406 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Captain and Adjutant Alfred Ross, Wanganui Militia
-Adjutancy only.
Lieutenant J. F. Ballard, Canterbury Rifle Volun-
teers.
Ensign C. P. Soulsby, Canterbury Rifle Volun-
teers.
Ensign T. B. Hamilton, Auckland Militia.
Assistant-Surgeon T. Venn, Napier Militia.
T. RUSSELL.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 7th November, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the following appointments, viz. :--

In the Auckland Militia.
Lieutenant John Peter du Moulin to be Captain.
Date of Commission, 3rd November, 1864,

In the Taranaki Militia.
Lieutenant James Hirst, to be Captain. Date of
Commission, 25th of October, 1864.
Lieutenant Robert Chisenhall Hammerton, to be
Captain. Date of Commission, 26th October,
1864.
Ensign Arthur Standish, to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission, 25th October, 1864.
Ensign Garland William Woon, to be Lieutenant.
Date of Commission, 26th October, 1864.

In the Napier Militia.
Alexander Todd, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Date of Commission, 28th October, 1864.

In the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry Corps.
Henry Elmhirst Reader, to be Captain-Commandant,
Date of Commission, 26th October, 1864.
John Cracroft Wilson, C.B., to be Captain. Date
of Commission, 26th October, 1864.
William Thomson, to be Captain. Date of Commis-
sion, 27th October, 1864.
Edward Jerningham Wakefield, to be Captain. Date
of Commission, 28th October, 1864.
Llewelyn Price Traherne, to be Lieutenant. Date
of Commission, 26th October, 1864.
Colin Campbell Aikman, to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission, 27th October, 1864.
William Sefton Moorhouse, to be Lieutenant. Date
of Commission, 28th October, 1864.
William Musgrave Anderson, to be Cornet. Date of
Commission, 26th October, 1864.
John Campbell Aikman, to be Cornet. Date of
Commission, 27th October, 1864.
The Honorable Henry John Tancred, to be Cornet.
Date of Commission, 28th October, 1864.

In the Canterbury Rifle Volunteers.
Crosbie Ward, to be Captain. Date of Commission,
26th October, 1864.
George Packe, to be Captain. Date of Commission,
27th October, 1864.
Charles Cook, to be Lieutenant. Date of Commis-
sion, 26th October, 1864.
Richard James Strachan Harman, to be Lieutenant.
Date of Commission, 27th October, 1864.
Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort, to be Ensign. Date
of Commission, 26th October, 1864.

In the Invercargill Rifle Volunteers.
James Harvey, to be Captain. Date of Commission,
25th October, 1864.
John McDonald, to be Lieutenant. Date of Com-
mission, 25th October, 1864.
Archibald Bonar, junior, to be Ensign. Date of
Commission, 25th October, 1864.
T. RUSSELL.

POSTAL.

Appointment of Postmasters.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 8th November, 1864.

IN virtue of the powers delegated to me by His
Excellency the Governor, the following appoint-
ments have been made in the service of the Colony.

READER G. WOOD,
For the Postmaster-General.

Southland.
James Clark, to be Postmaster at Gummy's Bush,
from 25th July, 1864.

Otago.
Thomas Kinross, to be Postmaster at Long Valley,
from 1st August, 1864.
Thomas Stitfield, to be Postmaster at Kawarau Gorge,
from 10th August, 1864.
Robert Miller, to be Postmaster at Molyneux Town-
ship, from 16th August, 1864.
Francis Thomas Walker, to be Postmaster at Oma-
rama, from 1st September, 1864.
Richard Wilson, to be Postmaster at Merven Hills,
from 1st September, 1864.
George Hay Low, to be Postmaster at Upper Ferry,
from 1st September, 1864.
Thomas Goodwin, to be Postmaster at Maori Point,
from 1st September, 1864.

Nelson.
John James Chamberlain, to be Postmaster at
Appleby, from 1st October, 1864.

Auckland.
Frederick John Yates, to be Postmaster at Mauku,
from 1st August, 1864.
Dominie Petty, to be Postmaster at Hamilton, from
20th August, 1864.
Edmund Lockhart, to be Postmaster at Alexandra,
from 24th August, 1864.
Richard Smith, to be Postmaster at Matakohi, from
1st July, 1864.
John Henry Wilkinson, to be Postmaster at Cam-
bridge, from 8th September, 1864.

Marlborough.
George Hamilton Gilmour, to be Postmaster at the
Forks.
George Macarteney Abbott, to be Postmaster at Deep
Creek, from 1st October, 1864.

Canterbury.
George Boleyn, to be Postmaster at Akaloa Bay,
from 1st July, 1864.

Taranaki.
Elwin Brodie Dickson, to be Chief Postmaster at
New Plymouth, from 1st October, 1864.

MARINE BOARD.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 28th October, 1864.

THE following notice received from the Marine
Board relative to a Sunken Rock or Reef, is
published for general information.

G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

Notice to Mariners.

Mr. Hugh Mackie, Master of the Steamship
"Gothenberg," reports that at 7.30 p.m., of the 6th
October, whilst on his passage from Melbourne viâ
the Bluff, to Port Chalmers, the ship struck slightly
on a sunken Rock or reef. The followings hangs
are given (but no soundings).