Nov. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2165

Lands in the Wellington Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section is provided, do hereby declare that the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine; and that the said lands may be selected on lease in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892”; and I do hereby declare that the rentals at which the said lands shall be leased shall be those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—OROUA COUNTY.—KAIRANGA SURVEY DISTRICT.—TE MATUA SETTLEMENT.

First-class Agricultural Land.

*Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £336, repayable in twenty-one years, in half-yearly instalments of £13 2s. 1d.: total half-yearly, £62 14s. 1d.

NOTE.—Each section is an allotment excepting Sections Nos. 33 and 34, Block I., which form one allotment, and Sections Nos. 37 and 40, which are grouped and form one allotment.

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

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Lands.

Vaccination Districts constituted.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

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 Featherston 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 Featherston and Martinborough Districts, and the boundaries whereof shall be co-terminous 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 twentieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

W. C. WALKER.

Trustees for the Dunsandel Cemetery appointed

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

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

JOHN IRVINE and
PARKER WESTENRA

to be Trustees, in the place of George Burgess and John Morgan Furze, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Dunsandel Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Registrar of Electors, Ohinemuri Electoral District, appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK DUNCAN FERGUSSON

to be Registrar of Electors, under “The Electoral Act, 1893,” for the Electoral District of Ohinemuri, vice T. F. Farley. Appointment to date from the 9th November, 1899.

J. CARROLL.

Officer under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” Canterbury District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1899.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”

WILLIAM GRAVESON, of Spotswood, Cheviot,

has been appointed an officer for the purposes of that Act for that part of the Provincial District of Canterbury to the north of and including the Rakaia River, and for the waters of the Clarence River which are within the County of Marlborough.

W. C. WALKER.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Acts, Canterbury District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th November, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM GRAVESON

to be a Ranger under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Canterbury.

W. C. WALKER.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, 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 set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
GEORGE GRANTHAM WELLSTED Featherston.
THOMAS FRANK VALENTINE Martinborough.

Appointments to date from 1st December, 1899.

W. C. WALKER.

Members of the Wyndham Recreation Reserve Trust appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st November, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint

JAMES WALKER and
GEORGE GIBB FYFE

to be members of the Wyndham Recreation Reserve Trust, in the place of David McKay, deceased, and John Templeton, who has left the district.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.