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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

In the Wanganui Veteran Volunteers.
Lieutenant Thomas Kells to be Captain. Date of
commission, 30th November, 1868.
Ensign David Atkinson to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 30th November, 1868.
William Kells to be Ensign. Date of commission,
30th November, 1868.
T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers, viz. :-
Captain W. A. Tolmie, No. 2 Company Otago
Rifle Volunteers.
Captain T. G. Shand, East Taieri Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Thomas H. Harper, Wanganui Cavalry
Volunteers.
Lieutenant G. G. Orbell, Waikouaiti Rifle Volun-
teers.
T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of the under-mentioned
Corps, viz. :-
The Forest Rifle Volunteers. Date of acceptance,
25th November, 1868.
The Rangitikei Cavalry Volunteers. Date of
acceptance, 28th November, 1868.
T. M. HAULTAIN.

Native Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1868.
IT is hereby notified that
SAMUEL LOCKE, Esq.,
has been duly authorized to act as an Interpreter
under "The Native Lands Act, 1865," and "The
Native Lands Act, 1867."
T. M. HAULTAIN.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th December, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
THE SUPERINTENDENT-COLLECTORS UNDER "THE
CENSUS ACTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1867,"
a notification of whose appointments appears in this
Gazette, or whose appointments may be hereafter
notified in any subsequent Gazette, to frank and
receive, free from pre-payment of postage, for a
period of four months from this date, letters and
packets addressed from or to them "On Business of
Agricultural Statistics only."
T. M. HAULTAIN
(in the absence of Mr. Hall).

Custom House, Dunedin,
8th December, 1868.
THE under-mentioned person has been duly licensed
to act as Custom House Agent at this Port, for
the year ending 7th December, 1869 :-
BENJAMIN HENRY SOLOMON.
THOMAS HILL,
Deputy Commissioner.

CUSTOMS. - The under-mentioned persons have
been duly licensed to act as Custom House
Agents :-
Port of Westport.
THOMAS WATSON,
for the year ending the 6th day of November, 1869.

Port of Dunedin.
JOHN MERIDETH FISHER,
for the year ending the 24th day of November, 1869.
WILLIAM SEED,
Secretary and Inspector.
Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 15th December, 1868.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 18th December, 1868.
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 name of an Officiating Minister,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information :-
Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend WILLIAM ALVES.
I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births
Deaths, and Marriages, in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 30th of January; No. 9, of the
13th of February; No. 13, of the 3rd of March; No.
14, of the 9th of March; No. 18, of the 3rd of
April; No. 19, of the 20th of April; No. 22, of the 7th
of May; No. 23, of the 14th of May; No. 25, of the
22nd of May; No. 27, of the 2nd of June; No. 35,
of the 29th of June; No. 44, of the 20th of July,
No. 46, of the 6th of August; No. 48, of the 12th of
August, No. 54, of the 17th of September, and No.
71, of the 14th of December, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
eighteenth day of December, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Wellington, 15th December, 1868.
I, JOHN ELISHA SMITH, Registrar of Joint
Stock Companies for the Province of Welling-
ton, do hereby notify that I have registered a
Memorandum of Association establishing a Company,
with limited liability of the shareholders therein,
entitled
"The Wellington Distillery Company, Limited,"
the objects of which are the distillation of spirit from
grain and other substances, and carrying on a trade
in the same, and the doing all such other things as
are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the
above objects:
And that, in pursuance of the provisions of "The
Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860," I have issued a
Certificate of Incorporation of the said Company,
bearing date this fifteenth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN ELISHA SMITH,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867," notice is hereby given, that a transcript of
The Court Sir George Grey, No. 3118, Ancient
Order of Foresters, Wellington,
duly certified, has been lodged with the Registrar of
Friendly Societies, registered and recorded in his