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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

bearing date the thirteenth day of December one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six and expressed
to be a conveyance by Natives entitled to land within
the district excepted from the operation of the said
Act by section eighty-two thereof Provided that no
claim by and no question relating to the title or
interest of any Native who shall have signed the said
deed of sale shall be so referred and the Native Lands
Court shall in the manner prescribed by the said Act
investigate and adjudicate upon such claim and the
interests in and title to any land so claimed."

"SECOND SCHEDULE.

"Bounded on the North by the Rangitikei River
from its mouth to the Waitapu Creek on the East by
a direct line from the mouth of the Waitapu Creek
to Te Umutu which is the north-western boundary
of the Upper Manawatu Block already sold on the
South by the Oroua Stream to its mouth thence
by the Manawatu River to Pakingahau and thence
by the boundary of the purchased land to the mouth
of the Kai Iwi Stream and on the West by the sea
coast."

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th November, 1867.

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

In the Wellington Artillery Volunteers.
Amelius Moreland Smith to be Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 22nd October, 1867.

In the No. 2 Battery Lyttelton Artillery Volunteers.
John Smith Willcox to be second Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 16th September, 1867.

In the No. 1 Company Wellington Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Huntly John Harry Eliott, (New
Zealand Militia, unattached), to be Lieu-
tenant. Date of commission, 25th Novem-
ber, 1867.
Captain Alexander Charles Phipps Macdonald,
(New Zealand Militia, unattached), to be
Ensign. Date of commission, 25th Novem-
ber, 1867.

In the Invercargill Rifle Volunteers.
Frederick Wentworth Wade, to be Ensign.
Date of commission, 23rd August, 1867.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th November, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the undermentioned officers, viz. :-
Lieutenant J. G. Porter, No. 5 Company Can-
terbury Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant A. G. Horton, Timaru Artillery
Volunteers.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th November, 1867.

THE following Order is published for general
information.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

GENERAL ORDER BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE
GOVERNOR.

1. When the whole or any portion of the Militia
   of a District are called out for "Actual Service,"
   the officers belonging to the class or divisions so
   called out, are not to quit the District without leave
   from the Officer Commanding.

2. The commissions of Militia or Volunteer Officers
   who leave the Colony without the permission of His

Excellency the Commander-in-chief, will be can-
celled.

By His Excellency's command,
T. M. HAULTAIN.

Wellington, 28th November, 1867.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th November, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
THOMAS FRANKLYN BAKER, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Medical Board, constituted
12th November, 1866, under "The Military Pensions
Act, 1867."

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs.
IN exercise of the powers in me for this purpose
vested by "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,"
I, the Commissioner of Customs, do hereby approve
and appoint the undermentioned warehouse, viz.,
A. Galvanized Iron Building situate in St. Hill Street
at the Port of Wellington, and known as
CRAWFORD'S BOND,
to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under
Bond.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twentieth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.
J. C. RICHMOND.

CUSTOMS Notice. - The undermentioned person
has been duly licensed to act as a Custom House
Agent at the Port of Wellington, viz.-
FERDINAND CHARLES KREEFT.

J. HACKWORTH,
Deputy Commissioner.

Custom House, Wellington,
23rd November, 1867.

NOTICE. - The undermentioned person has been
duly licensed to act as Custom House Agent
at this port, for the year ending 18th November,
1868-
GEORGE LYMAN SISE.

THOMAS HILL,
Deputy Commissioner.

Customs, Dunedin, 18th November, 1867.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1867.

THE attention of the persons or person within the
Colony of New Zealand in whom is vested
ecclesiastical authority over any of the Religious
Bodies enumerated in "Schedule D," annexed to an
Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
intituled "The Marriage Act, 1854," (as amended by
"The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1867") and of
all other persons concerned, is requested to the follow-
ing extracts from the Act aforesaid :-

"42. Any Minister of Religion whose name shall
have been sent in to the Registrar-General of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, or other officer
to be appointed by the Governor in that
behalf, by the person or persons within the
Colony in whom ecclesiastical authority shall
for the time being be vested or reputed to be
vested, over any of the Religious Bodies
enumerated in the "Schedule D" to this Act
annexed, shall, subject to the conditions here-
inafter mentioned, be an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of this Act; and the name
of every such Minister of Religion shall be
certified under the hand or hands of the
persons or person aforesaid, and shall be
entered and published as hereinafter provided:
Provided always that any Minister of Religion