1508 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 77

Reduction of Letter-postage to United Kingdom.—Rates of Postage, &c., for Places beyond New Zealand.

ONSLOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of December, 1890.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE E. MITCHELSON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by "The Post Office Act, 1881," His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby abolish the rates of postage fixed by Order in Council dated the fifteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, to be paid within the colony for the transmission of letters, newspapers, and packets to the United Kingdom, and in lieu thereof doth order and declare that the rates of postage payable within the colony for the transmission of all letters, newspapers, and packets by post to the United Kingdom shall be those specified in the Schedule hereto, and that such rates of postage shall in all cases be paid at the time such letters, newspapers, and packets are delivered into the Post Office; and, with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth further order and declare that this order shall take effect on and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Changing the Purpose of Reserves in New Plymouth.

ONSLOW, Governor.

WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule hereto were heretofore duly reserved for a site for a drill-shed and parade-ground, and is a reserve in Class II. of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," and such land has not been vested in trust in any society, body corporate, or trustees: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient that the purpose of such reserve shall be appropriated to an addition to a school-site:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the second section of "The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1889," do, by this notification, hereby declare that the said reserve shall, from and after the day of the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, be appropriated for the purposes of an addition to a school-site under Class III. of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881."

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land in the Land District of Taranaki, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 1 perch, more or less, being parts of Sections Nos. 1022 and 1023 on the map of the Town of New Plymouth. Bounded towards the north-east by Gover Street, 102·5 links; towards the south-east by Pendarves Street, 252 links; towards the south-west by Section No. 1021, 102·5 links; and towards the north-west by parts of Sections Nos. 1022 and 1023, 252 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

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

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Inspectors of Weights and Measures, Christchurch, &c., and Ashburton, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable HUGH JOHNSTON STEWART

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under "The Weights and Measures Act, 1867," for the Counties of Ashley and Selwyn, for the City of Christchurch, and for the Boroughs of St. Albans, Sydenham, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, and Rangiora, vice Constable Weathered; also to appoint

Mounted Constable JOSEPH DOCTOR CROCKATT

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under the said Act, for the County of Ashburton and for the Borough of Ashburton, vice Sergeant Felten.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Deputy Assignees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Deputy Assignees at the places set opposite their names respectively, viz.:—

RICHARD PILLING, jun. . . . . . Lawrence.
FRANZ WILLIAM FREDERICK GEISOW . . Queenstown.
W. R. RUSSELL.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK BLUCK

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waitara, from the 16th instant, vice T. W. Marsden, resigned.
W. R. RUSSELL.

Clerks of Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable THOMAS MAYNE

to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts, and Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar, at Waikanae, and to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waikanae, from the 18th instant, vice Constable Bowman, transferred;

Constable PATRICK BOWMAN

to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Arrowtown, and to be Clerk of the Licensing Committees for the Districts