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Native Secretary's Department,
Wellington, 10th August, 1865.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
direct that Letters Patent should be issued
appointing
HENRY ALFRED HOME MONRO, Esquire,
a Judge of the Compensation Court of New
Zealand.
J. C. RICHMOND.

POSTAL.
Appointment of Postmasters.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 29th August, 1865.
IN virtue of the powers delegated to the Post-
master-General by His Excellency the Governor,
the following appointments have been made in the
Postal Service of the Colony.
J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Postmaster-General.

OTAGO.
Gordon Hughman, to be Postmaster at Taieri Beach.
William Horne, to be Postmaster at Arthur's Point,
from 1st April, 1865.
Colin Fraser, to be Postmaster at Clutha Ferry, from
21st April, 1865.
James Cook, to be Postmaster at Upper Waitaki
Ferry, from 1st May, 1865.
Robert McDougall, to be Postmaster at Twelve-mile
Creek, from 25th April, 1865.
Robert Deighton, to be Postmaster at Oamarama,
from 1st April, 1865.
Thomas Richard Brooke, to be Postmaster at Outram,
West Taieri, from 8th May, 1865.
Mark Higgins, to be Postmaster at Waitahuna, from
1st June, 1865.
Charles Higgs, to be Postmaster at Beaumont, from
24th July, 1865.
Amos McKegg, to be Postmaster at Otakia, from 1st
July, 1865.
George Polson, to be Postmaster at Warepa, from
10th August, 1865.

CANTERBURY.
Henry Richards, M.D., to be Postmaster at Race-
course Hill, from 1st January, 1865.
John Rankin, to be Postmaster at Addington, from
1st July, 1865.
James Carstairs, to be Postmaster at Leeston, from
1st July, 1865.
John Tucker Ford, to be Postmaster at Selwyn
Forks, from 1st July, 1865.
Matthew Robson, to be Postmaster at South Rakaia,
from 1st July, 1865.
J. E. Shrubsole, to be Postmaster at North Rakaia,
from 1st July, 1865.
John Senior Woodhouse, to be Postmaster at Leith-
field, from 1st July, 1865.
William Savage, to be Postmaster at River Selwyn,
from 1st July, 1865.
John Hay, to be Postmaster at Lake Tekapo, from
1st July, 1865.
William Bundle, to be Postmaster at Templeton,
from 12th June, 1865.
James Clark, to be Postmaster at Forktown, from
20th June, 1865.
Thomas Wadsworth, to be Postmaster at Orari, from
1st January, 1865.
A. V. Shelley, to be Postmaster at Selwyn, from 1st
January, 1865.
James Blyth, to be Postmaster at Prebbleton, from
1st August, 1865.

AUCKLAND.
Stephen Parrell, to be Postmaster at Mongonui,
from 1st June, 1865.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Kenneth Morrison, to be Postmaster at Waipu,
from 1st July, 1865.
Edward Brophy, to be Postmaster at Newton, from
1st July, 1865.
Theodore Keele, to be Postmaster at Cambridge,
from 1st July, 1865.
Henry Mancroft, to be Postmaster at Port Albert,
from 1st July, 1865.
Joseph Crispe, to be Postmaster at Mauku, from 1st
July, 1865.
B. O'Donnell, to be Postmaster at Papatoitoi, from
1st July, 1865.
Henry Stoney, to be Postmaster at Wade, from 16th
August, 1865.

HAWKE'S BAY.
James Matthews, to be Postmaster at Hampden,
from 1st June, 1865.
Melville Smith, to be Postmaster at Peka Peka, from
1st July, 1865.

WELLINGTON.
John McDonald, to be Postmaster at Wangaehu,
from 1st August, 1865.

POSTAL.
Patterns of Merchandise may be transmitted by Post
to and from Italy, through the United Kingdom,
under the same regulations as printed papers.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 29th August, 1865.
THE following Despatches respecting the trans-
mission of Patterns of Merchandise to and
from Italy by post through the United Kingdom are
published for general information.
J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Postmaster-General.

General Post Office,
London, 13th February, 1865.
SIR, At the request of the Director-General of
the Italian Post Office the Postmaster-General has
made arrangements under which patterns and sam-
ples of merchandise may be forwarded by the post
from Italy through the United Kingdom to any of
the British Colonies, between which and the United
Kingdom patterns can be sent at the same reduced
rates of charge as books.

These arrangements will apply to patterns from
Italy addressed to New Zealand.

The Italian and British postage will in all cases
be paid in advance, and the packets of patterns will
be delivered over to your office as book packets from
Italy are delivered over—that is, without any claim,
and consequently they will be liable on delivery to
the Colonial inland rate only.

The Postmaster-General hopes that the Colonial
Postal Regulations in New Zealand will admit of
such patterns from Italy being charged with no
higher rate of postage than is charged on books
having the same origin.

I am directed at the same time to state that, if
the Government of New Zealand should consider it
desirable to forward patterns and samples through
the United Kingdom to Italy, such an arrangement
can be adopted. In this case, the postage to be
collected in advance and accounted for to this office
for patterns addressed to Italy will be the same as is
collected and accounted for on books addressed to
Italy.

I am, &c.,
F. HILL.
The Postmaster-General, Auckland.

General Post Office,
19th June, 1865,
SIR, Referring to my circular letter of the 18th