TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

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Delegate, subject to be rescinded as in the said Acts provided, and subject to the regulations contained in an Order in Council of even date herewith.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Auckland, this twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Approved in Council.

Henry D. Pitt, Capt., R.A.,
Private Secretary,
(For Clerk of the Executive Council.)

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the undermentioned appointment, viz.:

In the Taranaki Militia,
Charles Douglas Whitcombe to be Ensign.
Date of commission, 7th February, 1870.

(In the absence of Mr. McLean).

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st March, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentleman to be a Medical Referee under "The Government Annuities Act, 1869":
Thomas E. Rawson, Esq., New Plymouth.

W. Gisborne,
(For the Postmaster-General).

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
George St. George, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Medical Board constituted 29th April, 1867, under "The Military Pensions Act, 1866."

W. Gisborne,
(In the absence of Mr. McLean).

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington 24th March, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
John Henry Holroyd, Esq.,
to be Chief Harbour Master for the Ports in the Province of Taranaki.

Julius Vogel.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by Proclamations bearing date the twentieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine; and the ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine respectively; the limits of certain Ports in the Colony of New Zealand were, for the purposes of "The Marine Act, 1867," defined: And whereas it is expedient to define the Ports in the Schedule hereto described:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf by "The Marine Act, 1867," do hereby proclaim the places mentioned in the second column of the Schedule hereto to be Ports within the meaning of the said Act, and do order that, for the purposes of the said Act, the limits of the said Ports shall be the limits defined in the third column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Auckland, this ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. Gisborne,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!