1770 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 118

Dog Registrar appointed (Otago).
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ALEXANDER NELSON
to be a Registrar under "The Otago Dog Nuisance
Ordinance, 1862," within the County of Bruce; and
also to appoint the Bruce County Council Offices,
Milton, to be the place where the fees for registration
shall be received.
H. A. ATKINSON,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at
Tapanui, and Clerk of the Licensing Court for the
District of Wendon, vice Constable C. Dunnett,
resigned.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM THOMAS WYATT, Esq.,
to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and
of Births and Deaths for the District of Wellington.
H. A. ATKINSON,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Member of Land Board appointed.
General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
reappoint
CHARLES LAMBERT, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Land Board of the Land
District of Hawke's Bay, as from the 13th December,
1880.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Health Officer, Tauranga, appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
FREDERICK WILLIAM ARMITAGE, Esq.,
to be a Health Officer, under "The Public Health
Act, 1876," for the Port of Tauranga. This appoint-
ment to take effect on and from the 17th December
instant.
H. A. ATKINSON,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Mining Inspector appointed.
Mines Department,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES MONTEITH MCLAREN, Esq.,
to be Mining Inspector, under "The Gold-Mining
Districts Act, 1873," for the Aroha Gold-Mining
District, as from the 25th November, 1880.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Mines.

Justices of the Peace appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
James Beighton, Esq., Mayor of Roxburgh,
George Henry Blackwell, Esq., Mayor of Kaiapoi,
John Thompson Brown, Esq., Mayor of Sydenham,
Robert Hill Cathcart, Esq., Mayor of Palmerston,
James Daniel Garwood, Esq., Mayor of Akaroa,
Joseph Harris, Esq., Mayor of Marton,
John Knox, Esq., Mayor of Hamilton,
Frederick Allan Learmonth, Esq., Mayor of
Hokitika,
George Mitchell, Esq., Mayor of Maori Hill,
James Augustine Mooney, Esq., Mayor of Tapanui,
Robert Pritchard, Esq., Mayor of Arrowtown,
Archibald Grant Reid, Esq., Mayor of Hawkesbury,
Donald Reid, Esq., Mayor of Milton,
James Simmonds, Esq., Mayor of Alexandra,
Timothy James Warren, Esq., Mayor of Camp-
belltown, and
Norman Wood, Esq., Mayor of West Harbour,
to be Justices of the Peace under the "Municipal
Corporations Act, 1876."
WM. ROLLESTON.

Notice of Petition for certain Land to be added to
the Borough of Thames.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1880.
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 Thames, or a
petition signed by at least ninety-five of the resident
householders in the district proposed to be added to
the aforesaid borough, praying that such district
may not be incorporated into the said borough, His
Excellency will, by Proclamation, incorporate into
the said borough the said district, such district
when so added to form a separate ward of the said
borough.
The boundaries of the district proposed to be in-
corporated are as follow:-
All that parcel of land in the Provincial District
of Auckland, bounded towards the West and North
by the middle of the Hape Creek, from its confluence
with the Kauaeranga River to the northern boundary
of the Shortland Township Reserve; thence again
towards the North by lines along the northern
boundary of said reserve to the Church Mission
land; thence by lines along the northern boundary
of said land to the Waikeikei Creek; thence towards
the East by the said creek to the Gold Field
boundary; thence again towards the North by said
Gold Field boundary to a point on said boundary
about 32 chains (measured along said boundary)
from the right bank of the said Kauaeranga River;
thence again towards the East by a right line drawn
at right angles to said boundary to said Kauaeranga
River; and thence towards the South by the said
river to the Hape Creek, the starting point.
H. A. ATKINSON,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Clerk of Court appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 20th December, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
CHRISTOPHER CONN