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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

4. Money Order Offices will be opened in the
   Customs Department,
   (Marine Branch,)
   Wellington, 12th December, 1870.

5. Money Order business is discontinued at the
   Caldicott (Chepstow) and Mortimer (Reading)
   Offices.

6. The following changes of designation have taken
   place, viz. :—
   Sutton (St. Helens) will be called Sutton Oak;
   Southsea (Portsmouth), Wish Street, South-
   sea; and Cambridge Terrace, Southsea,
   Palmerston Road (Southsea) ; Old Beckenham
   has been changed to High Street, Beckenham.

7. A Money Order Office has been opened at North
   Street, Middlesbro'. Money Order business has been
   discontinued at the Kirkham (York) and Porlock
   (Taunton) Offices. The Money Order Office at
   Newick is now subordinate to Lewes instead of
   Uckfield.

SCOTLAND.

8. The designation of the Office at Ferryport-on-
   Craig has been altered to "Tayport."

IRELAND.

9. Money Order Offices have been opened at—
   Head Office. County.
   Cliftonville, R.O. Belfast ... Antrim
   Donegal Square, R.O. Belfast ... Antrim
   Falls Road, R.O. Belfast ... Antrim
   Mountpottinger, R.O.Belfast ... Down
   Waring Street, R.O. Belfast ... Antrim
   York Street, R.O. Belfast ... Antrim

10. During the past quarter Money Order business
    has been discontinued at the Kinnegad (Killucan)
    and Upper Ormond Quay (Dublin) Offices; and a
    Money Order Office has been opened at "Inns
    Quay," Dublin.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1870.

NOTICE is hereby given, that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to appoint the
under-mentioned Post Office to be a Money Order
and Savings Bank Office for the transaction of Money
Order and Savings Bank Business, from 1st February
next :—

Province of Auckland.
WAIUKU,

By order.
W. GRAY
(for the Secretary).

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 31st December, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM BALLEY BRAY, Esq.,
a District Engineer under "The Immigration and
Public Works Act, 1870." This appointment to
date from the 1st of January, 1871.

W. GISBORNE.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
Isaac James Burgess,
William Ellis,
Thomas Wing,
George Charles Best,
William Butler,
George Prowse Chapman,
Edward Bolger,
H. Kraeft,
John McLaren,
James Smith Cross,
Samuel A. Leech,
John Henry Holford,
Thomas Phillpotts,
John Hadfield Smith,
Frederick Denham Gibson,
William Thomson,
David Dickie,
Thomas Thomson,
Thomas Turnbull,
Patrick James Allardyce,
to be persons to inspect vessels for the purpose of
seeing that they are properly provided with Lights,
and with the means of making Fog Signals, as required
by the Board of Trade Regulations issued in pur-
suance of "The (Imperial) Merchant Shipping Act
Amendment Act, 1862."

JULIUS VOGEL.

Flax Commission,
Wellington, 8th December, 1870.

THE House of Representatives having resolved
that there should be an Exhibition in Wellington
during the next Session of the Assembly, of all
varieties of Flax Fibre prepared in the Colony,
Manufacturers are invited to forward to the Flax
Commissioners, through the Superintendent of their
Province, samples of the Fibre, Rope, Sacking, or
any other Material prepared by them from the New
Zealand Flax. The samples of fibre should not be
less than 20 lbs. in weight, and 10 or 15 fathoms
of each kind of rope will be sufficient. It is desirable
that a statement of the processes and estimated cost
of manufacture should accompany the samples.

JAMES HECTOR,
Chairman.

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867," notice is hereby given, that a transcript of
the By-laws of
"Court Waimea, No. 4,987, Ancient Order of
Foresters,"
duly certified, has been lodged with the Registrar of
Friendly Societies, registered and recorded in his
office under the provisions of "The Friendly Societies
Act, 1867."

Dated the 23rd day of December, 1870.
G. S. COOPER
(for the Registrar).

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867," notice is hereby given, that a transcript
of the By-laws of
"The Loyal Lake Wakatip Lodge, No. 5,776,
Queenstown, of the Otago District Branch of
the Manchester Unity Independent Order of
Odd Fellows Friendly Society,"
duly certified, has been lodged with the Registrar of
Friendly Societies, registered and recorded in his
office under the provisions of "The Friendly Societies
Act, 1867."

Dated the thirty-first day of December, 1870.
G. S. COOPER
(for the Registrar).