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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
JAMES SKENE,
of Opotiki, in the Province of Auckland, Esquires, to
be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New
Zealand.
E. W. STAFFORD.

to command the Militia and Volunteers in the
province of Canterbury.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 22nd June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JAMES ROGER DUTTON, Esq., J.P.,
of the Nelson South-west Gold Fields, to be a
Resident Magistrate.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the undermentioned officers, viz.:-
Captain W. S. Wild, Auckland Militia.
Lieutenant H. W. Mytton, Canterbury Rifle
Volunteers.
Ensign E. D. Hepworth, Canterbury Rifle
Volunteers.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1867.

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

In the Wellington Militia.
Lieutenant Henry Lynch (2nd Battalion) to be
Captain. Date of commission, 6th June, 1867.

In the Wanganui Militia.
John Cameron to be Captain. Date of commission,
31st May, 1867.
William Thomas Owen to be Captain. Date of
commission, 1st June, 1867.
Ensign John W. Liddell to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 31st May, 1867.
Ensign Charles Smith to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 1st June, 1867.
Richard Thomas Shields to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 3rd June, 1867.
William Fairweather Russell to be Ensign. Date of
commission, 31st May, 1867.
Henry Harper to be Ensign. Date of commission,
1st June, 1867.
Edward Greenway to be Ensign. Date of commis-
sion, 3rd June, 1867.
Henry John Perham to be Ensign. Date of commis-
sion, 4th June, 1867.
Henry William Witchell to be Ensign. Date of
commission, 5th June, 1867.
John Patten Watt to be Ensign. Date of commis-
sion, 6th June, 1867.

In the No. 2 Company Auckland Rifle Volunteers.
Charles Thomas Horan to be Captain. Date of
commission, 23rd May, 1867.

In the No. 5 Company Auckland Rifle Volunteers.
Ensign Thomas Thompson to be Lieutenant. Date
of commission, 27th May, 1867.
Owen Mahon to be Ensign. Date of commission,
27th May, 1867.

In the Waipawa Cavalry Volunteers.
Cornet Frederick Martin Chapman to be Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 15th May, 1867.

In the Canterbury Militia.
Major Henry Elmhirst Reader (Canterbury
Volunteers) to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Date of
commission, 8th June, 1867.

In the Canterbury Engineer Volunteers.
Lieutenant Alexander Lean to be Captain. Date of
commission, 4th May, 1867.
Francis Pavitt to be 2nd Lieutenant. Date of com-
mission, 4th May, 1867.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of the under-mentioned
Corps, viz.:-
Nelson Artillery Volunteers. Date of ac-
ceptance, 1st May, 1867.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
Lieut.-Colonel HENRY ELMHURST READER,

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th June, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
license

EDWIN FAIRBURN, Esq.,
Province of Auckland, to be a Surveyor under
"The Native Lands Act, 1865."

JOHN HALL.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1867.

IT is hereby notified that on and after the 1st July
next the Post Offices at
WESTPORT,
CHARLESTON, and
BRIGHTON,
in the Province of Nelson, will be constituted Post
Offices of the Second Class, for the exchange of
separate Mails and other purposes, within the mean-
ing of the fourth clause of the Postal Regulations of
the 1st January, 1866.

JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 21st June, 1867.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following Names of OFFICIATING
MINISTERS within the meaning of the said Act are
published for general information :-

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend JEAN PIERRE CHAREYRE.

Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The Reverend RAINSFORD BAVIN.
The Reverend WILLIAM OLIVER.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAMES of OFFICIATING
MINISTERS within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," have been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 7, of the 29th of January; No. 9, of
the 11th of February; No. 12, of the 28th of
February; No. 23, of the 12th of April; No. 29, of
the 16th May, and No. 32, of the 1st June, in the
present year.