JUNE 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1093

visions of “The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act, 1896.”

No. 17.—An Act to increase the Borrowing-powers of Local Authorities under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” in Cases of Special Emergency.

No. 18.—An Act to amend the Law relating to Mining Companies.

No. 19.—An Act to amend the Land and Income Assessment Acts.

No. 20.—An Act to amend “The Harbours Act, 1878,” in so far as respects the Wellington Harbour Board.

No. 21.—An Act to amend the Law authorising the Acquisition of Private Lands for the Purposes of Settlement.

No. 22.—An Act to amend “The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893.”

No. 23.—An Act to assist the Development of Low-grade Ores, and otherwise promote the Mining Industry by acquiring certain Patent and other Rights relating to the Extraction of Gold and Silver by what is commonly known as the Cyanide Process, and making that Process available on the Goldfields at Reasonable Rates of Royalty.

No. 24.—An Act to amend “The Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act, 1865.”

No. 25.—An Act to amend “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1896.”

No. 26.—An Act to amend “The Government Railways Department Classification Act, 1896.”

No. 27.—An Act to promote Higher Education by the Establishment of a College at Wellington in Commemoration of the Sixtieth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

No. 28.—An Act to restrict certain Dealings in the Island of Kapiti pending the Acquisition thereof by Her Majesty as a Public Reserve.

No. 29.—An Act to amend “The Westport–Ngakawau Railway Extension Act, 1890.”

No. 30.—An Act to appropriate and apply certain Sums of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, the Public Works Fund, and other Accounts to the Services of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-eight, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Present Session.

Local.

No. 1.—An Act to empower the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wellington to raise Further Moneys for Sanitation Purposes.

No. 2.—An Act to amend “The Otago Harbour Board Loans Consolidation Act, 1884.”

No. 3.—An Act to amend “The Invercargill Public Offices Site Act, 1875.”

No. 4.—An Act to give Power to the Lyttelton Harbour Board to borrow a Further Sum of Sixty Thousand Pounds.

No. 5.—An Act to authorise a Grant of Land, being Portion of Mahoenui D Block, to Joseph Houston, of Waitara.

No. 6.—An Act to grant Further Borrowing-powers to the Westport Harbour Board.

No. 7.—An Act to enable the Napier Municipal Corporation and the Napier Harbour Board to exchange certain Lands vested in them.

No. 8.—An Act to authorise the Trustees of the Racecourse Reserve in Southland to sell the same, and to apply the Proceeds of such Sale to the Purchase of other Lands.

No. 9.—An Act to convey a certain Piece of Land in the Town of Greytown for the Purposes of a Street.

No. 10.—An Act to authorise the Corporation of the Borough of Lyttelton to take over and declare to be “Public Streets” certain Roads in the said Borough which were in Existence prior to the Coming into Operation of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876.”

No. 11.—An Act to enable the Body Corporate known as “The Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Hokianga” to widen a certain Road now in Use along the Foreshore of the Township of Kohukohu by extending it over certain Land to be reclaimed from the Sea in the Hokianga River.

No. 12.—An Act to authorise the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wellington to lease certain Lands situate in the City of Wellington to any Society or Institute established or to be established in the said City for affording Instruction and Recreation to Boys and Youths, or to any Trustees for any such Society or Institute.

No. 13.—An Act to empower the Bluff Harbour Board to sell Sections 4 and 5 of Block XII. in the Town of Campbelltown, and to apply the Net Proceeds thereof in the Purchase of other Land for an Endowment for the Board.

No. 14.—An Act to confer Further Powers on the Corporation of the City of Wellington.

Private.

No. 1.—An Act to enable the Establishment of Gasworks at the Borough of Hawera, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, to supply the said Borough and its Suburbs with Gas, and also to authorise the Hawera Gas Company (Limited) to break up or cross over Streets, Roads, Rivers, and Bridges, and to place Mains, Service-lines, and Distributing-mains either above or below Ground, and to lay down and place Pipes, Conduits, and Service-pipes, and to erect Pillars, Arches, and Poles, and to make, construct, and do other Works and Things for supplying the Borough of Hawera and Suburbs with Electrical Energy.

Arbor Day.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1899.

WEDNESDAY, the 19th day of July next, will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout New Zealand for the celebration of Arbor Day. In order that the movement may be made as successful as possible, the Government hopes that the Mayors of the various Municipalities and Chairmen of Local Bodies will place the matter prominently before the people of the colony, and do all they can to encourage the planting of public reserves and other available lands, both public and private, with trees suited to the locality.

W. C. WALKER.

Native Interpreter’s License revoked.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 7th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to revoke the license granted to

JOHN MATAPURA ELLISON,

of Karitane, authorising him to act as an interpreter under “The Native Land Court Act, 1894”; and also to remove the said John Matapura Ellison from his office as an interpreter under the said Act.

W. C. WALKER,
For Native Minister.

Justices of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 7th June, 1899.

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

HENRY CHRISTIAN WICK, Esq., of Paeroa, and
HENRY WILLIAMS, Esq., of Whatatutu,

of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the Colony.

WM. HALL-JONES.
For Minister of Justice.

Officer dismissed.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office,
Wellington, 31st May, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to dismiss from the public service of the colony

MICHAEL AUGUSTUS REILLY,

late Assistant Counter-clerk in the Telegraph-office at Napier.

W. C. WALKER,
For Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

Promotion in the Department of Lands and Survey.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to promote

CHARLES ROBERT POLLEN

to the position of Chief Draughtsman in the Department of Lands and Survey at Blenheim, as from Wednesday, the 24th May, 1899.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouse to be a warehouse or place of security for the manufacture