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over the following lands: namely, Sections Nos. 42, 43, 54, Block I.; Nos. 13, 14, Block II.; and Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 16, 17, 18, 59, 61, Block VI., Huiroa Survey District:—
Total number of ratepayers on special roll, 11; total number of votes exercisable, 12; number of ratepayers who voted for the proposal, 9; number of votes recorded for the proposal, 10.
I hereby declare the proposal carried.
HARRY PETERS,
Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Gladstone Borough Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1893.

THE following notice, received from his Worship the Mayor of the Borough of Gladstone, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886.”
P. A. BUCKLEY.

Borough of Gladstone,
27th September, 1893.

To the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.
SIR,—I have the honour to acquaint you that the result of the poll taken on the 21st September, 1893, on the proposal to raise a special loan of £1,000 for the Borough of Gladstone, was as follows:—
For the loan, 85; against the loan, 1; informal, 2: total voted, 88.
In accordance with section 183 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” I hereby give public notice that, the total number of burgesses on the roll being 122, and that 85 having voted in favour of the proposal, I therefore declare the same to be carried.
FRANCIS McCHESNEY,
Mayor of Gladstone.

I, FRANCIS McCHESNEY, of Gladstone, in the Provincial District of Southland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Mayor of the Borough of Gladstone, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all proceedings required by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” have been duly taken towards obtaining the sanction of the burgesses to the proposal to borrow £1,000 by way of special loan for the Borough of Gladstone, and that the resolution in favour of the proposal has been duly carried. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”
FRANCIS McCHESNEY,
Mayor of Gladstone.

Declared at Gladstone, in the said Provincial District, this 27th day of September, 1893—William Todd, a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

Special Order (levying Special Rate) made by the Manawatu Road Board, County of Oroua.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1893.

THE following special order, made by the Manawatu Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
P. A. BUCKLEY.

MANAWATU ROAD BOARD.—SPECIAL ORDER.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Manawatu Road Board did, at a special meeting held on Thursday, the 21st September, 1893, make the following special order:—
“That it is the intention of the Manawatu Road Board—under the provisions of ‘The Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,’ and under the virtue of warrants issued under the hand of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, dated the 21st day of July, 1892, authorising the construction of a bridge over the Oroua River, and apportioning the cost of the said bridge; and by virtue of a warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, dated the 12th day of July, 1892, authorising the construction of a bridge over the Oroua River, and apportioning the cost of the said bridge—to borrow the sum of eight hundred and forty-eight pounds (£848), for the purpose of providing two-twelfths of the costs of erecting the first-named bridge, and one-half of the costs of erecting the second-named bridge, and all other works necessary for the due completion of the said bridges, in accordance with the above-mentioned warrants; and that a special rate of 4¾d. in the pound be made upon the rateable value of the whole of the rateable property (Crown and Native lands occupied by Native owners excepted) within the Manawatu Road District, for the purpose of paying interest at 5 per cent. per annum on the above loan of £848, to be borrowed under ‘The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886.’ Such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for twenty-six years, and payable by equal instalments on the first day of February and August in each year, at the Board’s Office, Palmers-ton North.”
I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made by the Manawatu Road Board at a special meeting on the 21st day of September, 1893.
WALTER RUTHERFURD,
Clerk to the Manawatu Road Board.

Special Order (levying Special Rate) made by the Manganui Road Board, County of Stratford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1893.

THE following special order, made by the Manganui Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
P. A. BUCKLEY.

MANGANUI ROAD BOARD.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following special order was made on Saturday, the 19th August, 1893, and confirmed on Saturday, the 23rd September, 1893:—
“That, to secure the repayment of a loan of £790 raised under ‘The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,’ for the purpose of forming and gravelling portions of the Beaconsfield Road, from the Salisbury Road eastward, a special rate of 1½d. in the pound be made and levied on the following lands: namely, Sections 7 and 8, Block XIII.; 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, and 39, Block XIV., Huiroa Survey District. Such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for twenty-six years, and shall be payable in two half-yearly instalments, on the 1st January and the 1st July in each year.”
I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
HENRY WATSON,
Clerk.

Resignation of Trustee of Te Aroha Racecourse accepted.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 28th September, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of
WILLIAM HERBERT HERRIES
as a Trustee of the Te Aroha Racecourse Reserve.
JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd October, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the under-mentioned officer:—
Ponsonby Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Captain David Miller. Date of resignation, 14th September, 1893.
R. J. SEDDON.

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouse

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the authority in me for purpose vested, I, the Commissioner of Trade Customs, do, by this order under my hand, revoke and annul the appointment of the under-mentioned warehouse for the reception and security of goods entered to be warehoused without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof, namely:—
Port of Nelson.
The warehouse known as
EDWARDS AND CO.’S BOND,
as appointed and described in Gazette of 1863, page 137.
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this second day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
J. G. WARD,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 459.]