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[Reprinted from the New Zealand Gazette.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 26th April, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be Revising Officers to revise the List of Voters for the election of Members of the House of Representatives, for the Electoral Districts set opposite their names.

| Wm. Halse, Esq. | Town of New Plymouth
Grey and Bell |
| | Omata |
| | Wanganui and Rangitikei |
| Robert Hart, Esq. | Wellington Country
City of Wellington |
| | Hutt |
| | Wairarapa |
| | County of Hawke |
| Wm. Thos. Locke Travers, Esq. | Motueka and Massacre Bay |
| | Town of Nelson |
| | Wairau |
| Christopher Alderson Calvert, Esq. | County of Cheviot |
| | Christchurch County
Town of Christchurch |
| | Town of Lyttelton |
| | Akaroa |
| John Hyde Harris Esq. | Dunedin Country
Town of Dunedin |
| | County of Wallace |

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 5th April, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Despatch from her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Downing-street,
15th December, 1858.

Sir,—I have communicated with the Secretary of State for War on the subject of your despatch No. 69, of the 13th August, and its enclosures respecting the establishment of a Sanatorium in New Zealand for the benefit of Invalids from the Indian Army, and I have to inform you that the Secretary for War has referred those papers for the consideration of the Secretary of State for India in Council, accompanied, however, by his own opinion that there are other localities better suited, geographically and otherwise, for a Sanatorium than the Colony under your Government.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
E. B. Lytton.

Governor Gore Browne, C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Auckland, March 30th, 1859.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and entitled “The Marriage Act, 1854,” the following name of an additional Officiating Minister, within the meaning of the said Act, is published for general information...

United Church of England and Ireland.
The Reverend Henry H. Brown (New Plymouth).

I, John B. Bennett, Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby certify that the foregoing Name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of “The Marriage Act, 1854,” has been sent to me, in addition to the Names in Lists published respectively in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 5, of the 27th of January, and No. 7, of the 19th of February, and No. 10, of the 19th of March, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this thirtieth day of March, 1859.

John B. Bennett,
Registrar-General.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 14th April, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has caused the following Despatch to be published for the guidance of the Officers of the Government, who are directed not to undertake private agencies of the description referred to.

Downing-street,
11th December, 1858.

Sir,—My attention has recently been called to a case which occurred in one of the Australian Colonies, in which the Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court and Curator of Intestates’ Estates appears to have placed himself in communication with the natural claimants to some intestate property, and having (apparently in reliance on his position) been entrusted by them with Powers of Attorney to act as their private agent, appropriated the property to his own use and left the Colony, having become a defaulter to a considerable amount.

I need scarcely point out to you, that cases of this kind are not only productive of great hardship, but are calculated to throw much discredit on the Government, and they suggest the propriety of prohibiting public officers from undertaking private agencies in matters which may be in any way connected with the execution of their public duties.

I have, &c.,
E. B. Lytton.

Governor Gore Browne, C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.