May 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 803

Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, in the name and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, and as his duly appointed Deputy, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the twenty-second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight; and that the said lands may be selected on lease in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892”; and I do hereby declare that the rentals at which the said lands shall be leased shall be those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT. — PIAKO COUNTY. — RANGIATEA ESTATE.

First-class Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings, repayable in fourteen years.

As witness the hand of Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, for and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor, and as his duly appointed Deputy, this fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

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, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

SARAH BOWMAR,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster, under “The Post Office Act, 1881,” at Mangawai, 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 thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

Public Vaccinator, Lumsden, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th May, 1898.

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

MICHAEL DOMINIC MURPHY, Esq., Lic. Fac. Phys. and Surg. Glasg., &c.,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the District of Lumsden.

J. CARROLL.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Thames, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th May, 1898.

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

Constable RICHARD THOMAS HODGSON

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 Thames, Ohinemuri, and Coromandel, and for the Borough of Thames.

J. CARROLL.

Inspectors of Abattoirs, Piako and Waipawa Counties, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Inspectors of Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses and of Cattle intended for Slaughter, under “The Slaughterhouses Act, 1894,” for the ridings of the counties set opposite their names in the Schedule hereto.

J. CARROLL.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th May, 1898.

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

EMILY BLACKMORE

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Black’s, on and from the 18th May, 1898.

J. CARROLL.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, 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.:

J. CARROLL.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th May, 1898.

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

JOHN BENNETT TUNBRIDGE, Esq., of Wellington,
JOHN CULLEN, Esq., of Greymouth, and
JAMES LOCKHART STEVENSON, Esq., of Wanganui,

to be Justices of the Peace for the colony.

T. THOMPSON.