Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 5, 4 March 1885, Page 38

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1885, pages 279 and 280.) Fixing Shooting Season for Native and Im-ported Game, License Fee, &c., Southland District.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor. IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and “ The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1881,” I, William Francis Drummond Jcrvois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that hares may be taken or killed within the Southland District, consisting of so much of the County of Southland as lies to the westward of the Mataura River, together with the Counties of Fiord, Wallace, and Stewart Island, from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, both inclusive (subject nevertheless to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And Ido further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment

of the sum of thirty shillings each, and that licenses to sell such game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Invercargill is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses. And Ido further notify that native game (excepting tuis) may be taken or killed within the said district between the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, to the thirtyfirst day of July, one thousand eight hundred , and eightyfive, both inclusive. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five. P. A. BUCKLEY.

Clerk of Resident Magistrate's Court appointed.

Department of Justice, Wellington, 24th February, 1885. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable Frederick James Daniel Sams to bo Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Opotiki. Jos. A. TOLE.

Police Gaoler appointed.

Prisons Department, Wellington, 20th February, 1885. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Sergeant Francis Henry Morice to be Gaoler of the Police Gaol at Waimate, in the County of Waimate, vice Sergeant Ramsay, transferred. Jos. A. TOLE.