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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 7

Fixing Shooting Season for Deer, License-fee, &c., Nelson District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that red-deer stags and fallow-deer bucks may be taken or killed within the Nelson District, comprising the Counties of Waimea, Buller, and Collingwood, from the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, to the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned); and I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that no licensee shall be allowed to kill more than six bucks or stags, and that licenses to sell such game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Nelson and the Postmaster at Westport are hereby appointed to issue the said licenses.

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

W. C. WALKER.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

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, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, 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 ninth day of March, 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.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—ASHBURTON COUNTY.—SHEPHERD’S BUSH SURVEY DISTRICT.—HEKEAO SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

Sections 14 and 2, Block VII., form one allotment; Sections 5, 6, 6A, and 12, Block VII., form one allotment; Sections 7 and 7A, Block VII., and 10, Block III., form one allotment; Sections 8 and 8A, Block VII., and 9, Block III., form one allotment. Each of the remaining sections is one allotment.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Extra Aide-de-Camp to the Governor appointed.

Government House,
Wellington, 22nd January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Lieutenant ARTHUR CHARLES WELLESLEY,
4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, to be an extra Aide-de-Camp on his staff.

By command.

DUDLEY ALEXANDER, Captain,
Private Secretary.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Borough of Hawksbury, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN BURROWS

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” and the Acts amending the same, for the Borough of Hawksbury.

W. C. WALKER.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Acts, Otago District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

SAMUEL COUSINS,
ALEXANDER COWIE, and
THOMAS HENDERSON

to be Rangers under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Otago.

W. C. WALKER.

Public Vaccinator, Shannon District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER BRONTÉ, Esq., L.R.C.S. Edin., &c.,

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

W. C. WALKER.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor 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.:

Name. District.
STRICKLAND STONESTREET FIELD .. Christchurch.
WILLIAM NOSWORTHY. .. Wairau.
THOMAS CULPAN .. Auckland.

W. C. WALKER.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspectors, for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.: