DEC. 19.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1357

Appointment of Officers to Honorary Unattached List, New
Zealand Volunteers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th November, 1889.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the under-mentioned appointment to the
Honorary Unattached List, New Zealand Volunteer Force,
with the rank of Captain:--
JOSIAS HOSKINS, Esq.,
late Captain, Taranaki Rifle Volunteers. Date of appoint-
ment, 30th November, 1889.
W. R. RUSSELL.

Justice of the Peace resigned.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th December, 1889.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept
the resignation by
ABIEL GIFFORD HOWLAND, Esq.,
of Christchurch, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace
for the colony.
W. R. RUSSELL.

Member of Domain Board resigned.
General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 10th December, 1889.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept
the resignation of
ADAM CHALMERS, Esq.,
as a Member of the Lyttelton Domain Board.
G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Despatch.---Provisions of (Imperial) Revenue Act respect-
ing Shares on Colonial Registers and Life Assurance
Policies.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1889.
THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is pub-
lished for general information.
W. R. RUSSELL.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 13th September, 1889.
SIR,---I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of the
Imperial Revenue Act of 1889, and to request that you will
cause sections 18 and 19 to be published for information in
the colony under your Government.

During the sittings of the Colonial Conference in 1887 the
attention of Her Majesty's Government was called to "The
Companies (Colonial Registers) Act, 1883," which had the
effect of requiring probate or letters of administration to be
taken out both in the colony and in this country in respect
of the wills or estates of colonial shareholders holding shares
on the colonial registers of banks and other companies. The
proceedings on the subject at pages 76 and 107 of Parlia-
mentary Paper C. 5091, Volume I., and the papers then laid
before the Conference, are printed at pages 47, 48, 49 of the
Parliamentary Paper C. 5091, Volume II. The promise
given in the former that this grievance should be remedied
has now been redeemed by the passing of section 18 for the
purpose.

A somewhat similar complaint was brought to the notice
of Her Majesty's Government in connection with policies of
life insurance issued in the colonies by insurance companies
carrying on business in the colonies, but having their head
office in the United Kingdom. The sums recoverable under
such policies were held to be assets situated in the United
Kingdom; and under section 11 of "The Imperial Revenue
Act, 1884," the production of a grant of representation from
a Court in the United Kingdom, by probate, or letters of
administration, or confirmation, was necessary to establish
the right to recover or receive such amounts.

The hardship of this provision upon persons who had no
real connection with the United Kingdom has been recog-
nised, and section 19 has been passed to remove it.

I have, &c.,
KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand.

[Extract from Revenue Act, 1889, 52 and 53 Vict., ch. 42.]
18. Notwithstanding provision (b) in section seven of "The
Companies (Colonial Registers) Act, 1883," the share or
other interest of a deceased member, registered in a colonial
register under that Act, who shall have died domiciled else-
where than in the United Kingdom, shall, so far as relates
to British duties, not be deemed to be part of his estate and
effects situated in the United Kingdom, for or in respect of
which probate or letters of administration is or are to be
granted, or whereof an inventory is to be exhibited and
recorded.

19. The proviso to section eleven of "The Revenue Act,
    1884," is hereby repealed, and that section shall be read as
    if the following proviso were therein inserted in lieu of the
    repealed proviso:--

Provided that, where a policy of life assurance has been
effected with any insurance company by a person who shall
die domiciled elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, the
production of a grant of representation from a Court in the
United Kingdom shall not be necessary to establish the right
to receive the money payable in respect of such policy.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1889.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue
Letters of Naturalisation, under "The Aliens Act,
1880," in favour of the under-mentioned persons:--

Name. Occupation. Residence.
John Naies .. Woolsorter Georgetown, Inver-
cargill.
Edward Peterson Master mariner Port Chalmers.
Teobal Matias Nekolai Seaman Napier.
Mattson
Fidel Maier.. Jeweller Auckland.
T. W. HISLOP.

Special Order made by the Whangarei County Council.---
Merging Manaia Road District.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th December, 1889.
THE following special order, made by the Whangarei
County Council, is published in accordance with "The
Counties Act, 1886."
W. R. RUSSELL.

SPECIAL ORDER made by the Whangarei County Council
at a Special Meeting held on the 20th September, 1889,
and confirmed at a subsequent Meeting held on the 27th
day of November, 1889.
THAT the petition of the Manaia Highway Board for merging
into the county be adopted in accordance with the provisions
of the Act.
That the motion passed on the 20th September last re the
merging of the Manaia Road District be confirmed.
I hereby certify that the foregoing special order has been
duly made in accordance with "The Counties Act, 1886."
ROBERT MAIR,
County Office, Whangarei,
10th December, 1889.
County Clerk.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, County of Rangitikei.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th December, 1889.
THE following notice, received from the chairman of the
Rangitikei County Council, is published in accordance
with "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."
W. R. RUSSELL.

RESULT OF POLL FOR PROPOSED LOAN, RANGATIRA ROAD
SPECIAL RATING DISTRICT.
THE following is the result of a poll taken on the 12th
December, 1889, on a proposal to raise a sum of £1,000
by way of loan under the provisions of "The Local Bodies'
Loans Act, 1886," for the purpose of forming and bridging
the Rangatira Road, situate within the Paraekaretu
Riding:--
Number of ratepayers on the roll, 23; number of votes
exercisable, 26. Number of ratepayers who voted for the
proposal, 14; number of ratepayers who voted against the
proposal, nil; number of votes recorded for the proposal,
17; number of votes recorded against the proposal, nil.
A majority of the ratepayers, exercising more than one-
half of the total number of votes, being in favour of the
proposal, I therefore declare it to be carried.
J. W. MARSHALL,
Chairman, Rangitikei County Council.
Marton, 14th December, 1889.