Changing the Purpose of Part of a Reserve at Gisborne.

ONSLOW, Governor.

WHEREAS the provisions and the requirements of the seventh section of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," have been duly complied with in respect of the land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto: And whereas notices in the Gazette have been duly published for four consecutive weeks, and laid before both Houses of the Assembly, as provided by the ninth section of the said Act: And whereas no resolution of either House of Assembly has been passed that such House does not concur in the intention declared in any such notices:

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 vested in me by the Act aforesaid, do hereby change the specific purpose of a portion of the reserve described in the first column of the Schedule hereto, the area of which is described in the second column of the said Schedule, to the specific purpose set opposite such description in the third column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Description and Purpose of Original Reserve.

Lot 374, Town of Gisborne, containing 1 acre 1 rood 13 perches. Reserved for a customhouse and post-office.

Portion of which the Purpose is changed.

All that area in the Borough of Gisborne, in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 7.5 perches, more or less, being portion of Section No. 374 (Customhouse and Post-office Reserve), Town of Gisborne, Bounded towards the north-west by a line running at right angles to Childers Street for a distance of 57.8 links from a point on the northern side of that street 91 links distant from the junction of the said Childers Street with Read's Quay; thence towards the north-east by a line running at right angles to the boundary-line hereinbefore described for a distance of 73 links to Read's Quay; thence towards the south-east by the said Read's Quay, 60.6 links; and thence towards the south-west by Childers Street aforesaid to the point of commencement, 91 links.

Purpose.

For a site for municipal and Harbour Board offices.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,

Minister of Lands.

Rangers under Animals Protection Acts, Waimate and Southland, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 19th September, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES RICKUS

to be a Ranger under "The Animals Protection Act, 1880," and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Waimate; also to appoint

THOMAS DYKE and NEIL McKAY

to be Rangers under the said Acts for the District of Southland.

W. R. RUSSELL,

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Wellington, 22nd September, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, as constituted by Proclamations of even date herewith, viz.:-

Name.

WILLIAM BUNDLE ..

JOHN WATT

JAMES FLEMING

GEORGE WILLIAM CAMPBELL MACDONALD

District.

Palmerston.

Hampden.

Hyde.

Otepopo.

And also to appoint the said William Bundle, John Watt, James Fleming, and George William Campbell Macdonald to be Vaccination Inspectors for the said districts.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Deputy Assignee appointed.

Department of Justice,

Wellington, 26th September 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES ALFRED BUDGE

to be Deputy Assignee at Hawera, from the 15th September, 1890, vice W. H. E. Wanklyn, resigned.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Clerks of Courts, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,

Wellington, 1st October, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

DANIEL MCKENZIE

to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts, and Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar, at Jackson's Bay, from the 1st October, 1890, vice D. Macfarlane, Esq.; and

Constable ALEXANDER CRUICKSHANK

to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at the Hutt, from the 1st October, 1890, vice Constable J. O'Connor, transferred.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Clerk in Friendly Societies' Registry Office appointed.

The Treasury,

Wellington, 26th September, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES THOMAS BENZONI, Esq.,

to be a Clerk in the Friendly Societies' Registry Office, as on the 1st April, 1890.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Assayer of Gold appointed.

Department of Trade and Customs,

Wellington, 29th September, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN McCONNELL

to be an Assayer of Gold under "The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882."

EDWIN MITCHELSON,

(For the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.)

Inspector of Machinery appointed for Taranaki, Auckland, and Otago Districts.

Marine Department,

Wellington, 29th September, 1890.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the power and authority vested by "The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1882,"

ROBERT DUNCAN

has been appointed an Inspector of Machinery for the Taranaki, Auckland, and Otago Districts.

THOS. FERGUS,

(For the Minister having charge of the Marine Department.)