Oct. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1751

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the Native owner of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land contained in the Crown grant bearing date the seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, 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 upon 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 Crown grant on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 250 acres, situate in the Provincial District of Taranaki, being Section No. 1, Block XI., Mimi Survey District, held under Crown grant dated 7th October, 1884, in favour of Miriama Tarewa, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

R. J. SEDDON.

Polling-places appointed, City of Dunedin Electoral District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The Electoral Act, 1893,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing polling-places for the Electoral District of City of Dunedin, and do hereby appoint the under-mentioned places to be polling-places for the said electoral district:—

The Garrison Hall, Dowling Street, Dunedin (principal).
The Public Library, Maclaggan Street, Mornington.
The Borough Council Chambers, Mornington.
The Schoolhouse, High Street, Dunedin.
The Mission Hall, Walker Street, Dunedin.
The Mission Hall, Kaikorai Valley.
The Borough Council Chambers, Roslyn.
The Borough Council Chambers, Maori Hill.
The Schoolhouse, Pine Hill.
The Schoolhouse, North-east Valley.
The Borough Council Chambers, North-east Valley.
McCutcheon’s Store, Beach Road, Ravensbourne.
The Mission Hall, Arthur Street, Dunedin.
The School Hall, Albany Street, Dunedin.
The School Hall, Union Street, Dunedin.
The Schoolhouse, George Street, Dunedin.
The Normal School, Moray Place, Dunedin.
St. Joseph’s Girls’ School, Dowling Street, Dunedin.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

J. CARROLL.

Female Official Visitors appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch), Wellington, 2nd October, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Isa Outhwaite and
Laura Francis

to be Official Visitors at H.M. Prison at Auckland.

T. THOMPSON.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 5th October, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor 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.
Romulus Blakley Hokitika.
Edward Rawson Auckland.
Robert Kaye Nelson.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Member of Local Examination Board appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th September, 1897.

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

Captain Joseph Cowie Nicholls,

North Otago Mounted Rifle Volunteers, as an additional member of the local Board for the examination of candidates for commissions in the New Zealand Forces, for the North Otago District, vice Captain R. A. Chaffey, left the district. Date of appointment, 20th September, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Consul for Austria-Hungary at Auckland provisionally recognised.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been instructed by Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies to recognise provisionally the appointment of

E. Langguth, Esq.,

as Consul for Austria-Hungary at Auckland.

J. CARROLL.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Borough of the City of Christchurch.

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

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of City of Christchurch, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886.”

J. CARROLL.

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

Christchurch, 9th September, 1897.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
Wellington.

Sir,—I have the honour, in compliance with “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” section 184, to forward the following notice for your information:—

The Richmond Ward of this city proposes to raise a loan for special purposes under sections 185 and 186 of the said Act, and, under Part IX. of the same, the Council published the special loan, held the meeting of burgesses, and took the poll in accordance with the provisions of the Act, sections 177–183.

The number of burgesses on the roll, 268; the number of votes, 298. The result of the poll was—For the proposal, 128; against the proposal, 37.

I therefore declare the proposal carried, and further declare that the provisions of the said Act for raising a “special loan” have been complied with.

I am, your obedient servant,

W. H. Cooper,
Mayor.

Declared before me, this 9th day of September, 1897—William Prudhoe, J.P.

I, Walter Henry Cooper, of Christchurch, Mayor, do solemnly and sincerely declare that the provisions with respect to the raising of a special loan, under Part IX. of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” for the Richmond Ward of the City of Christchurch, have been complied with, and that the same was duly carried by the vote of the burgesses, as follows:—

Number of burgesses on burgess roll, 268; number of votes, 298. The result of the poll was—For the proposal, 128; against, 37.

I therefore declare the proposal carried.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

W. H. Cooper,
Mayor.

Declared at Christchurch, this 20th day of September 1897, before me—William Prudhoe, Justice of the Peace.