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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 76

1882,” for the creation and issue of certain stamps, issued
for purposes of the said Act, and for the audit of such
stamps, and of the accounts relating thereto: And whereas
it is expedient to amend the said regulations, and to make
other provisions in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said colony, do hereby revoke so much of Regulation
Number Fourteen of the said regulations as deals with
“Return F” (mentioned in the seventh paragraph of
Regulation Fourteen), and in lieu thereof do hereby make
the following, namely:—

“Return F. By each Deputy Commissioner to the Audit,
monthly; showing the number and value of each denomi-
nation of stamps in his hand on the last Saturday in each
month, supported by a certificate by the Deputy Com-
missioner and an officer appointed in writing in that behalf
by the Commissioner of Stamps that the stock of stamps
named in such return has been counted and found correct.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice of Application to proclaim Top Valley, Timm’s, and
Bartlett’s Creeks, together with all their Tributaries, Water-
courses for the Deposit of Tailings, &c.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in him by section one
hundred and nine of “The Mining Act, 1898,” His
Excellency the Governor hereby notifies that application has
been made to him to constitute and set apart by Proclama-
tion the watercourses the name, locality, and description
whereof are set forth in the Schedule hereto, to be water-
courses into which may be discharged any tailings, débris,
and waste water produced by or resulting from mining ope-
rations carried on under the said Act.

Any person who objects to such Proclamation being made,
or whose land, or riparian or other rights in respect of such
land, will be damaged or injuriously affected by the opera-
tion thereof, is required to serve on the Minister of Mines,
within the period of ninety days after the publication
hereof in the Gazette, full particulars of such objection, and
also a claim in the prescribed form setting forth full parti-
culars of all compensation that will be claimed by him in
the event of such Proclamation being made.

No person will be entitled to any compensation for damage
or injury consequent on the operation of such Proclamation
unless his claim is duly served in the manner and within
the period aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

That creek known as Top Valley Creek, in Marlborough
County, which flows southerly from its source near Mount
Richmond for a distance of about six miles to its confluence
with the Wairau River, together with the tributaries
thereof.

That creek known as Timm’s Creek, in Marlborough
County, which flows southerly from its source near Mount
Richmond for a distance of about ten miles to its confluence
with the Wairau River, together with the tributaries
thereof.

That creek known as Bartlett’s Creek, in Marlborough
County, which flows southerly from its source for a distance
of about five miles to its confluence with the Wairau River,
together with the tributaries thereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of August, 1900.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Trustees for the Stafford Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the sixth section of “The Ceme-
teries 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 speci-
fied in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor
this fifteenth day of August, one thousand nine
hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Trustee of Masterton Park Reserve appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd August, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

EDWARD MCEWEN, Esq.,

to be a Trustee of the Masterton Park Reserve under “The
Greytown and Masterton Public Park and Cemetery Re-
serve Management Act, 1875,” vice C. E. Bremner, Esq.

J. G. WARD.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Borough of Riverton,
appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

Constable ERNEST BINGHAM

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under “The
Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” and the Acts amending
the same, for the Borough of Riverton, vice Constable
William Walker.

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point 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.
JAMES ERSKINE PATRICK .. .. Pahiatua.
ROBERT McLEAN BAIRD .. .. Tokomairiro.

J. G. WARD.

Trustee, Auckland Savings-bank, appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 28th August, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

JOSEPH HOWARD WITHERFORD, Esq., M.H.R.,

to be a Trustee of the Auckland Savings-bank, vice William
Crowther, deceased.

R. J. SEDDON.

Members of Tuapeka Commonage Committee appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 15th August, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

ALEXANDER RUSSELL, of Wetherstone’s, Tuapeka ;
ANDREW BARR, of Blue Spur, Tuapeka ; and
WILLIAM REIDY, of Blue Spur, Tuapeka,