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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

Notifying Land in Marlborough for Sale by Public Auction.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the ninth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, as the time at which the land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction at Blenheim; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such land.

SCHEDULE.
MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this tenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in the Otago Land District open for Selection.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

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, James Prendergast, Administrator of the Government 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven; and that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as it contains or is supposed to contain metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT. — WAITAKI COUNTY. — MARUWENUA SURVEY DISTRICT.
First-class Land.

Open undulating agricultural land, soil fair, watered; situated about six miles distant from Duntron by good road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Abattoirs, &c., County of Waitotara, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE HENRY DICKSON

to be an Inspector of Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses and of Cattle intended for Slaughter, under “The Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act, 1894,” for the County of Waitotara.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Members of Westland Land Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

JAMES CHESNEY and
JOHN SAMUEL LANG

to be members of the Land Board of the Land District of Westland.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Inspecting Engineer, Mines Department, appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 10th May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE WILSON, Esq.,

to be Inspecting Engineer of the Mines Department as from the 1st November, 1896.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Inspector of Mines appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 10th May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

JAMES COUTTS, Esq.,

to be Inspector of Mines for the Auckland District.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Assistant Inspector of Mines appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 10th May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS RYAN, Esq.,

to be Assistant Inspector of Mines for the Auckland District as from the 15th April, 1897.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Secretary, Mining Bureau, appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 10th May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

PATRICK GALVIN, Esq.,

to be the Secretary of the Mining Bureau at Wellington as from the 1st April, 1897.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Volunteer Officer resigned and transferred to District Reserve.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve, under paragraphs 94 and 97, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, of

Captain RALPH ANDERSON CHAFFEY,

North Otago Mounted Rifle Volunteers, being transferred to the North Otago District Reserve Corps, on resigning the command of the first-mentioned corps, and with effect from the 23rd March, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Additional Member temporarily appointed to Local Military Examination Board.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the appointment of

Captain and Adjutant WILLIAM STILL LITTLEJOHN,

New Zealand Volunteers, as a temporary member of the Nelson Local Board for the Examination of Candidates for