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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Officers to superintend the Survey and Admeasure-ment of Ships appointed.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 16th July, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the under-mentioned officers of Her
Majesty's Customs to superintend the survey and
admeasurement of Ships, under the provisions of
"The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854:"-

At the Port of Napier.
RICHARD CARTER.

At the Port of Nelson.
HENRY WILLIAM BREWER.

At the Port of Invercargill.
DONALD GRANT MCPHERSON.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Commissioner of Customs.

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th July, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make under-mentioned appointments:-

G Battery of Artillery.
Robert Taylor to be Lieutenant. Date of commis-
sion, 15th January, 1880.
Christopher Basstian to be Second Lieutenant. Date
of commission, 26th January, 1880.

I Battery of Artillery.
Arthur Gethin Creagh to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 20th April, 1880.

Arrow Rifle Volunteers.
John Barlow to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of com-
mission, 19th June, 1880.
JOHN BRYCE.

Resignation of Volunteer Officer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th July, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to accept the resignation of the commission
held by the under-mentioned officer:-

Nelson City Rifle Volunteers.
Sub-Lieutenant Henry Hammond.
JOHN BRYCE.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th July, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
disband
The Hawera Rifle Volunteers.
JOHN BRYCE.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st July, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
WILLIAM JAMES GEFFRARD BLUETT, Esq.,
of Leeston, of his appointment as a Justice of the
Peace for the colony.
WM. ROLLESTON.

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Visiting Justice resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st July, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
JOHN FRANCIS DUNDAS, Esq., J.P.,
of his appointment as a Visiting Justice to the Prison
at Invercargill.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Members of Motueka and Takaka Highway Boards,
elected (Nelson).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1880.
IN conformity with "The (Nelson) Highways Act,
1872," it is hereby notified that the following
persons have been elected Members of the Motueka
Highway Board for the subdistricts placed opposite
to their respective names:-
FREDERICK EDWARD BISLEY ... Motueka.
DIEDERICH BEUKE ... Upper Moutere.
THOMAS HEATH ... Ngatimoti.
ALEXANDER DRUMMOND ... Riwaka.
And that, on the 5th instant,
WILLIAM PAGE,
ANDREW MCDONALD, and
FRANCIS HENRY MONTAGUE ELLIS
were duly elected Members of the Takaka Road
Board.
THOMAS DICK.

Notice of Intention to constitute a new Road District,
to be called the Tinwald-Winslow Road District.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th July, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be
notified, in pursuance of the provisions of
"The Canterbury Roads Ordinance Amendment Act,
1877," that he has received a petition praying that
the portion of the Longbeach Road District, as de-
scribed in the Schedule hereunder, may be severed
from the aforesaid district, and constituted a new
district, to be called the Tinwald-Winslow District.

SCHEDULE.
BOUNDED on the North-west by the Great Southern
Railway; on the South-west by the River Hinds; on
the North-east by the River Ashburton; and on the
South-east by the main road, running from the River
Hinds, starting from the southernmost corner of
Rural Section No. 11089; then north-easterly along
the main road forming the south-eastern boundaries
of Sections Nos. 11089, 17425, 17424, 15788, 16741,
16746, 16743, 16744, 16786, 16684, 16740, 16869,
16739, 16396, 15727, 6430, 17400, 17399, Reserve
No. 1427, Rural Sections 6451, 15363, 15694,
Reserves 930 and 931, Rural Sections 7822, 7825,
and 6429, to the River Ashburton.
THOMAS DICK.

By-laws for Slaughterhouses in the Counties of Marl-
borough and Sounds.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th July, 1880.
THE following by-laws for slaughterhouses in the
Counties of Marlborough and Sounds are pub-
lished in accordance with "The Slaughterhouses
Act, 1877."
THOMAS DICK.