1578

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 102

And whereas it is deemed expedient that the Port
of Loma Loma, in the Island of Vanua Balavu, shall,
until further notice, cease to be a port of entry under
the ordinance aforesaid :

Now, therefore, I do hereby order and proclaim
that the said Port of Loma Loma shall, from and
after the first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-two, cease to be a port of entry.
Whereof let all men take notice and govern them-
selves accordingly.

Given under my hand and seal, this fifth day
day of November, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one.

By His Excellency's command.
JOHN B. THURSTON,
Colonial Secretary.

Approving and appointing Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS. - In exercise of the powers in me for
this purpose vested by "The Customs Regula-
tion Act, 1858," I, the Commissioner of Customs, do
hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned
warehouse, viz : -

Port of Timaru.
The southern portion of the upper floor of a stone
building, situate in Cain's Terrace, on the eastern
portion of Section No. 22, Rhodes Town, Timaru, to
be known as

THE CENTRAL BOND,
-to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under
bond.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twenty-third day of November, one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty-one.
WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
(in absence of the Commissioner of Customs.)

[Commissioner's Order No. 154.]

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 21st November, 1881.

I T is hereby notified for general information that
a Money Order and Saving Bank Office will be
opened at

DIPTON (Chief Office, Invercargill),
from and after the 1st December proximo.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1881. - Notice No. 29.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1881.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1880," the following names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information : -

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.
The Reverend James William Bevan, B.A.
The Reverend John Holland.

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Patrick Ahern.

Baptists.
The Reverend Thomas Spurgeon.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Application for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 21st November, 1881.

PATENT for an Invention for Sockets for Candle-
sticks, and Extinguishers.
WILLIAM DOUSLIN, of Blenheim, Marlborough,
Architect, has deposited at this office a specification
of the said invention, and I have appointed Friday,
the 10th day of March next, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application
and all objections thereto; and I require all persons
having an interest in opposing the grant of such
Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 6th day
of March next, at this office, particulars in writing
of their objections to the said application, otherwise
they will be precluded from urging the same.
W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE. - JOHN VEITCH WILLIAMS, of Sale,
Gippsland, in the Colony of Victoria, a Soli-
citor of the Supreme Court of the said colony, has
been appointed this day, by his Honor the Chief
Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand, in the said colony, under the second
section of "The Commissioners of the Supreme Court
Act, 1875," for the purpose of administering and
taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as
in the said section mentioned.
A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.
Wellington, 8th October, 1881.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE. - ARCHIRALD COLQUHOUN FRASER, of
Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, a
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the said colony,
has been appointed this day, by his Honor the Chief
Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand, in the said colony, under the second
section of "The Commissioners of the Supreme Court
Act, 1875," for the purpose of administering and
taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as
in the said section mentioned.
A. S. ALLAN,
Registrar, Supreme Court.
Wellington, 8th October, 1881.

Crown Lands Notices.

Changing Purpose of a Reserve in Canterbury.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 24th October, 1881.

I T is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor intends, under the provisions of sec-
tion 148 of "The Land Act, 1877," to change the
specific purpose of the land described in the second
column of the Schedule hereto, for which the land
was heretofore set apart as a reserve, as specified in
the first column of the said Schedule, to the specific
purpose specified in the third column of the said
Schedule.