JAN. 17.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 41

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

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the second section of "The
Public Reserves Sale Act, 1888," and the third section of
"The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887" (hereinafter termed
"the said Act"), I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor 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.
SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Kaikoura Suburban, Mount Fyffe Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twelfth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-nine.

GEO. FISHER,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

Members of Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1889.

HIS Excellency the Governor, in terms of section 7 of
"The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act,
1885," has been pleased to appoint

JAMES WILLIAM HAMILTON
to represent the Wallace County Council on the Southland
Hospital and Charitable Aid Board; and

ALEXANDER HIGGIE
to represent the Wanganui County Council on the Wanganui
Hospital Board and on the Patea and Wanganui Cha-
ritable Aid Board.

T. W. HISLOP.

Engineer in Charge of Public Buildings appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1889.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the under-mentioned appointment:---

ARTHUR WILBRAHAM DILLON BELL, Esq.,
to be Engineer in Charge of Public Buildings throughout the
colony, from the 1st January, 1889.

THOS. FERGUS.

Local Board of Examination for Officers of the Militia and
Volunteer Forces appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1889.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the appointment of the under-mentioned
officers as a Local Board for the examination of officers of
the Militia and Volunteer Forces in the Oamaru District:—

Lieut.-Colonel GEORGE SUMPTER, Commanding Oamaru
District.
Major ALFRED HEADLAND, New Zealand Volunteers.
Captain ARTHUR GETHIN CREAGH, I Battery, New Zea-
land Artillery Volunteers.
Captain DAVID COSSGROVE, New Zealand Volunteers.
Lieutenant JOHN TAYLOR, Oamarn Naval Artillery
Volunteers.

THOS. FERGUS.

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1889.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorise

WILLIAM MATRAVERS,
of Tauranga, to act as an Interpreter under the Native Land
Court Acts, as from the 1st instant.

EDWIN MITCHELSON.

Deputy Marshal of Vice-Admiralty Court appointed.

IN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT,
IN NEW ZEALAND.

PAUL ADOLPHUS BIRCH, Esq., Registrar of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Napier, has this
day been appointed a Deputy Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty
Court, at Napier.
Dated this 27th day of December, 1888.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Judge.

Agent of Public Trustee appointed.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 9th January, 1889.

IT is hereby notified for general information that

WILLIAM JOHN SHAW, Esq.,
has been appointed an Agent of the Public Trustee, New
Plymouth, vice Clarence Rennell, Esq., resigned.

R. C. HAMERTON,
Public Trustee.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1889.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept
the resignations of the commissions held by the under-
mentioned officers :—

Auckland Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant Matthew James Moore. Date of resignation,
1st January, 1889.

Otago Hussars Cavalry Volunteers.
Captain Donald Stronach. Date of resignation, 24th De-
cember, 1888.

Canterbury Irish Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Andrew Graham Holmes. Date of resignation,
10th December, 1888.

THOS. FERGUS.

Special Order made by the Patangata County Council.-
Making Special Rate, &c.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th January, 1889.

THE following special order, made by the Patangata
County Council, is published for general information.

T. W. HISLOP.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT this Council do apply to the Colonial Treasurer for a
loan of £6,000, under the provisions of the Government
Loans to Local Bodies Act, for the purpose of erecting a
traffic-bridge across the Tukituki River, at the place known
as the Wautukai Ford, and for the purchase and formation
of the road and approaches thereto. The interest on said
loan to be for the first year defrayed out of loan.

That a special rate, being an annual-recurring rate of
three-eighths of a penny in the pound, be struck on all rate-
able property in the Oero Riding, to provide interest for
succeeding years; said rate to be payable half-yearly, in two
equal instalments, on the 1st January and 1st July, for a
period of twenty-six years, from the 1st January, 1889, to
1st January, 1915.

We hereby certify that the above special order was duly
made on Wednesday, the 28th November, 1888, and con-
firmed on Wednesday, the 9th January, 1889.

JOHN MACKERSEY, Chairman.
E. GILBERTSON, Clerk.

Patangata County Council,
Waipukurau, 9th January, 1889.