May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 791

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owner of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land contained in the Native Land Court certificate of title bearing date the fifth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and now contained in the Land Transfer certificate bearing date the twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions imposed by the said certificates on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 6 acres and 37 perches, being the Tarewa No. 1 Block, held under Land Transfer certificate dated 23rd October, 1895, Vol. xxxiv., folio 222, in favour of Mere Hare, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable, except with the consent of the Governor, by sale or mortgage, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years.”

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

R. J. SEDDON.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES ARTHUR WELLS

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Mahurangi, vice Samuel Connolly, transferred; appointment to date from 2nd May, 1896.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Health Officer, Bluff, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN MORTON MATTHEWS, Esq., M.B., &c., Univ. N.Z.,

to be the Health Officer, under section 105 of “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the Port of Bluff, during the absence of Dr. Torrance.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Acts, Hawke’s Bay District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

DONALD ROBERT MACDONNELL

to be a Ranger, under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Hawke’s Bay.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Officers under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” Hawke’s Bay and Canterbury, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th May, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”

GEORGE ARTHUR LEWIN,

of Lyttelton, has been appointed an officer for the purposes of that Act for that part of the Provincial District of Canterbury to the north of and including the Rakaia River, and for the waters of the Clarence River which are within the County of Marlborough; also

DONALD ROBERT MACDONNELL,

of West Clive, has been appointed an officer for the purposes of that Act for the Counties of Hawke’s Bay, Waipawa, Patangata, and Wairoa, and all boroughs situated within the said counties.

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Visiting Justice appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 18th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT CHISHOLM, Esq., J.P.,

to be a Visiting Justice of H.M. Prison at Dunedin.

T. THOMPSON,
Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 20th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable WILLIAM GLEESON

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts, and Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar, at Black’s, from the 8th May instant, vice Constable J. D. Leece, transferred.

T. THOMPSON.

Member of Canterbury Land Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 14th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN MCLACHLAN

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Canterbury.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Inspector under the Factories Act appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 20th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned person to be an Inspector under “The Factories Act, 1894,” and to assign to him the district set opposite his name, viz.:

Name. District.
Constable WILLIAM GLEESON .. { The Middle Island of the Colony of New Zealand, and the islands adjacent thereto.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Officer commanding Southland District appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointment of

Lieut.-Colonel JAMES EWART HANNAH,

Honorary Unattached List, New Zealand Volunteers, as Officer commanding the Southland Military District. Date of commission, 2nd April, 1896.

R. J. SEDDON.

Officer commanding North Otago District appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointment of

Major ALFRED HEADLAND,

Otago Battalion Infantry Volunteers, as Officer commanding the North Otago Military District. Date of commission, 18th May, 1896.

R. J. SEDDON.