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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

Receivers of Land-Tax appointed.

Land-Tax Office,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY RICHARD CLAYTON, Esq.,
to be Receiver of Land-Tax for the County of
Rodney; and

HENRY YOUNGMAN, Esq.,
to be Receiver of Land-Tax for the County of
Cheviot.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointments :—

L Battery of Artillery.

William John Waters to be Lieutenant.
David McWilliam Logan to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 1st March, 1880.

Wanganui Rifle Volunteers.

Thomas Low to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of com-
mission, 29th January, 1880.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Appointment of Volunteer Officer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th March, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointment :—

Christchurch City Guards.

Frederick Wyatt Francis to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 10th February, 1880.

H. A. ATKINSON..

Member of Timaru Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

MICHAEL STUDHOLME
to be a Member of the Timaru Harbour Board, vice
Edward Elworthy, resigned.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Marlborough Acclimatisation Society registered.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th March, 1880.

IT is hereby notified that a copy of the rules of
the
MARLBOROUGH ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY,
duly signed, have been deposited in this office, and
the said Society is therefore deemed to be a registered
Acclimatisation Society under "The Protection of
Animals Act, 1873."

THOMAS DICK.

Civil Service Literary Prize.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 20th March, 1880.

AN offer having been made to the Civil Service
Examination Board of a sum of £5 per annum,
for five years, to provide for prizes for the best essays
on the principles and practice of Parliamentary

Government, and cognate subjects, the Board an-
nounce that the subject for the present year shall be

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY
IN ENGLAND.

Prize to be competed for under the following con-
ditions :—

Conditions.

1. Competition to be open to all persons under the
   age of 25 years at this date who have passed either
   the Junior or Senior Civil Service Examination, and
   who are in the Civil Service at the time of competi-
   tion.
2. The prize to be in books or money, at the option
   of the prize-taker.
3. Essays to be legibly written, and on one side of
   the paper only.
4. Essays to be delivered to the Secretary of the
   Civil Service Examination Board, Wellington, by
   the 31st December, 1880.
5. No competitor to allow his name to appear on
   his essay, but to adopt a motto or cypher, which is
   also to be written on a sealed envelope containing
   the author's name, and attached to the essay.
6. The prize will not be awarded unless there is an
   essay which, in the judgment of the examiners, is
   of sufficient merit to entitle the author to receive it.
7. Competitors are advised to keep copies of their
   essays, as those sent to the Board will not be re-
   turned.

G. S. COOPER,
Chairman.

Election of Board of Conservators, Henley River
District, County of Taieri.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1880.

NOTICE has been received from the Chairman of
the annual meeting of voters of the Henley
River District, County of Taieri, that on the 15th
instant the following persons were duly elected
Members of the Board of Conservators for the said
district :—

EDWARD BOWES CARGILL,
WILLIAM L. RIDDLE,
WILLIAM THOMAS SHAND,
ROBERT RENTON, and
ALEXANDER FLEMING.

THOMAS DICK.

Notice of Petition for certain Lands to be added to
the Borough of Gladstone.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd March, 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 the Governor signed by not less than
one-third of the burgesses of the Borough of Glad-
stone, or a petition signed by not less than one-third
of the resident householders in the districts proposed
to be added to the aforesaid borough, praying that
such districts may not be incorporated into the said
borough, His Excellency will, by Proclamation, incor-
porate into the said borough the said districts. The
boundaries of the districts proposed to be incorporated
are as follow :—

All that piece of land in the Southland Division of
the Provincial District of Otago, comprising 55 acres
1 rood, more or less, being Section 30, Block I., In-
vercargill Hundred, and road-line along western and
northern boundaries, said area being bounded as
follows, viz. : Towards the North by the Waihopai
River; towards the East by the North Road, 2350