THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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lowing Sections of the "Militia Act Amend-
ment Act, 1860," viz. :-10, 11, 13, 14, 16,
and 18.
12. General Parades of all the Volunteers
in each District shall be held on a day in each
quarter to be fixed by the Governor.
13. Each Troop or Company which shall
consist of sixty Volunteers or more, shall
receive from the Government annually the
sum of seventy-five pounds.
14. Each Volunteer, after four years' service
as such, shall be at all times thereafter exempt
from attendance for training and exercise in
the Militia; half the period of service of
Volunteers under former Regulations this day
abolished, shall be allowed to reckon.
15. Every Volunteer shall take the following
Oath, to be administered to him by the Com-
manding Officer of the body of Volunteers in
which he intends to serve, or by the Adjutant of
Militia.
I, do sincerely promise and
swear that I will be faithful and bear true
allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
and that I will faithfully serve in the
until I shall be lawfully dis-
charged."
16. In the construction of these Regulations
the phrase "Officer Commanding" shall, in
case of his absence from the District, or
incapacity to act by reason of illness, or any
other cause, mean the Officer of the same body
of Volunteers next in seniority.

HAMPDEN WILLIS,
For Clerk of Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 16th January, 1862.

REFERRING to the above Regulations
for Volunteer Forces, the Government
will propose a measure to the House of
Representatives making provision to the fol-
lowing effect:-

"In the case of any Volunteer Officer being
killed on service, his family shall be entitled to
such pension as they would have been entitled
to had he been an Officer of the same rank in
Her Majesty's Regular Service; and, in the
case of a Non-commissioned Officer or Private
being killed on service, he shall, for the pur-
poses of such pension, be taken to have ranked
with an Ensign of Her Majesty's Regular
Forces."

WILLIAM FOX,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 18th January, 1862.

THE following letter to the Deputy Adju-
tant-General of Militia and Volunteers is
published for general information.

WILLIAM Fox.

No. 10. Militia Branch.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 16th January, 1862.
SIR,-The issue of new Regulations for the
enrolment of Volunteers in New Zealand ne-
cessitates the disbandment of the present Force,
and I have to request you, in communicating
this circumstance to the respective Commanding
Officers of Volunteer Corps, to express through
them to the Officers, Non-Commissioned Offi-
cers and Privates of each Corps the full appre-
ciation by His Excellency the Governor of the
public spirit which led to the formation of
these Corps, and to convey to them His Ex-
cellency's best thanks for the services which
they have thus rendered to the Colony in a time
of difficulty.
In these sentiments His Excellency's Res-
ponsible Advisers cordially join.
The new Regulations have been framed with
a view to the further encouragement of the
Volunteer movement and to the permanent
establishment, in this Colony, of a Volunteer
Force on an improved basis, and it is earnestly
hoped that they will lead to the attainment of
so desirable a result.
I have, &c., WILLIAM FOX.
Lieut.-Colonel Balneavis,
Deputy Adjutant General.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 18th, January 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
THOMAS MOORE PHILSON, Esq., M.D.,
to be Coroner for the General District of
Auckland, as defined hereunder.

HENRY SEWELL.

Warrant Defining District under "Coro-
ners' Act, 1858."

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight, Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependen-
cies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Coroners' Act,
1858," the Governor is empowered, in
the manner there in mentioned, to appoint fit
persons to be Coroners of the several Districts
of the Colony of New Zealand, and from time
to time to define the Districts within which
such Coroners shall respectively have juris-
diction, and every such definition to revoke or
amend, and the limits of such Districts to alter
as occasion may require:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of
the said power and authority, do hereby
define the District of

AUCKLAND,
in the Province of Auckland, to be all the
territory lying and being within a radius of
Twenty (20) miles from the Government
House at Auckland, exclusive of the Pro-
vincial Hospital, the Lunatic Asylum, and the