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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

PICTON AND BLENHEIM RAILWAY.—BLENHEIM
CONTRACT.
(Length about one mile and a half, with bridge over
Opawa River.)
Accepted.
Henderson and Fergus, Dunedin ...
Declined.
Davies Brothers, Blenheim ...

£ s. d.
9,969 4 0
18,534 13 0

Appointments, Surveyor-General's Department.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
GEORGE STANIFORD ANDERSON, Esq.,
to be a Surveyor in the Surveyor-General's Depart-
ment; the appointment to date from 24th December,
1878; and
ANDREW ROBERT FORBES, Esq.,
to be a Draughtsman in the Surveyor-General's
Department; the appointment dating from 11th
December, 1878.

J. T. FISHER,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Member of House of Representatives elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1879.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to
the Writ issued by him on the fourth day of
December, 1878, 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 Gladstone:
JOHN STUDHOLME.

G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Sheep Inspector's Report.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1879.

THE Inspector of Sheep for the Wanganui Dis-
trict (Mr. Frederick E. Hickson) reports that
he has cancelled the clean certificate held by J.
Morgan and Son, for a flock of sheep numbering
eight hundred (800); dated the 20th December.
Also that on the 23rd December he granted a
clean certificate to Messrs. Morton and Lupton, of
Waverley, for a flock of sheep numbering five hun-
dred and twelve (512).

G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

Designations of Post Offices changed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1879.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
the designations of the Post Offices in the Postal
District of Auckland, formerly known as Woodside
and Waitoa, have been changed respectively to
PAPATOITOI and MORRINSVILLE.

By order of the Postmaster-General.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—His Honor the Chief Justice has, this
thirteenth day of January, 1879, appointed
WILLIAM FIELD BARRETT, of 58, Chancery Lane,
Melbourne, Victoria, a Solicitor of the Supreme
Court of Victoria, to be a Commissioner for New
Zealand under the second section of "The Commis-
sioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the
purpose of taking any oath, affidavit, or affirmation
as in the second section mentioned.

ALEX. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Wellington, 13th January, 1879.

Sale of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 31st December, 1878.

NOTICE is hereby given that there will be offered
for sale by public auction, at the District
Land Office, Patea, on Tuesday, the 11th day of
March, 1879, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, the fol-
lowing sections of surveyed rural Crown lands,
situate in the Wairoa District.
Maps and printed schedules containing detailed
particulars can be seen at the District Land Office,
Patea; the Public Works Office, Wanganui; and at
the Land Office, Wellington.
Twenty-five per cent. of the purchase-money to be
paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance in a
month.

Jos. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Chairman, Land Board.

SCHEDULE.