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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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will therefore be styled Wairoa Mounted Rifles, Te Awamutu
Mounted Rifles, Heretaunga Mounted Rifles, South Franklin
Mounted Rifles, and Hawera Mounted Rifles.

R. J. SEDDON.

Additional Member, Central Board Examination, at Welling-
ton, of Candidates for Commissions appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the appointment of

Major WILLIAM BAZIRE MESSENGER,
New Zealand Permanent Militia, as an additional Member
of the Central Board of Examination, at Wellington, of can-
didates for commissions in the New Zealand Militia and
Volunteer Forces.

R. J. SEDDON.

Trustee of Napier Garrison Drill-hall appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

Acting Lieutenant CHARLES DUGALD KENNEDY,
F Battery, Artillery Volunteers, vice Captain Arthur McCart-
ney, resigned, a Trustee of the Napier Garrison Hall, under
"The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation
Act, 1890."

R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept
the resignation of the commissions held by the un-
der-mentioned officers:—

Christchurch Rifle Volunteers.
Captain William Hunter Bristow. Date of resignation, 20th
May, 1891.

Manchester Rifle Volunteers.
Honorary Surgeon Clifton Charlton. Date of resignation,
15th May, 1891.

Bluff Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant David Morrison McDougall. Date of resignation,
1st June, 1891,

F Battery, Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant Joseph Anthony Connell Cresswell. Date of
resignation, 26th May, 1891.

Gisborne School Cadet Rifle Volunteers.
Captain John Warren. Date of resignation, 31st March,
1891.

R. J. SEDDON.

Special Order made by Wairarapa North County Council.
—Dividing Alfredton Riding.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th June, 1891.

THE following special order, made by the Wairarapa
North County Council, is published in accordance with
"The Counties Act, 1886."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER MADE BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY
OF WAIRARAPA NORTH, DIVIDING THE ALFREDTON RIDING
INTO TWO RIDINGS.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by section
45 of "The Counties Act, 1886," the Council of the County
of Wairarapa North resolves as follows:—

That the Riding of Alfredton, consisting of two entire
road districts, namely, the Eketahuna and Alfredton Road
Districts, and being represented by two Councillors, be and
the same is hereby divided into two ridings, namely, the
Alfredton Riding, the boundaries of which shall be coter-
minous with the boundaries of the said Alfredton Road Dis-
trict, as described in the special order of this Council pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette No. 70, of the 13th June,
1884, page 952, subject, however, to alterations in the said
boundaries made by special orders published in the said
Gazette No. 51, of the 30th September, 1886, page 1248, and
Gazette No. 12, of the 23rd February, 1888, page 273, the said
new riding to be represented by one Councillor; and the Eketahuna
Riding, the boundaries of which shall be coterminous
with the boundaries of the said Eketahuna Road District, as
described in the special order of this Council dated the 13th
day of April, 1886, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 23, of the 15th April, 1886, page 483, subject,

however, to alterations in the said boundaries made by special
order published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 16, of the
27th March, 1890, page 354, the said Eketahuna Riding
to be represented by one Councillor.

That this special order shall take effect from the day of
the gazetting thereof, and that immediately thereupon the
seats of the Councillors representing the existing Riding of
Alfredton shall become vacant, and steps shall be taken
forthwith to elect one representative for each of the said new
Ridings of Alfredton and Eketahuna.

Passed at a special meeting of the Council, this 14th day
of May, 1891; confirmed this 11th day of June, 1891.

WILLIAM H. BEETHAM,
Chairman.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and in-
habitants of the County of Wairarapa North was affixed
hereto by William Henry Beetham, County Chairman, in the
presence of—F. G. Moore.

I certify that the above special order has been duly made.
F. G. MOORE,
County Clerk.

Special Order made by Raglan County Council.—Dividing
Whangape Riding.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th June, 1891.

THE following special order, made by the Raglan County
Council, is published in accordance with "The Counties
Act, 1886."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

RAGLAN COUNTY.

THE following special order has been made in accordance
with "The Counties Act, 1886 :"

That the Whangape Riding be divided into two ridings:
one to be called the Whangape Riding, to consist of the
Parish of Whangape; the other to be called the Waingaro
Riding, to consist of the Parishes of Pepepe and Waipa.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly
made in every particular.

JOHN B. SOMERSET,
Clerk.
Raglan, 27th May, 1891.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th June, 1891.

THE following notices of elections of members of Road
Boards have been received at this office, and are
published in accordance with the provisions of "The Road
Boards Act, 1882."

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Maungakaramea Road District, County of Whangarei :
L. P. Adams.
W. Crawford.
C. E. Hayward.
H. J. James.
James Walker.

Pirongia Road District, County of Raglan.
Arthur B. Wheeler.
James McGuirk.
David Finlayson.

Alfredton Road District, County of Wairarapa North :
Tiraumua Ward—
John Boustead.

Omata Road District, County of Taranaki :
Neils Christiensen.
Peter Madsen, jun.

Pelorus Road District, County of Marlborough :
George Thomas Corbett.
Edward Hart.
Henry Marsh Reader.
Edward Samuel Oliver.

Officiating Ministers for 1891.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 15th June, 1891.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth
year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and in-
titled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are
published for general information:—

Salvation Army.
Adjutant Ebenezer Bishop.
Staff Captain Ernest Holdaway.
Adjutant John Edwin Newbold.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.