GAZETTE NOTICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10406, 2 April 1897, Page 5

GAZETTE NOTICES.

[BY TELKQUAPU.-PKES3 ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Thursday. Mr. R. L. Stanford, S.M., is gazetted Commissioner of the Land Court, and Mr. J. Brooking, of Gisborne, sub-Commis-sioner.

Mm. S. R. Hendro, of Auckland, ie to be official visitor of the asylum there. Tho recently announced changes of medical superintendents qf asylums are gazetted, Major Blinks, temporarily in charge of tho Auckland Volunteer District, is appointed Lieutenant-Colonel while holding command.

Me. J. VI. Sawle, of Hinds, has resigned from tho (.'ommiesion of tho Peace.

The following volunteer changes are (•Melted:—Captain Sutcliffe of Marbon, tenuferred to the honorary unattached (let i Captain McCartney, of Napier, to the Wellington Diitvicb Reserve Corps; and Lieutenant Men , , of Murtoii, to the tame corp»» Captain Miller of tho Invcrcargill Guards has resigned. The services of (he Kingfa College Cadets, Auckland, have been Accepted, i. A despatch containing amended regulations for preventing collisions at sea is gazetted. Friday, Saturday, and Monday, tho 16th, 17th, and 19th, are gazetted public holidays.

It ia reported that the value of the produce of the Salvation Army colony for the past year was £3'2,684. The income from fruit, alone was £1800, from dairy produce £2000, and from bricks made in the colony £3000. The result of the year's working on tho colony shows a considerable improvement on the previous year. In an English medical journal there is the report of a farmer who was made deaf, temporarily, by a hayseed which got in at harvest time and was found sprouted in the inner ear.

A chiolten dealer at Bastings was sent to gaol for six months for plucking live fowls. It was asserted than feathers pulled from live birds wero better than those from dead ones. " If, within the next four years," says John Watwmaker, "good times do nob come, the new contury will usher in chanees that will be severely felt to the moat remote corner ot the world." . A rabbiter named H. Smith died lately in the Silverton Hospital, and in his certificate Dr. Belgrave stated that death was caused by gradual poisoning from inhaling and handling phosphorus used for poisoning rabbits.

Of late there has been a considerable in. crease of lucerne, grown in England. In 1892 the area under this orop was 16,500 acres in Great Britain, while last year the area was upwards of 27,000 acres. The Takapuha Jockey Ulub advertise elsewhere for the-'delivery of saud to the racecourse.