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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 70

Section 15, Block II., Ngatimaru.—Weighted with £15 for improvements. Broken pastoral country, fair soil; papa formation; well watered. There are about 8 acres of flat land on the section. The timber comprises rata, rimu, &c., with usual undergrowth. The Matau Road is open for horse-traffic to the section. Distance from Inglewood, twenty-seven miles and a half.

Section 2, Block III., Ngatimaru.—Weighted with £40 valuation for improvements. About 10 acres flat, remainder steep and broken land; good soil, on papa formation; well watered. Frontage to Junction Road, which is formed through to Ohura Road for horse-traffic. Distance from Inglewood, about twenty-seven miles and a half. The timber on the section comprises rimu, tawa, &c., with the usual undergrowth.

Section 3, Block III., Ngatimaru.—Weighted with £48 valuation for improvements. About 10 acres flat, balance steep and broken pastoral land; good soil, on papa formation, and well watered. The timber is principally tawa and rimu, with usual undergrowth. Frontage to Junction Road, which is formed through to Ohura Road from Stratford for horse-traffic. Distance from Inglewood, about twenty-eight miles.

Section 27, Block VI., Ngatimaru.—Weighted with £37 10s. valuation for improvements. Broken pastoral land, covered with forest of tawa, rimu, and rata, with usual undergrowth. Good soil, on papa formation; well watered. Frontage to Matau Road, which is open for horse-traffic. Distance from Inglewood, about twenty-eight miles.

Section 16, Block II., Ngatimaru.—Weighted with £69 3s. valuation for improvements. Fair pastoral country; well watered; papa formation. Timber comprises rimu and rata, with usual undergrowth. Access by Matau Road, which is formed for horse-traffic. Distance from Inglewood, about twenty-seven miles.

Section 1, Block III., Ngatimaru.—Fair pastoral country, covered with bush, principally of rimu, rata, &c., with usual undergrowth; papa formation; well watered. Frontage to Rakorako Road, which is open for horse-traffic, and is a branch of the Matau. Distance from Inglewood, about twenty-eight miles and a half.

Section 6, Block III., Ngatimaru.—Weighted with £18 valuation for improvements. A few acres of flat land, balance pastoral land of fair quality; good soil, well watered, on papa formation. Timber is principally rimu, rata, and tawa, with usual undergrowth. Access by Junction Road, which is open for horse-traffic through to Ohura Road from Stratford. Distance from Inglewood, about twenty-eight miles and a half.

Section 4, Block XIV., Ngatimaru.—Rough pastoral land, covered with timber of tawa, rimu, and rata, with usual undergrowth. Papa formation; well watered. This section has a rough frontage to Tututawa Road, which is open for horse-traffic. Distance from Stratford, about nineteen miles and a half.

Sections 10 and 11, Block XV., Ngatimaru.—Rough pastoral land; well watered; papa formation, and covered with bush, principally of rimu, rata, and tawa, with the usual undergrowth. Frontage to Taihore Road, which is open for horse-traffic. Distance from Stratford Railway-station, about twenty-five miles.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1888,” I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

JAMES TURNER WYLIE,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster, under “The Post Office Act, 1881,” at Te Kopuru, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under the two hundred and thirty-fourth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

As witness my hand, this seventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

Appointments to the Staff of His Excellency the Governor.

Government House,
Wellington, 10th August, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Captain DUDLEY ALEXANDER,

the Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), to be Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp;

The Honourable CHARLES EDWARD HILL-TREVOR

to be Assistant Private Secretary; and

Lieutenant HENRY DUDLEY OSSULSTON WARD,

Royal Horse Artillery, to be Aide-de-Camp.

By command.

DUDLEY ALEXANDER, Captain,
Private Secretary.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspectors, for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name. District.
JAMES HOPKINS STEVENS .. .. Hawera.
(On and from 7th August, 1897.)
JOHN FINLAY MARTIN .. .. Feilding.
(On and from 6th August, 1897.)
JOHN ALEXANDER ALGIE .. .. Arrow.
(On and from 4th August, 1897.)
ARTHUR AUGUSTUS WINTERBURN .. Kaitangata.
(On and from 5th August, 1897.)
JOHN LOGAN BUSH .. .. Invercargill.
(On and from 9th August, 1897.)

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name. District.
WILLIAM ALFRED SMITH WILLCOX .. Invercargill.
WILLIAM ACCRINGTON ANDREWS .. Waipu.
ROMULUS BLAKLEY .. .. Hokitika.

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Crown Prosecutor appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th August, 1897.

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

ARTHUR RIGBY BUNNY, Esq.,

to be Crown Prosecutor at Masterton.

T. THOMPSON.

Probation Officer appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 9th August, 1897.

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

Sergeant-Major DAVID RAMSAY

to be Probation Officer, under “The First Offenders’ Probation Act, 1886,” for the Boroughs of Christchurch, St. Albans, and Sydenham, vice Sergeant-Major Mason, transferred.

T. THOMPSON,
Minister of Justice.

Resignation of Trustee of Public-hall Site, Pohangina, and New Trustee appointed in Lieu.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th August, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to accept the resignation of

JOSEPH GEORGE BROWN

as a Trustee of the Public-hall site at Pohangina; and has been pleased to appoint

JAMES JOHNSON, of Pohangina, Farmer,

a Trustee to fill the vacancy.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.