Dec. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2191

Rural Lands in the Southland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by 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 section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and one; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Situated about five miles and a half from Orepuki Railway-station. Land mostly covered with bush; soil inferior. Burdened with valuation for improvements, £56, consisting of clearing and fencing.

| Southland.. | Oteramika | 5 | XIV. | 351 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 175 10 0 | 0 6 | 4 7 9 | 0 4·8 | 3 10 3 |

Situated about three miles and a half from Gorge Road Railway-station. Land mostly covered with light bush; soil inferior. Burdened with £18 9s. for improvements, consisting of clearing, fencing, and ditching.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Trustee for the Ellesmere 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

HENRY PHILLIPS

to be a Trustee, in the place of Robert Skilling Cook, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Ellesmere Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Trustees for the Purangi 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 twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has recognised provisionally the appointment by the Consul of Denmark at Christchurch of

PETER JORGEN WILHELM HOLSTED, Esq.,

as Acting Vice-Consul of Denmark at Dunedin.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1900.

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.:

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Chief Health Officer for Purposes of “The Public Health Act, 1900,” appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES MALCOLM MASON, Esq., M.D., F.C.S., D.P.H. Camb.,

to be Chief Health Officer for the purposes of “The Public Health Act, 1900.” Appointment to date from 1st December, 1900.

J. G. WARD.

Land Transfer and Stamp Officer appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 1st December, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM WYNES, Esq.,

to be District Land Registrar, Registrar of Deeds, Examiner of Titles, Deputy Commissioner of Stamps, and Assistant Registrar of Joint-stock Companies, at Invercargill, as from the 1st day of December, 1900.

J. CARROLL,
Commissioner of Stamps.