THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 151

In the Picton Company, Marlborough Rangers
Volunteers.
Julius Decimus Tripe, M.D., to be Honorary Assis-
tant-Surgeon. Date of commission, 1st February,
1869.
Reverend Thomas Lloyd Tudor to be Honorary
Chaplain.

In the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry Volunteers.
Lieutenant Henry William Packer to be Captain.
Date of commission, 13th February, 1869.

In the Riverton Rifle Volunteers.
Charles Scott to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon.
Date of commission, 1st March, 1869.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th March, 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers, viz. :-
Major W. Finnimore, as Captain in the Wanganui
Cavalry Volunteers.
Captain C. T. Saunders, Wairoa (Hawke's Bay)
Rifle Volunteers.
T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th March, 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
cancel the commission held by the under-
mentioned officer, viz. :-
Honorary Captain Charles Trevatt, St. John's
(Christchurch) Rifle Volunteer Cadet Corps,
for absence from the Province without leave.
T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th March, 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept services
The Hauraki Rifle Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 1st March, 1869.
And to alter the designation of the Picton Sub-
Division of the Blenheim Rifle Volunteer Cadet
Corps to
The Picton Rifle Volunteer Cadet Corps.
T. M. HAULTAIN.

Native Office,
Wellington, 10th March, 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HOHEPA TAMAMUTU, and
TE HEUHEU
to be Assessors for the purposes of "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867," "The Native Circuit Courts
Act, 1858," and "The Native Circuit Courts Act,
Amendment Act, 1862," within the District of Taupo.
T. M. HAULTAIN.

Native Office,
Wellington, 13th March 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint
Major RAPATA WAHAWAHA
to be an Assessor for the purposes of "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867," "The Native Circuit Courts
Act, 1858," and "The Native Circuit Courts Act
Amendment Act, 1862," within the District of
Waiapu.
J. C. RICHMOND.

Native Office,
Wellington, 13th March 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
Captain HOTENE POROURANGI

to be an Assessor for the purposes of "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867," "The Native Circuit Courts
Act, 1858," and "The Native Circuit Courts Act
Amendment Act, 1862," within the District of
Waiapu.
J. C. RICHMOND.

Native Office,
Wellington, 11th March, 1869.
IT is hereby notified that
J. P. HAMLIN
has been authorized to act as an Interpreter under
"The Native Lands Act, 1865," and "The Native
Lands Act, 1867."
J. C. RICHMOND.

Native Office,
Wellington, 11th March, 1869.
IT is hereby notified that
WILLIAM JOSEPH YOUNG
has been authorized to act as an Interpreter under
"The Native Lands Act, 1865," and "The Native
Lands Act, 1867."
J. C. RICHMOND.

Stamp Office,
Wellington, 16th March, 1869.
IT is notified for general information, that
Mr. SUTHERLAND JOHN MACALISTER,
Postmaster at Kaikoura (Marlborough) has been
appointed Official Distributor of Duty Stamps at
that place, as from the first day of April next.
J. C. RICHMOND.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 13th March, 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize
JAMES C. GAVIN,
Secretary to the Commissioners of the Public Debts
Sinking Funds, to frank free from prepayment of
postage, letters and packets sent by him through the
Post on the Public Service.
J. C. RICHMOND
(Acting Postmaster-General).

NOTICE. - The attention of holders of leases for
terms of seven years and over of lands liable to
the duties imposed by "The Native Lands Act, 1865,"
is directed to the provisions contained in the twenty-
fourth and twenty-fifth sections of "The Native
Lands Act Amendment Act, 1867," whereby such
duties are made payable by instalments on the first
day of January in each year; and if any instalment
shall be in arrear for three months after the first day
of January on which such instalment shall be
payable, the whole amount of duty payable for the
whole term becomes recoverable by the Colonial
Treasurer, and the lessee may also become liable to
pay a penalty equal to three times the amount of the
duty unpaid.

Treasury,
17th March, 1869.
E. W. STAFFORD.

CUSTOMS. - Whereas a certain building situate on
Section 16, Block IX., in the Town of Invercar-
gill, and known as
MCPHERSON'S BOND,
was some time since appointed as a warehouse for
the reception and security of goods entered to be