[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
70, of the 10th December, 1869.]

Wellington, 8th December, 1869.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FITZHERBERT DERMOTT, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Hokitika, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 13th day of July, 1868, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 43, of 16th day of July, 1868, vice Dr. Beswick, deceased.

W. GISBORNE.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.

BOROUGH OF HOKITIKA.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Borough Council has appointed Mr. G. F. P. Ord, Inspector of Nuisances for the Borough of Hokitika.

JOHN LAZAR,
Town Clerk.

28th December, 1869.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, 3rd January, 1870.

THE Chairman of the County Council directs it to be notified, for general information, that he has appointed

ELLEN KIDD

to be Matron of the County Gaol, Hokitika, the appointment to date from 15th January, 1869.

A. E. TENNANT,
Chief Clerk.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, 4th January, 1870.

THE Chairman of the County Council directs it to be notified, for general information, that

Messrs. THOMAS QUALE,
THOMAS ROSS, and
TIMOTHY HALLAHAN,

have been elected Members of the Okarito Road Board, in the room of Messrs. Timothy Eaton, Thomas M’Fetrick, and Henry Friend.

A. E. TENNANT,
Chief Clerk.

Westland, do hereby proclaim that the lands described in the Schedule hereunto annexed are open for sale.

MALCOLM FRASER,
Chief Commissioner.

W. EVANS,
H. W. BARBOUR,
Commissioners.

ARAHURA DISTRICT.

Block No. XXXV. (Rural).
Bounded on the Northward by the Christchurch Road, between the 40th and 41st mile-posts; on the Southward by the foot of the ranges; on the Westward and Eastward by lines at right angles to the Christchurch Road, exclusive of gold workings.

TOTARA DISTRICT.

Block No. XXXVI. (Rural).
Bounded on the Northward by Block X. and line HO; on the Westward by Block X.; on the Southward by a line three miles distant from and generally parallel to line HO; and on the Eastward by the Hokitika River, exclusive of gold workings.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, January 3rd, 1870.

THE Chairman of the County Council directs it to be notified that the following tender of Mr. Linton, for the supply of rations to the County Gaol, Hokitika, for the half-year ending June 30th, 1870, has been accepted:

No. 1 ration (male), 7½d; (female), 5½d per ration.
No. 2 ration (male), 6d; (female), 5¼d per ration.
No. 3 ration (male), 3d, per ration.
No. 4 ration (male), 4d, per ration.
No. 5 ration (male), 5¼d, per ration.

Tobacco, per lb., 4s. 6d.; kerosene, per gallon, 3s. 3d.; colza oil, per gallon, 8s.; candles, per lb., 1s. 1d.; arrowroot, per lb., 9d.; sago, per lb., 5d.; rice, per lb., 4d.; sugar, per lb., 5d.; tea, per lb., 2s. 6d.; butter, per lb., 1s.; mustard, per lb., 1s. 3d.; brandy, per bottle, 5s.; gin, per bottle, 4s.; port wine, per bottle, 3s.; sherry, per bottle, 3s.; porter, per dozen, 14s.; ale, per dozen, 15s.; washing soda, per lb., 2d.; whiting, per lb., 2d.; bread, per lb., 2d.; milk, per pint, 3d.

A. E. TENNANT,
Chief Clerk.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, 3rd January, 1870.

THE Chairman of the County Council directs it to be notified that the following tender of Mr. J. P. Klein, for the printing ...

A. E. TENNANT,
Chief Clerk.

WE, the undersigned, Commissioners of the Waste Lands Board of the County of Westland, in accordance with the provisions of Section 30 of the Regulations for the sale, letting, occupation, and management of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the County of ...