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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 94

1879. Jan. 1. To Balance in hand
      Ground bought...
      Rent of paddock
      ... ... ...
      ... ... ...
      ... ... ...
      £ s. d.
      6 15 5
      6 6 0
      5 0 0

£18 1 5
By Amount paid for improvements
7 16 0

Dec. 31. To Balance in hand
£10 5 5

We hereby certify that the above statement of
income and expenditure for the periods mentioned
is correct.

DUNCAN MCTAGGART, )
JOHN NORMAN,
JOHN STABLES,
Trustees.

Signed before me at Waitahuna, this 4th day of
September, 1880—Francis Oudaille, J.P.

Balance-sheet, Hampden Cemetery, County of
Inangahua.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1880.

THE following balance-sheet of the Hampden
Cemetery, County of Inangahua, is published
in accordance with the provisions of "The Nelson
Public Cemeteries Act, 1859."

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

BALANCE-SHEET of the Hampden Cemetery for the
Year ending the 15th July, 1880.

1879. July 15. Balance in bank
      Sept. 22. A. McDonough, paid for Plot No. 584...
      Subscription collected by G. Stewart
      Oct. 4. J. Ribet, paid for Plot No. 739

1880. July 15. Subscription collected by Thomas Kerr

£ s. d.
6 19 0
1 0 0
1 0 0
1 0 0
1 5 6
£11 4 6

1879. Sept. 22. Thomas Kerr

1880. July 15. G. Moonlight

£ s. d.
8 5 0
2 19 6
£11 4 6

GEORGE STEWART, Chairman.
THOMAS KERR, } Trustees.
J. RIBET,

Examined with the books and vouchers and found
to be correct.

H. E. CURTIS, Auditor.

Promotion and Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to make the under-
mentioned promotion and appointment:-

New Zealand Volunteers.
Captain George Sumpter to be Major. Date of com-
mission, 1st September, 1880.

Riverton Rifle Volunteers.
James Young to be Honorary Assistant Surgeon.
Date of commission, 31st May, 1880.

JOHN BRYCE.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to disband
The Omato Rifle Volunteers.

The under-mentioned gentlemen therefore cease to
hold the rank of officers in the Volunteer Force, their
commissions having lapsed under "The Volunteer
Act, 1865":-

Albert Bayly, late Captain.
William Henry Free, late Lieutenant.

JOHN BRYCE.

Resignation of Militia and Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to accept the resigna-
tion of the commissions held by the under-mentioned
officers:-

New Zealand Militia.
Surgeon Edward Waddington, M.D.
D Battery of Artillery.
Captain William Sefton Moorhouse. Date of re-
signation, 23rd September, 1880.

Commission cancelled.

JOHN BRYCE.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to cancel the commis-
sion of

Honorary Assistant Surgeon Francis Alexander
Monckton, Riverton Rifle Volunteers.

JOHN BRYCE.

Appointing Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and
Dunedin Ports for the Importation of Playing-
cards.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN exercise of the power in me for this purpose
vested by "The Customs Tariff Act, 1880," and
"The Customs Regulation Act, 1858," I, James
Prendergast, Chief Justice, the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby approve of the Ports of Auckland, Wellington,
Lyttelton, and Dunedin as ports for the importation
of playing-cards.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Administrator of the Government, this
fifth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Governor's Order No. 121.7

Playing-cards.—Stocks in hands of Dealers or others
to be sent to the Collectors of Customs at Auckland,
Wellington, Lyttelton, or Dunedin, to be stamped.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 6th October, 1880.

THE following provision in "The Customs Tariff
Act, 1880," relating to playing-cards is published
for general information:-

Section 8. Every pack of playing-cards imported
or cleared from any warehouse after the
passing of this Act shall be stamped or
marked in such manner as the Commissioner
of Customs may direct.

Any person who sells, uses, or has possession
of any pack of cards so imported and cleared,
and not so stamped or marked, shall forfeit a
sum not exceeding fifty pounds.