APRIL 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 603

Trust Commissioner appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1892.

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

WILLIAM STUART, Esq.,

a Trust Commissioner under “The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1881,” and the amendments thereof.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Native Minister.

Recorder under “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government, under the power and authority conferred by “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” and all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned Resident Magistrate to be a Recorder of the Native Land Court for the North Island Recorders’ District, comprising all that area in the North Island and the islands adjacent thereto, viz.,

WILLIAM STUART.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Native Minister.

Adjutant, Nelson District, appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the appointment of

Acting Captain WILLIAM STITT LITTLEJOHN,

Nelson College Cadet Rifle Volunteers, as Adjutant of the Nelson Volunteer District, vice Lieutenant H. W. Kiernan, Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers, resigned. Date of appointment, 1st March, 1892.

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

Appointment of Royal Commission.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the appointment of

ALFRED SAUNDERS, Esq., M.H.R.,
THOMAS KENNEDY MACDONALD, Esq., and
JOHN HOLLAND BAKER, Esq.,

as Commissioners to inquire into the circumstances attending the purchase of land at Polhill Gully, Wellington, for a rifle-range.

R. J. SEDDON.

Additional Trustees to Wanganui Rifle Range appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the appointment of the under-mentioned gentlemen as additional Trustees to the Wanganui Rifle Range:—

Lieut.-Colonel STUART NEWALL, New Zealand Militia, Commanding Wanganui Militia and Volunteer District.

Captain WILLIAM HENRY CLAPHAM, Wanganui Naval Artillery Volunteers.

Captain ARCHIBALD DUDINGSTON WILLIS, Albert Rifle Volunteers.

Captain JOHN PATON WATT, Wanganui Rifle Volunteers.

Date of appointments, 4th April, 1892.

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

Commissions of Volunteer and Militia Officers cancelled.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the commissions held by the under-mentioned officers being cancelled for absence from the colony without leave:—

Lyttelton Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Sub-Lieutenant Robert Richard Knight.

General Medical List, New Zealand Volunteers.
Brigade Surgeon John Murray Gibbes.

New Zealand Militia.
Assistant Surgeon John Murray Gibbes.

R. J. SEDDON.

Commission of Volunteer Officer cancelled.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to cancel the commission held by

Captain EDWARD COOPER,

Victoria Rifle Volunteers (Auckland), for absence without leave.

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

Designation of Volunteer Corps changed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the designation of the East Coast Hussar Volunteers being changed to the East Coast Mounted Rifle Volunteers, as from the 11th March last.

R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to accept the resignations of the commissions held by the under-mentioned officers:—

Petone Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Sub-Lieutenant Henry Frederick Davis. Date of resignation, 6th April, 1892.

Wellington City Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Alfred Charles Atkinson. Date of resignation, 6th April, 1892.

Kumara Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant William Close. Date of resignation, 1st February, 1892.

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

Assessor of Native Land Court and Assessor under “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,” &c., resigned.

Native Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to accept the resignation by

HOANI NAHE

of his appointments as an Assessor of the Native Land Court and as an Assessor under “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,” “The Native Circuit Courts Act, 1858,” and “The Native Circuit Courts Act Amendment Act, 1862.”

W. P. REEVES,
For the Native Minister.

Special Order made by Upper Wangaehu Road Board, County of Wanganui.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th April, 1892.

THE following special order, made by the Upper Wangaehu Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT a special order be made making a special rate of ½d. in the pound of the capital value of all property situated within that portion of the Upper Wangaehu Road District commencing at the south-west corner of Run No. 62, Mangawhero Survey District; thence northwards and westwards by Hales’s Murimotu Road and the northern boundary of Run No. 45, Ngamatea Survey District, to the Wangaehu River; thence northwards by the Wangaehu River to the Koukopu Stream; thence north-east by a right line to the south-east corner of the Taumarun Block; thence eastwards by the southern boundary of the Murimotu Run to the eastern boundary of the road district; thence southwards, westwards, and southwards by the eastern boundary of the road district to the southern boundary of Section No. 1, Blocks IV. and VIII., Mangawhero Survey District; thence westwards by the southern boundaries of Sections Nos. 1 and 62, Mangawhero Survey District, to the starting-point: liable to be specially rated under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” and “The Government Loans to