JAN. 6.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, 17

Trustees for Sinking Fund of Otaria Road District
appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES SCOTT,
JAMES PURVIS, and
ALEXANDER MCINTYRE
to be Trustees of the Sinking Fund of the Otaria
Road District.
THOMAS DICK.

Resident Magistrate, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JACKSON KEDDELL, Esq., R.M.,
to be a Resident Magistrate for the District of Otago
Gold Fields, with jurisdiction to £100; Chairman of
the Licensing Courts for the Districts of Cromwell,
Town of Cromwell, Teviot, Alexandra, and Clyde;
and a Visiting Justice of the Prison at Clyde, vice L.
Simpson, Esq., R.M., transferred.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Member of Licensing Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN HADFIELD SMITH, Sen, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Licensing Courts for the Dis-
tricts of Pelorus and Town of Havelock, vice A. S.
Duncan, Esq, J.P., resigned.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM BRIDGMAN, Esq., Mayor of Caversham,
CHARLES COLCLOUGH, Esq., Mayor of Cromwell,
JAMES GAPES, Esq., Mayor of Christchurch,
JOHN MAHER, Esq., Mayor of South Invercargill,
SAMUEL HORATIO MORETON, Esq, Mayor of Glad-
stone, and
WILLIAM WILKINSON, Esq., Mayor of the Thames,
to be Justices of the Peace under "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1876."
WM. ROLLESTON.

Clerk in Supreme Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
GEORGE ALFRED KING, Esq.,
to be a Clerk in the Supreme Court Office, Christ-
church, vice A. F. Blood, Esq., resigned.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Clerk of Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
THOMAS LUTHER SHEPHERD, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrates' Courts at
Palmerston and Hawkesbury, and Clerk of the Licens-
ing Court for the District of Palmerston, Hawkesbury,
and Town of West Hawkesbury, vice A. H. Gill, Esq.,
resigned.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Member of Trust appointed under "The Mount Ida
Water-race Trust Act, 1878."

Mines Department,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HENRY WIRGMAN ROBINSON, Esq.,
of Naseby, to be a Member of the Mount Ida Water-
race Trust, under "The Mount Ida Water-race
Trust Act, 1878," from the 1st January, 1881.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Promotions and Appointments of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned promotions and ap-
pointments :-
Waikato Cavalry Volunteers, A or Te Awamutu Troop.
Lieutenant William Samuel Rutherford to be Cap-
tain.
Robert Bruce to be Lieutenant.
George Wilkinson to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 26th April, 1880.
Waikato Cavalry Volunteers, C or Hamilton Troop.
Lieutenant Frederick Alexander Whitaker to be
Captain.
Sub-Lieutenant Charles Revel Johnston to be Lieu-
tenant.
William Francis Hunt to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 1st May, 1880,

D Battery of Artillery.
William Ernest Collins to be Honorary Assistant
Surgeon. Date of commission, 18th December,
1880.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Members of South Waimakiriri Board of Conservators,
County of Selwyn, elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1880.
NOTICE has been received at this office, under the
hand of the Returning Officer, Mr. George
Leslie Lee, that the under-mentioned persons were
duly elected Members of the Board of Conservators
of the South Waimakariri River District for the sub-
districts set opposite their respective names:--
Names. Sub-districts.
Thomas Stoddart Lambert ... City of Christchurch
North-east.
Henry Atkinson ... ... City of Christchurch
North-west.
Frederick Jones ... ... City of Christchurch
South-east.
Robert West England ... City of Christchurch
South-west.
William White, jun. ... Sydenham.
John Leaf Wilson... ... Avon.
William Attwood ... ... Heathcote.
Henry William Peryman ... Lincoln.
William Boag ... ... Riccarton.
THOMAS DICK.