THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 1]

by the said road and its continuation past Sections
Nos. 181, 180, 179, 178, 177; thence by the road forming
the northern boundaries of Sections Nos. 3, 2, and 43,
by continuation of said road forming the north-western
boundaries of Sections Nos. 13, 14, 20, and 80 to Section
No. 82; thence towards the west generally by the road
forming the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 82,
32, 33, 21, 100, 98, 96, 95, 94, 93, 112, 92, 91, 90, 89, and
88 to a mining reserve; thence by said mining reserve and
a right line due north from the northernmost corner of Sec-
tion No. 22 to Section No. 54; thence by said Section
No. 54 to the road forming its eastern boundary; thence by
said road and its continuation past Sections Nos. 23 and 22
to the southernmost corner of Section No. 3; and thence by
Sections Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.

ASHBURTON FACTORY DISTRICT.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded
towards the north-west generally by the north-western
boundary-line of Section No. 6505 and that boundary-line
produced across the north branch of the Ashburton River,
and by Sections Nos. 4903 and 28667, the road forming the
north-eastern boundary of Section No. 10091, and by Section
No. 16480; towards the north-east generally by Sections
Nos. 18407, 25274, 25302, Reserves Nos. 2060 and 1770, a
line across the Railway Reserve and Main South Road to
Reserve No. 1496; by that reserve, Section No. 25108, and
the road forming the south-western boundaries of Sections
Nos. 24369 and 25104; towards the south-east generally by
Sections Nos. 18151, 15471, 14370, 13705, 10350, Reserve
No. 1119, Sections Nos. 6149, 7970, 9719, 14199, 14676, and
16373, and the north-western boundary-line of the last-
mentioned section produced to the Ashburton River; and
towards the south-west by the Ashburton River.

GREYMOUTH FACTORY DISTRICT.

All that area in the Nelson and Westland Land District
bounded towards the north generally by Section No. 223,
Cobden District, a right line being the production in a
westerly direction of the northern boundary of Section
No. 182; towards the east generally by the road forming
the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 182, 99, 98, 97, and
96, by Coal Creek, the Grey River, and the Omotumotu
Creek to the road forming the south-eastern boundaries of
Sections Nos. 1111, 1436, and 1496, Arnold District; thence
by that road and Section No. 1431, across a road, and by
Sections Nos. 1428, 1430, 1434, a road-line, and Sections
Nos. 1432, 1469, 1467, and 1470 to a point in line with the
southern boundary-line of Section No. 1466, Greymouth
District; thence towards the south generally by a right line
to and by that boundary-line, by Sawyer's Creek Road, and
Sections Nos. 1546, 1558, and 1528, and the northern boun-
dary-line of the last-mentioned section produced to the sea;
and towards the west generally by the sea.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land and Income-tax Assessors appointed.

Land and Income-tax Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

Mr. WILLIAM DUNCAN,
of Auckland, to be an Inspecting Assessor, and

CHARLES CASEMENT SPROULL,
of Invercargill, to be an Assessor, under "The Land and
Income Assessment Act, 1891."

J. BALLANCE.

Appointment to Wanganui River Trust.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 7th January, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

JOHN TIFFEN STEWART
to be a Member of the Wanganui River Trust, as constituted
by "The Wanganui River Trust Act, 1891."

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

Inspectors of Factories appointed.

Wellington, 7th January, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point the under-mentioned persons to be Inspectors
of Factories and Workrooms, under "The Factories Act,
1891," and to assign to them the districts set opposite their
names respectively, viz.:

Name. District.
Edward Tregear .. Onehunga, New Plymouth,
Thames, Devonport, Birken-
head, Palmerston North,
Patea, Wanganui, Nelson,
Blenheim, Napier, Gisborne,
Hastings, Masterton, Wood-
ville, Invercargill, Oamaru,
Lawrence, Hokitika, Timaru,
Waimate, Ashburton, Grey-
mouth.
Hubert Ferguson .. Ashburton, Timaru, Waimate,
Greymouth, Hokitika.
Richard Gamble .. Birkenhead, Devonport, One-
hunga, Thames.
Thomas King Weldon .. Oamaru, Lawrence, Invercargill.
Bernard Green .. Onehunga.
Ewen Macdonnell .. Invercargill.
Adam Bissett .. Greymouth.
Henry Hallett .. Timaru.
Thomas O'Grady .. Oamaru.
John Duffin .. New Plymouth.
Patrick Quinn .. Hawera.
Patrick Leahy Harnett .. Patea.
William Lyons .. Wanganui.
James Joseph Twohy .. Feilding.
William Manning .. Palmerston North.
Richard Stapleton .. Thames.
Nicholas Kiely .. Tauranga.
John Cullen .. Napier.

W. P. REEVES.

Samoa.—Regulation as to the Sale and Use of Firearms.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1892.

THE following despatch, received from the High Commis-
sioner for the Western Pacific, is published for general
information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

High Commissioner's Office, Western Pacific,
Suva, Fiji, 1st December, 1891.

MY LORD,—Herewith I have the honour to enclose copies of
a Regulation, No. 1 of 1891, to restrain the sale and use of
firearms in Samoa.
This regulation adopts, without any alteration, the provi-
sions of the Final Act of the Berlin Conference with regard
to the restrictions on the sale and use of firearms, placing
British subjects, who have hitherto been subject to some-
what severer restrictions, on the same footing as other
nationals.
I have, &c.,
JOHN B. THURSTON.
His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of
Onslow, G.C.M.G., &c.

No. 1 of 1891.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the
Faith, Empress of India, &c.

A REGULATION (made in the name and on behalf of Her
Majesty by Her Majesty's High Commissioner for the
Western Pacific, under the provisions of the Western
Pacific Order in Council of 1879) to restrain the Sale and
Use of Arms and Ammunition in Samoa.

(L.S.) JOHN B. THURSTON.

28th November, 1881.

1. WHEREAS by Article VII., section 1, of the Final Act of
   the Conference on Samoan Affairs, signed at Berlin on the
   14th June, 1889, by the Representatives of Her Majesty the
   Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
   Empress of India, His Majesty the Emperor of Germany,
   King of Prussia, and the President of the United States, and
   assented to by Samoa as attested by a certificate signed by
   the King of Samoa, it is provided as follows:—
   "The importation into the islands of Samoa of arms and
   ammunition by the natives of Samoa or by the citizens or
   subjects of any foreign country shall be prohibited, except
   in the following cases:—
   "(a.) Guns and ammunition for sporting purposes, for
   which written license shall have been previously
   obtained from the President of the Municipal
   Council;
   "(b.) Small arms and ammunition carried by travellers
   as personal appanage.
   "The sale of arms and ammunition by any foreigner to
   any native Samoan subject or other Pacific Islander resi-
   dent in Samoa is also prohibited.
   "Any arms or ammunition imported or sold in violation of
   these provisions shall be forfeited to the Government. The
   Samoan Government retains the right to import suitable
   arms and ammunition to protect itself and maintain order;