Nov. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2055

Record Reign Recreation-ground brought under "The Public Domains Act, 1881."

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of November, 1897.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in the Otago Land District, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of "The Public Domains Act, 1881"; and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Town of Cromwell, containing by admeasurement 4 acres, more or less, being Section No. 1 of Block LXXXIX. on the map of the said town. Bounded towards the north by Horace Street; towards the east by a right line being the production in a southerly direction of the eastern side of Sonora Street; towards the south by a right line being the production in an easterly direction of the northern side of Cromwell Street; and towards the west by Gay Street.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of November, 1897.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," it is enacted that the Native Land Court shall, as regards all lands within the meaning of subsection ten of section fourteen aforesaid, have jurisdiction as in the said subsection mentioned: Provided that the Court shall not proceed to exercise such jurisdiction unless the Governor in Council shall by Order authorise the same to be done:

And whereas the land specified in the Schedule hereto is land in respect whereof the Court has jurisdiction as aforesaid, and it is expedient that the Court should be authorised to exercise the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorise the said Court to exercise in respect of the said land the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid —that is to say, to determine whether or not the said land or any part thereof was, on the investigation of title thereto, intended by the Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner or owners of such land, to be held by such nominal owner or owners in trust for Natives not named in the title, and to determine who are the Natives (if any) entitled beneficially to such land, and to order the inclusion of such Natives in the title, either together with or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of them, and for the purpose aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new Crown grants or other instruments of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said land all the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native Land Court by subsection ten of section fourteen of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, situate in the Ahuriri District, containing 1,052 acres, and known as Tautane Block.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-point 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.
SAMUEL CONNOLLY .. .. .. Pictou.
RICHARD SIMMONDS .. .. .. Coromandel.

J. CARROLL.

Inspector of Clubs appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st November, 1897.

THE under-mentioned person has been appointed, under "The Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1893," to be an Inspector of Clubs to which a charter has been or may hereafter be granted under "The Licensing Act, 1881."

JOHN CULLEN, Inspector of Police.

J. CARROLL.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara, and Borough of Wanganui, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-point

Sergeant JOHN WYBRANT ELLISON

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under "The Weights and Measures Act, 1868," and the Acts amending the same, for the Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara, and for the Borough of Wanganui.

J. CARROLL.

Trustees for Hawke's Bay Rabbit District elected.—Notice No. 501.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 8th November, 1897.

NOTICE has been received, under the hand of the Returning Officer (Mr. T. W. Balfour), that on the 1st instant

THOMAS CROSSE,
ALEXANDER McHARDY,
WALTER SHRIMPTON,
FRANK SKIPSEY WATERHOUSE, and
JAMES NELSON WILLIAMS

were duly elected Trustees of the Hawke's Bay Rabbit Dis-trict, as constituted under "The Rabbit Nuisance Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1886."

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 4th November, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-point 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.
Sergeant JOHN WYBRANT ELLI- The North Island of the
SON Colony of New Zealand,
and the islands adjacent
thereto.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Inspector or Surveyor appointed under "The Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877," at Nelson.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th November, 1897.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the provisions of section 13 of "The Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877,"

FREDERIC WILLIAM COX,

Harbourmaster and Pilot for the Port of Nelson, has been appointed an Inspector or Surveyor to do, execute, or per-form any of the powers, duties, and functions by that Act exercisable by an Inspector or Surveyor.

WM. HALL-JONES.