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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

Trustees for Wellington Cemeteries appointed.

ONSLLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the forty-fifth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the local authority specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to have the control and management of the public cemeteries specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

All those areas in the City of Wellington, containing by admeasurement respectively 4 acres 3 roods 12 perches and 3 acres 3 roods 16 perches (total 8 acres 2 roods 28 perches), more or less, being the cemetery for the burial of the dead as described in the Schedule to “An Act to provide for the Management of the Public Cemetery of the Town of Wellington,” passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington in 1854, Session I., No. 9; excepting areas of 5·2 perches and 2·1 perches respectively, conveyed to the Hon. W. B. D. Mantell under “The Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1886,” in exchange for an area of 1·5 perches, part of Section No. 502; and also excepting the areas of 2 roods 16·2 perches and 2 roods 7·9 perches taken by Proclamation under “The Public Works Act, 1882,” on the 19th October, 1885, for purpose of a street.
Also all that area in the City of Wellington, containing by admeasurement 1·5 perches, more or less, being portion of Section No. 502, conveyed by the Hon. W. B. D. Mantell to the Trustees of the Wellington Public Cemetery under “The Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1886.” |

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

A. J. CADMAN,
For the Minister of Lands.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1888,” I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

JAMES MAXWELL ROSCOE,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under “The Post Office Act, 1881,” at Alfredton, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under the two hundred and thirty-fourth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

As witness my hand, at Christchurch, in the colony aforesaid, this third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

ONSLLOW.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 1891.

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.
HENRY EDSER .. .. .. .. Carterton.
JOHN OWENS .. .. .. .. Riverton.

A. J. CADMAN,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Ranger under Animals Protection Acts appointed, Nelson.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE SILCOCK

to be a Ranger under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Nelson.

A. J. CADMAN,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Official Assignee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st October, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GRAHAM LORD GREENWOOD, Esq.,

to be Official Assignee for the District of Canterbury, vice W. A. Thomas, resigned.

A. J. CADMAN,
For the Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Resident Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st November, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM JESSE REEVE

to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Ekatahuna, vice J. J. Freeth.

A. J. CADMAN,
For the Minister of Justice.

Under-Secretary for Public Works appointed.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HORATIO JOHN HOOPER BLOW, Esq.,

to be Under-Secretary for Public Works for the Colony of New Zealand. The appointment to date from the 12th October, 1891.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister for Public Works.

Assessors under “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891,” appointed.

Land and Income-tax Office,
Wellington, 31st October, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following to be Assessors under “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891.”

A. J. CADMAN.

SCHEDULE.

JOHN GOODWIN SHEPHERD, Whangaroa; Andrew Wilson, Whangarei; Thomas Seaman, Auckland; George Fraser, Auckland; Edward Bartley, Auckland; Francis Cherry, Auckland; Thomas Chrisp, Gisborne; William Rose, Danevirke; Charles Hall, Woodville; Charles Alfred Budge, Hawera; Thomas Twigg, Hawera; Henry Davies O’Callaghan, Wellington; Alexander Low Webster, Greytown; William Miller, Wellington; Peter Frank Jacobsen, Wellington; Arthur D’Oyly Bayfield, Westport; Maximilian Whatman, Rangiora; Richard Kobelt, Springfield; Frank William East, Prebbleton; Ernest Frederick Diehl, Herbert; Charles Francombe Roberts, Livingstone; Henry Mackintosh, Oamaru; William Cruickshank, Oamaru; Alfred Hogarth Gill, Waikouaiti; Robert Stewart, St. Clair; William Thomas Birchall, Invercargill; Alexander Cross, Invercargill; William Corbett, Invercargill; James Frederick Healey, Arrowtown; James Edgar, Queenstown; and William Lane, Invercargill.

Agent of the Public Trustee appointed.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 23rd October, 1891.

IT is hereby notified for general information that

DAVID MITCHELL ROSS, Esq.,

has been appointed an Agent of the Public Trustee at Timaru, as from the 1st November, 1891.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.