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TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

THE Commissioners of No. 19 (or Urenui)
District in account with the Rate-
payers for the year 1870-71.

DR. £ s. d.
Cash received from Provincial
Treasurer ........................ 14 10 0
Paid to Commissions for
1869-70 ........................ 5 19 0
Received from General Govern-
ment ........................ 40 0 0

£60 9 0

CR. £ s. d.
Cash paid to Commissioners for
1869-70 ........................ 5 19 0
Making 3 chains 7 yards of
road and ditching, at 34s.
per chain ........................ 5 12 6
Cutting down hill ................. 1 0 0
Erecting a bridge across the
Mangarei Iti, and making
approaches thereto ................. 7 17 6
Contract, new road Kaipikiri
Hill ........................ 10 0 0
Contract for widening Kapapou
Bridge three feet ................. 5 17 6
Clearing 49 chains of bush road,
line to back section, at 2s.
per chain ........................ 4 18 0
Clearing 50 chains, twenty-two
feet fern, same line, at 1s. per
chain ........................ 2 10 4
Cutting down hill on same line 1 15 0
Side cutting at Mangarei Iti,
six feet on solid, 14 chains
22 feet, at 7s. 6d. per chain... 5 7 6
Clearing 111 chains 44 feet of
fern same line, at 1s. per
chain ........................ 5 11 8
Clearing 15 chains bush road,
at 2s. per chain, same line... 1 10 0
Making culvert and deepening
2 chains of drain, Urenui
Township ........................ 2 10 0

£60 9 0

A. TELFAR, } Commis-
D. LYNCH, } sioners.

I have examined the above statement
and believe it to be correct.

T. GOOD,
Auditor.

[From the New Zealand Gazette.]

PARTICULARS of the Estates of
Deceased Persons which have been
placed under the charge of William
Morgan Crompton, Esq., Curator of the
Estates of Deceased Persons, in the
month of July, 1871.

Name of Deceased.—John Parsons.
Colonial Residence.—New Plymouth.
Supposed British or Foreign Residence.—
England.
Date of Rule or Order.—None required.
Value or estimated value of personal estate.
—£5.
Time of deceased's death.—18th May,
1871.
Dated the 2nd day of August, 1871.
WM. M. CROMPTON,
Curator.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th August, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to discontinue the services of
The Taranaki Mounted Volunteers,
at their own request. The under-mentioned
gentlemen have therefore ceased to hold
the rank of officers in the corps, their com-
missions having, under the provisions of
"The Volunteer Act, 1865," lapsed :—
Petruccio Greeves Wilson, Esq., late
Captain;
Thomas McGuinness, Esq., late Lieu-
tenant.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th August, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the under-mentioned
promotion and appointment viz. :—
In the New Zealand Militia.
Isaac Bayly to be Ensign. Date of
commission, 29th June, 1871.
Assistant-Surgeon Patrick Joseph Car-
roll, L.R.C.S.I., to be Surgeon. Date
of commission, 4th May, 1871.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th August, 1871.
ENQUIRIES having been made re-
specting William Henry Paice, de-
scription of whom is given below, any one
who can give any information relative to
him is requested to communicate with this
office.
G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

William Henry Paice was 37 years of
age on 7th December, 1870, and was then
unmarried. He is of dark complexion, and
has black hair. He sailed from Liverpool,
and prior to his coming to New Zealand
resided at the Bear and Ragged Staff Inn,
at Michelmersh, near Romsey, in Hamp-
shire, England. He had served in the
Marine Artillery, from which he had
bought his discharge. He was last heard
of at New Plymouth, in October, 1865, by
letter dated 28th of that month.