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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Whangarei Survey District.

Description of Land: Very broken forest land, poor soil,
but containing patches of scattered kauri.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Adminis-
trator of the Government, this twenty-second day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
nine.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

NOTE.—The above sections were notified open for sale or
selection on the 8th May, 1888, at 12s. 6d. per acre.

Rural Lands in the Southland Land District open for
Sale or Selection.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the third section of "The Land
Act Amendment Act, 1887" (hereinafter termed "the said
Act"), I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Go-
vernment of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the
report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said
section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands
enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or
selection, after the lapse of a period of forty-five days from
the date of the first public notification hereof, in the manner
and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at
the price per acre respectively set opposite such land in the
said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Adminis-
trator of the Government, this twenty-second day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
nine.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Appointing Reviewers under "The Property Assessment
Act, 1885."

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me in that behalf by "The Property Assess-
ment Act, 1885," and of all other powers and authorities in
anywise enabling me in that behalf, I, James Prendergast,
the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names
are mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be Reviewers of
Property Assessments under "The Property Assessment Act,
1885;" and, in further pursuance of the said powers and
authorities, I do further appoint that each of the groups of
three of the said Reviewers respectively mentioned in the
said Schedule, and bracketed together, shall respectively
form a Board of Reviewers under "The Property Assessment
Act, 1885."

SCHEDULE.

Archibald McLean,
James Nelson Williams,
John Bennett,
Jasper Lucas Herrick,
Rechab Harding,
Thomas Francis Fountaine,

William Warrand Carlile,
John Mackersey,
Alfred Dillon,
James Smith,
John Francis Herbert,
Francis Wallace Mackenzie,
John Grigg,
George Jameson,
William McMillan,
Thomas Baillie
John Marris,
James Colvin,
John Ewing
John Johnson Ramsay,
Thomas Foster,
Patrick Brennan,
Richard Chattock,
James Irvine Aitken,
Joseph Newman,
Samuel Ycoman Collins,
Francis Richard Claude,
John Duncan,
James Arkle,
Alexander McLaren,
William Booth,
Burton Boys,
Edward Swartz Maunsell,
William Henry Simcox,
John Kebbell,
Frederick Graham Andrews,
William Henry Beetham,
John Hessey,
Thomas Edinburgh Chamberlain,
Henry Blackett,
Crosleigh Dampier Crosley,
Albert Parsons,
James Hutchison Sutter,
William Postlethwaite
Edward Glaves Stericker,
Henry Frederick Hardy,
John Logan,
Daniel Campbell,
Daniel Downes,
George Matthew Snelson,
Robert Linton.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Adminis-
trator of the Government, this twenty-second day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
nine.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Ranger under Animals Protection Acts, Wellington,
appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1889.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has pleased to appoint

DONALD HUNTER MACKINNON
to be a Ranger under "The Animals Protection Act, 1880,"
for the Wellington District.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

United States Consul for New Zealand provisionally
recognised.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1889.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
directs it to be notified that he has provisionally
recognised the appointment of

JOHN D. CONNOLLY, Esq.,
as United States Consul for New Zealand at Auckland,
pending instructions from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for the Colonies.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Consular Agent for United States at Christchurch
provisionally recognised.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th April, 1889.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
directs it to be notified that he has been instructed