Mar. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 521

Rural Lands in the Southland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the third section of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of not less than forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre stated in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Situated in Waimatuku Bush, lying nearly midway between Invercargill–Riverton Railway and coast-line. Land bush-clad (mixed bush), nearly level, but somewhat low-lying in places.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

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

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

WALTER ARNOLD HAWKINS

to be the Deputy of William Christopher McDermott, Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Pelorus.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

HYMAN PHINEAS COHEN, Esq., of Napier,
WILLIAM HERBERT LANGDOWN, Esq., of Sydenham, and
WILSON LITTLEJOHN, Esq., of Wellington,

to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

W. P. REEVES.

Promotion in Lands and Survey Department.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 14th March, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to promote

ALEXANDER BARRON

to be Under-Secretary for Crown Lands and Superintending Surveyor to the Department of Lands and Survey; the appointment to date from the 16th April, 1891.

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Member of Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st March, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to reappoint

ANDREW MATHESON, Esq.,

to be a Member of the Land Board for the Land District of Westland, as from the 23rd March, 1892.

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

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

WILLIAM JOHN FOOKES, of No. 414, Little Collins Street, Melbourne, a Solicitor, has been this day appointed, by His Honour the Chief Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of March, 1892.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Trustees of Drill-shed appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th March, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the appointments of the under-mentioned gentlemen as Trustees of the Port Chalmers Volunteer Drill-shed Reserve, under “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” and the Acts amending the same:—

WILLIAM HOLDEN WEBB, Lieut.-Colonel, New Zealand Militia, Commanding Dunedin Volunteer District.
WILLIAM GOLDIE, Captain, Commandant, Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers.
THOMAS JOHN THOMSON, Captain, Port Chalmers Naval Artillery Volunteers.
WILLIAM JOHN WATERS, Captain, L Battery, New Zealand Regiment, Artillery Volunteers.
GEORGE LEYON ASHER, Lieutenant, L Battery, New Zealand Regiment, Artillery Volunteers.
EDWARD KNEWSTUBB, Sub-lieutenant, Port Chalmers Naval Artillery Volunteers.

Date of appointments, 17th March, 1892.

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

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment:—

Totara Rifle Volunteers.

The Rev. Percy Hugh Pritchett to be Honorary Chaplain.

Date of appointment, 22nd February, 1892.

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

Volunteer Officer promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the promotion of the under-mentioned Volunteer officer:—

E Battery, New Zealand Regiment, Artillery Volunteers.

Lieutenant Walter James Jackson to be Captain. Date of promotion, 26th January, 1892.

R. J. SEDDON.