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TO THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, 1877. VOL. I.

From 1st January to 30t71 June.

North.-For the purpose of condensation,details of notificationsand appointments.art Mostly classified togetheraccording to the subject-matter to which they relate , or are grouped under the name of the particular provincial district which they affect.

"The Rating Act, 1876 "-continued. A. i Assessment Courts under Appointments-continued. Abolition of Provinces , appointments of Executive Officers Revell, W. H., 138 ; Robinson, H. W., 138 ; Sear- revoked,662 aneke, W. N., 137 ; Shaw, E., 138; Simpson, W. Affidavits , Commissioners abroad taking (see Supreme Court). L., 138 ; Thomson, C., 137 ; Von Sturmer, S., Agricultural Statistics- 137 ; Ward, R., 138; Wardell, H. S., 138; Watt, Comparative Returns for February 1876 and 1877, 517 I. M., 180; Whitefoord, C., 138, 161; Williams, Retu rns for the month of February, 1877-Auckland, E. M., 137; Woolcombe, B., 164; Wray, C. A., 450 ; Canterbury, 322 ; Marlborough, 368 ; Nelson, 138 336; Taranaki, 321 ; , 359; , 400, Judges resigned - Beetham, R., 585; Friberg , B. E., 329; 437; Westland, 449 Fulton, J., 180; Giles, J ., 180; Keene, G. R., -8I; Superintendent Collectors appointed, 6 Lee, E. J., 165; Maitland, J. P., 91; Thomson, Q, Akaroa, lighthouse site reserved, 57 165 Ali ens, letters of naturalization granted, 109,19-1,32a, 350, 363, Assistant Law Officer appointed, Stafford, E., 109 431, 558, 575, 585 Auckland Provincial District- Artdrew, J. C., M.II.R., resignation notified, 637 Agricultural Statistics for February 1877, 450 _..4A:imals, importation forbidden from beyond Australasia, 348 "Animals Protection Act, 1873," Rangers appointed, 194 Protection Act, Rangers appointed-Auckland,, 194 585; shooting season appointed, 347, 417 ; license, 350 Hawke's Bay, 431 ; Wellington, 308 Arai Highway District constituted, 424; and Highways Shooting 'season appointed-Auckland, 347, 417 ; Hawke's Act in force therein, 424; members appointed, 82-9_ Bay, 346, 418; Otago, 348, 418; Wellington, 331, Auckland City West, representation, resignation of B. 395 ; license fees, 350, 431 Tonks notified, 365 ; Wallis, J., elected, 561 Appeal, Court of- Boroughs proclaimed-Onehunga, 416; Parnell, 415 Registrar appointed-Allan, A. S., 26 ; Deputy Registrars, First Elections-Town Clerks and Returning Officert Malet, F. da C., Wilmer, H. C., 26 appointed, 431 Sitting appointed for May, 362 Cattle Inspector's Report, 397 Armed Constabulary- Confiscated lands declared waste lands, 413, 656 Appointments and resignation of Officers, 92, 432 Counties of Rodney and Waitemata, boundaries altered, Clothing, equipment, and pay regulations, 555 419 Commission cancelled-Furst-class Sub-Inspector Watts, County Returning Officer appointed, 451 J. R., 92 ; date altered, 432 District Court-Powers under Amendment Act, 1865, con- Promotions, Pardy, W. S., 510; Smith, T. M., 510 ferred on Judge, Auckland, 90; times of sittings at Reductionof Force, servicesof officersdispensed with- Grahamstown altered, 90 Assista nt-Surgeons-Armitage, F. W.; Jackson, W. L., Educational reserves provisionally made, Wairoa County', 92 687 First Class Sub-Inspectors-Capel, S. A. B. ; Clare, Epsom, One-Tree Hill, notice of road taken, 695 W.; Forster, A. S. B. ; Smith, F. C., 6 Gisborne constituted a borough, 526; first elections, 557 Inspector-Turner, H. F., 6 Highway Board, members appointed-Arai, 629; Russell, Second Class Sub-Inspectors-Bennett, C. D.; Bluett, 665; To Puna, 244 H. P. ; Carlyon, P. F. ; Hackett, T. ; MacLean, Highway Districts, boundaries altered-Komokoriki, 664; A. H. ; Naden, C. J. ; Way, H. F., 6 Matakohe, 629 ; Tauhoa, 664 Surgeons-Carey, J.; Waddington, E., 92 Highway District subdivided, Mangapiko, 526 Arms Act, regulations for sale of gunpowder and shot relaxed Land acquired from Natives declared waste lands, 688 in Middle Island, 188 Marriage Act, Northern districts altered, 657 Licensing Officer appointed at Carlyle, 434 Onehunga Wharf, railway rates fixed, 434 Assessment Courts under " The"Dating Act, 1876 "- Opotiki District, Auditor Trust Accounts appointed, 615 Appointments- Otahubu, polling-place for elections appointed, 574 Clerks of Courts-Bennett, J. H., 194; Duthie, Petty Sessions, Mangapai, annual meeting of Justices W. 0., 245 ; Howard, F. W., 140 ; White, R., 140 appointed, 169 Judges appointed to local Courts within Provincial Pounds and poundkeepers appointed-Mount Albert, 557 ; Districts of Canterbury, 163 ; Hawke's Bay, Remuera, 558 664; Marlborough, 91 ; Nelson, 138 ; Otago, 91, Prisons- 179 ; Taranaki, 532; Wellington, 179 Gaolers appointed-Gisborne, 576; Opotiki, 567; Judges for Counties-Augove, M., 137 ; Aubrey, H. R., Taurauga, 567; dismissed, 560 137 ; Aylmer, J., 164; Barstow, R. C., 137 ; Visiting Justices appointed, Auckland, 350, 558 Beetham, R., 137,329; Bonar, A., 191; Brabant, Warders appointed, Auckland, 586 H. W.,137 ; Broad, C.,138 ; Brookfield, F. M. P., Public Accounts, statement for December quarter 1876, 262 137; Carew, E. H., 138; Crawford, J. C., 138 ; Public Buildings, Auckland, bank appointed for deposit of Fraser, W., 137 ; Friberg, B. E., 138 ; Fulton, J., moneys, 561, 584 138; Giles, J., 137; Guinness, F., 138; Hard- Railway Wharf, Auckland, approved as landing quay, 430 castle; E., 180; Harsant, W., 137 ; Ingles, A. W., Regulation of Elections Act in force-Dedwood, 659 ; 138; Jackson, T., 137: Kenny, IT. E., 138; Ponsonbv, 659 Lee, E. J., 138; Locke, S., 585 ; McCulloch, H., Resident Magistrates' Courts- 138; Mair, W. G}., 137 ; Mansford, T. A., 138; Courts constituted for ridings of counties, Rodney, Mellish , G. L., 164; Muller, S. L., 138; Murdoch, 671 J. W., 138; Nesbitt, W. K., 137; Ormond, F. Courts reconstituted, Poverty Bay and Waiapu, 541 F., 137; Parker, T. W., 138; Preece, G. A., 164; Extended civil jurisdiction, Maketu, 581 II INDEX.

Auckland Provincial District-continued. Cattle Inspectors " Reports -Auckland, 397 ; Hawke's bay, Revising Officers-Electoral districts appointed, Auckland 398; Nelson , 398, 446 districts, 350 ; East Coast, 350 Civil Service Examinations , Candidates passed junior, 74; Roads declared county roads-Cook, 356; Thames, 334, senior , 75; member of Board appointed, 665 335 Colonial Prize Firing , report for 1877, 375 Russell Road Board, Auditor appointed, 691 Commission of Justices of the Peace issued, 425 SavingsBank, Auckland,return, 207 Confiscated Lands -Reserves at Carlyle for town and public Slaughterhouses, license for a private one, 424 purposes, 61; sale to Hira to Pope, 574; Patea Institute, The Thames, petitions for highway districts to be adjoined 19; proclaimed waste lands , Auckland, 413, 656 ; Tara- to borough, 445, 446 naki , 565, 609 Valuation Rolls validated-Dedwood, 660; Ponsonby, Constabulary Ordinance, delegation re voked, 661 660 Coroners appointed-Fitzgerald, G. G., 26; Lee, E . J., 558; Waikato Bridge declared public road, 554 Price, M., 330 ; Wray, C. A., 110; resignation-Maitland, Waiuku Native grants cancelled, 553 J. P., 59 Weights and Measures, places of deposit for standards at County Auditors appointed, 431 Auckland and the Thames, 257 County Elections- Auditors for Counties appcinted, 431 Regulations and orders for conducting, 256 Auditor for Lyttelton Harbour Board appointed, 476 Returning Officers for ridings appointed-Mangapai and Mangawai , 3; Motueka, 257; Wairoa, 53 Time extended for first elections-Counties of Cook, B. Hobson, Patea, 38; Waipukurau Riding, 257 County Roads, particular roads declared-Bruce, 512 ; Cook, Bankers' Returns, 113, 114, 115 356; Grey, 208, 260; Hutt, 355; Manawatu, 356; Patea, Bankruptcy, Certificated Accountants appointed- 183; Taieri, 248; Thames, 334, 335 ; Tuapeka, 667, Banner, H. A., 195; Bayfield, A. D'O., 258; Brown, T. Waikouaiti, 451; Wallace, 402; Westland, 436 H., 110; Browne, A. A., 141; Clark, G., 181 ; Col- Courts of Law Trust Accounts, Auditors appointed- Burgess, clough, C., 181 ; Cuthbertson, J. R.,141; Dakers, H. A., 306; Carew, E. H., 60; Hardcastle, E., 141 W., 559; Fache, G., 630; Flemmington, D., 432; Craig, R., olim 57th Foot, inquired for, 92 Geisow, F. W. F., 195; Griffiths, C. J. W., 446; Crown Grants cancelled , Waiuku Natives, 553 Hall, J. W., 6; Hammerton, T. E., 559; Hankin, Crown Lands- H. G., 258 ; Hawkins, M. W., 195 ; Hayes, W., 245 ; Commissioners appointed-Greenfield, A., 183; Maitland, Hindmarsh, W. S., 6; Headley, C. B., 195; Johnson, J. P., 7 W. J., 618; Keeling, R. M., 141; King, J., 141 ; Lost Land Orders and New Zealand Company's Land Lemon, J., 110; Lloyd, W., 110; Lyndon, E., 618; Claimants Commissioner appointed, Maitland, J. P., Lyons, H., 141 ; Macdonald, T. K., 181; McLean, W., 330 258; Morton, J., 110; Munday, W. S., 181; - New- Secretary, Reid, Hon. D., 24 march, G. F., 330 ; Nutter, F., 6 ; Perkins, T., 6,141; Crown Solicitor, Fitzherbert, S. T., appointed, 141 Rennell, C., 307 ; Scaife, A. W., 26; Sumpter, G., Cureton,-W. E. N., ex " Crusader," inquired for, 447 110; Tate, E. If., 60; Taylor, J. M., 195; Tully, J. Customs- F., 195 ; Wright, H., 363 Bonded Warehouses approved, 246; approval revoked, 246 Banks, general statement of assets and liabilities, 116, 512, 513, Railway Wharf, Auckland, approved as landing quay, 430 515 Returns for December quarter, 1876, 147 to 152; for March Barristers' admission to practice, new rules, 636 quarter, 1877, 481 to 486 Births (see Registrars) Revenue for December quarter, 1876, 98 ; for March Bonding Warehouses- quarter , 1877, 438 Appointment and ap royal of, at Dunedin, Invercargill, Revenue, Comparative, for years 1876 and 1875, 98 Lyttelton, and Wanganui, 246 Rpvoeation of appointment of, Lyttelton and Wanganui, 246 Bowler, J. W., ex " Waikato," inquired for, 112 D. Brown, R., Taranaki, escheated estate, claims'against, 308 Building Societies-districts defined, 133; registration fees Dangerous goods declared-Gasoline, dynamite, lithofracteur, appointed, 132; Revising Barristers of, rules appointed, 669 133, 194; fees to Revising Barristers, 348 Deaths (see Registrars) Debtors and Creditors Act, amended rules, 553 Deeds Registration- C. Registrars appointed for Marlborough, Southland, Wel- lington, 616; Westland, 109 Canterbury Provincial District- Delegation of Governor's powers (see Governor' s powers) Agricultural Statistics for February, 1877, 322 Despatchesfrom Secretaryof State- Akaroa-Health officer appointed, 140; Lighthouse site Hawaiian seamen, deserters, transmitting Order of Privy reserved, 57 Council authorizing their apprehension, 204 Ashburton declared an agricultural district, 423 Italian Consul-General at Melbourne, notifying the appoint- Christchurch, land reserved for borough, 529 ment, 180 District Court, sittings at Timaru and Waimate appointed, Italian merchant ships to partake of privileges as to tonnage 178 measurement, 576 Drainage purposes, land reserved, 190 " Merchant Shipping Act, 1876 " (Imperial), transmitting, Educational reserves provisionally made, Timaru district, 196 655 Richardson, Hon. E., to retain distinction within New Ellesmere and Forsyth Trust-Election regulations, 37; Zealand, 585 Returning Officers, 38, 81, 108; members appointed, University of New Zealand, transmitting Royal Charter 53 1 ; elected, 532 establishing its degrees, 24 Hares, coursing season appointed, 659 District Courts- $a' „lend re served for borough; 660 Auckland , powers under Amendment Act, 1865, conferred Lake 'oTeridge Road Board, land taken for road, 356 on Judge, 90 Lyttelton, land reserved for borough, 529 Grahamstown, times of sitting altered, 90 Malvern District, reserve for gravel pit, 662 Nelson, times of sitting appointed, 555 Provincial Public Accounts, statement for December quarter, Otago Gold Fields, Clerk appointed, 141 1876, 351 Taranaki-Wanganui- . Railways- Judge of Courts appointed, 307; Clerks, 60, 307; General Rates and Regulations for delivery and storage Crown Prosecutor, 307 of grain and goods, 304, 411 Judge of Courts to exercise certain powers under Lyttelton Station, rates and regulations for delivery Amendment Act, 1865, 302, 304 and storage of goods, 255, 411 Taranaki , Court reconstituted , 300; with extended Resident Magistrates ' Courts-Extended civil jurisdiction, criminal (300) and civil jurisdiction, 301 Akaroa, 609; Timaru, 572 Times of sittings fixed a t - Carl'1e , 303; at New Revising Officer for Electoral Districts appointed, 306 Plymouth, 302; at Wanganui, 303 Roads Ordinance, polling place for South Rakaia, 671 Wanganui, Court constituted with extended criminal Sheep-Assessment rate fixed, 422 ; places of transit and civil jurisdiction, 301, 302 across boundary appointed, 39 Timaru and Oamaru, times of sittings appointed, 178 Waimate County reserves vested in Council., 630 Tokomairiro and Clutha, times of sittings appointed, 179 Waste Lands Board-Commissioners appointed , Reade, G. Western Otago, tines of sittings appointed, 179 A., 391 ; Secretary appointed, 112 Westland, Clerk of Court appointed, 141 INDEX. III

E. Harbour Boards - continued. First meetings of Boards appointed -Bluff, 27 ; Foxton, Education Boards- 246; , 27 ; Patea, 205; Waimakariri, 112; Auditor appointed, Marlborough, 573 Waitara, 92; Wanganui, 142 Education Districts, Auditors of Accounts appointed, 421 Governor' s powers under Marine Act partly delegated to- Members appointed-Marlborough, 558; Otago, 182; Bluff, 372; Hokitika, 390 ; Kakanui, 370; Lyttelton, Westland, 306 189, 190; Moeraki, 371, 372; New Plymouth; 420, Educational reserves provisionally made-Auckland, 687 ; 421; Timaru, 373; Wanganui, 374 Canterbury, 655 ; Hawke's Bay, 655 Members appointed-Auckland, 476; Foxton, 182 ; Lyt- Ellesmere and Forsyth Reclamation Trust- - telton, 60 ; Moeraki, 246; Otago, 7; Patea, 205 ; Regulations for election of members, 37 Timaru, 364; Waimakariri, 111 ; Waitara, 61 Returning Officers appointed, 38, 81, 108 Members elected-Hokitika, 61 ; Lyttelton, 27, 92; Pates, Errata in Gazette of 1876-1, 19, 327 ; Gazette of 1877, 85, 251, 61 ; Thames, 246; Timaru, 27, 60, 182, 195, 476 ; 361, 445, 473, 505, 541, 565, 583, 609, 649, 687 Waitara, 60; Wanganui, 142 Escheat, call for blaims against estate of R. Brown, 308 Napier, by-laws and regulations assented to, 107 Executionof criminals,certificates and declarationsthereupon, Hawke's Bay Provincial District- 181, 586 Agricultural Statistics for February, 1877, 479 Executive Council- Cattle Inspector's Report, 398 Appointments-Ormond, J. D., 24; Reid, D., 24 County Councils, Waipukurau Riding, time for first Resignation, Richardson, E., 24 elections extended, 257 Executive officers, appointments revoked, 662 Dog Registrars appointed, 665 Exports and imports for December quarter, 1876, 147 to 150; Educational reserves provisionally made at Danevirk, 655 March quarter, 1877, 481 to 484 General Assembly, death vacancy for Napier Town, N; Sutton, F., elected, 247 Highway Boards and Officers elected-Danevirk, 4-16; F. Norse wood, 445 Napier Harbour Board, by-laws assented to, 107 Financial Arrangements Act- Napier Municipality, regulations and by-laws approved and Commissioners for Counties appointed, 575 ; for Tauranga, published, 58 671 Pounds and pound-keepers, pounds abolished, Napier, 584 Foreign Seamen's Act, provisions to be enforced in respect of Prisons, warder appointed, Napier, 586 German vessels, 557 " Protection of Animals Act, 1873," shooting season ap• Foreign Seamen Deserters, Order of Privy Council authorizing pointed, 346, 418 ; license fee, 431 ; rangers appointed, apprehension of Hawaiian, 204 431, 585 Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Acts brought into Public Accounts, statement for December quarter, 1876, 433 operation throughout colony, 131 ; general regulations, 131 Receiver of Land Revenue appointed, Richardson, G. E. G., Foaton-Manawatu- 182 - Port of Foxton established, its limits defined, 191 Registration Officer, electoral districts, appointed, Napier Warrant cancelled, Port of Manawatu abolished, 191 and Clive, 615 Friendly Societies registered, 532 Resident Magistrate, Napier and Waipukurau, Stuart, R., 615 Revising Officer, electoral districts, appointed, 392 G. Rivers,districts constituted, 566 Roads authorized to be taken through Native lands, 249, General Assembly- 306, 555, 663 House of Representatives- Members elected-Auckland City West, Wallis, J., Woodville Township, land reserved as a burial-place, 362 Hot Springs, Rotorua, analyses of water, 473 561 ; Napier, Sutton, F., 247; Totara, Gisborne, Humphreys, J., from Victoria, inquired for, 447 W., 532; Wellington City, Travers, W. T. L., 365 Members resigned-Auckland City West, Tonks, B., 365; Wairarapa, Andrew, J. C., 637; Wellington 1. City, Pearce, E., 260 Vacancies by death-Napier, McLean, Sir D., 32; Immigrants Land Acts, persons declared entitled to land, 89, Totara, Tribe, G. H., 331 254, 553, 669 Prorogation to 13th April, 11 ; to 15th June, 343; to 19th Immigration Minister appointed, Reid, D., 24 July, 599 Imports and exports for December quarter, 1876, 147 to 150 ; German vessels, Foreign Seamen's Act to be enforced respecting, March quarter, 1877, 481 to 484 557 Industrial School, Burnham, Assistant Master appointed, 110 Gisborne, W., elected M.H.R. for Totara, 532 IntestateEstates (see Public Trustee) Gold exports, Returns of, 76-77, 398, 399 Italian Consul-General for Australasia and Fiji appointed, 180 Gold fields revenue and gold duty, March quarter, 1877, 501 Gold field proclaimed, Waikawa, Otago, 361 Gold Fields and Gold Mining Acts- J. Governor's powers delegated, Maitland, J. P., 89 Delegations revoked-Bonar, J. A., 661; Curtis, 0., Jennings, Annie, from County Mayo, inquired for, 331 661 ; McLean, G., 89, 661; Seymour, A. P., 661; Joint Stock Companies- Whitaker, F., 660, 661 Companies registered-Kumara Public Hall, 333 ; Okuka Gold Fields- and Prospectors' Amalgamated Water-race, 451 Marlborough, limit of Wairau Gold Field defined, 617 Registrar appointed, Wellington, 60 Nelson, land withdrawn, 87 Justices of the Peace appointed, 141, 586 Otago,certain regulations suspended, 298 New Commission issued, 425 Statements of affairs, passim Westland, land withdrawn, 2 Gold mining leases, notices of intention to grant, 8, 63 L. Transfers of shares liable to stamps, caution, 511 Government Insurance and Annuities- Land district constituted, Patea, 567 ; officer appointed, Patea, Medical Referee appointed, 27 ; Cadet appointed, 477 568; Queenstown, 568 Post Offices opened as Insurance Offices, 27, 477 Land Transfer appointments- Governor's levee, 565 Clerks-Ambrose, J. A., 257; Kilgour, M. J., 446 ; Riddell, Governor's powers delegations- R. H., 446 "Gold Fields Act, 1866," to Maitland, J. P., 89 ; delega- Deputy District Registrars-Bamford, E., 181 ; Cotter, T., tion to McLean, G., partially revoked, 89 25 ; Turnbull, A., 59 "Marine Act, 1867," to Lyttelton Harbour Board, 189,190 District Land Registrars- and Brunner Railway, wharfage rates at Grey- Marlborough, McIntire, II., 109 mouth appointed, 107 Southland, Henning, C. M., 109 Greymonth and Kumara Tramway construction, notice, 153 Wellington, Davy, G. B., 615 Westland, King, A. H., 109 Examiners of Titles-Balham, J. M., 109; King, A. H., H. 257 ; McIntire, If., 257 ; Morgan, G. F., 26 Harbour Boards- Notices of transactions, passim - Accounts of Lyttelton Board, 629 Letters of naturalization granted, 109,-194, 328, 350, 363, 431, Election day appointed, Wanganui, 27 658, 575, 585 IV INDEX.

Licenses in Provincial Districts, Officers of Custonn to exerei,e Mariners. Notices to- contiaued. functions of Provincial Treasurers in respect of, 22 Tasmania- Licensing Courts appointments- East Coast , Spring Bay , errors in chart corrected, Chairmen - B;sbant, H.. W., 615,; Carew, E. H., 60; 196 Donald , W., 665 ; Hardcaatt , 141 ; Revell, W. Victoria- If., 575 ; Simpson, W. L., 245 Stratford, 11. ,a., Automatic buoy in south channel, Port Phillip Bay, 575; Stuart, R., 615; Wbitefoord, C., 665; Wray, 476 C. A., 59 Marlborough Provincial District- Clerks of Courts-Baddeley, H. C. S., 110 ; Baddeley, Agricultural statistics for February 1877, 368 F. H. C. S., 60; Bowen, C. H. W., 446; Carr, H. Auditor , Public Accounts-Goulter, C., appointed, 350 H., 558; Clark, J. McL., 350; Fretwell, H., 109; Picton - Sale of land for non-payment of rates, 356 Kenrick, H., 575; Missen, B. T., 350; Sisson, C. P., Receiver of Land Revenue - Robinson , J. T., appointed, 665; Soutb,,M. F., 141; Woon, G. W., 141; Wor- 351; resignation , Goulter, C., 350 thington , J. S., 141 Regulation of Local Elections Act in force, Lower Wairau, District reconstituted, Clyde, 566 584 Members of Court-Levels, Timaru and Mount Cook, 575 ; Supreme Court sittings appointed , Blenheim, 573 Masterton, 257 ; Opotiki, 246 ; Otago, 558 ; Pelorus Wairau Gold Field, limits defined, 617 and Havelock, 586; Poverty Bay, 257 ; Taupo, 558; "Marriage Act, 1854 "- Temuka, 575 ; Waipaoa, 615 ; Waimate and Waitaki, Northern districtsaltered, Auckland, 657 575 ; Waitotara and Patea, 181 ; Westland, 330 Officiating Ministers , general list , 92 ; supplementary lists, Lost Land Orders Commissioner appointed, Maitland, J. P., 113, 205, 260, 312, 354, 365, 395, 447, 476, ; 11, 578, 330 588 Lunatics Act, delegated authorities revoked, 661 Marriages (seeRegistrars) Mayor, South Invercargill , election day fixed, 79, Revising Officer appointed, 79 M. Mayors appointed Justices of the Peace, 4, 5, 22 , 23, 59, 350 Mayors elected - Napier, Stuart , R., 5 ; Naseby , Busch, L. W., Mahon, Katharine, ex " Carnatic," inquired for, 112 245 ; Roslyn , Kilgour , J., 691; Thames , Macdonald, J. Marine- E., 5 ; Westport , Munro, J., 25 Akaroa Lighthouse, site reserved for, 57 McLean, Hon . Sir D ., M.H.R., death notified, 32 Foxton-Manawatu- Medical Practitioners' applications to register, 35, 135, 260, 331, Port of Foxton established, its limits defined, 191 356, 357, 436, 614, 668, 696 Port of Manawatu abolished, warrant of 20th Novem- Medical register for the year, 65 ; name erased, Goold, ber, 1868, cancelled, 191 Francis, 62 Gunpowder regulations to apply to gasoline, dynamite, Merchant seamen- and lithofracteur, 670 Certificates suspended-Palmer, T. G., 7; Petersen, L., 434 Lighthouses, erection tenders, 61 Deserters, Order.: of Privy Council authorizing apprehen- "Marine Act, 1867," Governor' s powers partly delegated sion of deserting seamen belonging to Hawaii, 204 to Harbour Boards-Bluff, 372 ; Hokitika, 390 ; Germans, Foreign Seamen's Act enforced respecting, 557 Kakanui, 370; Lytt elt on, 189, 190; Moeraki, 371, "Merchant Shipping Act, 1876" (Imperial), circular despatch 372 ; New Plymouth, 420, 421 ; Timaru, 373 ; Wanga- transmitting, 196 nui, 374 Meteorological Observations, abstract for October, 1876, 337 ; Mariners , Notices to- November, 358 ; December, 516 East Indies- Meteorological Report, December, 1816, 73 ; January, 1877, Bay of Bengal, Coromandel Coast, fixed light at Cal- 250; February, 315 ; March, 402 ; April, 519; May, 639 ingapatam, 182 Militia and Volunteers- Ceylon, East Coast, beacon on two-fathom patch, 182 Appointments of 'officers- Persian Gulf, Kurrachee, alteration of light at Manora Arrow Rifles, 307 ; Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, Point, 560 579 ; Christchurch Artillery, 307 ; Clutha Rifles, New Zealand- 110, 3(17; Dunedin High School Cadets, 691; Auckland, position of lights on railway wharf, 308 Dunedin Naval Cadets, 353 ; Invercargill Rifles, Chatham Islands, verified position of Point Hanson, 307 ; Napier Art illerv, 559 ; Nixon Light Horse, 364 69 1 ; Oamaru Artillen;v, 363 ; Oamaru Rifles, Dusky Sound, Facile Harbour, ledge of rocks, 586 363; Olepopo Rifles, 363 Pauntabauui Rifles, Duck Cove, sunken rock, 586 432; Portobello Rifles, 91 Queenstown Cadets, Kaipara entrance, sailing directions, 560 307 Queenstown Rifles, 307 ; Rangitikei Rifles, Lyttelton inner harbour, position of dredge moorings, 353 ; Thames Naval Rifles, 559, 691 ; I okonairiro 510, 616 Grammar School Cadets, 307 ; Waikari Rifl,s, Maria and the Brothers, new lighthouse, 577 6; Waiuku Cavalry, 432 ; Wellington Artillery, Napier, green light on harbour mole, 394, 693 110; Wellington City Ri fl es, 307; West Taieri Port Chalmers, special tide signals, 693 Rifles, 26 , bar and danger signals no longer Colonial Prize Firing, report for 1877, 375 shown, 61 Coinnumding olli,els appointed to 0istrieis- Whangarei , position of buoys, 330 Auckland, Lusk, D. 11., 559 ; Eust Coast, Porter, T. North Australia- W., 559; Mla=terton, Lockett, J. W., 559; Patea, Burnett River entrance, extension of spit, 616 Stapp, C., 559; Tauranga and Opotiki, Scannell, Cartier Island, shoal water near, 195 ; sand islet off, D., 559; Wairaa, Richardson, W. A., 559; Wel- 195 lington, Lockett, J. W., 559 Clarence Straits, Vernon Island, patchy ground, tides Commanding officer resigned- and currents irregular, 195 Smith, J. V., 559 Dundas Straits, navigation dangerous, 195 Commission cancelled, Watts, J. R., ensign, 92 Howard's Passage , Vernon Island, position of buoys, Commissions of officers lapsed and corps disbanded- 195 Carterton Rifles, 559 ; Masterton Rifles, 560 ; Palmer- Moreton Bay, Freeman 's Channel , depth of channel ston Rifles, 692; Poverty Boy Mounted Rifles, lesseni e8 64; south .erl`tranee, new spit formed, 308 ; Taranaki Cadets, 91 ; Taranaki Light Horse, 142; shifting bank, 587 560; Wainuiomata Rifles, 517; Waiuku Rifles, Port Darwin, rock off Talc Ilead, 195 No. 1 Company, 432 TorresStraits- Corps consolidated- Cumberland Islands, verified position of the Singa- Invercargill Artillery Cadets, 630 pore rock, 364 Promotions, Captains to be Majors, New Zealand Militia- Flinders Passage, dangerous rock reported, 364 Baillie, W. D. H., 330 ; Pearce, E., 330 ; Otago Paci fic Islands- Rifles, Wales, N. Y. A., 630 Fiji Group, Nugu Ongea Reef, true position, 7 Resignations-Bay of Plenty Cavalry, 432 ; Clutha Rifles, New Hebrides, shoals off the island of Espirito-Santo, 7 110, 307; Forest Rifles, 6; Hauraki Rifles, 630; South Australia- Marlborough Rifles, 559; Marton Cadets, 559; Mar- Investigator' s Straits , Emmes Reef, heavy break, ton Royal Rifles, 182 ; Napier Artillery, 307; Nelson 27, 195 City Rifles, 26; New Zealand Militia, 630; Oamaru Spencer's Gulf, Tipara Reef, floating light revolving Citizen Cadets, 559; Pauatalianui Rifles, 110 ; Queens- instead of fixed, 308 town Cadets, 330; Stoke Rifles, 353 ; Thames Naval Sydney- Rifles, 692; Waikari Rifles, 6; Waiuku Rifles, 432; Nobby's and Old Signal Hill, alteration of signals, 196 Wellington Artillery, 330; Wellington Rifles , 630 Powder vessels , situation of moorings for, 196 Mining companies , application to register, 641 INDEX. Y

Missing persons inquired for-Bowler, J. W., ex " Waikato," Nelson Provincial District-continued. 112; Craig, R., oiitn 57th Foot, 92; Cureton, W. E. N., Resident Magistrate's District, South-West Gold Fields, ex "Crusader," 447 ; Humphreys, J., from Victoria, 447 altered, 251 Jennings, Annie, of County Mayo, 331 ; Mahon, Katha- Revising Officer, electoral districts, appointed, 392 rine, ex " Carnatic," 112 ; Morton, William, or W. B., Savings Bank, Nelson, return, 181; resignation and ap- about Thames Gold Fields, 587 ; Smith, J., ex " Mataura," pointment of trustees, 434 693 ; Stearns, F. W., ex " Fernglen," 331 ; Tampilt, Trout fishing, regulations for the _llaitai, 3 Thomas, en route from Christchurch for England vie Mel- Waterworks loan interest, notice of place for payment of, bourne, 587 ; Wilkins, C}}therine (nee Young), ex " Wild 363 Deer," 561 ; Zannini,G., ulnas Conti,E.,ofFaenza,Itals,7 Westport Borough divided into wards, 387 Money Orders and Savings Banks, return of transactions, 117, New Caledonia, tenders for mail and transport services, 191 480; new offices opened, 435, 511, 561, 693 New Zealand Company's Land Claims Commissioner appointed, Morton, William, or W. B., about Thames Gold Fields, in- Maitland, J. 1'., 330 quired for, 587 New Zealand Institute-Governors elected, 7; re-appointed, 21 "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876"- Parts XII. and XIII.-To apply to Dunedin, 295 ; Green Island, 245 ; Camara, 244 O. Boroughs proelaimed-Caversham, 583; Gisborne, 526 Lawrence, 527; Maori hill, 542; Mornington, 529; Orders in Council- Roslyn, 528; , 528 Partially revoked- Murder, reward for apprehension, 60 16th November, 1876, delegating powers under Gold Mutiny Act, with Articles of War, proclaimed, 297 Fields Acts to G. McLean, 89 ; fully revoked, 661 Revoked- N. 1st April, 1875, and 6th February, 1877, assigning Wellington Judicial District, 303; 16th Novem- Native Crown grants, Waiuku, cancelled, 553 ; restrictions ber, 1876, delegating powers under " Gold Fields appointed in new grants, 612 Act, 1866 ; " 16th November, 1876, vesting powers Native Land Act- under " Lunatics Act, 1868," 778-782. Crown grants ready for delivery, 142, 242, 275, 607 Superseded- Districts extended to embrace country formerly excluded, 6th March, 1877, prescribing rules for storage of goods 189 at Lyttelton Railway Station, 304 Proclamation revoked limiting operation of Act, 187 Orders in Council- Native Land Court- "Animals Importation Prohibition Act, 1876," importa- Assessors appointed, 60 tion forbidden from beyond Australasia, 348 Interpreters appointed-Booth, R., 586 ; Clarke, E. F. J., Appeal Court, appointing sitting of, 362, 586 ; Greene, W. S., 560; Mrs. Mary Tautari, 182 ; Arms, Act, regulations for sale of gunpowder and shot Williams, W., 567 modified in Middle Island, 188 Judge appointed, Heale, T., 476 " Building Societies, Act, 1876," regulating fees payable on Rehearings ordered, claims, Hare Paihia and another, 391 registration, &c., 132 ; fees to Revising Barristers, 348 Riperata Kahutia and others, 552; To Tirarau and Buller River Protection, land reserved for, 88 others, 50 ; siltings appointed for rehearings, 340, 552 Canterbury, Ashburton District declared an agricultural Bay of Plenty District- distri:t, 423 Sittings appointed at Tapuaeharuru, Taupo, 673, 680, Canterbury Sheep Ordinance, assessment rate fixed, 422 682 Christchurch, land reserved for borough, 529 Hawke's Bay District- Confi=sated lands, regulating sale to Hirate Popo, 574; to Memorials granted, 13, 101 to 105, 403, 404, 441 Patea Institute, 19 G05 ; notice of claims, 268; sittings appointed at Constabulary Ordinances, revoking powers delegated to Gishorne, 3-10; Uawa, Tola_o Bay, 101 ; Waioma- Bonar, J. A., 661 tat iui, Waiapu, 225, 237, 211; Waipawa, 340 Crown grants cancelled of Waiuku Natives, 553 Kaipara District- Crown grants, restrictions appointed for Waiuku Natives Memorials granted, 339, 413; notice of claims, 265 ; in lien, 612 sittings appointed at Helensville, 219, 221 to 223, Dangerous goods, declaring gasoline, dynamite, and litho- 625 to 628; Kaihu, 217, 218, 643, 615, 646, 683 fracteur, 669 Northern District- Debtors and Cre,litors Act, amended rules, 553 Memorials granted, 211, 213, 215, 469; sittings ap- "District Courts Act Amendment Act, 1865," powers pointed at Xiangonai, 155, 160, 22t thereunder conferred on Judge at Auckland, 90 ; Tara- Thames District- naki, 304; Wanganui, 302 Memorials granted, 53S ; notice of claims, 288, 293 Education Districts, Auditors of Accounts appointed, 421, sitting: appointed at Shortland, 275, 281, 283, 573 287, 292, 310, 311, 533, 537, 538 Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Acts, regulations Waikato District- prescribed, 131 Memorials granted, 221; notice of claims, 4-1; sittings Gold Fields and Gold Mining Acts, Governor' s powers appointed at Cambridge, 39, 40 delegated, Maitland, J. P., 89 ; delegations revoked- Wanganui District- Bonar, J. A., 661; Curtis, 0., 661; McLean, G., 89, Memorials granted, 27-1; sittings appointed, 601, 602, 661 ; Seymour, A. P., 661 ; Whitaker, F., 660, 661 603, 681, 685 Greymouth and Brunner, wharfage rates fixed at Grey- Native Lands- mouth Wharf, 107 Acquired, declared to be waste lands, Auckland, 688 Immigrants Land Acts, persons declared entitled to land, Native Lands Frauds Prevention Commissioner appointed, 89, 254, 553, 669 Hawke's Bay, Locke, S., 615 Kaiapoi, land reserved for borough, 660 Roads authorized to be taken through, 306, 349, 555, 613, Lighthouse at Akaroa, ltend reserved for site, 57 663 " Lunatics Act, 1868," revoking delegations, 661 Surveys, general regulations for conduct of all Native Lyttelton, land reserved for borough, 529 lands surveys, 328 Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867," Trustees ap- Inspector of Surveys appointed-Thomson, J. T., 587 pointed thereunder, 20, 50 to 57, 169 to 178, 305, 419, Deputy Inspectors, Auckland, Hawke' s Bay, Taranaki, 420, 544 to 552 Wellington, 617 "Marine Act, 1867," certain powers delegated to Harbour Trustees appointed under Real Estate Management Act, Boards-Bluff, 372 ; Hokitika, 390; Kakanui, 370; 20, 50 to 57, 169 to 178, 305, 419, 420, 544 to 552 Lyttelton, 189, 190; 1loeraki, 371, 372; New Ply- Naturalization, letters of, granted, 109, 19-1, 328, 350, 363, 431, mouth, 420, 421 ; Tim:uu, 373; Wanganui, 374 558, 575, 585 Gunpowder regulations to apply to gasoline, dynamite, and Nelson Provincial District- lithofracteur, 670 Agricultural statistics for February, 1877, 336 Napier Harbour Board, by-laws and regulations assented Buller River protection, land reserved, 88 to, 107 Cattle Inspector's Report, 398, 446 Native Land Act, districts extended to embrace country Commissioner of Crown Lands appointed, Greenfield, A., previously excluded, 189 183 Native land claims, rehearing ordered, 50, 552 Deputy Sheriff appointed, 306 Native lands, general regulations for survey of, 328 District Court, sittings appointed, 555 Oamaru, land reserved for borough, 530 Gold fields, land withdrawn, 87, Otago, Wardens' Courts, appointing Warden for Hindon Health Officers, Nelson, appointed, 108 District, Maitland, J. P., 660 Receiver of Gold Revenue appointed, Charleston, 505 Post Office, fees appointed for private letter bags, 304; Registration and Returning Officer appoiht Q , 329 - private letter boxes, 49 VI r "Ex.

Orders in Council - continued . Otago Provincial District - continued. Railways- Police Officer resigned, 433 Canterbury, general rates and regulations for storage Pomahaka Road Board, auditor appointed, 691 and delivery of goods, not grain, 304 Pounds and poundkeepers -Oamaru, 531 ; Riverton, 615 Lyttelton Station, rates and regulations for storage Prison , Dunedin, surgeon appointed, 330 ; Visiting Justice, and delivery of grain, 255 ; superseded, 304 558 Napier-Waipukurau-Takapau, by-laws and regula- "Protection of Animals Act, 1873," game shooting season tions prescribed, 327 appointed, 348, 418; license fees, 350 New Zealand Railways, general by-laws for passengers Rabbit nuisance, districts established;'557 and goods traffic, 407 Registration and Returning Officers appointed- Clutha and Timaru-Moeraki, and junctions, extending rates for Bruce, 91 ; Wakatipu, 329 passengers and goods traffic, 362 Resident Magistrates' Courts appointed ,for ridings of Rating Act, valuation rolls validated, Auckland, 660 counties, 531, 567, 574; extended civil jurisdiction in "Stamp Fee Act, 1875," rules prescribed, 422 gold fields, 542 Supreme Court Districts assigned -Nelson, 139 ; Northern, Revising Officers appointed, electoral districts-Otago, 329 ; 303; Wellington, 140 ; revoked, 303; Westland, 139 Western Otago, 329 Supreme Court, circuit sittings appointed at Blenheim, 573 Road districts constituted-Otaraia, 656; Toetoes, 525; " Telegraph Act, 1865," original telegrams after two years Wyndham, 571; South Wyndham, 572 may be destroyed, 573; urgent telegram rates, 612 Roads declared county roads-Bruce, 512 ; Taieri, 248 ; University of New Zealand, appointments to the Senate, - Tuapeka, 667 ; Waikouaiti, 451; Wallace, 402. Roads 215 to be taken, 260, 619 Waikato bridge declared public road, 554 Roslyn, Mayor elected, Kilgour, J., 691 Waimate County, reserves vested in Council, 530 Savings Banks returns-Dunedin, 130; Invercargill, 184. Wanganui, extending time for preparing burgess lists, 369 Vice-President, Invercargill, resigned, and new ap- Westland- pointment, 692 Goldsborough Cemetery vested in trustees , 349 Slaughterhouse inspectors appointed, 350, 558. Kumara, special district license regulations, 388, 554 Southland, Makarewa Road Board, notice of new roads to Ross township leases, amended regulations, 531 be taken, 260, 502 Totara River, reserve for public buildings, &c., 108 Southland Waste Lands Board, times of sittings altered, Westland County, extension of time for preparing 445 rolls, 423 Tuapeka County, by-law disallowed, 575 Ormond, Hon. J. D., appointed Minister , 24 University, member of Council appointed, 181 Otago Provincial District- Waikouaiti Road District, polling-place appointed, 612 Agricultural leases-Land set apart in Maniototo, 298 ; Wailacetown hatching ponds, managers appointed, 81 Teviot, 662 Waste Lands Board, member appointed, Green, J., 92 Agricultural statistics for February, 1877, 359 Weights and Measures, Inspector appointed, 328; place of Alexandra Cemetery, management in Town Corporation, 532 deposit for standards for Hawkesbury, 329 Assessor of pastoral lands appointed, 247, 561 West Taieri Cemetery, manager appointed, 661 "Auctioneers Ordinance, 1862," officers of Customs to Winton Cemetery, regulations for burials, 694 exercise functions thereunder of Provincial Treasurer, 133 Auditors for counties appointed, 575 P. Brands, Registrars appointed, 447 Cattle and Sheep, Honorary Inspectors appointed, 476, 630 Paper manufacture, bonus offered, 58 Commissioner of Crown Lands appointed, Maitland, J. P., 7 Pardon offered to accomplice in incendiarism, 475 Common Lodging Houses Ordinances to be administered Partnerships dissolved-Burton Brothers, Dunedin, 9, 35 in Oamaru by Corporation, 413 Glanville and Stevens, Christchurch, 331 ; Hoperaft, Depasturing Districts-Cardrona, constituted, and regula- McCullough, and Co., Grahamstown, 451 ; Jacob Joseph tions prescribed, 299 ; additional regulations, 361 and Co.,' Wellington, 331 ; 'Kinross, J. G., Graham, A., Mount Benger, additional regulations, 299 and Maitland , W. G., 324; Moore and Crawley, Auck- Depasturing regulations within gold fields amended, 41 4 land, 436; D. and J. McTaggart, Havelock and Law- District Court-Clerk appointed at Queenstown, 131 ; rence, Otago, 78, 84, 100; Partridge and Butters, Wai- sittings appointed at Invercargill, 179; at Lawrence, rarapa, 502 ; T. S. Payten and Co., Christchurch, 210 ; 473 ; at Oamaru, 178 ; at Tokomairiro, 179 Pilbrow and Brown, Temuka, 514; Samuel, Ladd, and Dunedin, Peninsula, and Ocean Beach Railway, notice of, Co., Wellington, 312; Soutter and Gray, Milton, Otago, extension, 135 100; W. J. Suiter and Co.,'.Auckland, 582, 588, 619; Dunkeld, reserve for education purposes, 556 Thomas and Cemino, Wellington, 514; T. Wallace and Education Board, Burns, A. J., appointed member, 182 Co., Christchurch, 185 ; Waller and Garlick, Auckland, Forest trees planting, Certifying Officer appointed, 561, 523; Ward and Co., Christchurch, 64; Watt Brothers, 692 Napier, 451; Whitcombe, Temperton, and Co., 333 Gold field proclaimed, Waikawa, 361 Partnerships, special, Hunt and Co., Auckland, pearl fishing, Gold Fields Regulations partially suspended, 298; addi- &c., 209 tionat regulation, withdrawing exceptions from land, Pates Institute, sale of confiscated land to, 19 346 Patentsgranted , 62; lapsedor refused, 62 ; lettersof registra- Gold Fields Wardens' Courts, Hindon District, Maitland, tion granted, 62 ; applications for patents, 64, 83, 165, 439 - J. P., appointed Warden, 660 - Pearce, E., M. H.R., resignation notified, 260 Gold mining leases, notices of grant of, 7 Petty Sessions , Auckland, Mangapai District-Annual meeting Hundreds constituted, 1 of Justices, day appointed, 169 ; chairman, Bell, J., 446 Invercargill Hundred, notice of alteration of road at Philadelphia Exhibition, awards to New Zealand exhibitors, 391 Lyndhurst, 135 Police (see Armed Constabulary) Invercargill South, election of Mayor, day appointed, 79 ; Postal- and presiding officer, 79; electoral officers appointed Franking powers cancelled , Inspector of Sheep, Christ. for election of borough officers, 80, 81 church, 511 Kyeburn Diggings Cemetery, manager appointed, 445 Franking powers granted-Ag ri cultural Statistics , Superin- Land officers appointed , Queenstown, 568 tendent Collectors , 6; Constructed Railways Depart- Lawrence, land reserved for municipality, 613 ment, Accountant , 394; Chief Clerk, 394; Defence Licensed Theatres Ordinance to apply in Oamaru, 254 Storekeepers , 110; Education Boards, Chairmen, 110; Licensing districts, Clyde, reconstituted, 566 Lunatic Asylums, Inspectors, 60; Police, Inspectors Lumsdeu township, lands open for sale, 345 and Sub-Inspectors, 183 ; Prisons, Chief Gaolers, Mataura Bridge Cemetery reserve, managers appointed, 111 ; Public Works, Resident Engineer and Railways 665 Tra ffic Manager , Christchurch, 26 ; Southern Rail- Mount Ida Water- race, limits defined, 610; regulations for ways, Superintending Engineer, 560; Telegraph, In- use thereof, 631 spectors , 258; and Officers in Charge of Chief Sta- "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," boroughs constituted tions, 247 -Caversham, 583 ; Lawrence, 527 ; Maori Hill, 542; Inland mails, accepted tenders, 633 Mornington, 529; Roslyn, 528 ; Tapanni, 528. First Mail service tenders-Coastal steam service, 616, 617, 635, elections appointed-Cover-ham, 585 ; Mornington, 636; Mastertori-Palmer-ton North, 587 557; Roslyn, 557. Out-districts petitioning for ad- Postage rates, new tables for letters, books, acid parcels, junction to Maori Hill, 614; R sly n, 614. Parts 649 %II. and XIII.-to apply in Dunedin, 295; Green Postmasters appointed, 111, 393 Island, 245 ; Oamaru, 244 Post Offices opened, 111, 394; closed, 111, 394 ; name Oa`inaru, land reserved for borough, 530 .changed, 111, 394, 447, 561 Oamaru Municipal Sinking Fund, trustee, 532 Post Offices opened as Insurance Offices,27, 477 INDkt. vi'

Postal -- eontanned .. I Proclamations - continued. Private letter bags , fees, 304; private letter boxes, fees, 49 Railways, lands taken for, 85, 86, 87, 167, 168, 542, 543 Savings Banks and Money Orders, return of transactions,1,693 Registration Act, Northern Districts, Auckland, re-con- 117, 480 ; new offices opened, 435, 511, 561, stituted, 658 Prisoner escaped, reward for capture of Horopapara, 26 "Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876 "- Prisons, appointments-Gaoler, Gisborne, 576; Lyttelton, 26; Brought into force within Road Districts-Dedwood, Opotiki, 567; Tauranga, 567. Overseer, Wellington, 559. 659 ; Hawera, 584 ; Kowai, 187; Lower Wairau, Surgeon, Dunedin, 330, 558. Visiting Justices, Auckland, 684; Mount Peel, 327; Okain's Bay, 253 ; Pon- 350, 558; Wanganui, 141; Wellington, 306. Warders, sonby, 659; Pukekohe East, 417; Spring Creek, Auckland, 586; Napier, 586; New Plymouth, 559. Gaoler 416 dismissed, Gisborne, 560 Brought into force within towns-Carlyle, 416 Private Bill notices-Hokitika Gas, 641 ; Wanganui Gasworks, Resident Magistrates' Districts- 621 Boundaries altered, Nelson South-West Gold Fields Proclamation revoked, limiting the operation of " The Native and Greymouth, 251 ; Waiapu, East Coast, 541 Land Act, 1873 " (15th September, 1874), 187 Civil jurisdiction extended-Akaroa, 609 ; Maketu, Proclamations- 584 ; Otago gold fields, 542 ; Timaru, 572 ; Auckland- Upper Wanganui, 243 Mangapiko Highway District subdivided, 526 New district constituted, Poverty Bay, 541 Native lands acquired declared waste lands, 688 Taranaki- Canterbury- Inglewood-Defining and incorporating the town, and Ellesmere and Forsyth Reclamation Trust, regula- appointing number of members of Town Board, tions for election of members, 37 188 Sheep, places of transit across boundary, 49 Public Recreation Trustee, Bayley, R., appointed, 297 Confiscated Lands declared waste lands-Auckland, 413; Westland- 656 ; Taranaki, 565, 609 Rangitoto town, site appointed, 253; Kumara special "Counties Act, 1876," altering boundaries of Rodney and licensing district, 388 Waitemata Counties, 419 Promissory note and bill of exchange, caution against negotiat- District Courts- ing, 324, 333 Taranaki reconstituted, 300; with extended criminal "Protection of Animals Act, 1873," Rangers appointed-Auck- (300) and civil jurisdiction, 301 land, 194, 585 ; Hawke's Bay, 431, 585 ; Wellington, Wanganui constituted, 301 ; with extended criminal 308. Coursing season appointed, Canterbury, 659. Shoot- (301) and civil jurisdiction, 302 ing season appointed-Auckland, 347; Hawke's Bay, 346; Educational reserves provisionally made-Auckland, 687; Otago, 3-18; Wellington, 331. License fees, 350, 431 Canterbury, 655 ; Hawke's Bay, 655 Provincial Public Accounts- Forest Trees Planting Encouragement 'Acts, extended to Auditor appointed for Marlborough, 350 the whole colony, 131 Statements for December quarter, 1876-Auckland, 262; General Assembly-Prorogation to 13th April, 11 ; to 15th Canterbury, 351; Hawke's Bay, 433 ; Taranaki, 309; June, 343 ; to 19th July, 599 Westland, 392 Gold field proclaimed-Waikawa, Otago, 361 Provincial Treasurers, functions in respect of granting licenses " Gold Fields Act, 1866," lands withdrawn from-Nelson, to be exercised by officers of Customs, 22 87; Westland, 2 Public Account, statement of receipts and expenditure for De- Hawke's Bay- cember quarter, 1876, 118; March quarter, 1877, 487 Hawke's Bay Rivers Act, districts constituted, 566 Public Debts Sinking Funds, award by Commissioners, 243 Pound abolished, Napier, 584 Public Health, officers appointed for Port of Akaroa, 140; Licensing Act, Clyde district reconstituted, 566 Nelson, 108 Marriage Act, Northern Districts, Auckland, reconstituted, Public payment without probate, notices, 183 657 Public revenue, advances to be repaid, 576 "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," boroughs pro- Public Trustee, estates placed under, 33, 146, 315, 440, 562, 620 claimed-Caversham, 583 ; Gisborne, 526; Lawrence, Public Works- 527; Maori Hill, 542 ; Mornington, 529 ; Onehunga, Engineers, Managers, and -other Officers appointed, 205; 416; Parnell, 415 ; Roslyn, 528 ; Tapanui, 528. Te Accountant for Constructed Railways appointed, Back, Aro Ward, Wellington, divided, 417 F., 330; other appointments to the department, 247; Mutiny Act, with Articles of War, proclaimed, 297 General Managers, Locomotive Engineer, and other Native land, Whangaehu District, Heao Block, declared - - Officers appointed, 568 waste lands, 252 Minister, E. Richardson, resigned, 24; J. D. Ormnod- ap. Native Land Act, limitation of operation rescinded, fornte} pointed,-24 Proclamation revoked, 187 Tenders, accepted and declined, 295, 615, 685, 692 Nelson- Westport Borough divided into wards, 387 Otago- R. Agricultural leases, land set apart for, 298 Common Lodging Houses Ordinances, to be adminis- Rabbit Nuisance Act, districts, 557 tered in Oamaru by Corporation, 413 Railway, Dunedin, Peninsula, and Ocean Beach Company, Depasturiug Districts-Cardrona constituted, and re- notice of deposit of plans for extension of line, 135 ; G}o- gulations prescribed, 299 ; additional regulations, vernor'sassent to extension,655 361 ; Mount Benger, additional regulations pre- Railways of New Zealand, rules and regulations for the con- scribed, 299 duct of the traffic and for the guidance of officers and men, Depasturing regulations within gold fields amended, 453 414 Railways- Dunedin and Ocean Beach Railway extension, Go- By-laws-Canterbury, Lyttelton Station (storage of grain vernor's assent to, 655 . and goods), 304; Napier-Waipukurau-Takapau, 327 Gold Fields Regulations, in part suspended, 298; By-laws for storageand delivery of grain,conveyance of additional regulation, 346 minerals , &c., Canterbury railways, 411 Hundreds constituted, 1 -Described, 415, 610, 611 Licensed Theatres.- Ordinances to apply in Oatnaru, General by -laws for passengers and goods traffic on the 254, New Zealand Railways, 407, 591, 692 ; insurance of Lumeden township, lands open for sale, 345 special goods, 597 Mount Ida Water-race, limits defined, 610 General Managers- Road Districts eoustituted-Otaraia, 656 ; Toetoes, Foxton to Manawatu, Moinet, A., 58 525; Wyndham, 571 ; South Wyndham, 572 New Plymouth to Waitara, Harris, J. D., 446 South Invercargill, election of Mayor, day appointed, Southern Railways-Amberley to Moeraki, Lawson, 79 J., 329; Port Chalmers to Clutha, Grant, A., "Petty Sessions Act, 1865," appointing date for annual 329; Gore to Invercargill, and Bluff to K ingston, meeting of Justices, Mangapai, Auckland, 169 Arthur, G., 329 Post Office Act, new postages rates, letters, newspapers, Wanganui to Mauawatu, Christophers H. St. J., 567 &c., 649 Wellington to Manawatu Gorge, Stone, W., 446 Public Health Act, vaccination districts, Auckland, re- Lands taken for, 85, 86, 87, 167, 168, 542, 543 constituted, 659 Onehunga wharf rates fixed, 434 " Protection of Animals Act, 1873," game shooting season Passenger and goods rates extended to Timaru and Moe- appointed-Auckland, 347, 417; Hawke's Bay, 346, raki Railway and its junction lines, 362 . 418; Otago, 348, 418. Hares, coursing season ap- Plans of works to be done-Aramoho-Wanga mu, 666 ; pointed,Canterbury, 659 Auckland-Riverhead, 692; Cfinton- Bale uthas 666 ; Railways described, 415, 610, 611 Oamaru , recreation ground, 666 with INDEX.

Railways-continued. Resident Magistrates - continued. South Australia-Kapunda and North-West Bend, tenders R., 615 ; Nelson, Broad, C., 432 ; Okarito, Macfarlane, for construction, 154, 185, 208 D., 245; Opotiki, Hamlin, F. E., 141 ; Preece, G. A., Tenders- 586; Poverty Bay, Nesbitt, W. K., 558; Wanganui, Dunedin-Moeraki, Inspector's house, Waikouaiti, 143 Hardcastle, E., 141; Upper Wanganui, Wray, C. A., 59 Kaipara-Puniu--Auckland Contract, 587 ; Helens- Appointments with extended jurisdiction-Ohristchurch, ville contract, 587; Onehunga wharf, 615 Donald, W., 558; Maketu, Brabant, H. W:, 586; Rangitata-Temuka, Orari bridge, protective works, Otago Gold Fields, Carew, E. H., 558; Robinson, H. 183 W., 558 ; Simpson, W. L., 558 ; Stratford, H. A., 558; Timaru Station, refreshment-rooms, 112 Wood, J. N., 558; Upper Wanganui, Wray, C. A., Waitaki-Invercargill-Balclutha contract, 631 ; Wai- 245 pahi contract, 112 Resignations-Giles, J., 141 ; Maitland, J. P., 59 Wan ganui-Manawat u-Napier, 247 Resident Magistrates' Courts- Wellington-Masterton, Mungaroa Contract No. 1, 447 .Clerks appointed-Akaroa; Missen, B. T., 330; Carlyle, Traffic Returns- Baddeley, F. H. C. S., 60; Charleston, Bowen, C. H. Auckland-Mercer, 27, 142, 259, 365, 447, 578, 666 W., 446 ; Coromandel, Clark, J. McL., 330 ; Dun- Brunner-Greymoutb, 28, 143, 259, 366, 448, 579, 667 edin, Somerville, W., 25; Hokitika, South, M. F., Foxton-Manawatu, 28, 143, 259, 365, 448, 578, 666 141; Lowther, Fretwell, H., 109; Maketu, Sisson, -C. Kaipara-Riverhead, 27, 142, 259, 365, 447, 578, 666 P., 665 ; Otago Gold Fields, Worthington, J. S., 141; Napier-Waipukurau, 27, 142, 259, 365, 448, 578, 666 Poverty Bay,-Greenwood, H. L., 558-; Waimea, Hunt, Nelson-Foxhill, 28, 143, 259, 366, 448, 579, 667 M., 558; Wairoa, Carr, H. H., 558; Wanganui, Picton-Blenheim, 28, 143, 259, 365, 448, 579, 667 Woon, G. W., 141 Southern Railways- Courts appointed for ridings of counties, 531, 667, 574, 671 Christchurch Division, 97, 248, 353, 477, 588, 694 ResidentMagistrates'. Districts- Dunedin Division, 61, 354, 366, 477, 693 Boundaries altered-Nelson South-West Gold Fields and Invercargill Division, 62, 3544 366, 477, 693 Greymouth, 251 ; Waiapu, East Coast, 541 Oamaru Division, 62, 354 Civil jurisdiction extended=Akaroa, 609; Maketu, 584; Waitara-New Plymouth, 28, 142, 259, 366, 448, 578, Otago Gold Fields, 542; Timaru, 572; Upper Wanga- 666 nui, 243 Wanganui-Manawatu, 666 New district constituted, Poverty Bay, 641 Wellington-Masterton, 28, 143, 259, 365, 448, 578, Returning Officers (see Registration Officers) 666 Revising Officers, Electoral Districts, appointed--Auckland Westport-Mount Rochfort, 28, 143, 260, 366, 448, 579, districts, 350; East Coast, 350; Canterbury and West- 667 land, 306; Hawke's Bay districts, 392 ; Nelson districts, "Rating Act, 1876" (see Assessment Courts) 392; Otago and Western Otago, 329 ; Taranaki districts, Receiver of Gold Revenue appointed, Charleston, 505 350; Wellington, Wanganui, and other districts, 257 Receivers of Land Revenue appointed-Hawke's Bay, Richard- Richardson, Hon. E., resignation as Minister, 24; to retain title son, G. E. G., 182; Marlborough, Robinson, J. T., 351 ; of honorable, 585 Taranaki, Watkins, W., 505; Westland, Robinson, E. T., Roads declared to be county roads-County Bruce, 519; Cook, 308. Resignation, Goulter, C., 350 356 ; Grey, 208, 260; Hutt, 355; Manawatu, 356, 478 ; Registrars and Deputy Registrars of Births, Marriages, and Patea, 183 ; Taieri, 248; Thames, 334, 335 ; Tuapeka, Deaths appointed-Akaroa, Missen, B. T., 392; Albertland, 667 ; Waikouaiti, 451 ; Wallace, 402 ; Westland, 436 Worker, W. H., 245; Malvern, Lord, J., 91 ; Manuherikia, Rotorua hot springs, analyses of water, 473 Rose , A., 194; Manuherikia, Whelan, C., 392; North Molyneux, Bell, G., 140; Rangitikei, Deighton, F. M., 25'; Tauranga , Hall, J. J. H., 109; Temuka, Buchanan, R. M., S. 5; Timaru, Jaggar, A. H., 58; Waimate, Proctor, A., 194; Wakatipu, Falck, F., 194; Wanganui, Woon, G. W., 140 Sale of land for non-payment of rates, Piston, 356 "Registration of Births and Deaths Acts, 1875," Northern Salmon and Trout Fishery, hatching ponds, Invercargill, Districts, Auckland, altered, 658 Managers appointed, 81 Registration and Returning Officers, Electoral Districts- Savings Banks '(<''ost' Ocoee) and Money Orders-Return of Appointed-Ashley and Xaiapoi, Hewlings, G. F., 557 ; transactions, 1l7, 480 y- now offices opened, 435, 511, 561, Clutha and Bruce, Carew, E. H., 91 ; Napier and 693 Clive, Guy, D., 615 ; Nelson Districts, Baddeley, H. Savings Banks- '' - C. S., 329; Taranaki Districts, Rawson, C. E., 329; Registration and appointment of Trustees, Nelson, 434 Wakatipu, Worthington, J. S., 329 ; Wanganui, Returns from Banks-Auckland, 207;. Dunedin, 130; Hoki- Hardcastle, E., 194 tika., 129; Invercargill, 184; Nelson, 184; New Ply- Resignations -Giles, J., 193 ; Maitland, J. P., 91; White- mouth, 97 foord,C., 557 Vice-President resigned-Invercargill, 692 ; new appoint- "Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876," brought into force ment, 692. New Plymouth, resigned, 659; new within- appointment, 630 Road Districts-Dedwood, 659; Hawera, 584; Kowai, Sheriffs- 187 ; Lower Wairau, 584; Mount Peel, 327; Appointed-Auckland, Haultain, T. M., 26; Patea, Wray, Okain's Bay, 253; Ponsonby, 659; Pukekohe C. A., 110.' Deputy Sheriff, Nelson, Baddeley, H. C. S., East, 417; Spring Creek, 416 appointed, 306; Wanganui and Rangitikei, Hard- Towns-Carlyle, 416 castle, E., 141 Reid, Hon. D., appointed Minister, 24 Resignations-Wanganui and Rangitikei, Sheriff, Woon, G. Reserves of land- W., 181; Hawke's Bay, Deputy Sheriff, McIntire, H., Akaroa, site for lighthouse, 57 257 Auckland, for education (provisionally), 687 Slaughterhouses-Inspectors appointed, Towns of Lawrence and Buller River, for protection thereof, 88 Waitahuna, 350 Canterbury, for education (provisionally), 655 Smith, J., ex "Mataura," inquired for, 693 Carlyle, Patea, for public and town purposes, 61 Solicitors' admission to practice, new rules, 636 - .Chrtcharch District, drainage purposes, 190;; for borough, South Australian Railways-Tenders, 154, 185, 208 " stamp Fee Act, 1875," rules and regulations, 422 Dunkeld, for educational purposes, 556 Stamps- Hawk's Bay, for education (provisionally), 655 Depositaries appointed-Mangapai, 112 ; Feilding, 112; Inglewood, for town improvements, 362 Counties of Buller and Bruce, 331 Kaiapoi, for borough, 660 Deputy Commissioners appointed--Marlborough, Furby, Lawrence, for municipal purposes, 612 W. S., 431; Westland, Ring, A. H., 112 Lyttelton, for borough, 529 Stearns, F. W., ex " Fernglen," inquired for, 331 Malvern District, for gravel pit, 662 Supreme Court- Moa District, for recreation ground and cemetery, 362 Circuit sittings appointed at Blenheim, 573 Oamaru, for borough, 530 Clerk at Auckland, King, G. A., appointed, 109 Okarito, for Road Board, 691 Commissioners of Affidavits- Totara River, for public buildings, &c., 108 Appointed-England, Birmingham, Richardson, W. Waimate County, vested in Council, 530 E., 694; London, Simpson, H., 396 ; Petworth, Westland, commonage reserved, 255 Sussex, Daintrey, C. J., 618 ; New South Wales, Woodville township, reserve as burial-place, 362 Maitland, Mullen, W. H., 512 ; Sydney, Deane, ResidentMagistrates- H., 113 ; Queensland, Brisbane, Osborne, W. H., Appointments-Clutha, Carew, E. IT., 26 ; Christchurch, 183; SouthAustralia,Adelaide,Sandford.W.M., Whitefoord, C., 432 ; Maketu, Brabant, H. W., 586; 695; Tasmania, Buckland, 11. J., 618 ; Victoria, Preece, G. A., 586; Napier and Waipukurau, Stusrt. Melbourne, Benu(tt, J. B., 63, 113; C.uey, N. J., INDEX. IX

Supreme Court- continsed. Vaccination-continued. Commissioners of Affidavits- continued. Public Vaccinators-Akaroa, 615 ; Alexandra, 432 ; Drury, 113; Dickson, R. W., 618; Gresson, R. C., 206; 575; Geraldine, 558; Greytown, 141; Hororata and Kidston, M., 512; Stewart, J. C., 618; Wrixon, Malvern, 6; Kumara, 109; Motueka, 432; Oamaru, H., 618 25; Patea, 350, 432; Porangahau , 350; Port Chalmers, Appointment revoked-Queensland, Brisbane, Stock- 558; Switzers, 432; Waimea South, 615; Waiwera, well, J., 35 558 Divorce and matrimonial causes, Notice of sittings in, 364, Times and places appointed, 3, 21, 256, 424, 556, 614 436 Visiting Justices appointed-Auckland, 350; Wanganui, 141 Judicial Districts assigned-Nelson, 139 ; Northern, 303; Wellington, 306 Wellington, 140, revoked, 303; Westland, 139 Vital Statistics-Registrar's Report for December, 1876, 72; Law Practitioners-New rules for admission to practice, 636 January, 1877, 249; February, 314; March, 401; April, Registrars appointed-Hokitika, King, A. H., 109; New 518 ; May, 638 Plymouth, Rawson, C. E., 307 Vital Statistics of principal Boroughs, Registrar-General's Deputy Registrars appointed-Auckland, Williamson, H., Report for 1876, 316 . 110; Hokitika, South, M. F., 141 Regulce Generales, additional, 618 Surveyor-General's Department, offices appointed, 568, 577, 632, 633 W. Sutton, F., elected M.H.R. for Napier, 247 Waikawa Gold Field, proclaimed, 361 Wallis, J-, elected M.H.R. for Auckland City West, 561 T. War medals (New Zealand) assigned, 577 Waste Lands- Tampilt, T., en route to England from Christchurch, inquired Confiscated lands declared to be-Auckland, 413, 656; for, 587 Taranaki, 565, 609 Taranaki Provincial District- Heao Block, Wangaehu, proclaimed, 252 Agricultural Statistics for February, 1877, 321 Native lands acquired, Auckland, declared to be, 688 Confiscated lands declared waste lands, 565, 609 Waste Lands Boards-Commissioners appointed, Canterbury, District Court- 391 ; Otago, 92 ; Wellington, 183, 353. Secretary ap- Judge appointed-Kenny, H. E., 307; Crown Prose- pointed,Canterbury, 112 cutor, Standish, A., 3017; Clerk at New Ply- Weights and Measures- mouth, Rawson, C. E., 307; Clerk at Carlyle, Inspector appointed, Otago Provincial District, 328 Baddeley, F. H. C. S., 307 Places appointed for deposit of standards-Auckland and Judge of Court to exercise certain powers under Amend- the Thames, 257; Hawksbury Division, Otago, 329 ment Act, 1865, 304 Wellington Provincial District- Reconstituted , 300 ; with extended- criminal (300) snd Agricultural statistics for February, 1877, 400, 437 civil jurisdiction, 301 Crown grants ready for delivery, 96, 144, 562 Times of sittings fixed-at New Plymouth, 302; at Deeds Registrar appointed, 615 Carlyle, 303 Greytown trust lands, accounts, 436 Inglewood, town defined and incorporated, and appointing Highways- number of members of Town Board, 188 ; land Masterton-Opaki, notice of road construction, 561 reserved for town improvements, 362 Wangaebu, notice of new road to be taken, 435 Land district constituted, Patea, 567 ; officer appointed, Wanganui-Waitotara District, construction orders, 64 568 Wairoa District, regulating weight to be carried Moa District, land reserved -for cemetery and recreation according to breadth of wheels, 113 ground,362 Inspectors of Nuisances appointed, Greytown, 562 Prison appointment, warder, New Plymouth, 559 Land on deferred payments, sales at Manawatu , 8, 183, 205 Provincial Auditor, Chilman , R., resigned, 258 Land Sales and Deposits-Monthly returns , December, Provincial District Account , statement for December 1876, 33; January, 1877, 146; February, 313; quarter, 1876, 309 March, 399; April, 519; May, 620 Public Recreation, trustee appointed,,, 297 Land Transfer, District Land Registrar appointed, 615 Receiver of Land Revenue appointed, 505 Local Boards- Registration and Returning Officer appointed, 329 Auditor appointed, 477 Regulation of Local Elections Act in force, Hawera, 584 Featherston, by-laws approved, 134, 296; Commis- Revising Officer, electoral districts, appointed, 350 sioners appointed or elected, Lethbridge, Davis, Savings Bank, New Plymouth, return, 97; Yice-President W. A., 588; Lower Hutt, Wilford, J. G. F., 260 resigned, 559 ; new appointment, 630 Masterton Town Lands, Trustee' s balance sheet, for year Telegraph, comparative return of telegrams 1875 and 1876, 261 ; to 31st March, 1877, 502 ; Trustees appointed, 579 the same for March quarters, 1876 and 1877, 511; list of Pastoral lands declared, Awhea Block, East Coast, 512 stations, 354 Protection of Animals, game-shooting season appointed, Telegraph regulations- 331, 395; ranger appointed, Hutt County, 308; sea- Original telegrams may be destroyed after two years, 573 gulls proclaimed, 435 Urgent telegram rates, 612 Public Account, statements for June, September, and Tanks, B., M.H.R., resignation notified, 365 December quarters , 1876, 505 to 509 Trade marks, applications to register, 112, 143, 247, 258, 394, Rangers appointed, 477 395, 476, 578, 616, 633, 667 Rangitikei bridge, tenders, 588 Tramways, Greymouth and Kumara, notice of intended con- Registrar of Brands appointed, 477 struction, 153 Registrars of Dogs appointed, 477, 478, 562, 579 Travers, W. T. L., elected M.H.R. for Wellington City, 365 Rivers, Waiohine Board-Returning Officer, 435; Con- Tribe, G. H., M.H.R., death notified, 331 servators , election regulations, 478 Trout fishing regulations , Maitai, Nelson, 3 Roads declared County roads-Hutt, 355 ; Manawatu, Trust Accounts, Courts of Law, Auditors appointed-Clutha, 356, 478; Paten, 183 60; Papakura and Waiuku, 432; Upper Wanganui, 141 Sheep, Inspectors' Reports- + Wanganui, 307 Clean certificates , cancelled , 8, 81, 258, 308, 367, 396, 562, 638, 671; granted, 81, 206, 258, 312, 367, U. 435, 477, 618, 638, 695 Rangitikei -Manawatu, 30, 82; Wairarapa and East University of New Zealand- Coast, 28, 81; Wellington and West Coast, 144 Appointments to the Senate, 255 Upper Wanganui- B.A. Examinations, and Honors, lists, 248 Resident Magistrate's civil jurisdiction extended, Bowen prize, 1M76, awarded, 477 243 ; Wray, C. A., to exercise same, 245 Matriculation li,t, for 1876, 96 Waiohine River Board, member elected, 579 Royal Charter establishing precedence of its Degrees, 24 Wairarapa representation- Resignation of Andrew, J. C., notified, 637 Tinui polling-place abolished and others substituted, V. 670 Vaccination- Wangaehu, lleao Block proclaimed waste lands, 252 Districts reconstituted , Auckland, 659 Wanganui- Inspectors appointed-Albertland, 245 ; Manuherikia, 392; Auditor appointed, Courts of Law Trust Accounts, 306 Rangitikei , 25 ; Temuka , 5 ; Waimate , 194 ; Waka- Borough Council - Time extended for preparing tipu, 194; Wanganui, 140 burgess lists, 369 2 X INDEX.

Wellington 'ravincial District-continued. Westland Provincial District-continued. Wang " ui-continued. Education Board , member appointed, 306 District Court- General Assembly, death vacancy for Totara, 331 with extended criminal (301) Constituted, 301 A Gold Fields, land withdrawn from, 2 and civil jurisdiction, 302 Goldsborough Cemetery vested in Trustees, 349 Judge, Kenny, H. E., appointed, 307; Crown Greymouth and Brunner Railway, wharfage rates ap- Prosecutor, Fitzherbert, S. T., 307; Clerk, pointed at Greymouth, 107 Woon, G. W., 307 Greymouth and Kumara Tramway construction notice, Judge of Court to exercise powers under Amend- 153 ment Act of 1865, 302 Greymouth, Resident Magistrate 's District, boundaries Times for sittings of Court appointed, 303 altered, 251 Gas Company, notice of Private Bill, 621 Greymouth, wbarfinger appointed, 246 Prison appointments, Visiting Justice, 141; warder, Hokitika Gas Company, notice of Private Bill, 641 691 Kanieri, Wardens Court, Clerk appointed, 665 Public Cemetery, balance sheet, 64 ; Trustees ap- Kumara special licensing district constituted, 388; regu- pointed, 63 lations therein, 388, 554 Registration and Returning,Officer appointed, 194 Okarito, town land reserved for Road Board, 691 River Board, Auditor appointed, 665'; by-laws, 579 ; Provincial District Account, statement for December wharf limits defined, 580; wharf regulations and quarter,1876, 392 charges, 568 Rangitoto, site of town determined, 253 'Wellington City- Receiver of LandRec'enue, Robinson, E. T., appointed, 308 Borough Council, notice of land required for new Revising Officer, Electoral Districts, appointed, 306 street, 153, 261 Roads declared county roads-Grey County, 208, 260; City representation,resignation of Pearce,E„ notified, Westland, 436 260; Travers, W. T. L., `elected, 365 Ross Township leases , amended regulations, 531 Prison appointments, Overseer, 559 ; Visiting Justice, Savings Bank, Hokitika, return, 129 306 Totara, land reserved for public buildings, &c.,108 ; vacancy Public Cemetery, balance sheet for 1876, 264; Trustees in House of Representatives, 331; Gisborne, W., appointed, 64 elected, 532 Te Aro Ward divided into two, 417 Waste lands , land reserved for resting place and com- Waste Lands Board, Commissioners appointed, Mason, monage for cattle, 255 T., 183; Johnston, W. W., 353 ; times of Westland County, time extended for preparing 88; rolls, borough 423 meetings altered, 423 Westport-Buller River protection, land reserved, Wild cattle, destruction authorized, 638 dividedinto wards, 387 Westland Provincial District- Wilkins, Catherine (nee Young), ex " Wild Deer," inquired for, Agricultural statistics for February, 1877, 449 561 Auditor for county appointed, 575 Constabulary Ordinance, delegation to Bonar, J. A., re- z. voked,661 Dunganville, Warden's Court, Clerk appointed, 665 Zannini, G., alias Conti, E., of Faenza, Italy, inquired for, 7 Dumb. I.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

WELLINGTON , THURSDAY , JANUARY 4, 1877.

Proclaiming a Hundred under "The Otago Waste not less than one-third part of the area thereof Lands Act, 1872." respectively is land available for agriculture : And whereas it is expedient that effect should be (L.s.) Nonx&N.Y, Governor. given to the said recommendation of the Waste A PROCLAMATION. Lands Board of Otago : Now, therefore , I, George Augustus Constantine, THEREAS by "The Otago Waste Lands Act, Marquis of Nornnanby, the Governor pf the Colony 1872," it is, amongst other things , enacted of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the that it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he think powers vested in me by the hereinbefore in part fit, on the recommendation of the Superintendent recited Acts , do hereby proclaim that each of the and Provincial Council, from time to time, by Pro- four portions of the waste lauds particplarly de- clamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to scribed in the four Schedules hereto respectively constitute into a Hundred any portion of the waste shall be and the same is hereby constituted into a lands not forming any part of any Hundred pre- Hundred , under and for the purposes of the said viously proclaimed , notwithstanding that such lands first-named Act ; and that each shall be called or or any part thereof shall be comprised within any known by the came set above the' description of pastoral lease or license theretofore or thereafter to the said Hundred in the four Scheduleshereto be granted by the Crown under any law regulating respectively. the occupation or disposal of waste lands, and SCHEDULES. whether or not the same shall have been included within the boundaries of any proclaimed gold field : SCHEDULE No. 1. And whereas by " The Waste Lands Administra- Pyramid Hundred. tion Act, 1876," it is provided that it shall be lawful ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of for the Governor to exercise the power aforesaid, on Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand , containing by the recommendation of the Waste Lands Board of estimation twelve thousand four hundred (12,400) Otago in lieu and instead of on the recommendation acres, more or less, situate in the Otama District, of the Superintendent and Provincial-Council thereof: being part of Run numbered three (3) on the map And whereas by the first-named Act it is also of the said district. Bounded on the North by an further provided that no Hundred shall be consti- east and west line from the Mataura River, produced tuted which shall consist wholly of land unsuitable through Trigonometrical Station, Pyramid Hill, to for agriculture and adapted for pastoral purposes north-west corner of Chatton Hundred ; on the East only; and before any Hundred shall be constituted, by a meridional line through Geodesical Station on it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Crown boundary of Chatton District to Mataura River ; on Lands and Chief Surveyor to certify to the Gover- the South and West bylfiataura River to starting nor that, in their opinion, not less than one-third point. art of the area of such Hundred is land available SCHEDULE No. 2. Jor, agriculture : Okapua Hundred. And whereas the Waste Lands Board of Otago All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of have recommended that each of the four portions Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, contail}i.pg by of waste lands particularly described in the four estimation nine thousand two hundred (9,200) acres, Schedules hereto respectively should be proclaimed more or less, situate in the Chatton District, being to be a Hundred, under the provisions of the said part of Run numbered three (3) on the map of the Act : said district. Bounded on the North by the Chatton And whereas the said four portions respectively do Hundred ; on the East by the Chatton Hundred ; on not form part of any Hundred previously proclaimed, the South by Waikaka Survey District ; and on the and the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief South-west and West by the Mataura River and Surveyor of the Provincial District of Otago have, Otama Survey District. in accordance with the hereinbefore recited provisions of the first-named Act, certified to the Governor, as SCHEDULE No. 3. to each of such portions hereinafter in the said four Wen don Hundred. Schedules respectively described, that in their opinion All that parcel of land in the Provincial District

ERRATA.-In the New Zealand Gazette, 1876, at pages 839 and 874, for " Certified " read " Certificated.." 58 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTh.

Returning Oficer appointed. Purpose of Description of Reserve. Reserve. Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 17th January, 1877. to the intersection of the southern boundary Site for HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to of fr eehold section , 550 links or thereabouts ; Lighthouse. thence in a south -easterly direction along the appoint southern boundary of freehold section, 2050 JAMES STEVENSON CLENDON, Esq., links or thereabouts ; thence along the eastern boundary of said section, 500 links or the re - to be Returning Officer for the Wairoa Riding, Hob- abouts ; thence in an easterly direction to the son County, vice Marcus Madill. intersection of the western boundary of pub lic CHARLES C . BOwEN, road , 1700 links or thereabouts ; thence in a (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary). southerly direction along the western boundary of pub lic road to the intersection of the north- eastern boundary of freehold section, 200 links Name and Address of General Manager of Railways or thereabouts ; thence in a westerly direction registered. along the northern boundary of said section, 600 links or thereabouts ; thence in a southerly direction along the south-western boundary of Colonial Secretary's Office, fr eehold section to the south -western corner of Wellington, 11th January, 1877. said section , 3950 links or thereabouts ; thence in a southerly direction to a point at the line of ITis hereby notified forpublic information, that,in high watermark distant about 67 chains to the accordance with the provisions of "The Railways eastward of Point Trueni, 350 links or there- Regulation and Inspection Act, 1873," the name and abouts; thence along the line of high water- address of the person mentioned in the first column mark to the starting point ; the same being of the Schedule hereto have been registered in the delineated and coloured red upon the plan office of the Colonial Secretary, at Wellington, for marked M.D. 19, which plan is deposited in the office of the Marine Engineer at Wellington, the railway mentioned in the second column of the in the P ro vincial District of Wel lington. said Schedule , and set opposite such name. Dated at Wellington, this eleventh day of January, 1877. FoRsTER GonING, CHARLES C. BowEN, Clerk,of the Executive Council. (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Bonus for the Manufacture of Paper. SCHEDULE.

Name and Address of Colonial Secretary's Office, Name of Railway. Wellington, 16th January, 1877. General Manager. PTO claim to either of the sums offered as Bonus j for the Manufacture of Paper, under notice Archibald Moinet, Foxton, vice Foxton to Manawatu Railway. from this office dated the 8th of January, 1875, James Abernethy. having been made within the prescribed time, and Supplies having been granted to Her Majesty by Parliament for the purpose of renewingthe offer Regulations of the Napier Municipality not dis- with extended time, it is hereby notified that a Bonus allowed. of £1,500 will be paid for the production of the first Fifty Tons of Grey or Wrapping Paper ; and that a Colonial Secretary's Office, further Bonus of £1,000 will be paid for the produc- Wellington , 16th January, 1877. tion of the first Fifty Tons of Printing Paper on the IT is hereby noti fied, that a copy of Regulations of following terms:- the Municipal Corporation of Napier , under the Seal of the Corporation, relative to Borough Carriages That the claim shall be made in writing to the and Carts, and also to the keeping of Swine within the Colonial Secretary on or before the 30th of June, Borough, having been laid before the Governor, His 1877, accompanied by evidence that the prescribed Excellency has been pleased not to exercise his power quantity of paper has been manufactured in New of disallowance with respect to the same. Zealand by machinery intended to be permanently employed in the manufacture of paper within the CHARLES C. BOWEN, colony, and has been actually sold at a fair market (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary). price for purposes of trade, and delivered to the buyer prior to the claim being lodged. Bye-laws of Napier Municipality. CHARLES C. BOWEN, (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary). Colonial Secretary 's Office, Wellington, 16th January, 1877. THE following By-laws, passed by the Municipal Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Corporation of Napier, are published for general appointed. information. CHAaLEs C. BowEN, Colonial Secretary's Office, (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary). Wellington, 17th January, 1877. HISExcellency theGovernor hasbeen pleased to BY-LAW No. 4. appoint ARTHUn HENRY JAGGAR, Esq., A BY-LAW TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTER RULE AND to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Births, Deaths, GOVERNMENT OF THE BonouGH OF NAPIER. and Marriages for the District of Timaru, as the same is defined in Proclamation of the 8th day of By-law of the Council of the Borough of Napier, made May, 1873, and published in the New Zealand under Section 186 of " The Municipal Corporations Gazette, No. 28, of the 9th day of May, 1873. Act, 1867." CHAnLEs C. BOWEN, jN pursuance of "The Municipal Corporations (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary ). 1 Act, 1867, " Part XIII., section 186 , the Council THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 111

Authority to Frank. Appointment of Postmasters,

General Post Office, General Post Office, Wellington, 31st January, 1877. Wellington, 23rd January, 1877. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to N virtue of the powers delegated to the Postmaster. H authorize General by His Excellency the Governor, the CHIEF GAOLERS following appointments have been made in the Postal to frank, free from prepayment of postage, letters and Service of the colony. parcels posted on the public service. D. REID, D. REID, (for the Postmaster-General). (for the Postmaster-General). To be In what Name. I Postmaster Provincial From Post Offices opened. I at District.

General Post Office, Francis B . Man-Alford Forest Canterbury ... 1 Dec., 1876 Wellington, 23rd January, 1877. ing THEfollowing listof additional PostOffices whichEli Jowett ... Benmore ... Otago ... 1 Oct., 1876 have been opened in the colony is published J. A. Langford ... Brightwater ... Nelson ... 25 Oct., 1876 W. B. Camfield ... Broadfield ... Canterbury ... 1 Nov., 1876 for general information. Jas. H. Stevens ... Bulls ... Wellington... 1 Jan., 1877 D. REID, A. A. Winterburn Carterton ... Wellington ... 1 Dec., 1876 (for the Postmaster-General). John Clarke ... Clarks ... Otago ... 1 Oct., 1876 W. Moore ... Clarksville ... Otago ... 1 Nov., 1876 In what Provincial S. G. Thornton ... Clive ... Hawke's Bay 1 Jan., 1877 Circulating Office. Name of Office. District. John Walsh ... Deep Stream ... Otago .. 1 Oct., 1876 J. T. Rogers ... East Oxford ... Canterbury... 16 Oct., 1876 John H. Kent ... Feilding ... Wellington ... 23 Nov., 1876 Brightwater ... Nelson ... I Nelson. J. D. Brace ... Ferntown ... Nelson ... 1 Oct., 1876 Broadfield ... Canterbury ... Christchurch. M. Matheson ... Gi ll espie 's Westland ... 1 Dec., 1876 Clark 's ...... Otago ...... Dunedin. Beach Deep St ream ... Otago ...... Dunedin. J. H. Stephens ... Gore ... Otago ... 1 Dec., 1876 East Oxford ... Canterbury ... Christchurch. Peter Cheyne , senr . Halkett Town Canterbury ... 15 Dec., 1876 Ferntown ...... Nelson ...... Nelson. John Scouler ... Harcourt 's Westland ... 1 Nov., 1876 Kew ...... Otago ...... Dunedin. Ferry Lee Stream ... Otago ... Dunedin. Jas. Poppleton ... Henderson 's Auckland ... 1 Nov., 1876 Little Grey Junction Westland ...... Greymouth.. Mill Longbeach... . Canterbury ... Christchurch. R. Glass ... Hinds ... Canterbury ... 13 Nov., 1876 Makikihi (re-opened) Canterbury ... Christchurch. Adam Crone ... Jackson's Bay Westland ... 1 Nov., 1876 Middlemarsh ... Otago ...... Dunedin. A. J. Larking ... Kew ... Otago .. 1 Nov., 1876 Ravensbourne ... Otago ...... Dunedin. D. Mundell ... Kaikora ... Hawke's Bay 1 Oct., 1876 Rangitata ...... Canterbury ... Christchurch. J. E. Wearne ... Larry's Creek Nelson ... 1 Oct., 1876 To Mawbai ... Hawke's Bay ... Napier. Jane Snow ... Lee Stream ... Otago ... 1 Oct., 1876 Turiroa ...... Hawke's Bay ... Napier. James Mclnroe ... Little Grey Westland ... 1 Dec., 1876 Waiheke ...... Auckland ...... Auckland. Junction Waitekauri ... Auckland ...... Thames. John Edward Ja- Longbeach, ... Canterbury... 16 Oct., 1876 Whatipu ...... Auckland ...... Auckland. combs Whakataki ... Wellington ... We llington. Alexr. McCallum Manuka Creek Otago ... 1 Oct., 1876 Whirinaki ...... Auckland ...... Auckland. Henry Boardman Makikibi ... Canterbury ... 1 Dec., 1876 John Bagge ... Masterton ... Wellington... 1 Dec., 1876 Simon Watkins ... Middlemarsh Otago ... 1 Oct., 1876 Post Offices closed. M. O'Connor ... Nelson Creek Nelson .. 1 Nov., 1876 Alfred Levy ... Norsewood ... Hawke's Bay 1 Jan., 1877 James Devery ... No Town ... Nelson ... 1 Oct., 1876 General Post Office, John Munro ... Oroua ... Wellington ... 1 Oct., 1876 Wellington, 23rd January, 1877. Herbert B. Bridge Oxford ... Canterbury ... 10 Oct., 1876 HE following list of Post Offices which have been Arthur Forbes ... PukekoheWest Auckland ... 1 Nov., 1876 closed within the colony is published for general Chas. Littlecott ... Rangitata ... Canterbury ... 1 Dec., 1876 T Robert Jones ... Ravensbourne Otago ... 1 Nov., 1876 information. John Hughes ... Rutherglen ... Westland ... 1 Dec., 1876 D. REID, O. G. A. Harvey Taylorville ... Wellington ... 1 Nov., 1876 (for the Postmaster-General). Robert Warner ... Te Mawhai ... Hawke's Bay 1 Oct., 1876 Geo. E . Sanders ... Toka Toka ... Auckland ... 1 Oct., 1876 In what Provincial J. Collins ... Tuakau ... Auckland ... 1 Nov., 1876 Circulating Office. Name of Office. District. W. J. Elwin ... Turiroa ... Hawke's Bay 1 Dec., 1876 E. S. Sumner ... Wainui ... Canterbury ... 10 Oct., 1876 A. Absolumbe ... Waiau ... Canterbury ... 1 Dec., 1876 Cape Settlement ... Auckland... Auckland. P. L. Francis ... Waiheke ... Auckland ... 1 Nov., 1876 Spreydon ...... Canterbury Christchurch. Thos. Snodgrass ... Waitekauri ... Auckland ... 15 Nov., 1876 Fredk . Bluck ... Waitara ... Taranaki ... 1 Dec., 1876 Geo.W. Carrington .Otago ... 1Oct., 1876 Designation of Post Office changed. John O' Meara ... West Taieri ... Otago ... 1 Dec., 1876 T. M. Hall ... Whatipu ... Auckland ... 1 June, 1876 Sydney Greenland Whakataki ... Wellington... 14 Dec., 1876 General Post Office, Tawehe Graham ... Whirinaki ... Auckland ... 15 Oct., 1876 ITis hereby notifiedWellington, forgeneral 23rd January,information, 1877.that the designation of the Post'Office in the Pro- Members of Waimakariri Harbour Board appointed vincial District of Canterbury formerly known as by Governor. Longbeach (Railway Station), has been changed to WINSLOW. Customs Department (Marine Branch), By order of the Postmaster-General. Wellington, 25th January, 1877. W. GRAY, ITis hereby notified, that His Excellency the Secretary. Governor has been pleased to appoint THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 141

Public Vaccinator appointed. Justice of the Peace appointed.

Colonial Secretary 's Office, Department of Justice, Wellington, 5th February, 1877. Wellington, 7th February, 1877. ITis hereby notified, that,inconformity withthe I] IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to provisions of " The Public Health Act, 1876," His 11 appoint Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint EDWARD HARDCASTLE, Esq., the under -mentioned gentleman to be a Public to be a Justice of the Peace for the colony. Vaccinator, to perform gratuitous vaccination, in CHARLES C. BOWEN. accordance with the provisions of the said Act, and any Regulations made or to be made thereunder, Resident Magistrate, 4 c., appointed. for the district mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and set opposite his name. Department of Justice, CHARLES C . BOWEN, Wellington, 7th February, 1877. (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary). IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint SCHEDULE. EDWARD HARDCASTLE, Esq., J.P., JOHN SMITH, Esq.-Greytown. to be a Resident Magistrate for the District of Crown Solicitor appointed. Wanganui, with jurisdiction to 9100; Auditor of the Courts of Law Trust Accounts for the Districts of Department of Justice, Wanganui and Upper Wanganui ; Chairman of the Wellington, 3rd February, 1877. Licensing Courts fof the Districts of Kai Iwi and HIS' Excellency the Governor has been pleased to Town of Wanganui; Visiting Justice of the Prison appoint at Wanganui; and Sheriff of the District of Wan- SAMUEL THOMAS FITZHERBERT, Esq., ganui and Rangitikei. These appointments date from of Wanganui , to be a Crown Solicitor for the Judicial the 15th instant. District of Wellington , vice C. H. Borlase, Esq., CHARLES C. BOWEN. resigned. CHARLES C . BowEN. Clerk of Courts, 4'c., appointed.

Resident Magistrate appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, 7th February, 1877. Department of Justice, IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased Wellington, 3rd February, 1877. H to appoint IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to MARCUS FURLONG SOUTH, Esq., appoint H to be Deputy Registrar at Hokitika of the Supreme FRANCIS EDWARDSHAMLIN, Esq., R.M., Court, Clerk at Hokitika of the District Court of to be a Resident Magistrate . for the District of Westland, Clerk at Hokitika of the Resident Magis- Opotiki, with jurisdiction to £20. trate's Court for the District of Hokitika, and Clerk CHARLES C. BownN. of the Licensing Courts for the Districts of Kanieri and Town of Hokitika, from the 15th instant, vice E. Clerk of Courts appointed. Hardcastle , Esq., transferred. CHARLES C. BOWEN. Department of Justice, Wellington, 3rd February, 1877. Clerk of Courts appointed. IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to H appoint Department of Justice, JOHN SCOTT WORTHINGTON, Esq., Wellington, 7th February, 1877. to be Clerk at Queenstown of the District Court of HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to the Otago Gold Fields; Clerk at Queenstown of the appoint Resident Magistrate's Court for the District of Otago GARLAND WILLIAM WooN, Esq., Gold Fields ; Clerk of the Licensing Court for the to be Clerk at Wanganui of the Resident Magis- Districts of Queenstown and Town of Queenstown ; trate's Court for the District of Wanganui, and Clerk and Clerk at Queenstown of the Warden's Court of of the Licensing Courts for the Districts of Kai Iwi the Otago Gold Fields, from the 1st instant, vice J. and Town of Wanganui, from the 9th instant, vice S. Hickson, Esq. M. F. South, Esq., transferred. CHARLES C. BOWEN. CHARLES C . BOWEN.

Resident Magistrate , 4'c., resigned. Certted Accountants in Bankruptcy appointed. Department of Justice, Department of Justice, Wellington, 7th February, 1877. Wellington, 7th February, 1877. T is hereby notified, that His Honor the Chief H ISaccept Excellency the resignationthe Governor by has been pleasedto Josnrn GILES, Esq., J.P., I Justicehasappointed Mr. ROBERT N. KEELING, of Palmerston, and as from the 14th instant , of his appointments of Mr. A. A. BROWNS, of Wanganui, Resident Magistrate for the District of Wanganui; Auditor of the Courts of Law Trust Accounts for the to be Certificated AccQuntants in Bankruptcy within the Wellington Judicial District; and that Mr. Districts of Wanganui and Upper Wanganui ; Chair- man of the Licensing Courts for the Districts of Kai District Judge Ward has appointed Iwi and Town of Wanganui ; and Visiting Justice of Mr. JOHN KING, of Timaru, the Prison at Wanganui. to be a Certificated Accountant in Bankruptcy CHARLEs C . BOWEN. within the District of Timaru and Oamaru; and Getting around this CD

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