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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
portion of the Colony of New Zealand may be erected
into a separate and independent Colony.
I request that you will inform Mr. Whitaker that
his Petition has been laid before the Queen, but that
the circumstances of the case are not such as to
justify me in advising a compliance with its prayer.
I have, &c.,
CARNARVON.
Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B., &c.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th December, 1866.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
FRANCIS HARRIS, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of River Grey, in the
Province of Nelson.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th December, 1866.
IT is hereby notified that the Hanseatic Minister
having nominated
OTTO WIESENHAVERN, Esq.,
to be Consul at Nelson for Hamburg, His Excellency
the Governor has been pleased to accept such
nomination provisionally.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th December, 1866.
IT is hereby notified that in conformity with the
37th section of "The Crown Grants Act, 1866,"
the several Commissioners of Crown Lands for the
time being in the various Provinces have been
appointed to receive the fees chargeable on Crown
Grants.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 5th December, 1866.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
JOHN SMITH, Esq.,
of Castle Point, in the Province of Wellington, of his
appointment as Coroner within the Colony of New
Zealand.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 5th December, 1866.
IN Gazette No. 57, of the 31st October, 1866, page
405, in the Notice of Justices of the Peace
appointed---
For WILLIAM ANDERSON LOWE, read WILLIAM
ANDERSON LOW;
For JEAN DESIRE FERAND, read JEAN DESIRE
FERAUD; and
For JAMES WILLIAM ROBERTSON, of Dunstan,
read of Queenstown.
E. W. STAFFORD.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1866.
IT is hereby notified for public information that
the following places in the Colony of Victoria
have been constituted Money Order Offices--
Carlton,
Lancefield,
Moyston,
Pentridge,
Redbank.
E. W. STAFFORD,
(in the absence of Mr. Hall.)

General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th November, 1866.
IT is hereby notified for public information, that
the License held by
JOHN GORN,
as a Pilot for the Port of Dunedin, has been cancelled.
JOHN HALL.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1866.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
direct that Letters Patent should be issued,
appointing
THOMAS HENRY SMITH, Esq.,
a Judge of the Compensation Court of New Zealand.
J. C. RICHMOND.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1866.
THE following extract from a supplementary
Despatch from Lieutenant-Colonel Whitmore,
commanding Militia and Volunteers in the Napier
District, is published for general information.
J. C. RICHMOND,
(in the absence of the Defence Minister.)

Napier, 18th November, 1866.
SIR, I have the honor to inform you that in the
hurry of the moment I most unintentionally omitted,
in my Despatch to His Honor the Agent for the
General Government, to thank Captain Fitzgerald,
commanding No. 1 Company, Napier Militia, for the
assistance he afforded me and the zealous manner in
which he performed his duty at the late affair at
Omaranui. This omission was purely accidental.
I have, &c.,
G. S. WHITMORE,
Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding
Napier Militia District.
The Hon. the Defence Minister,
Wellington."

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1866.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to make the undermentioned appointments,
viz. :-
Captain William James Balfour, junior, to be an
Instructor of Musketry in the Volunteer Force.
Date of Commission, 12th November, 1866.

In the Taranaki Cavalry Volunteers.
Petruccio Greeves Wilson to be Captain. Date of
Commission, 27th October, 1866.
James Caddy Davies to be Cornet. Date of Com-
mission, 8th September, 1866.

In the No. 4 Company Auckland Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Daniel Austin Tole to be Captain. Date
of Commission, 31st August, 1866.
Ensign Charles Phillip Phillips to be Lieutenant.
Date of Commission, 31st August, 1866.
Arthur Morrow to be Ensign. Date of Commission,
31st August, 1866.