Aug. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1409

Description of land: Open land, broken and undulating, situated from three to twelve miles from Tikinui Post-office.

Cash price, 5s. per acre; occupation with right of purchase, 3d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity, 2·4d. per acre per annum.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Vaccination Districts constituted.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in the Governor by “The Public Health Act, 1876,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing vaccination district known as the Opotiki District, and do declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said district is hereby divided anew into two vaccination districts, the names whereof shall be the Opotiki and Whakatane Districts, and the boundaries whereof shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the marriage districts bearing the same names, as are set forth in a Proclamation of even date herewith, made under the provisions of “The Marriage Act, 1880.”

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

J. CARROLL.

Sea-gulls of any Species protected under the Animals Protection Acts.

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 declare that from and after the date hereof sea-gulls of any species shall come within the operation of the said Acts as fully and effectively as if they had been included in the Fourth Schedule to the said “Animals Protection Act, 1880.”

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

J. CARROLL.

Trustees for the Kohekohe 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 thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Trustee for Kowai Pass 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 THOMAS SEAY to be a Trustee, in the place of Abraham Biggs, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Kowai Pass Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th July, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint HARRY MILES PHILLIPS to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Hunterville, vice John Hensleigh Norris, resigned, on and from the 5th August, 1899.

J. CARROLL.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1899.

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 respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
JAMES TURNER WYLIE .. Opotiki.
CHARLES MARSHALL BUCKWORTH .. Whakatane.
(On and from the 24th August, 1899.)

J. CARROLL.

Appointment of Vice-Consul of Portugal at Dunedin recognised provisionally.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has recognised provisionally the appointment by the Consul of Portugal at Wellington of CHARLES WILLIAM RATTRAY, Esq., as Vice-Consul of Portugal at Dunedin.

J. CARROLL.

Appointment of Acting Vice-Consul of Denmark at Dunedin recognised provisionally.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has recognised provisionally the appointment by the Consul of Denmark at Christchurch of CHARLES WILLIAM RATTRAY, Esq., as Acting Vice-Consul of Denmark at Dunedin.

J. CARROLL.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint ALBERT JOHN WILKINS JOHNSTON to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Brunner.

J. CARROLL.