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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

Committee.

Duncan Cameron, J.P., of Springfield
Duncan Cameron, of Clunes
Gerald Coward..
Julian Jackson
David Quinn ..
John Douglas ..
John Manchester, J.P. ..
George Oliver ..
Frank Slee, J.P.
Robert Stewart
Joseph Bates ..
Thomas Pratt, M.H.R. ..
Thomas Smith
Donald Sutherland
William White
Henry Baillie ..
Thomas Samuel Grover..
Hugh Kennedy Maclachlan
Thomas James Pitchers
William Telford

District.

Mount Hutt.

Hakateramea.

Hawksbury.

Roxburgh.

Jos. A. TOLE.

Receiver of Gold Revenue appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 26th March, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable PATRICK MAHER

to be Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar for Waikaka, in the Otago Mining District, as from the 1st April, 1886, vice John Brown.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

Clerk appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 26th March, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN TAYLOR MARSHALL, Esq.,

to be a Clerk in the Mines Department; to date from the 1st April, 1886.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

District Judge H. G. Seth Smith appointed to inquire into the Claims of Thomas Spencer, of Parawai.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 29th March, 1886.

IN pursuance of the provision of clause 11 of the First Schedule to “The Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1885,” His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HUGH GARDEN SETH SMITH, Esq.,

District Judge at Auckland, to be a Commissioner to ascertain and determine the terms of the verbal contract entered into by John Edwin Macdonald, then Mayor of the Thames Borough, with one Thomas Spencer, of Parawai.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(For the Minister of Mines.)

Assistant Inspector of Post Offices appointed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN GRUBB, Esq.,

to be Assistant Inspector of Post Offices for the Colony of New Zealand. This appointment to have effect from the 1st December, 1885.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1886.

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

Westport Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Samuel Thorpe to be Honorary Surgeon. Date of commission, 28th August, 1885.

Christ’s College Rifle Volunteers.
William Alexander Day to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 5th March, 1886.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(For the Defence Minister.)

Notice under “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1885.”

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st March, 1886.

IT is hereby notified that

JOHN DUTHIE, Esq., of Wellington, and
The Hon. MATHEW HOLMES, of Dunedin,

have, in accordance with the provisions of section 21 of “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1885,” ceased to be Justices of the Peace.

Jos. A. TOLE.

Justices of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st March, 1886.

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

JOSEPH ROWE GARD, Esq., of Picton, and
JOHN BARLOW, Esq.,

of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the colony.

Jos. A. TOLE.

Time and Place for First Meeting of Contributors to Hokitika Benevolent Society.

Premier’s Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in terms of section 49 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” appointed Wednesday, the 14th day of April next, at 8 o’clock p.m., to be the time, and the Town Hall, Hokitika, to be the place, for the first meeting of the contributors to the Hokitika Benevolent Society.

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

Special Order made by Meanee Road Board.—Subdividing District into Wards.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1886.

THE following special order made by the Meanee Road Board is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(For the Colonial Secretary.)

SPECIAL ORDER to subdivide the Meanee Road District into Wards, passed by the Meanee Road Board on the 11th Day of February, 1886.

“That the Meanee Road District be subdivided into three wards, to be known as the Meanee, Taradale, and Papakura Wards.

“The Meanee Ward to be represented by two members, and to contain all that portion of land situated between the eastern boundary of the Taradale River District and the Tutaekuri River.

“The Taradale Ward to contain all that portion of land known as the Taradale River District, and to be represented by two members.

“The Papakura Ward to contain all that portion of land lying to the east and south of the Tutaekuri River, and to be represented by three members.”

The resolution, on being put to the meeting, was carried unanimously.

W. WATERHOUSE,
Clerk, Meanee Road Board.

I, William Waterhouse, Clerk to the Meanee Road Board, hereby certify that the above copy of special order is a correct copy; also that the said special order was duly passed at a full meeting of the Meanee Road Board, on the 11th day of February, 1886, the same having been previously advertised during the four preceding weeks of the date of the above meeting.

W. WATERHOUSE,
Clerk, Meanee Road Board.

Taradale, 25th March, 1886.