Vesting Control of the Hikutaia Bridge in Thames County Council.

(L.S.)
ONSWLOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by section four of “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may, upon the terms and conditions in the said section mentioned, by Proclamation publicly notified, direct that any bridge already constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, over or across any river or arm of the sea respectively, shall, from and after a date to be fixed in such Proclamation, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of such local authority as shall be mentioned in that behalf in such Proclamation:
And whereas it is expedient that the control and management of the bridge described in the Schedule hereto should be vested in the manner hereinafter described:
Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by the said Act, and of every other power and authority in any- wise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and known as the Hikutaia Bridge, shall, from and after the first publication hereof in the Evening Star newspaper, Thames, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Thames County Council; and I do hereby fix and determine that the Thames County Council shall itself provide out of its own funds one-half of the cost of managing and maintaining the said bridge; and that the Ohinemuri County Council shall, on demand in writing from the Thames County Council, pay to the said Council from time to time one-half of the actual cost of managing and maintaining the said bridge.
SCHEDULE.
THAT bridge over the Hikutaia Stream, in the Provincial District of Auckland, known as the Hikutaia Bridge, and the approaches on each side thereof, situated on the main road between Grahamstown and Te Aroha, as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 12456, deposited in the General Survey Office, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.
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; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor 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 Dunedin, this sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.
God SAVE THE QUEEN!
Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th January, 1890.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
RICHMOND KEELE
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Naseby.
W. R. RUSSELL.
Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th January, 1890.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:-
Name.
WALTER JOHN CHANEY
ROBERT FRANCIS HOULIHAN
HARRY GEORGE GREATBATCH
District.
Rangitikei.
Temuka.
Cambridge.
W. R. RUSSELL.
Rangers under Animals Protection Acts, Otago, appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th January, 1890.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
HENRY L. ST. GEORGE HAMILTON,
RODERICK McDONALD,
DONALD McGUIRKEN, Jun.,
Constable BEATTIE, and
WILLIAM FRAZER
to be Rangers under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Otago.
W. R. RUSSELL.
Rangers under Animals Protection Acts, Canterbury North, appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th January, 1890.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
JOSEPH TWEEDY,
ROBERT LIGGETT, and
WALTER C. NICHOLLS
to be Rangers under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Canterbury North.
W. R. RUSSELL.
Clerk of Court appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1889.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
Constable JOHN BLACK
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at South Rakaia, on and from the 1st January, 1890.
W. R. RUSSELL.
Member of Land Board reappointed.
General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 8th January, 1890.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to re- appoint
OSWALD CURTIS, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Land Board for the Nelson Land District, as from the 18th October, 1889.
G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.
Volunteer Officers promoted and appointed.
Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th January, 1890.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned promotions and appointments:-
Dunedin Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Robert Morrison to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of commission, 2nd October, 1889.
Southland Yeomanry Hussars Volunteers.
John Osborne Closs to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 15th November, 1889.
G Battery N.Z. Regiment Artillery Volunteers.
Thomas Loxton Woods to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 22nd November, 1889.
Invercargill City Guards Rifle Volunteers.
Robert Richard Knight to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 22nd October, 1889.
Taranaki Rifle Volunteers.
Reginald Bayley to be Captain. Date of commission, 2nd October, 1889.
Blenheim Rifle Volunteers.
Thomas Benjamin Salmon to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 11th October, 1889.
Wellington Guards Rifle Volunteers.
Henry Patrick Sharpe Stratton Royle to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 2nd October, 1889.
Manchester Rifle Volunteers.
Clifton Charlton, Esq., to be Honorary Surgeon and Surgeon on the General Medical List, New Zealand Volunteers. Date of commission, 6th December, 1889.