 37,100 0 0
Cash in hand 36,979 0 8
£167,779 0 3

RICHARD CAMERON, Manager.
S. G. ROUNTREE, Accountant.

We hereby certify that we have examined the
above statement of the receipts and payments of
the Auckland Savings Bank, and that, to the best of
our belief, it contains a true and correct account of
all transactions of the Bank during the year; and
that the balance of cash in hand amounts to thirty-
six thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine pounds
and eight pence.

W. S. LAURIE,
J. EDSON,
J. L. WILSON, } Trustees.
J. HOWARD,

Auckland, 31st December, 1878.

STATEMENT of the Assets and Liabilities of the Auck-
land Savings Bank on the 31st December, 1878.

ASSETS.
£ £ s. d.
To Amount invested on Mortgage 100,830 0 0
" Amount invested in Deben-
tures ... 5,900 0 0 106,730 0 0
" Amount of Interest due 31st December, 1878 2,154 12 0
" Bank Premises 3,500 0 0
" Cash in Bank of Australasia (working
account) 36,979 0 8
£149,363 12 8
To Balance ... £16,038 11 7