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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1

Rural Lands in the Taranaki Land District open for Sale or Selection.

ONSLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the third section of "The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of not less than forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre stated in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Taranaki Land District.—Opaku Survey District.

Description of Land: Rough pastoral bush land; eight miles from Patea, five miles from Alton.

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

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Governors of New Zealand Institute appointed.

ONSLOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Institute Act, 1867," provision is made for the appointment of members of a Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute, and it is enacted that, on the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and on the first day of November in each succeeding year, three members of the said Board of Governors shall retire from office, but shall be eligible for reappointment: And whereas the Honourable Walter Baldock Durant Mantell, William Thomas Locke Travers, Esquire, and Thomas Mason, Esquire, three of the members of the said Board of Governors, have retired from office, and are eligible for reappointment under the provisions of the said Act: And whereas by the said Act it is also provided that, on the annual retirement of three members as aforesaid, the successors of such retiring members shall be appointed by the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me by the said Act, do hereby reappoint

The Honourable WALTER BALDOCK DURANT MANTELL,
M.L.C.,
WILLIAM THOMAS LOCKE TRAVERS, Esquire, and
THOMAS MASON, Esquire,

to be Governors of the institution called the New Zealand Institute.

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

W. R. RUSSELL.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 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. District.
JOSEPH WILLIAM SALMON .. .. .. Tokatoka.
WILLIAM BREBNER .. .. .. Gore.

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

Inspectors of Weights and Measures, Grey and Inangahua, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN ARTHUR DAY

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under "The Weights and Measures Act, 1868," for the County of Grey and Boroughs of Greymouth and Brunner, vice Constable Kelso; also to appoint

Constable THOMAS RICHARD WINSBURY PHILPOTTS
to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under the said Act, for the County of Inangahua, vice Sergeant J. Slattery.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE HERON
to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Borough of Masterton, vice E. McEwen, resigned.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Clerks of District and Resident Magistrates' Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM MATRAVERS
to be Clerk of the District and Resident Magistrate's Courts at Palmerston North, and to be Clerk of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Palmerston North and Taonui, from the 1st January, 1891, vice E. Rawson, transferred;

FRANCIS MORRIS DEIGHTON
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Feilding, and to be Clerk of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Feilding, Halcombe, and Awahou, from the 1st January, 1891, vice W. Matravers, transferred; and

Constable JOHN GILLESPIE
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Foxton, from the 1st January, 1891, vice W. Matravers, transferred.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Police Gaolers appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 26th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the persons hereafter named to be Police Gaolers at the places respectively stated after their names:—

Constable PATRICK BOWMAN, Arrowtown, vice Sergeant W. Brown, transferred.
Constable MICHAEL MCKEERFY, Greymouth, vice Constable W. Folley, transferred.

W. R. RUSSELL.

Member of Land Board reappointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint

WILLIAM ALFRED FITZHERBERT, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Land Board for the Wellington District, as from the 20th December, 1890.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

DANIEL COOK WILSON,
of Whangarei, to act as a Licensed Interpreter.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
(For the Native Minister.)