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Private Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 28th June, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY ARTHUR SCOTT

to be Captain of the Volunteer Corps of Canterbury Rifles.

By his Excellency’s command,

F. G. STEWARD,
Private Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 6th July, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be, on and from the first day of October next, Registrars under The Marriage Act, 1854, and The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858,* for the Districts set opposite their respective names as those Districts are severally described in a Proclamation bearing date the 6th July, 1859.

Mount Grey—Thomas Uphill Wilson
Kaiapoi—Joseph Ashe Day
Christchurch—Alfred Chas. Barker
Ashburton—Edward Chapman
Timaru—Belfield Woollcombe
Lyttelton—William Donald
Akaroa—Daniel Watkins

Until the first of October next, the arrangements at present existing with respect to the divisions of Districts and the appointments of Registrars are to continue in force.

HENRY JOHN TANCRED.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 6th July, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be, on and from the first day of October next, Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, under The Registration Act, 1858,* for the Districts set opposite their respective names, as those Districts are severally described in a Proclamation under the said Act, bearing date the 6th July, 1859.

Mount Grey—Thomas Uphill Wilson
Kaiapoi—Joseph Ashe Day
Christchurch—Alfred Chas. Barker
Ashburton—Edward Chapman
Timaru—Belfield Woollcombe
Lyttelton—William Donald
Akaroa—Daniel Watkins

Until the first of October next, the arrangements now existing with respect to the divisions of Districts and the appointments of Registrars are to continue in force.

HENRY JOHN TANCRED.

Resident Magistrate’s Office,
Christchurch, 27th June, 1859.

I HEREBY certify that

MR. JOHN MURPHY

has this day submitted to me his degrees of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Edinburgh, and his diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and has thereby proved himself a legally qualified medical practitioner, under the provisions of the Medical Practitioners Ordinance of New Munster.

JOHN HALL,
Resident Magistrate.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, August 9, 1859.

IN accordance with the provisions of an Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the Waste Lands Act, 1854, the following amended regulations for the manage-

By His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf vested in him by the said recited Act, doth hereby make and ordain the following regulations under which the services of Volunteers shall be accepted in the District of Christchurch.

1. The term of service for each Volunteer to be one year from the day he is sworn in, provided always that if any Volunteer shall go to reside out of the district, he shall, if he desire, be discharged from further service as a Volunteer.

2. Every Volunteer shall attend to be trained and exercised at such time and place as shall be fixed by the Governor, or by such person or persons as he may, from time to time, authorise in that behalf. Provided always that no Volunteer shall be compelled to attend to be trained or exercised more than one hundred and sixty-eight hours in any one year.

3. All Officers of companies will be appointed by the Governor, and names for that purpose are to be submitted to him for his approval by the company to which they are proposed to be appointed, and all Sergeants and Corporals must be examined, and passed as competent, by the Adjutant, before they will be appointed.

4. All rolls, documents, and correspondence shall be kept at the office of the Adjutant, and shall be open at all times during office hours for the inspection and information of the Officers of the company to which they relate.

5. All orders and communications from the Governor, or Government of the Colony, shall be transmitted to and given out by the Adjutant.

6. Every Volunteer who shall absent himself during any part of the time appointed for training or exercise, and shall not account for such absence to the satisfaction of the Adjutant and the Captain of his company, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding one pound for every day on which he shall be so absent.

7. If any Arms, Accoutrements, Ammunition, or other Government property shall be injured, destroyed, or expended, by being used except on service, the Volunteer in whose charge such Arms, Accoutrements, or Ammunition, or other property were at the time, shall pay a sum not exceeding the value of the same respectively.

8. Every Volunteer who shall appear at drill without the appointed Arms, Accoutrements, and Dress, or any part thereof, or with the same in a dirty or neglected state, shall pay a sum not exceeding ten shillings for every such offence.

9. Every Volunteer who shall be guilty of insubordination, or carelessness, or who shall misbehave himself at drill in any manner, not before specified, shall pay a sum not exceeding twenty shillings nor less than five shillings for every such offence.

10. All such fines shall be fixed by the Captain and Adjutant, and shall be paid to the Adjutant on demand, and if not so paid they may be recovered in a summary way by him, on behalf of the Government, in any Resident Magistrate’s Court in the Colony.

11. Volunteers enrolled under these Regulations shall be subject to the provisions contained in the following Clauses of the Militia Act, 1858, namely, Sections 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 13, 19, 20, 21, (except the proviso thereto;) 22, 23, (except when assembled for the purpose of being trained and exercised only;) and 24.

F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.