and that the same shall be granted by the Governor of New Zealand to the members of the Chief Marine Board of New Zealand, on a lease for ninety-nine (99) years, at an annual rental of twenty pounds sterling (£20).

In Trust for the purpose of erecting a Lighthouse thereon.

Witness my hand, this 21st day of July 1863,

A. CHETHAM STRODE.

Schedule above referred to.

All that piece of land situate at Papanui, Cape Saunders, in the Province of Otago, bounded on the South-west by the cliffs, 10 chains; on the South-east by Native lands, 90 chains; on the North-east by Native lands, 10 chains; on the North-west by Native lands, 20 chains. Area, 20 acres; and to be marked off from Trig. Station Q.

Report adopted fourth day of August 1863, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Resident Magistrates appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 15th August, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Charles Williamson, Esq., J.P.,

And

Edward Hardcastle, Esq., J.P.,

in the Province of Otago,

to be Resident Magistrates.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 14th August, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Charles Williamson, Esq.,

And

Edward Hardcastle, Esq.,

in the Province of Otago, and

Richard Chilman, Esq., in the Province of Taranaki,

to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony.

ALFRED DOMETT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Second Sittings of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the 19th day of August, 1863,

Present:—

G. GREY,

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the “Court of Appeal Act, 1862,” it is enacted that the Court shall hold its sittings at such times and places as shall be from time to time fixed by the Governor in Council and proclaimed in the Government Gazette, sixty days at least before the time so fixed respectively;

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby fix that a Sittings of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within the Supreme Court in the City of Wellington and Province of Wellington, upon the nineteenth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

POSTAL.

Appointment of Postmasters.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 11th August, 1863.

IN virtue of the powers delegated to me by His Excellency the Governor, the following appointments have been made in the service of the Colony:—

READER GILSON WOOD.

Province of Otago.

William Henry Sherwood Roberts to be Postmaster at Pomahaka, from the 16th May, 1863.

Edward Riley to be Postmaster at Franktown, from the 5th May, 1863.

Marcus Brown Power to be Postmaster at Waiwera, from the 11th June, 1863.

John Craig to be Postmaster at Goodwood, from the 1st June, 1863.

Thomas Shalders to be Postmaster at Rocky Point, from the 11th June, 1863.

John Hetherington to be Postmaster at Kawarau Junction, from the 11th June, 1863.

Thomas Pringle to be Postmaster at Cardrona, from the 11th June, 1863.

Dennis McKenna to be Postmaster at St. Johnstown, from the 4th June, 1863.

Sydney Johnson Dick to be Postmaster at Queenstown, from the 21st June, 1863.

James Henry Birch McKeon to be Postmaster at Arrow River, from the 21st June, 1863.