1656
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Appointing Commissioners to inquire into the best
Line for the Completion of the Main Trunk Rail-
way through the Middle Island.

COMMISSION.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, to our
trusty and loving subjects JAMES FULTON, of
Dunedin, in the Colony of New Zealand,
Esquire, M.H.R.; the Honourable DANIEL
POLLEN, of Auckland, in the said colony,
Esquire, M.L.C.; and JOHN TURNBULL THOM-
SON, of Invercargill, in the said colony,
Esquire.

WHEREAS the Administrator of the Govern-
ment of our said colony hath, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof,
deemed it expedient that a Commission should forth-
with be issued for the purposes and in the manner
hereinafter set forth: Now therefore know ye that
we, reposing great trust and confidence in your zeal,
knowledge, and ability, do by these presents con-
stitute and appoint you, the said
JAMES FULTON,
DANIEL POLLEN, and
JOHN TURNBULL THOMSON,

to be our Commissioners for the purpose of making
inquiry into the probable cost and economical value
of the several lines proposed for the extension of the
Main Trunk Line through the Middle Island north-
wards from Canterbury, and also to inquire further
whether any other line would be less costly and more
advantageous to the colony than any one of the lines
herebefore proposed, it being the intention of these
presents that you shall make investigation and in-
quiry in the most ample and complete manner into
all the facts and circumstances necessary or proper
to be considered in determining the best line for the
completion of the Main Trunk Railway through the
Middle Island; and, for the better enabling you to
carry these presents into effect, we do authorize and
empower you, or any two of you, to make and conduct
any inquiry under these presents at such place or
places in the said colony as you may deem expedient,
and to call before you such persons or person as you
may judge necessary by whom you may be better
informed of the matters herein submitted for your
consideration, and also to call for and examine all
such books, documents, papers, maps, plans, accounts,
or records as you shall judge likely to afford you
the fullest information on the subject of this our
Commission, and to inquire of and concerning the
premises by all other lawful ways and means what-
soever; and our further will and pleasure is that you,
or any two of you, do report to us, under your hands
and seals (with as little delay as may be consistent
with a due discharge of the duties hereby imposed
upon you), your opinion on the several matters herein
submitted for your consideration, with power to
certify unto us from time to time your several pro-
ceedings in respect of any of the matters aforesaid,
if it may seem expedient for you so to do; and we
do further declare that this our Commission shall
continue in full force and virtue, and that you, our
said Commissioners, or any two of you, shall and
may from time to time proceed in the execution
thereof, and of every matter and thing therein con-
tained, although the same be not continued from
time to time by adjournment. In testimony whereof
we have caused these our letters to be made patent,
and the Seal of the said Colony to be hereunto
affixed.

Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir
James Prendergast, Administrator of the

[No. 95
Government in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depen-
dencies; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this twenty-
fourth day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-two.
(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST.
Issued in Executive Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Registrar of Electors for Manawatu District
appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
ARTHUR ROBERTSON THEODORE HAULTAIN, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Electors, under "The Registration
of Electors Act, 1879," for the Electoral District of
Manawatu, vice A. S. B. Forster, Esq., resigned.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Deputy-Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
Mr. MALACHI GRIBBLE
to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and
of Births and Deaths for the District of Norsewood.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
JAMES REID HARTE, Esq.,
to be the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and
Deaths, and also Vaccination Inspector, for the Dis-
trict of Hororata.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th November, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
WILLIAM THOMAS WARD, Esq.,
to be the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and
Deaths, and also Vaccination Inspector, for the Dis-
trict of Cromwell.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Member of Licensing Committee for District of
Akaroa appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
GEORGE WILLIAM NALDER
to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the
Licensing District of Akaroa, vice Harry Stocker,
resigned.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.