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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

Notice under “The Justices of the Peace Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1886.”

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th May, 1891.

IT is hereby notified that
ALEXANDER McDONALD,
of Wellington, will, in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of “The Justices of the Peace Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1886,” cease to be a Justice of the Peace from the 18th May instant.

W. P. REEVES.

Registrar of Supreme Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th May, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,
to be Registrar of the Supreme Court at Nelson, from the 15th instant, vice A. Turnbull, Esq., transferred.

W. P. REEVES.

Resident Magistrate appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th May, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,
to be a Resident Magistrate for the District of Nelson, with extended jurisdiction to £100.

W. P. REEVES.

District Judge appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th May, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
CHARLES DUDLEY ROBERT WARD, Esq.,
to be Judge of the District Court of Westland, vice L. Broad, Esq., resigned.

W. P. REEVES.

District Land Registrars and Examiners of Titles appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 15th May, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,
to be District Land Registrar, Registrar of Deeds, and Examiner of Titles, at Nelson, vice Andrew Turnbull, Esq., transferred; such appointment to take effect from the 15th May instant;

THOMAS HALL, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar of Deeds and Assistant Land Registrar at Auckland, vice J. J. Dixon, Esq., retired; and

GEORGE GREVILLE BRIDGES, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar of Deeds at Dunedin, vice A. Pinwill, Esq., retired.

J. BALLANCE.

Member of Local Board, Wanganui District, for Examination of Candidates for Commissions in New Zealand Militia and Volunteer Forces appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th May, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointment of
Captain WILLIAM HENRY CLAPHAM,
Commanding Wanganui Naval Artillery, as a Member of the Local Board, Wanganui District, for the examination of candidates for commissions in the New Zealand Militia and Volunteer Forces.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Defence.

By-law made by Ashburton County Council.—Water-race Charges.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1891.

THE following by-law, made by the Ashburton County Council, is published for general information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

By-law made by the Ashburton County Council under the provisions of “The Ashburton County Council Empowering Act, 1882,” in lieu of and in substitution for By-law No. 8 of the by-laws heretofore made by the said Council under the provisions of the said Act. The new by-law will come into force on the 1st day of June, 1891:—

8A. It shall be lawful for the Council from time to time, by resolution in that behalf, to fix an annual charge to be paid by every occupier or (as hereinafter provided) owner of land through, along, abutting upon, or adjacent to which any aqueduct, race, or water-channel shall pass, and the water of which he shall be at liberty to use for the supply of such water. Such charge shall be fixed on the basis (1) of a sum to be paid in respect of the first twenty chains, and (2) of a further sum to be paid in respect of every succeeding chain or portion of a chain in length of the aqueduct, race, or water-channel where the same passes through, along, or adjacent to or abuts upon the land of each such occupier or owner; and it shall be made payable, either in one amount or by half-yearly instalments, on such day or days in each and every year, and at such place, as shall be appointed by such resolution: Provided always that, if the length of the aqueduct, race, or water-channel where the same shall pass through, along, or adjacent to or shall abut upon the land of any such occupier or owner shall be less than twenty chains, the same charge shall nevertheless be imposed in respect thereof as if it were of the full length of twenty chains: Provided, further, that, if the Council shall be of opinion that it would be unjust to enforce the annual charge against any particular occupier or owner of land, or if for any other reason the Council shall think it expedient so to do, it shall be lawful for the Council from time to time to remit the annual charge either wholly or in part so far as such occupier or owner is concerned.

The occupier of any such land as aforesaid shall be primarily liable for the payment of such annual charge; but if there be no occupier then the owner of the land shall be liable.

If the occupier of any land shall fail to pay any such charge or any instalment thereof within one calendar month after the day when the same shall become due and payable, the Council may, if it thinks fit, recover the same from the owner of such land, but its right to recover from such owner shall not release the occupier from his liability to pay such outstanding charge or instalment thereof, but the occupier and owner of the land shall be severally liable for the same. Seven days at the least before legal proceedings are taken against the owner of any land to recover any such outstanding charge or instalment, notice in writing or in print, signed by the Clerk or some other officer of the Council, that such charge or instalment remains unpaid shall be served upon such owner by either being delivered to him personally or left, or sent by post in a prepaid letter addressed to him or his agent, at his usual or last-known place of abode.

All moneys received by the Council hereunder shall be expended upon the maintenance, repair, and enlargement of dams, weirs, headworks, main and branch races, and the inspection and general supervision of waterworks, or otherwise in connection therewith as the Council may think fit: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall prejudice or affect any covenant or agreement which may already subsist or may hereafter be made between the Council and the owner or occupier of any land relating to the maintenance and repairs of waterworks.

W. C. WALKER,
Chairman.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and inhabitants of the County of Ashburton was hereunto affixed on the 5th May, 1891, by William Campbell Walker, Chairman of the said county, in the presence of—F. Mainwaring, Clerk, Ashburton County Council.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Mauriceville Road District, County of Wairarapa North.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1891.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Mauriceville Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

MAURICEVILLE ROAD BOARD.

RESULT of the poll taken on the 11th May, 1891, upon a proposal to borrow £400, under “The Government Loans to