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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

Trustees for Blackball Public Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be Trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the public cemetery specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th October, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS RIMMER

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Ashhurst.

J. CARROLL.

Crown Lands Ranger appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 7th October, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN FORRESTER

to be a Ranger of Crown Lands for the Earnscleugh Run, situated within the Land District of Otago.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Clerk of Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 7th October, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable ARCHIBALD MCPHEE

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Te Awamutu, from the 1st October instant, vice Constable W. Jones.

T. THOMPSON.

Cadet appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 7th October, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT ANDREW MCARA

to be a cadet in the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth, from the 5th October instant.

T. THOMPSON.

Cadet, Marine Department, appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 11th October, 1898.

IT is hereby notified that

AUGUSTUS PALMER OWENS

has been appointed a cadet in the Head Office of the Marine Department as from the 25th March, 1898.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th October, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment, under paragraph 63, Volunteer Regulations, 1895:—

Otago Hussar Volunteers.

Lieutenant Herbert Price to be Captain. Date of commission, 10th September, 1898.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 10th October, 1898.

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

Dannevirke Rifle Volunteers.

Thomas Macallan to be Surgeon-Captain.

The Rev. Edward Robertshawe to be Honorary Chaplain.

Commissions to date from the 21st September, 1898.

Wellington Post and Telegraph Rifle Volunteers.

Patrick Mackin to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of commission, 3rd August, 1898.

The Rev. William Campbell Waters to be Honorary Chaplain. Date of commission, 6th July, 1898.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 10th October, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under paragraph 63, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, of the under-mentioned appointment:—

D Battery, New Zealand Regiment Artillery Volunteers.

William Harold Sefton Moorhouse to be Captain. Date of commission, 27th September, 1898.

T. THOMPSON.

Services of Volunteer Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th October, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 39, (1), “The Defence Act, 1886,” the services of the

South Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers,

with headquarters at Timaru. Acceptance to date from the 20th September, 1898.

T. THOMPSON.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Manawatu County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th October, 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 5th October, 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 Jones’s Line:—

Number of ratepayers on special roll, 8, exercising 20 votes: Number of ratepayers who voted for the proposal, 7, exercising 18 votes; number of votes against the proposal, nil.

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

JAMES G. WILSON,
Chairman.

Sanson, 6th October, 1898.