Numb. 31.
537

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1889.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1889.

Sons of Police Officers may be enrolled in Artillery or
Torpedo Corps.

(L.S.) ONSLOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the twelfth day of
January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
nine, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the seven-
teenth day of January last, it is provided that recruits for the
Artillery and Torpedo Corps shall, with certain exceptions,
be selected from the members of the Volunteer Force, as in
the said Proclamation mentioned: And whereas it is ex-
pedient that a further exception should be made in favour of
the sons of police officers:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority conferred by "The
Defence Act, 1886," do hereby proclaim and declare that,
from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New
Zealand Gazette, the sons of police officers of whatever rank
may be enrolled in the Artillery or Torpedo Corps of the
colony without previous training in the Volunteer Force;
provided the applicants be not less than five feet nine inches
in height, nor more than twenty-five years of age, and do
produce satisfactory certificates of character and medical
certificates of fitness.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of
Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley,
of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron
Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and
of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baronet: a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George: Go-
vernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington, this
sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.

THOS. FERGUS.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

In the matter of a Bill to enable the Wellington and Mana-
watu Railway Company (Limited) to expend such part of
its capital in draining the Makererua Swamp as may be
necessary for that purpose.

NOTICE is hereby given that the above-named company
intends to present a petition to the General Assembly
of New Zealand, at its next ensuing session, praying for leave
to bring in a Bill to authorise the company to expend such
part of its capital in draining the Makererua Swamp and
other swamp lands of the company as may be necessary for
that purpose; and that copies of the said Bill will be depo-
sited in the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders on
the 19th day of June, 1889.

Dated this 17th day of May, 1889.
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WM. THOS. LOCKE TRAVERS,
Solicitor to the said Company.

In the matter of a Private Bill entitled "The Church Pro-
perty Trustees (Canterbury) Indemnity Act, 1889."

NOTICE is hereby given that application will be made to
the General Assembly of New Zealand, in Parliament
assembled, at its next session, on behalf of the Church Pro-
perty Trustees (Canterbury), for leave to introduce a Bill
enabling the said Trustees, out of any moneys for the time
being in their hands, forming part of or arising from the
estates known as "General Church Property Estate," and
"The Dean and the Chapter Estate," to pay to the mort-
gagees nominated on behalf of the holders of the debentures
for the loan of £50,000, borrowed by the said Church Property
Trustees, the sum of £858 16s., being the amount paid by them
for property-tax on the said loan and interest thereon, pur-
suant to the provisions of the above-intended Act; also the
law-costs incurred by the said mortgagees in a certain action
commenced by them against the Church Property Trustees,
and decided in the Court of Appeal in New Zealand adversely
to the said mortgagees: Provided always that nothing in
the said Act shall authorise any further payment of moneys
by the said Church Property Trustees for property-tax or
other taxation for or in respect of the said mortgage debt of
£50,000, or in any way alter or interfere with the liability of
the said mortgagees to pay the property-tax, or any other
taxation, for or in respect of the said sum of £50,000.

Copies of the above Bill will be deposited in the Examiner's
Office on or before the 1st day of July, 1889.

Dated this 17th day of May, 1889.
By order of the Church Property Trustees.

GARRICK, COWLISHAW, AND FISHER,
Solicitors to the Bill.
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In the matter of a Private Bill intituled "The Lyttelton
Harbour Board Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1889."

NOTICE is hereby given that application will be made to
the General Assembly of New Zealand, in Parliament
assembled, at its next session, on behalf of the Lyttelton
Harbour Board, for leave to introduce a Bill to vest in the
Lyttelton Harbour Board the foreshore and foreshore
chain reserve within the Port of Lyttelton, as the said port
is defined by an Order in Council, dated the twenty-first day
of September, 1888, made by His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, then Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested
in him by "The Harbours Act, 1878."

Copies of the above Bill will be deposited in the Examiner's
Office on or before the first day of July, 1889.

Dated this 18th day of May, 1889.
C. HOOD WILLIAMS.
Secretary to the Lyttelton Harbour Board.
Henry N. Nalder, Solicitor to the Bill.
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By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Govt. Printer, Wellington.