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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

POSTAL.

Adjutants and Officers commanding corps of
Militia and Volunteers in the North
Island to frank and receive Official
Letters.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 20th July, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to authorise

ADJUTANTS and OFFICERS commanding
corps of MILITIA and VOLUNTEERS in
the North Island to frank and receive
Official Letters and Packets free.

ALFRED DOMETT,
For the Postmaster General.

POSTAL.

Alteration in Rates of Postage on Correspon-
dence viâ Marseilles.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 27th July, 1863.

THE following Despatch received from the
General Post Office at London is pub-
lished for general information.

ALFRED DOMETT,
For the Postmaster-General.

General Post Office,
London, 26th May, 1863.

SIR,—I am directed by the Postmaster
General to acquaint you that, commencing
with the first mail despatched to your office
from this country, viâ Marseilles, after the 1st
proximo, the whole postage on the letters by
that route will be collected entirely by the
scale in operation for letters forwarded viâ
Southampton, and in order to cover the transit
rate paid to France, 4d. up to the weight of
-ounce instead of 3d. per 1-ounce, will be
levied.

Thus the new rates of Postage on Letters
sent viâ Marseilles, will be as follows:—

The Secretary of State for the Colonies has
been requested to communicate this decision to
the Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand, and you will no doubt shortly
receive instructions to collect the same rates on
the correspondence forwarded in the mails from
your office for the United Kingdom by the
route of Marseilles.

As this new regulation will alter all the
rates of postage to be collected at your office
on letters sent in transit through the United
Kingdom when forwarded viâ Marseilles, I
have caused an amended Table of Rates to be

prepared, and enclose some copies for your
guidance.

I am, &c.,
R. HILL.

The Postmaster-General,
&c., &c., &c.,
Auckland.

POSTAL.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 24th July, 1863.

THE following Time Table for a Mail Ser-
vice between Wellington and Manukau,
is published for general information.

ALFRED DOMETT,
For the Post-master General.

Time Table for a Service to be performed by the N. Z.
S. N. Company, between Wellington and Manakau
calling at Wanganui, Taranaki, and Raglan, going
and returning.

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 25th July, 1863.

THE appointments in the Wellington
Militia published in Gazette No. 28 of
the 11th July, 1863, page 271, are hereby
cancelled, and the following substituted.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appoin-
ment in the first Battalion of the Weingon
Regiment of Militia :-

James Coutts Crawford, to be Captain, date
of commission, 1st Juue, 1863.
Stephen Carkeek, to be Captain, date of
commission, 2nd June, 1863.
Edward Battersbee, to be Captain, date o
commission, 3rd June, 1863.
George Hunter, to be Captain, date of com-
mission, 4th June, 1863.
John Johnston, to be Captain, date of com-
mission, 5th Juue, 1863.
John Hugh Bethune, to be Captain, date of
commission, 6th June, 1863.
William Robert Edward Brown, to be Cap-
tain, date of commission, 7th June,
1863.
Charles Bonnythorn Borlase, to be Captain,
date of commission, 8th June, 1863.