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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1

Resignation of Volunteer Officer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by the under-mentioned officer :-

H Battery of Artillery.
Honorary Assistant-Surgeon William Keys Farrell.
Date of resignation, 9th June, 1880.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Commissioner under the Tauranga District Lands Act
resigned.

Native Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been
pleased to accept the resignation of
JOHN ALEXANDER WILSON, Esq.,
as a Commissioner under the Tauranga District
Lands Act.
H. A. ATKINSON.

Certificate of Execution.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th January, 1881.
THE following certificate and declaration are pub-
lished in conformity with the provisions of
"The Execution of Criminals Act, 1858."
WM. ROLLESTON.

CERTIFICATE.
I, G. Gore Gillon, the Medical Officer in attendance
at the execution of Tuhi, at the Gaol of Wellington,
do hereby certify and declare that I have this day
witnessed the execution of the said Tuhi at the said
gaol; and I do further certify and declare that the
said Tuhi was, in pursuance of the sentence of the
Supreme Court, hanged by the neck until his body
was dead.

Given under my hand, this twenty-ninth day
of December, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and eighty, at the Gaol of
Wellington.

G. GORE GILLON, M.B., C.M.,
Resident Surgeon, Wellington Hospital,
(acting for Dr. Johnston.)

DECLARATION.
WE do hereby testify and declare that we have this
day been present when the extreme penalty of the
law was carried into execution on the body of Tuhi,
convicted at the criminal sessions of the Supreme
Court held at Wellington on the ninth day of De-
cember instant, and sentenced to death; and that the
said Tuhi was, in pursuance of the said sentence,
hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of December, in
the year one thousand eight hundred and
eighty, at the Gaol of Wellington.

Alex. S. Allan, Sheriff.
Micaiah Read, Gaoler.
James Donaldson, Turnkey.
R. B. Shearman, J.P.
J. Chantry Harris,
J. Oakley Browne,
Geo. Humphries,
Henry Anderson,
Wm. Blood,
E. H. Goldsmith,
G. Williams Ewart,
W. A. Sandilands,
Other
spec-
tators.

Notice to Mariners. -No. 53 of 1880.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 28th December, 1880.
THE following Notice to Mariners, received from
the President of the Marine Board, Port Ade-
laide, South Australia, is published for general infor-
mation.
H. A. ATKINSON.

GULF OF ST. VINCENT, ENTRANCE TO PORT ADE-
LAIDE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Looking Glass
Beacon on the north bank of the entrance to Port
Adelaide is re-erected, and the black buoy which
marked the position has been removed.
R. H. FERGUSON,
President, Marine Board,
Port Adelaide, 20th November, 1880.

Colonial Industries.

TENDERS FOR MANUFACTURE OF PORTLAND
CEMENT.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 10th November, 1880.
WRITTEN tenders will be received at this office
up to noon on the 31st March, 1881, from per-
sons who are willing to contract for the supply and
delivery of One Hundred Tons of Portland Cement.
The cement to be manufactured in the Colony of
New Zealand, and to be delivered at any of the
under-mentioned places, viz., Auckland, Wellington,
Christchurch, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Port Chalmers,
or Invercargill. Tenders to be addressed to the
Minister for Public Works, and to be marked outside
"Tender for Supply of 100 Tons of Portland Cement."
Specifications and conditions may be seen at the
Public Works Offices, Auckland, Wellington, Christ-
church, Dunedin, and Invercargill. The lowest or
any tender will not necessarily be accepted.
R. OLIVER,
Minister for Public Works.

Subjects for Civil Service Examination.

Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
4th January, 1881.
THE following are the Latin and Greek subjects
for the April and October examinations, 1881:-
LATIN. Virgil's Æneid, Books VI. and X.;
Cæsar's De Bello Gallico, Books V. and VI.
GREEK.-Xenophon's Anabasis, Books IV. and V.
N.B.-Candidates who take up Latin will have to
pass in both prose and verse authors.
By order.
C. C. N. BARRON,
Secretary.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Crown Lands, Westport.

Crown Lands Office,
Nelson, 13th December, 1880.
NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
allotments of Crown lands will be offered for
sale by public auction, at the Courthouse, Westport,
on Tuesday, the 1st day of Februrary, 1881, at 12
o'clock noon.

One-fourth of the purchase-money to be paid at
the time of sale, the remainder within one calendar
month, or deposit forfeited.
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner.