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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

Committee.

Charles Freeman
James Lennie
Duncan McFarlane
Donald Ross
John Thomson
Thomas Findlay
George W. Nichol
John Stead
James Stewart
Robert Wesney, jun.
John Forde
William Hogan
William Johnston
Patrick Macanilly
James Ritchie
Allan McDougall Carmichael
William Affleck
Samuel Barwell
John Lindsay
John Swap

District.

Invercargill Third.
Invercargill South.
Wairio.
Otautau Riding.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Member of Land Board reappointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to re-appoint

ANDREW MATHESON, Esq.,

to be a Member of the Land Board of the Land District of Westland, as from the 23rd March, 1890.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th March, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES WRIGHT SAWLE

to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Borough of Ashburton, vice J. G. Restell, resigned.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Deputy Registrar of Supreme Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th March, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ARTHUR SANDYS BROOKE FORSTER, Esq.,

to be Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court at Napier, vice G. W. Cullen, Esq., on leave.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Trust Commissioner appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HELYAR WEDDERBURN BISHOP, Esq.,

to be a Trust Commissioner, under “The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1881,” and the amendments thereof.

T. W. HISLOP,
(For the Native Minister.)

Person appointed to hold Licenses, &c., in respect of Water-races.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 19th March, 1890.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER AITKEN

to be the person to apply for, receive, and hold, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, any license or other authority required to be held or exercised in respect of the water-races known as the Waimea-Kumara and Kaiwhaka Water-races and Kumara Sludge-channel, in the County of Westland, under “The Mining Act, 1886,” as from the 1st day of April, 1890.

THOS. FERGUS,
Minister of Mines.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointments:—

F Battery, Artillery Volunteers.
Joseph Anthony Cornell Creswell to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 12th February, 1890.

Newtown Rifle Volunteers.
Henry Smart Ernest Hobday to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th February, 1890.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1890.

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

Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers.
Major William Featherstone Clifton. Date of resignation, 4th February, 1890.

Nelson Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant Roger William Wellesley Kingdon. Date of resignation, 22nd February, 1890.

Napier Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant Joseph Bell. Date of resignation, 18th February, 1890.

Tuapeka Rifle Volunteers.
Captain John Edie. Date of resignation, 14th February, 1890.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
(For the Minister of Defence.)

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th March, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

WILLIAM ADAIR, Esq.,

of Gisborne, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Despatch.—Jamaica Exhibition.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th March, 1890.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

W. R. RUSSELL.

(Circular.)

Downing Street, 18th December, 1889.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of the colony under your Government, copies of regulations for the Jamaica Exhibition, 1891, together with copies of a notice which has been issued by the Committee in the United Kingdom, and to request that you will cause the information therein contained to be published in the colony under your Government.

I have, &c.,

KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

JAMAICA INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING EXHIBITION, TO BE OPENED IN JAMAICA, JANUARY, 1891.

COMMITTEE IN UNITED KINGDOM.—Honorary President: The Right Hon. the Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G., &c. Chairman: C. Washington Eves, Esq., F.R.G.S. Committee: His Grace the Duke of St. Albans, Sir Henry Barkly, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., Sir Frederick Young, K.C.M.G., Sir Edward Newton, K.C.M.G., Sir J. R. Somers Vine, F.S.S., Major-General J. R. Mann, C.M.G., Sir John Simon, Neville Lubbock, Esq., Alexander Crum Ewing, Esq., Richard M. Harvey, Esq., F.R.G.S., D. Morris, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Maxwell Hall, Esq., M.A., F.R.A.S., Dr. D. Palmer Ross, F.R.C.S.E., J. Kenyon Hawthorn, Esq., W. C. C. Park, Esq., Samuel Shortridge, Esq., William Fawcett, Esq., B.Sc., F.L.S., and E. A. de Pass, Esq.

THE Exhibition, to be opened in January, 1891, will be managed by a Commission, His Excellency the Governor being at the head. This Commission has already been constituted by a colonial law.