THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 115

NATHANIEL EDWARDS, to be Captain. Date
of Commission—4th July, 1860.
ALEXANDER KERR, to be Lieutenant. Date
of Commission—4th July, 1860.
BENJAMIN O. HODGSON, to be Ensign. Date
of Commission—4th July, 1860.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 4th July, 1860.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appoint-
ments in the 2nd or "Manukau" Company of
"Onehunga Volunteer Rifles."
JAMES FARMER, to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission—2nd July, 1860.
FRED. M. P. FROOKFIELD, to be Ensign. Date
of Commission—2nd July, 1860.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 5th July, 1860.
THE following Acts, passed by the Su-
perintendent and Provincial Council
of Auckland, intituled,---
"The Public Seal Act, 1860,"
"The Road Act, No. 1, 1860,"
"The Road Act, No. 2, 1860,"
"The Road, Act, No. 3, 1860,"
"Auckland Saving's Bank Estate Act, 1860,"
"Appropriation Act, 1860,"
having been laid before the Governor,
His Excellency has been pleased to leave
the same to their operation.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 5th July, 1860.
THE following Acts, passed by the Su-
perintendent and Provincial Council of
Nelson, intituled,-
"Hackney Carriages Act, Session 7, No. 2."
"Rifle Prize Act, Session 7, No. 3."
"Appropriation Act, Session 7, No. 4."
having been laid before the Governor
His Excellency has been pleased to leave
the same to their operation.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 5th July, 1860.
THE following Bill, passed by the Provincial
Council the of Province of Nelson, inti-
tuled-
"An Act to authorize the Trustees of the
Nelson Institute, to borrow money upon
security of property of the Institute,"
which Bill was reserved for the signification of
the Governor's pleasure thereon, having been
laid before the Governor, His Excellency has
been pleased to assent to the same.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 6th July, 1860.
A T the request of the Government of New
South Wales, the following Notice is
published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

New South Wales,
Department of Public Work,
Sydney, 18th May, 1860.
THE Government of New South Wales
having decided to offer a premium of
£600 for the best, and £300 for the second
best Design for new Houses of Parliament and
Public Offices, Notice is hereby given to pro-
fessional men and others resident in New Zea-
land, that competitive Drawings, with Specifi-
cations and Estimates of the above will be re-
ceived up to the 1st March, 1861, at this
office, addressed to "The Secretary for Public
Works, Sydney," and endorsed "Design for
new Houses of Parliament, &c., for New South
Wales."

Copies of the General Conditions which in-
clude ample detail of the accommodation re-
quired, may be seen, together with Photographic
Views and coloured Plans of the site, on appli-
cation to the Secretary for Crown Lands, Auck-
land.
W. M. ARNOLD.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 4th July, 1860.
THE following Letter, in explanation of the
omission of the name of Alfred Saunders
from the Commission of the Peace, is pub-
lished for general information.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 5th June, 1860.
SIR,--Your having been convicted in the
Supreme Court at Nelson, and sentenced to
fine and imprisonment for a libel on the Dis-
trict Judge there, has rendered it necessary
that you should be removed from the Com-
mission of the Peace; and I have to inform
you that your name is omitted accordingly
from the new Commission now about to be
issued.

In order to avoid any misconception on the
subject, it is proper that I should add that the
propriety of this course is not affected by the
pardon which has been extended to you, as
the remission of a portion of the sentence at
was
imprisonment granted on the ground thof
as your case was the first in which a convic-
tion for libel had taken place, the Law had
been sufficiently vindicated by the punishment
you had already undergone; and it was not
intended, by the course adopted, to express
or imply any disapproval of the sentence
which His Honor the Judge of the Supreme
Court had thought it his duty to pass.
I have, &c.,
FREDK. WHITAKER,
Mr. Alfred Saunders, Nelson.