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and the trustees so elected shall hold office for one year, or until their successors are elected, if no further election take place within such year. The number of trustees to be so elected by each local authority shall be determined by the proportion which the amount that each local authority contributes to the maintenance of the separate institution bears to the whole amount contributed thereto by the local authorities.

6. At least three days prior to the time appointed for the holding of any election of trustees by local authorities, the secretary for the time being of each separate institution shall give to each contributing local authority in the district notice in writing of the amount contributed to such institution during the last preceding financial year by voluntary contributors and by local authorities respectively.

7. In cases under subsection (2) of section 36 of the Amendment Act, where “the remaining local authorities,” as defined by the said subsection, are to elect “the remaining trustees,” it shall be the duty of the secretary to each separate institution to notify in writing to each of the said remaining local authorities what number of trustees are to be elected by them, and to appoint the time and place for such election.

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

P. A. BUCKLEY,
(For the Premier.)

Revoking Appointment of Riverton and Mongonui as Warehousing Ports.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the Ports of Riverton and Mongonui shall, from the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, cease to be warehousing ports or ports for the importation of tobacco.

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

Jos. A. TOLE.

Governor’s Order No. 130.]

Notification that Her Majesty has relinquished Negotiations for the Acquisition of the Horowhenua No. 10 Block.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance of the provisions of “The Government Native Land Purchases Act, 1877,” and “The Government Native Land Purchases Act Amendment Act, 1878,” it is hereby notified that Her Majesty the Queen has relinquished negotiations in respect of the block of Native land in the North Island, situated in the District of Otaki, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and known by the name of Horowhenua No. 10, containing by admeasurement 800 acres, more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan of the Horowhenua Block, deposited in the Survey Office at Wellington.

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

J. BALLANCE,
Native Minister.

Registrars of Electors, Foxton and Wakatipu Districts, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

SAMUEL TANSLEY, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Electors, under “The Registration of Electors Act, 1879,” for the District of Foxton, vice S. M. Baker, Esq., transferred; the appointment to date from the 1st January, 1887. Also to appoint

HORATIO NELSON FIRTH, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Electors, under the said Act, for the District of Wakatipu, vice R. B. Mathias, Esq.; the appointment to date from the 10th December, 1886.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Officers under “The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867,” appointed, Wellington District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Officers for the Management and Protection of Salmon and Trout, under “The Salmon and Trout Act, 1867,” and the Acts amending the same, within the Provincial District of Wellington:—

Reuben King.
Charles Russell.
Alexander Cruickshank.
John Barton.
Charles Rawson.
Henry Field.
Walter Best.
William Henry Simcox, J.P.
Francis Walter Rutherfurd.
Walter Drake.
John Kebbell, J.P.
John McIlvride.
William Grace.
William Beetham, J.P.
Henry Holmes.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Rangers under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” appointed, Wellington and Wairarapa District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Rangers under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the Wellington and Wairarapa District:—

Reuben King.
Charles Russell.
Alexander Cruickshank.
John Barton.
Charles Rawson.
Henry Field.
Walter Best.
William Henry Simcox, J.P.
Francis Walter Rutherfurd.
Walter Drake.
John Kebbell, J.P.
John McIlvride.
William Grace.
William Beetham, J.P.
Henry Holmes.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Appointments in Stock Branch.—Notice No. 214.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments:—

THOMAS JOHN MILES

to be an Inspector of Sheep for the Tapanui Subdivision of the Otago Sheep District and in and for the several subdivisions of all sheep districts in the colony from the 1st October, 1886, and Registrar of Brands for the Tapanui Branding District from the same date.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Health Officer, Bluff, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Captain ALBERT TYSON

to be a Health Officer, under section 105 of “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the Port of Bluff, vice A. B. B. Watts, Esq., resigned. The appointment to date from the 1st January, 1887.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Official Visitors, Auckland Lunatic Asylum, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1886.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK GEORGE EWINGTON, Esq., J.P., and ROBERT STEVENSON, Esq., J.P.,