MAY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 725

Examiner of Masters and Mates appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 1st May, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the power vested by section 24 of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,”

JAMES ALFRED HENRY MARCIEL,

of Christchurch, has been appointed an Examiner of Masters and Mates in the Colony of New Zealand.

J. G. WARD.

Assistant Medical Officer, Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, appointed.

Lunacy Department,
Wellington, 4th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT MARTIN BEATTIE, Esq., M.B., M.S., Univ. Edin.,

to be Assistant Medical Officer of the Lunatic Asylum at Seacliff as from the 1st day of April last, vice Dr. Craig, transferred to Auckland Asylum.

W. C. WALKER.

Assistant Medical Officer, Auckland Lunatic Asylum, appointed.

Lunacy Department,
Wellington, 4th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE CRAIG, Esq., M.B., M.S., Univ. Edin.,

to be Assistant Medical Officer of the Lunatic Asylum at Auckland as from the 1st day of April last, vice Dr. Beattie, transferred to Seacliff Asylum.

W. C. WALKER.

Assistant Medical Officer, Wellington and Porirua Lunatic Asylums, appointed.

Lunacy Department,
Wellington, 4th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS RADFORD KING, Esq., M.D.,

to be Assistant Medical Officer of the Lunatic Asylum at Wellington and of the Lunatic Asylum at Porirua as from the 6th day of January last.

W. C. WALKER.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Wairarapa North County Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1896.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Wairarapa North County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

WAIRARAPA NORTH COUNTY.

RESULT of a poll taken upon a proposal to raise a loan of £240 for reconstructing a bridge over the Pori Creek:—

Number of ratepayers on the special roll, 26, representing 32 votes: Number of ratepayers voting in favour of the proposal, 15, representing 19 votes; number of votes unrecorded, 13.

As a majority in number of the ratepayers voted in favour of the proposal, and the number so voting are entitled to more than one-half in number of the votes which can be exercised by the whole number of ratepayers, I declare the proposal to be carried.

F. VON REDEN,
County Chairman.

Masterton, 5th May, 1896.

Special Order made by the Egmont Road Board, County of Taranaki.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1896.

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

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary,

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT a special rate of ¾d. in the pound be made and levied on all rateable property in the Egmont and a portion of the Dorset Road Special Rating District, being part of the Egmont Road District (Crown and Native lands excepted), as described in the Schedule hereto.

Schedule.

All the lands that lie within the following boundaries, that is to say: Bounded towards the north by the southern boundary of the Devon Road to the north-west corner of Section 4, Hua District; thence by the western boundaries of Sections 4 and 6 to the north corner; thence in a south-easterly direction by the western boundaries of Sections 46, 48, 49, 51, 53, 55, 56, 60, 61, 64, 65, 67, 69, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, and 82, to the Mangaoraka Stream; thence by the said stream to the southern boundary of Section 45, Hua and Waiwakaiho Hundred; thence by the north boundary of Section 46, the Egmont Road, to the northern boundary of Section 47; thence by the said northern boundary of said Section 47, the Araheke Stream, and the north-western boundary of Section 48, to the Waiwakaiho Stream; and thence by the said stream to the Araheke Stream, by the said stream to the south-eastern boundary of Section 159; thence by the southern boundary of Section 160: bounded towards the north by a swamp; towards the west by Section 135, by the south-east corner of Section 137; thence by the southern boundary of said Section 137 to the eastern boundary of Section 160; thence by the southern boundary of said Section 160; thence by the eastern boundaries of Sections 160, 31, and 32, to the Mangaorake Stream; thence by the said stream to the Mangaone Stream; thence by the said stream to the southern boundary of Devon Road, the starting-point.

Such rate to be an annual-recurring rate until the loan of £500, or such sum as the Colonial Treasurer may grant, is paid off, and shall be due and payable in two equal instalments on the 2nd days of January and July in each year, the first of such instalments to be payable on the 2nd day of January, 1896.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made and confirmed by the Egmont Road Board in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

SAM. HILL,
Clerk.

New Plymouth, 4th May, 1896.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

GEORGE RUSSELL, Esq.,

of Auckland, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony.

T. THOMPSON.

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads over Lands in the Hau-tapu Survey District, Wellington Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were, in October, 1894, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 20th November, 1893.

SCHEDULE.

ROADS IN THE OTAMAKAPUA BLOCK.

As the said area is delineated on the plan marked as above-mentioned, and deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

Dated this 28th day of April, 1896.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.