NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 426, 10 April 1880, Page 17

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The Gazette of the Ist instant contains the following notifications : Tr ; al of Maori prisoners.—The Order in Council, made under the authority of the Confiscated Lands Inquiry and Maori Prisoners' Trials Act, 1879, fixing Monday, the sth April instant, as the date for trial of natives at the Supreme Court, Wellington, has been varied, and the date of such trial has been now fixed for Monday, the 15th July next. New Zealand University. New and amended regulations, adopted by the Senate and approved in Council, are published. Railways.—Descriptions are given in detail of lands taken for branch line Lumsden to Mararoa (Lumsden section), Invercargill and Kingston railway, and branch line Edendale to Toitois (Wyndham section) Waitaki-Bluff Railway. Assessment Court.—The time for sitting of Coart, Mount Eden Highway District, has been extended to the 6th instant. . .

Apppointraents.—J. W. Bain and J. Thompson, trustees Borough of Winton Sinking Fund, vice Sir J. L. C. Richardson, deceased, and W. P. Grifer, resigned ; J. W. Johnson, G. L. Sunderland, A. McKenzie, J. Clark, and W. W. Smith, members of County Cook Cattle Board ; A. C. Henderson, Clerk of Licensing Court, Campbelltown, vice Sergeant C. Routledge ; E. H. Potter (Auckland) and W. F.Robinson (r'oxton), Accountants in Bankruptcy ; J. S. Pickett, Assistant Surveyor, from March 28, 1878; F. W. Hunt, Cadet, from August 7, 1877 ; G. J. Parker, Assistant. Draughtsman, Survey Department, from February 17, 1877 ; Wellington Naval Volunteers, Sub.-Lieutenant R. B. Wallace to be Lieutenant, from 11th February, 1880. Resignations.—Hugh Jones, as Justice of the Peace for the Colony ; C. H. Brown, J.P., as Member of Licensing Court and Visiting Justice to Prison, Nelßon ; Second Lieutenant F. D. Holdsworth, I Battery of Artillery, from February 9 ; Lieutenant L. M. Grace, Napier Engineer Volunteers, from February 27 ; Sub-Lieutenant John Leslie, Christchurch City Guards, from February 20. Despatch.—A despatch to the Colonial Secretary from Downing-street, covering copy of Act confirming validity of certain marriages of British subjects on board her Majesty's ships (42 and 42 Vict., cap. 29) is published, and also copy of such Act. A supplement to the Gazette published yes* terday contains notification under the Property Assessment Act, 1879 : The boundaries of the Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, Waitaki, Otago, and Southland Property Assessment Districts are defined, as also regulations and schedule of forms.

Appointments.—The following appointments under the Act have been made : Deputy Property Tax Commissioners—Auckland, B. Maclean ; Napier, S. T. Collins ; Wellington, C. M. Crombie ; Nelson, T. Mackay ; Canterbury, E. C. Latter ; Otago, R. B. Martin ; Southland, W. Stuart. Chief clerks—Wellington, J. McGowan ; Auckland, W. W. Bodman ; Christchurch, F. J. M. D. Walmsley ; Dunedin, Alexander Willis. Clerks and cadets—Wellington, V. Janisch and G. F. C. Campbell, clerks ; J. M. King and J. E. Smith, cadets. Auckland — B. J. Maclean, clerk ; E. B. Heywood, cadet. Nelson —M. J. Andrew?, clerk ; G. Raikes, cadet. Christchurch- C. Bolton, clerk ; F. C. Latter and E. H. Fisher, cadets. Dunedin —W. M. Adams, clerk ; N. J. Larmer, cadet.