Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, January 9th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
FRANCIS DART FENTON, Esq.,
to be Resident Magistrate at Whaingaroa.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, January 9th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
Mr. DAVID JOHNSON
to be Emigration Officer for the Port of Nel-
son.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, January 9th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct the publication of the
following list of Officers in the Auckland Bat-
tallion of New Zealand Militia, with the date
of their respective commissions:-

COLONEL.
His Excellency the Governor.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL.
Henry Matson, date of Commission, 9th April
1845.

MAJOR.
Vacant.

CAPTAINS.
Charles Henry Montresor Smith, date of Com-
mission, 1st December, 1856.
Theodore Minet Haultain, date of Commission
2nd December, 1856.
Francis Eastwood Campbell, date of Commis-
sion 3rd December, 1856.
John Alexander Charles Peffley, date of Com-
mission, 4th December, 1856.
Thomas Beckham, date of Commission, 5th
December, 1856.
Walter Murray, date of Commission, 6th
January, 1857.

LIEUTENANTS.
Charles Hunter McIntosh, date of Commission,
11th April, 1845.
Frederick Ward Merriman, date of Commis-
sion, 11th April, 1845.
William Mason, date of Commission, 11th
April, 1845.
Reader Gillson Wood, date of Commission, 1st
November, 1845.-
George Eliott Eliott, date of Commission, 1st
December, 1856.
James Buchanan, date of Commission, 9th De-
cember, 1856.

ENSIGNS.
Wynne Peyton Gray, date of Commission, 1st
December, 1856...
John Skerrett Hickson, date of Commission,
2nd December, 1856.

2

Henry John Wynyard, date of Commission,
3rd December, 1856.
Henry Eyre Kenny, date of Commission, 4th
December, 1856.
Alexander Charles Phipps Macdonald, date of
Commission, 5th December, 1856.
Charles James Christopher Smith Wilson,
date of Commission, 6th December, 1856.

CAPTAIN AND ADJUTANT.
Henry Colin Balneavis date of Commission,
7th October, 1856.

SURGEON.
Thomas Moore Philson, date of Commission,
8th December, 1856.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

NOTICE TO POSTMASTERS

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, January 9th, 1857.
IT is hereby notified that from and after the
14th February next the maintenance of all
Post Office establishments in the Colony,
with the exception of those which are borne on
the Estimates of the Government of New
Zealand, will devolve upon the Provincial
Governments.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, January 9th, 1857.
THE following Correspondence on the sub-
ject of the New Zealand Steam Postal
Service is published for general information.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

VICTORIA.
Chief Secretary's Office,
Melbourne, 28th October, 1856.
Sir,
Adverting to your letter of the 26th Sep-
tember on the subject of Postal Communication,
I have the honour, by desire of the Chief
Secretary, to state that as no copy of the con-
tract for the Steam Mail service between Great
Britain and the Australian Colonies has yet
reached this Colony, it is feared that it will not
be possible to take any immediate steps towards
the establishment of the Branch Intercolonial
Mail Services.

I have, &c.,
J. MOORE,
Under Secretary.
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary,
New Zealand.