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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 34

County of Wanganui, placed opposite to their re- | Government, and cognate subjects, the Board an-
spective names :--
No. 1 Ward
Mr. DONALD SMITH.
No. 2 Ward
Mr. DAVID PEAT.
No. 4 Ward
Mr. HERBERT DYMOCK.
No. 5 Ward
Mr. GEORGE S. ROBERTSON.
THOMAS DICK.

Warden for Manawatu Highway District, County of
Manawatu, elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1880.

NOTICE has been received at this office, under the
hand of the Returning Officer, Mr. James
Linton, that on the 3rd instant

Mr. THOMAS GIFFORD
was duly elected to be Warden for No. 2 Ward of
the Manawatu Highway District, County of Mana-
watu, vice H. Rockel, resigned.

WM. ROLLESTON,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1880.

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.
Nicholas Maria... ... Farmer ... Oruru, Mongonui.

WM. ROLLESTON,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Native Land Court transferred to Justice Department.

Native Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1880.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
the Native Land Court Department has been
placed under the administration of the Hon. the
Minister of Justice, from the 1st instant.

JOHN BRYCE,
Native Minister.

Notice to Mariners. No. 15 of 1880.

MANAWATU RIVER.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th April, 1880.

NOTICE is hereby given that the entrance to the
Manawatu River has shifted to the northward,
and that the wreck of the "Kate Moynahan" is now
lying in the centre of the channel, inside the bar,
with about 5 feet of water at low-water spring
tides on the shallowest part. Masters of vessels are
warned to pay particular attention to the instructions
of the pilot as to which side of the wreck they are to
pass.

H. A. ATKINSON.

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

announce 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 competition.
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.

Money Order and Savings Bank Offices opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 5th April, 1880.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
Money Order and Savings Bank Offices will be
opened at

WAIKARI (Chief Office, Christchurch), and
ELBOW (Chief Office, Invercargill),
from and after the 15th April instant.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Divorce
and Matrimonial Causes Jurisdiction.

NOTICE is hereby given that three or more of the
Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand
will sit at the Supreme Courthouse, Wellington, on
Monday, the seventeenth day of May next, at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, to hear and determine Peti-
tions for the Dissolution or for a Sentence of Nullity
of Marriage, under section 60 of "The Divorce and
Matrimonial Causes Act, 1867;" and also for the
despatch of all other business accruing under the
said Act.

Dated at Wellington, this second day of April, 1880.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Chief Justice.

Deaf and Dumb Institution, Sumner, Canterbury.

Education Department,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1880.

THE Government having secured suitable accom-
modation at Sumner, Canterbury, for the pro-
posed Institution for the Education and Training of
Deaf-mutes, Mr. and Mrs. Van Asch are now pre-
pared to receive pupil-boarders at the Institution.
Full information may be obtained on application to
the undersigned, or to the Secretaries of the several
Education Boards.

By order.

JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.