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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

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

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor 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 described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any lands containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Members of the Tuapeka Commonage Committee reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to re-appoint

WILLIAM GOLDSMITH, of Wetherstone’s, Tuapeka;
JAMES KERR SIMPSON, of Wetherstone’s, Tuapeka; and
EPHRAIM VARCOE, of Munro’s Gully, Tuapeka,

to be members of the Tuapeka Commonage Committee.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Member of Westport Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th February, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of the provisions of sections 3 and 4 of “The Westport Harbour Board Act, 1884,” of section 40 of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, appointed

JOHN HUGHES

to be a member of the Westport Harbour Board, in the place of William Nahr, deceased.

J. G. WARD.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointments:—

Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant Rochfort Snow to be captain. Date of commission, 29th January, 1896.

Riverton Rifle Volunteers.

George Osborne Cassells to be lieutenant. Date of commission, 4th December, 1895.

Wellington City Rifle Volunteers.

Frederick Bailey Muir to be lieutenant, under Paragraph 63, Volunteer Regulations, 1895. Date of commission, 29th January, 1896.

Gore Rifle Volunteers.

Edmund Robert Bowler to be lieutenant. Date of commission, 4th December, 1895.

R. J. SEDDON.

Honorary Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the under-mentioned honorary officer:—

North Otago Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Honorary Chaplain the Reverend Hugh Corrie Frere. Date of resignation, 5th February, 1896.

R. J. SEDDON.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—

R. J. SEDDON,
Acting Colonial Secretary.