18 TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

I will not say, however, that in the best design alterations might not be made, amongst which I may suggest the decrease of the two main spans to 100 feet—or even less—and a corresponding increase of the side spans, so as to keep the full present water-way. Some details might, I think, also be altered with advantage, into the consideration of which I need not now enter. I shall, however, be glad to assist as far as I can in any points which may arise for consideration, and with a hope that the work will now be proceeded with, and the Waitara shortly spanned by a bridge.—I have, &c.

(Signed) JOHN BLACKETT,
Acting Engineer-in-Chief.

His Honor the Superintendent,
Taranaki.

[From the New Zealand Gazette.]

G. F. Bowen, Governor,
Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth:

To our Trusty and Loving Subjects:
Armstrong, John Henry, Tikorangi, Taranaki.
Atkinson, William Smith, New Plymouth.
Baddeley, Frederick Clinton Herman Stuart, Huirangi, Taranaki.
Brown, Charles, New Plymouth.
Carriugton, Wellington, Tapuao, Taranaki.
Carrington, Frederick Alonzo, New Plymouth.
Carthew, Edward, New Plymouth.
Chilman, Richard, New Plymouth.
Crompton, William Morgan, New Plymouth.
Cumming, George Imlach, Patea, Taranaki.
Curtis, George, Omata, Taranaki.
Cutfield, George, New Plymouth.
Everett, Charles, Bell Block, Taranaki.
Flight, Josiah, New Plymouth.
Gledhill, Francis Ullathorne, New Plymouth.
Good, Thomas, Urenui, Taranaki.
Halse, William, New Plymouth.
Hirst, Thomas, New Plymouth.
Kelly, John, Manutahi, Taranaki.
Kelly, Thomas, New Plymouth.
Kenny, Harry Eyre, New Plymouth.
King, Henry, New Plymouth.
King, Thomas, New Plymouth.
Mace, Francis Joseph, Oakura, Taranaki.
Messenger, William Bazire, White Cliffs, Taranaki.
Parris, Robert, New Plymouth.
Richmond, Henry Robert, New Plymouth.
Rötter, Louis Von, New Plymouth.
Sharland, James Cragg, New Plymouth.
Smith, John Stephenson, New Plymouth.

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Witness our trusty and well-beloved 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, in New Zealand aforesaid, this sixth day of October, in the thirty-fourth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE,
Issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!