Feb. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 247

Police Gaoler appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 4th February, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable WILLIAM BERN

to be Police Gaoler at Rotorua, vice Sergeant William Murray, transferred.

T. THOMPSON,
Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable WILLIAM HENRY RYAN

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Egmont, vice Sergeant O’Donovan, transferred.

T. THOMPSON.

Sittings of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The COLONIAL BANK BUILDING, Palmerston North,

be a place wherein a Magistrate’s Court shall be held, in lieu of the police-station previously appointed.

T. THOMPSON.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 7th February, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned person to be an Inspector under “The Factories Act, 1894,” and to assign to him the district set opposite his name, viz.:

Name. District.
Constable THOMAS HENRY The North Island of the Colony of New Zealand, and the islands adjacent thereto.
HELLYER BEDDER

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1898.

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

Waikato Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Captain James Reid, from the Hamilton Light Infantry Volunteers, to be Captain. Date of commission, 15th December, 1897.

D Battery, New Zealand Regiment Artillery Volunteers.

John Garencieres Rose to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 14th December, 1897.

F Battery, New Zealand Regiment Artillery Volunteers.

Lieutenant John Gethin Hughes to be Captain. Date of commission, 1st December, 1897.

Queen’s Rifle Volunteers (Oamaru).

Herbert Lee to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 1st December, 1897.

Waimea Rifle Volunteers.

Edwin Arnold to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 6th December, 1897.

Kaiapoi Rifle Volunteers.

Ernest Edward Papprill to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 3rd December, 1897.

Kelburne Rifle Volunteers (Wellington).

Henry Frederick Davis to be Captain.

James William Henderson to be Lieutenant.

Date of commissions, 7th December, 1897.

No. 1 Company, Ohinemuri Rifle Volunteers.

Frederick Duncan Fergusson to be Captain. Date of commission, 1st December, 1897.

College Rifle Volunteers (Auckland).

Charles Evan Mackey to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 1st December, 1897.

Imperial Rifle Volunteers (Christchurch).

Hardwicke Holderness to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 2nd December, 1897.

Wellington Battalion of Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

V.D. Captain George Johnston, Honorary Unattached List, New Zealand Volunteers, to be Quartermaster.

Honorary Veterinary Surgeon James Blake Taylor, Wairoa Mounted Rifle Volunteers, to be Honorary Veterinary Surgeon.

The Rev. Reginald Harman to be Honorary Chaplain.

Commissions to date from the 27th December, 1897.

South Canterbury Battalion of Infantry Volunteers.

Lieutenant and Adjutant Sidney Wolf to be Captain and Adjutant. Commission to date from the 1st September, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignations of the commissions held by the under-mentioned officers:—

Wellington Guards Volunteers.

Lieutenant John Duthie. Date of resignation, 3rd December, 1897.

Waimate Rifle Volunteers.

Captain Peter Grant. Date of resignation, 13th December, 1897.

Blenheim City Rifle Volunteers.

Surgeon-Captain Edward Henry Alexander. Date of resignation, 4th January, 1898.

T. THOMPSON.

Notice of Proposed Addition to the Borough of Timaru.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1898.

A PETITION having been presented to His Excellency the Governor praying that the district described in the First Schedule hereto might be incorporated in the Borough of Timaru, His Excellency directs it to be notified that, unless within two months from the publication hereof a petition or petitions, as required by section 32 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” is or are presented to His Excellency, he will proceed to incorporate the said district into the said Borough of Timaru, and constitute the said district into two separate wards, with the names and boundaries described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, bounded by a line commencing at a point where the northern extremity of the Borough of Timaru, as described in the New Zealand Gazette, 1894, page 1526, meets high-water mark, and proceeding in a northerly direction along high-water mark to a point opposite and eastward of the southernmost corner of Reserve No. 884; thence along the southern boundary of the said Reserve No. 884 to the western boundary thereof; thence across the road forming the western boundary of that reserve; thence southerly along the western side of the said road to the Main North Road; thence along the eastern side of the Main North Road and across that road to White Street; thence along the northern side of White Street to and across the Old North Road; thence along the western side of the Old North Road to the Wai-iti Road; thence westerly along the northern side of Wai-iti Road to a point in line with the western boundary of Rural Section No. 2333; thence southerly across the Wai-iti Road and along the western boundary of said Rural Section No. 2333, and along a line in continuation thereof to the south side of North Street; thence easterly along the southern side of North Street to Woodland Street; thence southerly along the western side of Woodland Street to a point in line with the south side of Hassel Street; thence easterly across Woodland Street and along the southern side of Hassel Street and Robert Street to the Timaru Town Belt; thence in a northerly direction generally along the boundary of the Borough of Timaru, as described in the New Zealand Gazette, 1894, page 1526, to the commencing-point.