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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

"Invercargill Athenæum Reserve Management
"Education Reserves Management and Leasing
Ordinance, 1871;" and
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to assent to the same.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1871.
THE following Ordinances, passed by the Provincial
Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of
the Province of Otago for the signification of the
Governor's pleasure thereon, intituled
"Dunedin Drill Shed Reserve Management
Ordinance, 1871;"
"Education Reserve Jacob's River Hundred Sale
Ordinance, 1871;" and
"Dunedin Reserves Management Ordinance,
1871;"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to withhold his assent to the same.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 30th November, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ARCHIBALD HADDOW DOUGLAS, Esq.,
of Arrowtown, Otago, and
JOHN FRY KITCHING, Esq.,
of Moa Flat, Otago, to be Justices of the Peace for
the Colony.

This notice is published in consequence of clerical
errors having been made in the names of these
gentlemen as published in Gazette No. 55, of 12th
October, 1871, page 549.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 6th December, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
reappoint
JOHN MCNEIL, Esq.,
Mayor of Balclutha, Otago, to be a Justice of the
Peace under "The Otago Municipal Corporations
Empowering Act, 1865."
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 6th December, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ROBERT WIGMORE, Esq.,
of Mercury Bay, Auckland, to be a Justice of the
Peace for the Colony.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM MOULE
to be Commissioner of Armed Constabulary, and to
conduct the Correspondence of the Defence Depart-
ment.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to make the under-mentioned promotions and
appointments, viz.:-

In the Auckland Volunteer Rifle Brigade.
Lieutenant John McConnell to be Adjutant. Date
of commission, 1st August, 1871.

In the Auckland Engineer Volunteers.
Frederick William Edmund Dawson, L.R.C.P.E.,
M.R.C.S.E., &c., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon.
Date of commission, 19th July, 1871.

In the Royal Company, Rangitikei Rifle Volunteers.
James Slight to be Ensign. Date of commission,
20th June, 1871.

In the Wairoa (Patea) Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant John Wilcox Kenah to be Captain. Date
of commission, 19th September, 1871.
Ensign Walter Allen Grant Winchcombe to be
Lieutenant. Date of commission, 19th Septem-
ber, 1871.
George Stephen Bridge to be Ensign. Date of
commission, 19th September, 1871.

In the 1st Westland Rifle Volunteers.
William Moses Forsyth to be Ensign. Date of com-
mission, 15th November, 1870.
Henry Widenham Maunsell, M.R.C.S.E., &c., to
be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. Date of com-
mission, 17th November, 1871.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to accept the resignation of the commission
held by
Ensign M. J. Logan, New Zealand Militia.
DONALD MCLEAN.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 30th November, 1871.
IT is hereby notified, that on the 1st January next
the Post Office at
CHARLESTON,
in the Province of Nelson, will become subordinate
to the Post Office at Westport, in the same Province.
JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 4th December, 1871.
THE following Notice, received from the General
Post Office, Sydney, is published for general
information.
By order.
G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

General Post Office,
Sydney, 3rd November, 1871.
POST OFFICE MONEY ORDERS.
WITH reference to Treasury Notice of the 10th
December, 1862, published in Government Gazette
No. 231, it is hereby notified, that on and after the
1st December, 1871, the Post Office Money Order
System will be extended to the following places,
namely:-
Bateman's Bay.
Oberon.
JOSEPH DOCKER.