MAY 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 761

Cadet, Inspector of Mines Office, Dunedin, appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint

HENRY PATON

to be a cadet in the office of the Inspector of Mines at Dunedin, as from the 7th April, 1898.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Cadet appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 29th April, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS GEORGE GILBERT

to be a cadet in the Education Department, the appointment to date from the 12th instant.

W. C. WALKER.

Members of Victoria College Council appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1898.

PURSUANT to section 5 of “The Victoria College Act, 1897,” His Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint, under subsection (1),

JOHN GRAHAM, Esq., M.H.R.,
ALEXANDER WILSON HOGG, Esq., M.H.R., and
PATRICK JOSEPH O’REGAN, Esq., M.H.R. ;

and, under subsection (6),

DAVID PHILIP JAMES, Esq., F.R.C.S.,

to be members of the Victoria College Council.

W. C. WALKER.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint 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.
Constable RICHARD THOMAS The North Island of the Colony of New Zealand, and
HODGSON the islands adjacent thereto.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour.

Clerks, Auckland and Wellington Lunatic Asylums, appointed.

Lunacy Department,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, in terms of section 51 of “The Lunatics Act, 1882,” has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE MACDONALD

to be Clerk of the Lunatic Asylum at Auckland, and

GEORGE CHARLES HOLDER

to be Clerk of the Lunatic Asylum at Wellington.

W. C. WALKER.

Clerks of Auckland and Wellington Lunatic Asylums appointed to receive Maintenance-moneys.

Lunacy Department,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint the Clerks of the Lunatic Asylums at Auckland and Wellington to be the persons to receive all moneys payable in respect of the maintenance of any lunatic in the said asylums respectively, and, if necessary, to sue for the same in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

W. C. WALKER.

Volunteer Officers retired.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned officers being retired, under the provisions of paragraph 260, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, they being over sixty-five years of age.

Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers.
V.D. Captain Commandant William Goldie (South Otago District).
Lieut.-Colonel Maillard Noake (Auckland District).
V.D. Quartermaster John Albert Young (Canterbury District).

Retirements to date from the 21st April, 1898.

T. THOMPSON.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Borough of Onslow.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1898.

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

J. CARROLL.

BOROUGH OF ONSLOW.

Onslow Borough Council,
Kaiwarra, 28th April, 1898.

To the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

SIR,—I have the honour to inform you that a poll was taken on the 27th instant on the proposal of the Council to borrow the sum of £5,000 as a special loan for carrying out certain improvements within the borough, with the following result : Burgesses on roll, 314 ; votes on roll, 360 : Burgesses voted for proposal, 188 ; votes for proposal, 211 ; votes against proposal, 5.

As more than half the number of burgesses voted for the proposal, and they represented more than half the number of votes which could be exercised, I have declared the resolution carried.

In accordance with clause 184 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” I forward herewith a statutory declaration to the effect that all proceedings required by the above Act have been duly taken.

I have, &c.,

JOHN HOLMES,
Mayor of the Borough of Onslow.

I, John Holmes, Mayor of the Borough of Onslow, do solemnly and sincerely declare that, in reference to the proposal of the Borough Council to raise a special loan of £5,000 for certain improvements within the borough, all proceedings required by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” have been taken in and towards obtaining the sanction of the burgesses to the proposal, and that the resolution in favour of the proposal has been duly 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.”

JOHN HOLMES,
Mayor.

Declared at Wellington, this 28th day of April, 1898, before me—Alexander Cameron, J.P.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Manawatu County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1898.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Manawatu County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

J. CARROLL.

MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL.

THE following is the result of a poll of ratepayers taken on the 20th April, 1898, on a proposal to raise a loan of £250, under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for metalling the unmetalled portion of Sanson’s Line :—

Number of ratepayers on special roll, 12, exercising 32 votes : Number of ratepayers who voted for the proposal 9, exercising 23 votes ; number of ratepayers who voted against proposal, nil.

The number of voters and votes in favour of the proposal being more than half the total number exercisable, I hereby declare such proposal to be carried.

W. TAYLOR,
Chairman.

Sanson, 21st April, 1898.