of the purposes named in the said Class I., as hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," doth hereby order and direct that the purpose of the reserve mentioned in the first column of the said Schedule hereto shall be changed from that of a reserve for a site for a cemetery, and doth hereby declare and define the purposes of the said reserve to be that specified in the second column of the said Schedule, the same being one of the purposes named in Class I. of the Schedule to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Trustees appointed for the Maintenance of the Stratford Public Cemetery.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the forty-fifth section of "The Cemeteries Act, 1882," I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the local authority specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to have the control and management of the public cemetery specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial District of Taranaki, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, being Section No. 69 of Block II., Ngaire Survey District. Bounded towards the North-east by Swansea Road, 1408 links; towards the South-east by Section No. 75, 711 links; towards the South-west by Section No. 68, 1408 links; and towards the North-west by the East Road, 711 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

NOTE.—This warrant is issued in lieu of that dated the 27th June, 1885, and published in Gazette No. 41, of the 2nd July, 1885.

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

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor appointed.

Private Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, 24th December, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Major JOHN JERVOIS, Captain, Royal Engineers, to be His Excellency's Private Secretary, vice F. W. Pennefather, Esq., resigned. Appointment to date from the 1st January, 1886.

By order.

F. W. PENNEFATHER.

Justices of the Peace under Municipal Corporations Act appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th December, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE HENRY SWAN, Esq., Mayor of Napier, and WILLIAM JOHN SUITER, Esq., Mayor of Newmarket, to be Justices of the Peace under "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(in the absence of the Minister of Justice.)

Secretary to the New Zealand Defences appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Major JOHN JERVOIS, Captain, Royal Engineers, to be Secretary to the New Zealand Defences. Appointment to date from the 1st January, 1886.

J. BALLANCE.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1885.

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

Christchurch City Guards Volunteers.
Rookwood Comport Bishop to be Captain. Date of commission, 23rd November, 1885.

J. BALLANCE.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th December, 1885.

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

RICHARD JAMES STRACHAN HARMAN, Esq., of Christchurch, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(in the absence of the Minister of Justice.)

Incorporation of Grey River Hospital as a Separate Institution.

Premier's Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1885.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council directs it to be notified, in terms of section 43 of "The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885," that he has received a petition from the Committee of Management of the Grey River Hospital, to which is annexed a verified list, signed by 134 persons, in terms of section 38 of the said Act, praying that the Grey River Hospital may be incorporated as a separate institution; and that if no counter-petition, signed by an equal or greater number of such persons, shall have been delivered at the office of the Colonial Secretary within one month after the publication of this notice, or if the District Board shall not have lodged with the Colonial Secretary within the same time an objection to such petition, the Governor in Council will declare the said hospital to be a separate institution under the said Act.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(in the absence of the Premier.)

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th December, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that A. W. ARMISTEAD, of the Britannia Brush Works, Stanley Street, Parnell, Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Brush Manu-