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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 50

Crown Lands Ranger appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WALTER KITSON, Esq.,

to be a Ranger of Crown Lands for the Land District of Canterbury, in the place of Reginald Foster, Esq. Date of appointment, 24th August, 1885.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

Volunteer Officers promoted and appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th August, 1885.

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

Onehunga Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Eugene Hulse to be Captain. Date of commission, 4th August, 1885.

O Battery of Artillery.
James Whitney to be Captain.
Seymour Thorne George to be Lieutenant.
William Wasteneys to be Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 4th August, 1885.

Kumara Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant John Davies to be Captain. Date of commission, 28th July, 1885.

Newton Rifle Volunteers.
John Bernie to be Captain. Date of commission, 4th August, 1885.

Ponsonby Rifle Volunteers.
Charles Arthur Taylor to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 4th August, 1885.

J. BALLANCE.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th August, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the under-mentioned officer:—

Kumara Rifle Volunteers.
Captain John O’Hagan. Date of resignation, 28th July, 1885.

J. BALLANCE.

Services of Volunteer Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the services of the under-mentioned corps:—

As a Country Corps.
The Dargaville Rifle Volunteers. Date of acceptance, 22nd June, 1885.

J. BALLANCE.

Member of Wellington Hospital Committee resigned.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1885.

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

JOHN CHANTREY HARRIS, Esq.,

of his appointment as a Member of the Wellington Hospital Committee.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Resignation of Lawrence Recreation Reserve Trustees.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1885.

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

The RESIDENT MAGISTRATE OF LAWRENCE, ex officio,
His WORSHIP the MAYOR OF LAWRENCE, ex officio,
JONAS HARROP, Esq.,
HORACE BASTINGS, Esq.,
JAMES CLARK BROWN, Esq., M.H.R., and
JAMES DOCHERTY, Esq.,

as Trustees of the Lawrence Recreation Reserve, under “The Lawrence Recreation Reserve Act, 1876.”

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice (amended) to Chemists and others respecting Preparation known as “Rough on Rats.”

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1885.

THE attention of all persons who sell, or keep open shops for retailing, dispensing, or compounding, poisons is called to the fact that the preparation commonly known as “Rough on Rats” contains arsenic, or consists of coloured or prepared arsenic, and is therefore a poison within the terms of Part 1 of the First Schedule to “The Sale of Poisons Act, 1871.”

Attention is also called to the provisions of section 12 of that Act, which prescribes the regulations to be observed in the sale of poisons, as there is reason to believe that these regulations are not always strictly carried out as respects the poison above referred to.

This notice is substituted for that gazetted on the 6th instant relating to the same subject.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Special Order made by the County Council of Waitemata.—Waitakarei South Road District merged.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd August, 1885.

THE following special order, made by the Council of the County of Waitemata, is published in accordance with “The Counties Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1882.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT the Waitakerei South Road Board be dissolved, and the Waitakerei South Road District merged in the County of Waitemata on and after the 31st day of August, 1885.

I certify that all the forms of law in respect of the above special order have been duly complied with.

OLIVER MAYS,
Chairman.

Amuri Sheep District declared clean.—Notice No. 180.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th August, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to declare the Sheep District of Amuri to be a clean sheep district, under “The Sheep Act, 1878.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1885.

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

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Despatch.—Boundaries of British and German Territory in New Guinea.

Colonial Secretary’s Office
Wellington, 25th August, 1885.

THE following despatch from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies is published for general information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

(New Zealand, No. 37.)
Downing Street, 23rd June, 1885.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for your information and for that of your Government, copies of the London Gazette of the 19th instant, containing a notification of the arrangement agreed upon between the Governments of Great Britain and Germany as to the boundaries of the possessions of the two countries in New Guinea.

I have, &c.,
DERBY.

Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.B.