1096
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 57

Survey District, and lying between Sections Nos. 25954, 25936, and the south branch of the Rangitata Creek: as the same is delineated on the map deposited in the District Survey Office, Christchurch. For river conservation.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 29 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 2897 (in red), situate in Block III., Kapunatiki Survey District, and lying south of Section No. 25936, and between roads and the south branch of the Rangitata Creek: as the same is delineated on the map deposited in the District Survey Office, Christchurch. For river conservation.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 135 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 2898 (in red), situate in Block VIII., Geraldine Survey District, and lying between Sections Nos. 21161, 21940, 22475, and the south branch of the Rangitata Creek, and north of road fronting Section No. 22475: as the same is delineated on the map deposited in the District Survey Office, Christchurch. For river conservation.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 57 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 2899 (in red), situate in Block VIII., Geraldine Survey District, being islands and flats lying between Section No. 32421, Reserve No. 2900 (in red), and the south branch of the Rangitata Creek: as the same is delineated on the map deposited in the District Survey Office, Christchurch. For river conservation.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 16 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 2900 (in red), situate in Block XII., Geraldine Survey District, and lying between Sections Nos. 22217, 20072, and the south branch of the Rangitata Creek: as the same is delineated on the map deposited in the District Survey Office, Christchurch. For river conservation.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 22 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 2901 (in red), situate in Block IV., Kapunatiki Survey District, and lying between Sections Nos. 24082, 24083, and the south branch of the Rangitata Creek: as the same is delineated on the map deposited in the District Survey Office, Christchurch. For river conservation.

OTAGO.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Otago, containing by admeasurement 8 acres and 4 perches, more or less, situate in the Maruwenua District, and being Section No. 15 of Block IV. of same district. Bounded towards the north by a creek, 930 links; towards the east by Harris Street, 974·5 links; towards the south by a railway reserve, 991·7 links; and towards the west by Section No. 6 of the same block and district, 786·5 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the official map in the Survey Office, Dunedin. For police purposes.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Otago, containing by admeasurement 2 acres, more or less, situate in the Town of Kurow, and being Sections Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19 of Block V. of said town. Bounded towards the north by Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 of same block, 500 links; towards the east by Gordon Street, 400 links; towards the south by Sections Nos. 15 and 9 of same block, 500 links; and towards the west by Robinson Street, 400 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the official map in the Survey Office, Dunedin. For a school-site.

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

W. R. RUSSELL,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1888,” I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

HERBERT LANGFORD,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under “The Post Office Act, 1881,” at Waimea West, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under the two hundred and thirty-fourth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

As witness my hand, at Christchurch, in the colony aforesaid, this twentieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

ONSLow,
Governor.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

DANIEL MCKENZIE

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Jackson’s Bay, vice Duncan Macfarlane.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Deputy Assignee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd October, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT WENTWORTH WADE

to be Deputy Assignee at Hokitika, from the 3rd instant, vice L. Northcroft, resigned.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Members of Wellington Land Board reappointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 8th October, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the under-mentioned reappointments to the Wellington Land Board:—

WILLIAM WILSON MCARDLE, Esq., as from the 18th September, 1890.

HENRY BUNNY, Esq., as from the 21st September, 1890.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Secretary for Stamps and Registrars of Joint-stock Companies appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 3rd October, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES ALFRED ST. GEORGE HICKSON, Esq.,

to be Secretary for Stamps and Registrar of Joint-stock Companies for the Colony of New Zealand, vice J. Sperrey, Esq., deceased; and

JAMES WILLIAM BROWN, Esq.,

to be Assistant Registrar of Joint-stock Companies, at Wellington, vice C. A. St. G. Hickson. Such appointments to take effect from the 18th September last.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Deputy Government Insurance Commissioner appointed.

Government Insurance Office,
Wellington, 6th October, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

SOMERSET WILLIAM D’ARCY-IRVINE, Esq., J.P., F.S.S.,
of Wellington, to be the Deputy Government Insurance Commissioner under “The Government Life Insurance Acts Amendment Act, 1890.”

H. A. ATKINSON.

Volunteer Officer transferred.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th October, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the transfer of

Lieutenant JOHN WILLIAM INNES

from the B Battery (Dunedin) to G Battery (Invercargill), New Zealand Regiment Artillery Volunteers.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Awards of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia granted in New Zealand.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1890.

THE following list of awards of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia, granted in New Zealand during the year 1889–90, is published for general information.

W. R. RUSSELL.