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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Ensign Joe Dransfield to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission, 12th February, 1866.
Ensign James Carter to be Lieutenant. Date of
Commission, 13th February, 1866.
Charles John Johnston to be Ensign. Date of
Commission, 3rd February, 1866.
George Henry Vennell to be Ensign. Date of Com-
mission, 12th February, 1866.
Patrick Alphonsus Buckley to be Ensign. Date of
Commission, 13th February, 1866.
Morgan Stanislaus Grace, M.D., to be Surgeon.
Date of Commission, 13th February, 1866.

In the Napier Militia.
Cornet Arthur Tuke (Cavalry Volunteers) to be
Lieutenant. Date of Commission, 24th
November, 1865.

In the Otago Rifle Volunteers.
Alfred James to be Captain (Bruce Company.) Date
of Commission, 26th December, 1865.
James Allan to be Captain (East Taieri Company.)
Date of Commission, 27th December, 1865.
John Barton to be Captain (Wakari Rangers.)
Date of Commission, 28th December, 1865.
Henry Harraway to be Lieutenant (North Dunedin
Company.) Date of Commission, 26th
December, 1865.
James Fulton to be Lieutenant (West Taieri
Rangers.) Date of Commission, 27th De-
cember, 1865.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1866.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the Commissions held
by the undermentioned officers, viz. :-
Captain Hugh Cleland, as Captain of the Hutt
Rifle Volunteers.
Captain W. F. Moore, Canterbury Engineer
Volunteers.
Lieutenant E. C. Hilton, Canterbury Rifle Volun-
teers.
Lieutenant Arthur Bayly, Taranaki Militia. Dated
12th January, 1866.
Cornet Charles M. Ollivier, Canterbury Yeomanry
Cavalry Volunteers.
Ensign George S. Nichol, Auckland Militia. Dated
23rd September, 1865.
Surgeon Charles France, Wellington Militia.
Surgeon Leonard Boor, Hutt Rifle Volunteers.
Assistant - Surgeon W. M. H. Welby, Auckland
Militia.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand: Middle
District.

In the matter of "The Debtors and Creditors Act,
1862;" and in the matter of the petition of
Leopold Griebel, of Wellington, in the Province
of Wellington, and Colony of New Zealand,
mercantile clerk. On the eighth day of Novem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

UPON reading the petition of the said Leopold
Griebel, and the several affidavits thereunto
annexed, and the several affidavits filed herein, and
the several orders made herein, and upon hearing Mr.
Izard of counsel for the said petitioner, it is ordered
that the said Leopold Griebel shall cede and deliver,
convey, assign, and make over, of all and singular
the real and personal estate and effects of the said
Leopold Griebel unto Carl Meyer, and that Robert
Rodger Strang, Esquire, the ad interim sequestrator
appointed by this Court, shall join in such convey-
ance and assignment upon trust for the collection
and conversion into money of the said estate and
effects, and the distribution of the net proceeds, pro
rata, and subject to legal existing priorities (if any)
amongst such of the creditors of the said Leopold
Griebel who shall have proved their debts by affidavits
filed in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme
Court at Wellington; and it is hereby further ordered
that, upon the execution of such deed as aforesaid,
the said Leopold Griebel be discharged and released
from his debts, liabilities, and engagements mentioned
and specified in the Schedule to his said petition, to
the several persons hereinafter mentioned, namely-
Frederick Luhning, of Dunedin, tent maker; Messrs.
Wilson and Kidston, of Dunedin, solicitors; Carl
Stenhoff, of Dunedin, merchant; Carl Meyer, of
Wellington, cabinet maker.

(L.S.)
By the Court.
A. S. A.

THE following persons have been duly licensed to
act as Custom House Agents at the Port of
Wanganui, for the year ending 31st December,
1866:-
Boyle, W. R., Victoria Avenue.
Finnimore, William, Taupo Quay.
Gudgeon, Thomas W., St. Hill Street.
Lewis, Edward, Taupo Quay.
Owen, W. T., Taupo Quay.
Powell, Son and Co., Victoria Avenue.
Taylor and Watt, Taupo Quay.
JAS. G. WOON,
Deputy Commissioner.

Custom House, Wanganui,
this 3d day of February, 1866.

The Salt Water Creek and Kaiapoi Coasting Steam
Navigation Company (Limited.)
NOTICE is Hereby Given, -That at a Special
General Meeting of the Shareholders of the
above Company, held at Salt Water Creek, on the
7th December last, it was resolved-
"That the affairs of the Company be now wound
up, and an Inspector and Liquidator be appointed
for that purpose."

It was further Resolved-
"That Mr. JAMES E. GRAHAM, of Christchurch,
Accountant, be appointed Inspector and Liquidator."
Mr. Graham having accepted this office, the books
and accounts of the Company are now in his hands
for the purposes set forth in "The Joint Stock
Companies Act, 24 Vic. No. 13."

J. D. LANCE, Chairman.
Salt Water Creek, Canterbury, New
Zealand, 1st January, 1866.

THE Honorable JAMES COCKLE, Chief Justice of
the Colony of Queensland, has been pleased to
appoint

PATRICK ALPHONSUS BUCKLEY,
of Wellington, in the Province of Wellington, Esquire,
Barrister-at-Law, to be a Commissioner for taking
Affidavits, &c., in New Zealand, for the Colony of
Queensland.

Wellington, 3rd February, 1866.
P. A. BUCKLEY.

I, the undersigned WILLIAM PETER MANUEL,
hereby make application to register the Star
Steam Pumping Company, registered under the pro-
visions of "The Mining Companies Limited Liability
Act, 1865." And I do solemnly and sincerely declare
that the following statement is, to the best of my
belief and knowledge, true in every particular,
namely:--