Feb. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 155

Inspectors of Factories and Workrooms appointed.

Bureau of Industries,
Wellington, 30th January, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned person to be an Inspector of Factories and Workrooms, under "The Factories Act, 1891," and to assign to him the district set opposite his name:--

Name. District.
ABRAHAM HOBSON .. .. .. .. Mercer.
W. P. REEVES.

Member of Land Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 31st January, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
WILLIAM ALFRED FITZHERBERT
to be a Member of the Land Board of the Land District of Wellington, as from the 20th December, 1892.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Member of Wellington Harbour Board reappointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 31st January, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in pursuance and exercise of all the powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, to reappoint
JOHN HENRY HEATON
to be a Member of the Wellington Harbour Board.

R. J. SEDDON.

Special Order made by the Pohangina Road Board, County of Oroua.

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

THE following special order, made by the Pohangina Road Board, is published in accordance with "The Road Boards Act, 1882."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT a special rate of 3½d. in the pound be hereby made over the whole of the rateable value of the rateable property within No. 2 Ward of the Pohangina Road Board District (Crown and Native lands excepted); such rate to be annually recurring for twenty-six years, and to be payable at the office of the Board, Feilding, in half-yearly instalments, on the 1st days of January and July in each year.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order was duly made by the Pohangina Road Board, at a meeting held on Saturday, the 14th January, 1893, as required by "The Road Boards Act, 1882," and amendments.

EDMUND GOODBEHERE,
Secretary, Pohangina Road Board.

Pohangina Road Board,
Feilding, 26th January, 1893.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, County of Ohinemuri.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1893.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Ohinemuri County Council, is published in accordance with "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

OHINEMURI COUNTY.—Proposal to raise a Loan of £6,000 under "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886," and "The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," and the several Amendments of the said Acts.

I HEREBY give notice that, at the poll on Monday, the 9th day of January, 1893, the votes recorded in respect of the above proposal were as follows:—

For the proposal, 135; against the proposal, 43; informal, 6.

As a majority in number of the ratepayers have not voted in favour of the proposal, I declare the above proposal to be lost.

Declared this 10th day of January, 1893.

EDWIN EDWARDS,
Chairman, Ohinemuri County Council.

Council Chambers,
Paeroa, 21st January, 1893.

Arrangements for First Elections, &c., Borough of Linwood, County of Selwyn.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st February, 1893.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
HENRY RAWE SMITH
to be Town Clerk of the Borough of Linwood, as constituted under "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886," and also to be Returning Officer for the purpose of conducting the first elections of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough; also to fix nine as the number of Councillors of the said borough; also to appoint Thursday, the 23rd day of February, 1893, to be the day for holding the first election of Mayor, and Thursday, the 2nd day of March, 1893, to be the day for holding the first election of Councillors; and also to appoint Monday, the 6th day of March, 1893, at 7.30 p.m., to be the time, and the Town Board Office, Linwood, to be the place, at which the first meeting of the Borough Council of Linwood shall be held.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the authority in me for this purpose vested, I, the Commissioner of Trade and 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 Dunedin.

The warehouse known as

CENTRAL BOND,

as appointed and described in Commissioner's Order No. 392, of the 2nd May, 1891.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

W. P. REEVES,
Minister acting for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner's Order No. 440.]

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the authority in me for this purpose vested, I, the Commissioner of Trade and 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 Invercargill.

The warehouse known as

SHEFFIELD'S BOND,

as appointed and described in Commissioner's Order No. 423, of the 17th May, 1892.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

W. P. REEVES,
Minister acting for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner's Order No. 441.]

Notice to Mariners, No. 2 of 1893.

Cook Strait.—ENTRANCE TO QUEEN CHARLOTTE SOUND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 1st February, 1893.

CAPTAIN FAIRCHILD, of the Government steamer "Hinemoea," reports having struck bottom when passing through the passage between Jackson's Head and Beacon Rock, at the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound. The vessel at the time was drawing 14ft. water, the tide about half-ebb, with heavy sea, the wind south-west, blowing a gale, and the position was in line of the rock and the head, and slightly on the rock-side of the half-distance across.

R. J. SEDDON.