May 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1069

SPECIAL ORDER.
RESOLVED, That it be a special order of the Waipawa County Council that the Maharahara Road Board be dissolved, and the Maharahara Road District be merged in the Waipawa County. Such order to take effect from date of gazetting same.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order has been duly made in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

C. TUELY,
County Clerk.

Waipawa County Office,
Waipawa, 12th May, 1897.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th May, 1897.

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

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Holidays.—Sixtieth Anniversary of Her Majesty’s Reign.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th May, 1897.

IT is hereby notified for general information that Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of June next, will be observed as general holidays in all departments of the Public Service, in honour of the completion of the sixtieth year of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria’s long and beneficent reign.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Notice to Mariners, No. 6 of 1897.

BUOY OFF STEEPLE ROCK, WELLINGTON HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 13th May, 1897.

THE Wellington Harbour Board has notified that on or about the 15th June, 1897, a black can buoy will be moored in a position due east of the Steeple Rock, distant about 1,000 ft.; it being laid upon the intersection of the white and red sectors of Somes Island light.

Caution.—Mariners navigating in the vicinity of Steeple Rock should pass to the eastward of this buoy, and by night great care should be taken to keep in the white sector of Somes Island light, so as to avoid colliding with the buoy.

Charts affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 695, 1423, and 2054.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice to Mariners, No. 7 of 1897.

GUIDING STAR ROCK, NEW RIVER ENTRANCE.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 13th May, 1897.

THE New River Harbour Board has notified that a red buoy is moored abreast of Guiding Star Rock, a sunken danger having a depth of 5 ft. at low water, which lies S.W. ½ S. two cables from Bombay Rock, and nearly in mid-channel. Vessels entering the New River should leave this buoy on the starboard hand; but, should the buoy be adrift, the rock may be avoided by not bringing Bombay Rock to bear northward of N.E.

Charts affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 2540 and 2553.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the authority in me for this purpose vested, I, the Minister acting for 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 New Plymouth.

The warehouse known as

BURGESS, FRASER, AND CO.’S BOND,

as appointed and described in Commissioner’s Order No. 489, of the 11th day of August, 1894.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner’s Order No. 570.]

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Minister acting for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond, namely,—

Port of New Plymouth.

Portion of the ground-floor of a wood and iron building, situate on part of Section 651, Brougham Street, Town of New Plymouth, to be known as

BURGESS, FRASER, AND CO.’S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner’s Order No. 571.]

Notice of Intention to take Land for Roads in connection with the Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway, Putaruru—Rotorua Section.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of roads in connection with the Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway, Putaruru—Rotorua Section, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the said roads and of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office, Rotorua, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Auckland; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 16682, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red, blue, and yellow.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.