he has been actually engaged and acted continuously in
working winding-engines and winding-machinery in a mine
for a period of twelve months immediately previous to the
date of the passing of the above-mentioned Act.

A.B.,
Chairman of the Board of Examiners.
Entered, Vol. , folio
C.D., Secretary.

SCHEDULE E,

"THE COAL-MINES ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1890."
Certificate of Competency as Engine-driver working
Winding-machinery.
No.
Office of Board of Examiners.
Wellington, , 189
THIS is to certify that , of , has passed a
satisfactory examination as an engine-driver working wind-
ing-machinery by means of which persons are brought up or
passed down or along any shaft, pit, or inclined plane or
level, in a coal-mine, as required by section 4 of "The Coal-
mines Act Amendment Act, 1890," and the regulations
made thereunder.

A.B.,
Chairman of the Board of Examiners.
Entered, Vol. , folio
C.D., Secretary.

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

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Ministerial Appointments.

Private Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

The Hon. JOHN BALLANCE to be Commissioner of Stamp
Duties.

The Hon. ALFRED JEROME CADMAN to be Native Minister.
The Hon. JOSEPH GEORGE WARD to be Postmaster-General
and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

RIVERSDALE WALROND,
Private Secretary.

Resignation of certain Ministerial Offices accepted.

Private Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept
the resignations by

The Hon. JOHN BALLANCE as Native Minister.
The Hon. PATRICK ALPHONSUS BUCKLEY as Postmaster-
General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.
The Hon. ALFRED JEROME CADMAN as Commissioner of
Stamp Duties.

RIVERSDALE WALROND,
Private Secretary.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

PHILIP LAMBERT PAYNE
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and
also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Dane-
virke, vice James Buck. This appointment takes effect on
and from the 26th January, 1891.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

FLORENCE O'DONOVAN
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vac-
cination Inspector, for the District of Waimea, vice Daniel
Hannan. This appointment takes effect on and from the
29th January, 1891.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Judges of Assessment Courts appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

CHARLES CARGILL KETTLE, Esq., R.M.,
to be Judge of the Assessment Courts, under "The Rating
Act, 1876," and the Acts amending the same, for the Boroughs
of New Plymouth and Hawera; also to appoint

ALFRED GREENFIELD, Esq., R.M.,
to be Judge of the Assessment Courts, under the said Acts,
for the Borough of Kaiapoi and Town District of Amberley;
and also to appoint

HARRY EYRE KENNY, Esq., R.M.,
to be Judge of the Assessment Court, under the said Acts, for
the Borough of Westport.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Inspectors of Weights and Measures, Southland County, &c.,
and Lake County, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

Sergeant WILLIAM MCLEOD
to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under "The
Weights and Measures Act, 1868," and the Acts amending
the same, for the Counties of Southland, Wallace, Fiord, and
Stewart Island, and for all boroughs therein, vice Sergeant
Macdonell; also to appoint

Sergeant EWEN MACDONELL
to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under the said
Acts, for the County of Lake and Boroughs of Queenstown
and Arrowtown, vice Sergeant W. McLeod.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Registrar of Electors, Egmont, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

WILLIAM LUPTON DEAN
to be Registrar of Electors, under "The Registration of
Electors Act, 1879," for the Electoral District of Egmont,
vice A. Trimble, temporarily transferred. Appointment to
date from the 28th January, 1891.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

HENRY ROWE SMITH
to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of
Linwood.

W. P. REEVES.

Public Valuers under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,"
appointed for the Year 1891.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

PETER BLACK, of Dunedin;
GEORGE LESLIE, of Wellington; and
CHARLES SAMUEL WRIGHT, of Auckland,
to be Public Valuers, under "The Friendly Societies Act,
1882," until the 31st December, 1891.

G. F. RICHARDSON.

Justices of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th February, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignations by the under-mentioned
gentlemen of their appointments as Justices of the Peace
for the colony, viz.:-

JOHN WRIGHT GOWER, Esq., Foxton.
HERBERT ONSLOW CLARKE, Esq., Akaroa.

W. P. REEVES.