JUNE 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 977

Excellency the Governor on the thirty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Queen’s Birthday Levée.

Government House,
Wellington, 25th June, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor will hold a Full-dress Levée at Government House, on Saturday, the 28th June, at 12 noon, in honour of Her Majesty’s Birthday.

Gentlemen attending the Levée will wear uniform or evening dress, and are requested to bring with them two visiting-cards, their names legibly written or printed thereon; one card to be left at the entrance-hall, and the other to be given to the Aide-de-Camp.

By His Excellency’s command.

CHARLES V. ECCLES,
Major, A.D.C.

Consul for Germany at Auckland provisionally recognized.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th June, 1884.

IT is hereby notified that Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies has instructed His Excellency the Governor to recognise provisionally the appointment of

HERMANN BROWN, Esq.,

as Consul for Germany at Auckland.

THOMAS DICK.

Medical Superintendent, Wellington Asylum, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th June, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD GEORGE LEVINGE, Esq., M.B.,

to be the Medical Superintendent of the Wellington Lunatic Asylum under “The Lunatics Act, 1882.” Appointment to date from the 1st March, 1884.

THOMAS DICK.

Judge of Assessment Court for Town District of Waipawa appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th June, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE AUGUSTUS PREECE, Esq., R.M.,

to be the Judge of the Assessment Court for the Town District of Waipawa under “The Rating Act, 1876,” and the Acts amending the same.

THOMAS DICK.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set opposite their names respectively, and also to be Vaccination Inspectors for the said districts, viz.:

Name. District.
WALTER SOUTHERN .. .. Lumsden.
JAMES ROBSON .. .. Winton.
THOMAS THEODORE KING .. .. Gore.
WILLIAM BLECKLY FARRAND .. Mangawai.

THOMAS DICK.

Clerk in Supreme Court Office, Dunedin, appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th June, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER GEORGE ASHBY

to be a Clerk in the Supreme Court Office at Dunedin, from the 1st July next, vice J. B. Christie, resigned.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Deputy Commissioner of Stamps appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 18th June, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

MR. JAMES MEACHAM BATHAM

to be Deputy Commissioner of Stamps and Assistant Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies at Christchurch, as from the 19th June, 1884, during the absence on service of Gwalter Palai ret.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Member of Land Board appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE BEETHAM, Esq.,

to be a Member of the Land Board for the Land District of Wellington.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Member of Land Board reappointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint

RECHAB HARDING, Esq.,

to be a Member of the Land Board for the Land District of Hawke’s Bay, as from the 18th May, 1884.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Cemetery Trustee resigned.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of

J. P. CAMPBELL, Esq.,

as a Trustee for the Cambridge Public Cemetery.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Supply of Arms, Ammunition, &c., to Natives of Western Pacific Islands prohibited.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1884.

THE following despatch from the High Commissioner of the Western Pacific is published for general information.

THOMAS DICK.

Pfahlert’s Hotel,
Sydney, 27th May, 1884.

Sir,—I have the honour to request that your Excellency will be kind enough to take measures for the publication in the New Zealand Government Gazette of the following regulation which has been passed by me for the Western Pacific, under the provisions of the Order in Council of 1879.

I should be glad also if intimation were given that a knowledge of this regulation will not be presumed against vessels until 1st September, unless they shall have left a port in any Australasian Colony more than one month after the publication of the regulation in such colony.

I have, &c.,

G. WILLIAM DES VŒUX,
High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.

His Excellency Major-General Sir W. F. D. Jervois, R.E., G.C.M.G., &c., Governor of New Zealand, Wellington.

No. 1 of 1884.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c., &c.

A REGULATION (made in the name and on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty by Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, under the provisions of the Western Pacific Order in Council of 1879) to prohibit the supply of arms, ammunition, and explosive substances to natives of the Western Pacific Islands:—