THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 453

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 8th October, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs the
republication of the following Notice to
Mariners, received from the Government of
the Cape of Good Hope.
ALFRED DOMETT.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Table Bay Harbour Works.
THE following notice to Mariners is pub-
lished for general information.
Notice is hereby given that a Green Light
of the 6th order will be exhibited on the
staging forming the outer arm of the Harbour
Works, on and after the 1st day of November,
1863.
This Light will be 25 feet above Highwater
Mark, and will proceed outwards as the works
progress. Showing between the bearings of
North round by East to South, consequently
will not be seen until Vessels (entering the
Port) have rounded the Mouille Light.
The light has been erected to guide Ships
entering the Port of Table Bay from a too
close proximity to the Works.
H. WILSON, Port Captain.
Port Office, Cape Town, 31st July, 1863.

Appointment of Health Officer for the Port of
Otago.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 1st October, 1863.
IT is notified for public information that
JOHN DUNCAN NIVENS, ESQ., M.D.
has been appointed Health Officer for the
Port of Otago.
ALFRED DOMETT.

Justices of the Peace Appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 30th September, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
Henry Elmhirst Reader, Esq., Canterbury.
Benjamin Michael Moorhouse, Esq., "
Alexander Lean, Esq., "
John Ollivier, Esq., "
William Henry Simms, Esq., "
Herbert Belfield, Esq., "
George Kirton, Esq., "
John Kirwan, Esq., Wellington,
John Marshall, Esq., of Tututora, Province
of Wellington,
to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of
New Zealand.
ALFRED DOMETT.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 5th October, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

Major-General Thomas James Galloway to
command the Colonial Defence Force in
New Zealand. Date of Commission-Sep-
tember 20th, 1863.
T. RUSSELL.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, October 9th, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appoint-
ments, viz.:-
In the Auckland Militia.
Lieutenant Raleigh Peacocke, to be Captain.
Date of Commission October 4th, 1863.
Lieutenant Archibald William Ramsay David-
son, to be Captain. Date of Commission-
October 5th, 1863.
William St. Clare Tisdall, to be Captain and
Quarter-Master. Date of Commission-
October 6th, 1863.
Robert Johnstone, to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission-September 18th, 1863.
Ensign George Rayner, to be Lieutenant.
Date of Commission-October 1st, 1863.
Ensign Lewes Rye, to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission-October 4th, 1863.
Patrick Dowell Malone, to be Ensign. Date
of Commission-September 25th, 1863.
Robert Smelt Bush, to be Ensign. Date of
Commission-September 30th, 1863.
William De Renzie Ribton Turner, to be
Ensign. Date of Commisson-October 4th,
1863.
Cranley Lancelot Perry, to be Ensign. Date
of Commission-October 5th, 1863.
Hugh Stratford, to be Ensign. Date of Com-
mission-October 6th, 1863.
Alfred Mason Speedy, to be Ensign. Date of
Commission-October 7th, 1863.
Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Stewart, to be
Surgeon. Date of Commission-September
12th, 1863.
Joseph Giles, to be Surgeon. Date of Com-
mission-October 6th, 1863.
Captain Oswald Pilling, to be Adjutant in the
3rd Battalion. Date of Commission--Sep-
tember 29th, 1863.

In the Wanganui Militia.
William Finnimore, to be Ensign. Date of
Commission-September 28th, 1863.
T. RUSSELL.

Native Office,
Auckland September 30th, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has directed
the publication of the following letter
from the master of the "Salcombe Castle,"
for general information.
READER WOOD,
In the absence of the Native Minister.

Auckland, September 30th, 1863.
SIR,-As late master of the schooner "Sal-
combe Castle," wrecked on the 16th instant,
near Mongonui Bluff, on the West Coast of
New Zealand, I desire to bring under the