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the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chairman.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land being Lots 285 and 286 of the Parish of Waimana, in Block II. of the Whakatane Survey District, Provincial District of Auckland, containing 40 acres 2 roods 18 perches. Bounded on the north by a road, 1430 links; on the east by a road, the western and southern boundary of Lot 263 of the said Parish of Waimana, the termination of a road 100 links wide, by a line, and again by a road, 3346 links; on the south by a road, 2617 links; and on the west by the eastern boundary of Lot 287 of the said Parish of Waimana, 2225 links.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Deputy Assignee appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM BOYCE CHENNELLS

to be Deputy Assignee at Masterton, from the 12th instant, vice W. Sellar, resigned.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Coroner appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 11th September 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS NEPEAN EDWARD KENNY, Esq.,
of Thames, to be a Coroner within the colony.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Member of Land Board reappointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 17th September, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint

JOHN DUNCAN, Esq.,

to be a Member of the Land Board for the Land District of Otago, as from the 6th September, 1890.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Licensed Interpreter appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 8th September, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

HENRY AUGUSTUS FIELD

to act as a Licensed Interpreter.

EDWIN MITCHELSON.

Officer appointed under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” for Lake County.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 18th September, 1890.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”

CHARLES TURNBULL,
of Wanaka Station, Runholder, has been appointed an officer for the purposes of that Act for the Lake County, in the Provincial District of Otago.

THOS. FERGUS.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE. — SAMUEL PERCY CRISP, of Hobart, in the Colony of Tasmania, has been appointed this day, by His Honour the Chief Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Tasmania, under the second section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of September, 1890.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Wellington.

Special Order made by the Patutahi Road Board, County of Cook.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th September, 1890.

THE following special order, made by the Patutahi Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

W. R. RUSSELL.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT a special rate of 1¾d. in the pound be levied on all rateable property within a special district, bounded towards the east by Sections 118 and 119, Block III., Patutahi; on the north by Section 120, Block II., Patutahi, Okahuatiu No. 2A to Trig. 13, Block I., Patutahi; thence in a westerly direction by Okahuatiu Nos. 1 and 2D, Hangaroa, Matawai No. 2 to Hangaroa River; thence in a southerly direction by that river to the south boundary of Section 7, Block VIII., Hangaroa; thence along the south boundary of Section 7, Block VIII., Hangaroa, 3, 4, 5, 6, Block V., Patutahi, and 124, Block VI.; thence along the eastern boundary of Section 124 to south boundary of Section 105; thence along south and east boundaries of Section 105 to south boundary of Sections 108 and 110, Block VI., Patutahi; thence by east boundary to road; thence on north side of Sections 111 and 112; thence along road on east side of Section 112 to Gisborne–Wairoa Road; thence along the south boundary of Section 117 to starting-point, Section 118.

The rate is to be current from the 1st day of October, 1890, until the 30th day of September, 1916; and to be due and payable on the 1st day of October and 1st day of April in each year.

The rate is levied for the purpose of providing interest upon a sum of £800, to be obtained in the terms of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and 1889, for the purpose of constructing the roads in the Hangaroa and Waerengakuri Districts.

This special order will also pledge as security the thirds of deferred payments and perpetual-lease rents of the land fund accruing due within this special district.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order was made in accordance with law, and that all the provisions of the Road Boards Act and the Loans to Local Bodies Act have been complied with.

T. W. BILHAM,
Clerk.

Patutahi Road Board Office,
1st September, 1890.

New Electoral Rolls formed under “The Representation Act, 1887.”

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

WHEREAS by the ninth section of “The Representation Act, 1887,” it is enacted that, upon the new electoral rolls being formed in manner provided by the said Act, every Registrar appointed under “The Registration of Electors Act, 1879,” shall give notice thereof to the Colonial Secretary, who shall publish the fact in the Gazette:

Now, therefore, I, the Colonial Secretary, do hereby publish that I have received such notice from the Registrars of the under-mentioned districts, that is to say,—

For the Electoral District of—
New Plymouth.
Egmont.
City of Nelson.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Application to proclaim the Macrewhenua River, in the Provincial District of Otago, a Watercourse for the Deposit of Tailings.

NOTICE.—In pursuance of the powers vested in him by section one hundred and fifty-four of “The Mining Act, 1886,” His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that application has been made to proclaim the Macrewhenua River, in the Provincial District of Otago, to be a watercourse into which tailings, mining débris, and waste water of every kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding adjacent to such watercourse shall be suffered to flow or be discharged.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of September, 1890.

THOS. FERGUS,
Minister of Mines.

Trade Union registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 12th September, 1890.

THE New Zealand Federated Fellmongers’, Skinners’, Tanners’, and Curriers’ Union, situated at Dunedin, is registered as a trade union, under “The Trade Union Act, 1878,” this 12th day of September, 1890.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar.