JULY 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1195

Kapukai and others, 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 twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

R. J. SEDDON.

Notice of the Election of a Member of the Board of Conciliation for the Canterbury Industrial District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that

ALBERT FRANCIS TALBOT, of Christchurch, carpenter, has been duly elected a member of the Board of Conciliation in and for the Canterbury Industrial District, vice James Chalmers, resigned.

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

R. J. SEDDON.

Member of Oamaru Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 25th July, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of the power conferred upon him by section 41 of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, appointed

JOHN ORR

to be a member of the Oamaru Harbour Board for the Riding of Hakateramea, a part of the County of Waimate, the county electors of that riding having neglected to elect a member of the Board in the place of John Molloy, deceased.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Members of Otago Dock Trust appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of all the powers enabling him in that behalf, appointed

EDMUND CIBLETT ALLEN, M.H.R., and
JOHN ANDREW MILLAR, M.H.R.,

to be members of the Otago Dock Trust.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Inspectors of Explosives appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS HOPPER HUSTWICK and
ALEXANDER RAMSAY CARNIE

Inspectors of Explosives under “The Explosives Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1897,” and regulations thereunder.

T. THOMPSON.

Battalion Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment:—

3rd Battalion, Wellington (East Coast) Rifle Volunteers.

Captain John Gethin Hughes, Napier Guards Rifle Volunteers, to be Captain and Adjutant. Commission to date from the 9th day of July, 1898.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th July, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment:—

College Rifle Volunteers (Wellington).

Claude Dawson Henry to be Surgeon-Captain. Commission to date from the 19th July, 1898.

T. THOMPSON.

Members of Local Military Examination Board appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th July, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointment, as from the 22nd day of July, 1898, of

Captain ROBERT BARBOUR MCKAY, Invercargill City Guards Rifle Volunteers, and
Lieutenant WALTER HENDERSON, Awarua Rifle Volunteers,

as additional members of the Local Board for the Examination of Candidates for Commissions in the New Zealand Defence Forces, for the Otago District.

T. THOMPSON.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th July, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

ROBERT NEVILLE, Esq.,

of Waikiekie, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.

T. THOMPSON.

Native Interpreter licensed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th July, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

HENRY THOMAS ARCHER,

of Te Awamutu, to act as an interpreter under the Native Land Court Acts.

R. J. SEDDON.

Native Minister.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Borough of Westport.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1898.

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

J. CARROLL.

WESTPORT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Town Clerk’s Office, Westport,
6th July, 1898.

SIR,—I have the honour, in compliance with section 184 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” to forward you the following notice:—

The Westport Borough Council proposes to raise a special loan of £3,000 for the extension of the Corporation Gasworks, 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 is 618; the number of votes to which these 618 burgesses are entitled is 748.

The number of burgesses who voted for the proposal is 348, and the number of votes recorded for the proposal is 452.

The number of burgesses who voted against the proposal is 14, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal is 15.

A sufficient number of burgesses, entitled to more than one-half in number of the votes exercisable, being recorded in favour of the proposal, I declare it carried.

I have, &c.,

JAMES COLVIN,
Mayor.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

Declaration.

I, James Colvin, of the Borough of Westport, in the Colony of New Zealand, Mayor of the said borough, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all proceedings required by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the burgesses of the said borough to the proposal to raise a loan of £3,000 for the said borough have been duly taken, and that the resolution in favour of such 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.”

JAMES COLVIN,
Mayor.

Declared at Westport, this 6th day of July, 1898, before me—J. Powell, Justice of the Peace.