Aug. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 915

SCHEDULE.

MAKURI-PUKETOI BLOCK, WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Description of Land: These sections comprise part of the
Puketoi country; the area of the block is about 11,500 acres,
and includes the lands along both banks of the Makuri River,
extending on the westward to the Tiraumea-Makuri Block,
which was recently sold, and on the eastward to the top of
the Puketoi Range. The block is intersected by Climie's
Tiraumea-Aohanga Road-line, which will prove in the future
an important main line of communication between the East
Coast and the Forty-mile Bush Districts; there are branch
roads also towards the Upper Makuri, Alfredton, and Wood-
ville, and at an important centre in the block a reserve has
been set aside as a site for a township, which is about sixteen
miles from Pahiatua. The country comprises flats, undula-
ting and high hills; the general elevation above the sea
varies from about 800ft. to 2,600ft. on the Puketoi Range;
the formation is limestone and papa; the soil is good through-
out, the country south of the Makuri apparently being
similar in formation to the well-known Maungaraki and
Rangitumau limestone hills; the soil on many of the sections
is deep and rich. The forest-growth on the block includes
tawa, rata, rimu, pukatea, kahikatea, &c., with generally
sufficient totara-trees for homestead purposes; the scrub-
growth is indicative of good land. The bush on the lime-
stone lands is generally exceptionally light. The block is
well watered, and, as it falls within the belt of country
between the Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa Plains, which has
a good average rainfall, there seems nothing lacking to make
the lands eminently suited for occupation by farmers,
graziers, gardeners, and those seeking to establish a home in
a rich picturesque country with a salubrious climate.

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

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in the Otago Land District open for Sale or
Selection.

ONSLOW, Governor.

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, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, 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 land 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 stated in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.—RANKLEBURN SURVEY DISTRICT.
1 | XII. | 320 0 0 | £ 1 0 0
Valuation for improvement, £486 10s.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.—MOERAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.
11 | XIII. | 312 0 16 | 0 10 0
12 | " | 383 1 17 |
13 | " | 317 1 8 |

Description of Land: Rough hilly land, partly bush and
scrub, altitude about 500ft.

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

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Vaccination Districts constituted.

ONSLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in the
Governor by "The Public Health Act, 1876," I, William
Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing vaccination districts
known as the Ashburton and Rakaia Districts; and do
declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the
said districts is hereby divided anew into three vaccination
districts, the names whereof shall be the Springburn,
Rakaia, and Ashburton Districts, and the boundaries whereof
shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the marriage
districts bearing the same names as are set forth in a Pro-
clamation of even date herewith, made under the provisions
of "The Marriage Act, 1880."

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

T. W. HISLOP.

Trustee appointed for the Masterton Cemetery.

ONSLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the sixth section of "The Cemeteries
Act, 1882," I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

JOHN PETERS COWIE

to be a Trustee, in the place of James McGregor, resigned,
to provide for the maintenance and care of the Masterton
Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons appointed
by warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor
on the eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight.

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

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th August, 1889.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

MAGDALENA JANE ORCHISTON

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and
also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Nokomai
and Switzers, vice J. Brown.

T. W. HISLOP.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st August, 1889.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Regis-
trars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be
Vaccination Inspectors, for the districts respectively set
opposite their names, viz. :-

Name. District.
ROBERT STEWART.. Springburn.
ALFRED CLARK .. Rakaia.
JOSEPH WARD .. Ashburton.

T. W. HISLOP.