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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 80

WILLIAM SOUNESS
to be an Auditor for the Knapdale Road Board Dis-
trict.
H. A. ATKINSON.

Appointment of Land Claims Commissioner.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOSEPH GODFREY HOLDSWORTH, Esq.,
Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, to be a
Commissioner for hearing and deciding claims to
land under the New Zealand Company, and to be a
Commissioner, within the Wellington District, under
"The Lost Land Orders Act, 1861." The appoint-
ment to date from the 1st April, 1880.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Appointments and Promotion of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1880.

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

Royal (Rangitikei) Rifle Volunteers.
Sub-Lieutenant James Slight to be Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 26th June, 1880.

Coromandel Rifle Volunteers.
James Brown Gatland to be Captain. Date of com-
mission, 27th March, 1880.
John Hunter Harrison to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 16th June, 1880.
Charles William Gale to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date
of commission, 16th June, 1880.

Alexandra Cavalry Volunteers.
Lieutenant Joseph Reginald Sommerville to be Cap-
tain. Date of commission, 24th July, 1880.

Napier Rifle Volunteers.
Russell James Duncan to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 1st May, 1880.
JOHN BRYCE.

Resignations of Volunteer Officers, &c.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th August, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers:-

Patea Rifle Volunteers.
Captain Edward Tregear. Date of resignation, 20th
July, 1880.

Wellington Guards.
Lieutenant George Grahame Orbell. Date of resig-
nation, 13th August, 1880.

New Zealand Armed Constabulary Force.
Acting Sub-Inspector Christopher Maling, New Zea-
land Constabulary.

Resignation accepted.
JOHN BRYCE.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
Mr. G. G. ORBELL
as Record Clerk, Crown Lands Department.
WM. ROLLESTON.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 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 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, in-
corporate into the said borough the said district.
The boundaries of the district proposed to be incor-
porated are as follow:-

All that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
containing by admeasurement 86 acres and 38
poles, more or less, being Section No. 29, Block I.,
Invercargill Hundred, and including parts of Main
North Road and road along New River Estuary.
Bounded towards the North by Section No. 30 of
said block, and the southern boundary-line of that
section produced to the western side of road along
the said estuary, 4400 links; towards the East by
Section No. 24, and a road-line, 1994 links; towards
the South by Section No. 28 of said Block I., and the
northern boundary-line of that section produced to
the western side of a road-line along the New River
Estuary, 4250 links; and towards the West by the
western side of a road-line forming the western
boundary of said Section No. 29, 1999 links: be
the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is
delineated on the plan deposited in the Survey Office,
Invercargill.
THOMAS DICK.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 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.
Wilhelm Christian Ludvig Contractor Dunedin.
Finck
THOMAS DICK.

Declaration that McArthur's Runs are in the Amuri
Subdivision. Notice No. 74.

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

NOTICE is hereby given, under section 10 of
"The Sheep Act, 1878," that the Governor has
been pleased to determine that all that tract of land
comprised within the boundaries of the run or runs
now in the occupation of McArthur Brothers, being
partly in the Amuri and partly in the Waiau Sub-
divisions of the Marlborough and Waiau Sheep
Districts, shall be included in the Amuri Subdivision
of the Marlborough Sheep District.
THOMAS DICK.