TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

intendent of the Province of Taranaki and other persons being owners of land as in the said Ordinance or either of them mentioned, or by the said Superintendent and the Commissioner of Crown Lands where neither such other persons or any person authorised to act on their behalf could be found, or whether made or purporting to be made provisionally either with the consent of such other persons or without their consent, and whether made or purporting to be made before or after the expiration of the last mentioned of the said Ordinances; and in all cases as aforesaid in which it should appear to the said Commissioners that it would be for the mutual benefit of the parties concerned that such Exchanges or any of them should be confirmed in whole or in part to confirm the same accordingly: to inquire into, investigate, and examine all dealings with and contracts for and in relation to conveyances of lands, the subject of any Exchange or Exchanges in the said first-recited Act mentioned, since the eighteenth day of August, 1859, and to ascertain and determine the persons who, by virtue of such dealings, contracts, and conveyances, are the legal or equitable owners of the lands which have been the subject of such Exchanges, and that whether such dealings, contracts, and conveyances have been in form dealings with, or contracts for, or conveyances of lands purchased from the Plymouth Company of New Zealand, or the New Zealand Company, or the Crown, or have been in form dealings with, or contracts for, or conveyances of lands part of the public reserves of the Town of New Plymouth, or with, for, and of lands for which land so purchased has been agreed or arranged to be exchanged:

And whereas the above-named Commissioners, having inquired into and investigated the matters and things aforesaid, are informed and believe that the under-named original owners, whose lands are proposed to be taken and granted in exchange without his or their consent, are absentees from the Province of Taranaki and not known to be within the Colony of New Zealand, or the heirs-at-law or devisees of such owner or owners.

Such owner or owners are hereby called to appear personally or by his or their agent or agents before the said Commissioners on the thirty-first day of May, 1871, at New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki.

Given under our hands at New Plymouth, this thirty-first day of October, 1870.

JOSIAH FLIGHT,
J. STEPHENSON SMITH, } Commissioners.

Customs Department,
(Marine Branch,)
Wellington, 12th December, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

John Henry HOLFORD,

to inspect vessels for the purpose of seeing that they are properly provided with Lights, and with the means of making Fog Signals, as required by the Board of Trade Regulations issued in pursuance of "The (Imperial) Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862."

Julius VOGEL.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentleman to be Returning Officer for the respective Electoral Districts set opposite his name, for the election of Representatives:

Harry Eyre KENNY -- Grey and Bell, Egmont.

W. GISBORNE.

Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Taranaki, by W. H. J. SEFFERN, of Devon-street, New Plymouth, Printer to the Provincial Government for the time being.