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the receipt thereof; and all officers are direct-
ed to make themselves acquainted with the
particulars contained therein.
By command,
G. S. WHITMORE,
Major, Asst. Mil. Secy.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 10th July, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
MAJOR GEORGE DEAN PITT,
in the 1st Battalion Auckland Regiment of
Militia, to be Lieutenant-Colonel (for special
service.)
Date of Commission—27th June, 1863.
ALFRED DOMETT.

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Appointment of Officers.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 8th July, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appoint-
ments in the First Battalion of the Wellington
Regiment of Militia:-
Stephen Carkeek, to be Captain. Date of
Commission—2nd June, 1863.
Lieut. John Hugh Bethune, to be Captain.
Date of Commission—3rd June, 1863.
Lieut. William Robert Edward Brown, to be
Captain. Date of Commission—4th June,
1863.
Lieut. Charles Bonnythorn Borlase, to be
Captain. Date of Commission—5th June,
1863.
Charles William Schultz, to be Captain. Date
of Commission—6th June, 1863.
Ensign Alfred Hickson, to be Lieutenant.
Date of Commission—1st June, 1863.
Ensign Robert Hunter, to be Lieutenant.
Date of Commission—2nd June, 1863.
Ensign Charles Daniel De Castro, to be Lieu-
tenant. Date of Commission—3rd June,
1863.
John Tully, to be Lieutenant. Date of Com-
mission—4th June, 1863.
Ensign Richard Septimus Ledger, to be
Lieutenant. Date of Commission—5th
June, 1863.
Ensign John Knowles, to be Lieutenant.
Date of Commission—6th June, 1863.
Samuel Deighton, to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission—8th June, 1863.
Ensign Walter Johnston, to be Lieutenant.
Date of Commission—9th June, 1863.
Edward Pearce, to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission—10th June, 1863.
Joseph Godfrey Holdsworth, to be Ensign.
Date of Commission—1st June, 1863.
Houston Francis Logan, to be Ensign. Date
of Commission—2nd June, 1863.
Robert Pharazyn, to be Ensign. Date of
Commission—3rd June, 1863.

Richard Collins, to be Ensign. Date of Com-
mission—4th June, 1863.
Frederick Hickson, to be Ensign. Date of
Commission—5th June, 1863.
Frederick Arnold Baker, to be Ensign. Date
of Commission—6th June, 1863.
David Brown, to be Ensign. Date of Com-
mission—8th June, 1863.
ALFRED DOMETT.

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Appointment of Officers.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 8th July, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appoint-
ments in the Second Battalion of the Wel-
lington Regiment of Militia (Hutt and Wai-
nuiomata):-
William Beetham, to be Captain. Date of
Commission—10th June, 1863.
James Cruickshank, to be Captain. Date of
Commission—11th June, 1863.
John Grace, to be Captain. Date of Com-
mission—12th June, 1863.
Pierce Cotter, to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission—11th June, 1863.
Richard Barton, junior, to be Ensign. Date
of Commission—11th June, 1863.
ALFRED DOMETT.

The Commissions of the following officers
lapse in consequence of their having left the
Province of Wellington:--
First Battalion.
Captain Robert Park,
Captain Nathaniel Levin,
Lieutenant John Varnham,
Lieutenant Samuel E. Grimstone,
Ensign John G. Kinross.
Second Battalion.
Capt. George G. Carlyon.
ALFRED DOMETT.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 8th July, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept the resignation of
Lieut. Thomas Kebble,
of the First Battalion Wellington Militia.
ALFRED DOMETT.

Resignation by John Gillies, Esq., of his
office of Sheriff.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Judicial Department
Auckland, 6th July, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept the resignation by
JOHN GILLIES, Esq.,
of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, of his
appointment as Sheriff of Otago.
ALFRED DOMETT.