THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 579

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Esq.,
to be Registrar-General of Land under "The Land
Transfer Act, 1870," vice Joshua Strange Williams,
Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN BECKETT FIELDER, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar of Deeds for the Hawke's
Bay Deeds Registration District.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN FRANCIS GARVEY, Esq.,
to be Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages, and of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of
Nokomai and Switzers, as the same is defined in Pro-
clamation of 25th day of June, 1868, and published
in New Zealand Gazette, No. 35, of the 29th day of
June, 1868.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM HENRY EYES, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Lyttelton, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of sixth day of July,
1859, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 21,
of the same date, vice J. Townsend, Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 30th October, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
W. A. BEWS, Esq., of Cromwell, Otago;
JOHN LOGAN CAMPBELL, Esq., of Auckland;
CHARLES CECIL ROOKES, Esq., of Auckland; and
JOHN WEBSTER, Esq., of Hokianga, Auckland;
of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the
Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 28th October, 1871.
WHEREAS a fire, supposed to have been caused
by the act of an incendiary, occurred on the
11th day of October last, at Invercargill, in the Pro-
vince of Otago, in the Bank of Otago and other
buildings: It is hereby notified that His Excellency
the Governor will grant a free pardon to any accom-
plice in such act, not being a principal offender,
who shall give such information as will lead to the
apprehension and conviction of the principal offender
or offenders, or any of them, if more than one.

W. GISBORNE,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st October, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to make the under-mentioned promotion and
appointment, viz. :
In the Waiuku Troop, Royal Cavalry Volunteers.
Samuel Barriball to be Cornet. Date of commission,
15th August, 1871.
In the Wainui-o-mata Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant George Wood (Hutt Rifle Volunteers)
to be Captain. Date of commission, 26th May,
1870.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st October, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by
Lieutenant W. H. Thorp, Wairoa Rifle Volunteers.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st October, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
alter the designation of "The Auckland Sappers
and Miners Volunteers" to
"The Auckland Engineer Volunteers."

DONALD MCLEAN.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1871.
IT is hereby notified that
WILLIAM KIRTON,
Postmaster at Kaikoura, in the Province of Marl-
borough, has been dismissed from the Public Ser-
vice.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 30th October, 1871.
IT is hereby notified, that the name of
The Reverend STEPHEN SMITH,
(Congregational Independents,)
is withdrawn from the List of Officiating Ministers
in the meaning of "The Marriage Act, 1854."

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 30th October, 1871.
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 :—
Free Church of Scotland.
The Reverend PETER F. MACKENZIE.
Congregational Independents.
The Reverend JAMES MAXWELL.
United Methodist Free Churches.
The Reverend JOHN PARKIN.
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