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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

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, David, Earl of Glasgow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify
and declare that

ARTHUR AUGUSTUS WINTERBURN,
being a person holding the office of Postmaster under "The
Post Office Act, 1881," at Charlestown, 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 Wellington, this fifth day of
September, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-three.

GLASGOW, Governor.

Member of Executive Council appointed.

Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 6th September, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has this day been pleased
to administer the oath of office to

The Hon. ALFRED JEROME CADMAN,
and to swear him in as a member of the Executive Council
of New Zealand.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Minister, Minister of Justice, and Minister of Mines appointed.

Private Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th September, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

The Hon. RICHARD JOHN SEDDON
to be Native Minister; also, to appoint

The Hon. ALFRED JEROME CADMAN
to be Minister of Justice, in the room of the Hon. W. P.
Reeves, who resigns that office; and also to appoint the said

Hon. ALFRED JEROME CADMAN
to be Minister of Mines, in the room of the Hon. R. J.
Seddon, who resigns that office.

PAT BOYLE, Colonel,
Private Secretary.

Deputy-Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th September, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point 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.
FRANK EGGINTON    ..  ..  ..  Ohinemuri.
JOHN TERRY        ..  ..  ..  Grey.
FREDERICK BREBNER ..  ..  ..  Kaitangata.
CHARLES EDWARD STEPHENS ..  Popotuna.
WILLIAM PARLANE   ..  ..  ..  Campbelltown.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

District Judge appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th September, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

CHARLES CARGILL KETTLE, Esq.,
to be Judge of the District Court of Wairarapa, from the
1st instant, vice H. W. Robinson, Esq., resigned.

W. P. REEVES.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th September, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

THOMAS CROSSE
to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Hastings, vice C. Hughes, resigned.

W. P. REEVES.

Vice-Consul for Sweden and Norway at Christchurch recog-
nised.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th September, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified
that he has been instructed by Her Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretary of State for the Colonies to recognise the
appointment of

FRANK GRAHAM, Esq.,
as Vice-Consul for Sweden and Norway at Christchurch.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Member of Licensing Committee resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st August, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ac-
cept the resignation by

WILLIAM AIKEN
of his office as a Member of the Licensing Committee for the
District of Stratford Town.

W. P. REEVES.

Despatch.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th August, 1893.

THE accompanying despatch, received from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is pub-
lished for general information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

(New Zealand.—General.)
Downing Street, 20th June, 1893.
My LORD,—With reference to my despatch "General" of
the 31st May last, I have the honour to transmit to you
copies of rules made by the Sheriff of the Lothians for regu-
lating the procedure and practice in the Sheriff Court of
Edinburgh in connection with "The Colonial Probates Act,
1892."
The Court of Session, before whom these rules were laid,
have decided that the Sheriff is competent to issue them on
his own authority.
I have, &c.,
RIFON.
Governor the Right Hon. the Earl of Glasgow,
G.C.M.G., &c.

Commissariot of Edinburgh.
Rules of Court made by the Sheriff of the Lothians and
Peebles for regulating the Procedure and Practice in
the Sheriff Court of Edinburgh in connection with "The
Colonial Probates Act, 1892" (55 Vict., chap. 6).

Edinburgh, 9th June, 1893.

WHEREAS by the said Act, entitled "An Act to provide for
the Recognition in the United Kingdom of Probates and
Letters of Administration granted in British Possessions"
(20th May, 1892), it is enacted—section 2 (5)—that "Rules of
Court may be made for regulating the procedure and practice,
including fees and costs, in Courts of the United Kingdom
on and incidental to an application for sealing a probate or
letters of administration granted in a British possession to
which this Act applies," the Sheriff enacts and ordains as
follows:—

1. When any probate or letters of administration granted
   by a Court of Probate in any British possession to which this
   Act applies is produced along with a copy thereof in the
   Sheriff Court of Edinburgh it shall be sealed by the Commis-
   sary Clerk with the Seal of Office of the Commissariot of
   Edinburgh.
   Provided: (1.) That a duly-stamped inventory, with rela-
   tive oath in the ordinary form modified to suit the circum-
   stances, has been exhibited in said Court, which inventory,
   after being recorded, shall be transmitted to the Commis-
   sioners of Inland Revenue; but it shall not be necessary to
   record along with said inventory any testamentary writings
   of which a copy is deposited in terms of the Act. (2.) That
   in the case of letters of administration caution has been
   found to cover the estate in Scotland given up in such
   inventory, and that such caution shall be subject to the
   same rules as regards restriction thereof, the terms of the
   bond, and otherwise, as are applicable to caution for executors
   dative. (3.) That no application has been made under sub-
   section (3) of section 2 of the Act, or that such application
   has been disposed of, and that any such application shall be
   by petition to the Sheriff.
2. The oath to the inventory shall set forth the domicile
   of the deceased at the time of his death; and where on any
   ground it may appear doubtful whether the person or persons
   in whose favour the grant of probate or letters of adminis-
   tration has been made would be entitled to confirmation in