Feb. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 327

Lands temporarily reserved in the Land District of Wellington.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Land District of Wellington enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, and opposite the descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1899.

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.
WILLIAM GEORGE MORTON .. Ashley-Clinton.
FRANCIS JAMES VOLKNER WILLIAMS .. Waiapu.

J. CARROLL.

Vice-Consul of France at Wellington appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th February, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been informed by Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies that

Count Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Henri de Courte has been appointed Vice-Consul of France at Wellington.

J. CARROLL.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, County of Kiwitea, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable TIMOTHY BREEN

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

J. CARROLL.

Arrangements for First Elections &c., Akitio County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th February, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER McHUTCHON

to be the person to make up electors’ rolls for the Ridings of Waihi, Rakaunui, Pongaroa, Akitio, and Mataikona, in the County of Akitio, as constituted under “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Akitio County Act, 1898”; also to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of members of the Council of the said county; and also to be Clerk of the Akitio County Council for the purpose of presiding at the first meeting thereof.

J. CARROLL.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 28th January, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN HAMILTON

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of City of Christchurch, vice T. Gapes, resigned.

T. THOMPSON.

Clerk of Courts, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN CHARLES STEVENS WILLIS

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts and Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar at Lyell and Murchison, on and from the 1st day of February, 1899, vice Constable M. Rogers, transferred.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Justice.