AUG. 11.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1047

THEOPHILUS DANIEL,
the Mayor of Riverton, to be a Member of the
Riverton Harbour Board, the Council of the Cor-
poration of Riverton having failed to elect him as
required by the aforesaid Act.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Agent of Public Trustee appointed for Clyde, Otago.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1881.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
JAMES HICKSON, Esq.,
has been appointed an Agent of the Public Trustee
at Clyde, Otago.

R. C. HAMERTON,
Public Trustee.

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th August, 1881.

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

D Battery of Artillery.
Horatio McCulloch Lyon to be Second-Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 26th July, 1881.

M Battery of Artillery.
James Boyne to be Lieutenant. Date of commission,
27th July, 1881.
Frederick Evans to be Second-Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 27th July, 1881.

WM. ROLLESTON.

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th August, 1881.

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

B Battery of Artillery.
Honorary Assistant-Surgeon Michael Dominick
Murphy. Date of resignation, 8th July, 1881.

E Battery of Artillery.
Second-Lieutenant Charles Partridge Hulbert. Date
of resignation, 21st March, 1881.

Manchester Rifle Volunteers.
Captain Hugh Lind Sherwell. Date of resignation,
7th July, 1881.

Wanganui City Rifles.
Captain John Wilson. Date of resignation, 4th
July, 1881.

WM. ROLLESTON.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under
"The Aliens Act, 1880," in favour of the under-
mentioned persons, viz. :-

THOMAS DICK.

Regulations for the Oxford Cemetery, County of
Ashley.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th August, 1881.

THE following regulations for the management of
the Oxford Cemetery, having been submitted to
His Excellency the Governor in Council, are pub-
lished in accordance with "The Cemeteries Manage-
ment Act, 1877."

THOMAS DICK.

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT
OF THE OXFORD CEMERERY.

1. All cheques, and titles to ground, to be signed
   by the Chairman and two members of the Board.
2. Three members of the Board to form a quorum;
   the Chairman to have an original as well as a casting
   vote.
3. The Chairman to receive all moneys due to the
   Board, and to pay same to proper account.
4. The Chairman to mark the number of plots (if
   purchased), together with the name of deceased, or of
   persons to whom the plot is allotted, and colour the
   same in red upon cemetery map.
5. Special meetings may be called by the Chair-
   man at any time by giving three clear days' notice.
6. The cemetery shall be placed under the care of
   a sexton, who shall be appointed by the Board, and
   shall give or receive one month's notice before retire-
   ment from office.
7. For every funeral the sexton's fee shall be
   7s. 6d. for children under fifteen years of age, and a
   cemetery fee of 7s. 6d.; and for every adult the fee
   shall be 10s., and a sexton's fee of 10s.; and extra
   charge of 2s. 6d. per foot shall be made for every
   grave beyond the depth of six feet.
8. No memorial of any kind shall be erected, nor
   any plot considered sold, until payment of the same
   shall have been made at the following rates, viz.:
   Walled graves or vaults, 10s. per square yard, and a
   cemetery fee of £2. The soil to be removed at the
   expense of the purchaser of the plot. No hewing or
   working of stone permitted within the cemetery.
   Common graves, 5s. per square yard, and fees as
   stated in By-law 7.
9. No transfer of burial-plots is allowed to take
   place without the permission of the Board, and for
   any such transfer a fee of 10s. shall be paid to the
   Board.
10. No monument, memorial, railing, or erection
    of any kind shall be put up, no inscription placed on
    any memorial, no trees planted, without the permission
    of the Board; and any monument, tablet, or other
    erection built or erected without the written consent
    of the Board, or if any fees remain unpaid, or the
    regulations of the Board be not complied with, the
    Board may take down and remove such monuments,
    tablets, or erections.
11. No graves to be dug by any person without
    the consent of the Board.
12. Only when persons shall have purchased the
    ground shall they be allowed to choose the site; and
    when the ground be not purchased the graves shall
    be put in regular lines, as shown on plan.
13. In all cases where land is purchased a fractional
    part of a yard shall be charged a yard.

Regulations for the Wairoa Cemetery, County of
Wairoa.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th August, 1881.

THE following regulations for the management of
the Wairoa Cemetery, having been submitted to
His Excellency the Governor in Council, are pub.