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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Flat land. About 50 acres open, wet, peaty ground; balance abandoned sawmill workings with small pines and manuka. Sandy clay soil. Accessible by river, four miles from formed road, and twelve miles from Mokotua Railway-station. Height above sea-level, 10 ft. to 20 ft.

Contains 60 acres flat land, and is covered with light bush with heavy undergrowth; soil rocky formation, generally inferior, well watered. Burdened with £60 valuation for improvements, consisting of house and outbuildings, £36; clearing and grass, £24. Distance from Waikawa Township, six miles.

Soil very peaty and well watered, generally inferior; land covered in parts with stunted manuka scrub. Bounded towards the north by Titipua Stream. Distance from Woodlands, ten miles.

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 eleventh 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

GEORGE BROOKES,

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

Acting-Consul of France at Wellington appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1898.

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

M. LE COMTE DE COURTE

as Acting-Consul for France at Wellington, in place of M. de Jouffroy d’Abbans, at present on leave.

J. CARROLL.

Vice-Consul of the Netherlands at Auckland appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, directs it to be notified that he has recognised the appointment by the Consul-General for the Netherlands at Melbourne of

AMBROSE MILLAR, Esq.,

as Vice-Consul for the Netherlands at Auckland.

J. CARROLL.

Acting-Consul of Portugal at Wellington appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, directs it to be notified that he has recognised the appointment by the Consul of Portugal at Wellington of

IAN GAVIN DUNCAN, Esq.,

as Acting-Consul at Wellington during the absence of the Consul, John Duncan, Esq., from the colony.

J. CARROLL.

Acting-Consul of Portugal at Dunedin appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, directs it to be notified that he has recognised the appointment by the Consul of Portugal at Wellington of

CHARLES WILLIAM RATTRAY, Esq.,

as Acting Vice-Consul of Portugal at Dunedin during the absence of the Vice-Consul, Edmund Quick, Esq., from the colony.

J. CARROLL.

Inspector of Abattoirs, &c., Maungatawhiri Road District, County of Manukau, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1898.

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

WILLIAM KNOWLES CORNTHWAITE

to be an Inspector of Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses and of Cattle intended for Slaughter, under “The Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act, 1894,” within the Road District of Maungatawhiri.

J. CARROLL.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Acts, Hawke’s Bay and Waitaki-Waimate Districts, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Rangers under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the districts set respectively opposite their names :—

Name. District.
HUGH SANDERS .. .. .. }
WALTER TORR .. .. .. }
WILLIAM HENRY PEAKMAN .. .. } Hawke’s Bay.
EBENEZER JACKSON and .. .. }
FREDERICK WARWICK WEST .. .. }
JOHN WALL .. .. .. .. .. Waitaki-Waimate.

J. CARROLL.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and