THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 809

Ensign Alexander Henry McLean to be Lieutenant !
Date of commission, 1st November, 1872.
In the Manawatu Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant James Mottishead Collins to be Captain.
Date of commission, 2nd October, 1872.
John Watson Liddell to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 2nd October, 1872.
In the Motueka Rifle Volunteer Cadet Corps.
Honorary Lieutenant Edmund Parker to be Honorary
Captain. Date of commission, 17th August, 1872.
Wynford Horneman to be Honorary Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 17th August, 1872.
Date of commission, 17th August, 1872.
JOHN HALL
(in the absence of Mr. McLean).

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
form
The Oamaru Rifle Volunteers,
The Hampden Rifle Volunteers,
The Otepopo Rifle Volunteers, and
The Oamaru Rifle Volunteer Cadet Corps,
into a Battalion, under the designation of
The "3rd" (or Northern) Battalion, Otago Rifle
Volunteers;
and to appoint
Captain William Jukes Steward to be Major, and
to command the same. Date of commission,
28th October, 1872.
JOHN HALL
(in the absence of Mr. McLean).

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions
held by
Lieutenant A. Dunn, No. 2 (Dunedin Scottish)
Company, Otago Rifle Volunteers.
Honorary Captain A. Davies, Canterbury High
School Rifle Volunteer Cadet Corps.
Honorary Ensign F. Horneman, Motueka Rifle
Volunteer Cadet Corps.
JOHN HALL
(in the absence of Mr. McLean).

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st November, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by the under-mentioned Officer :—
Sub-Inspector (1st Class) Frederick Swindley,
Armed Constabulary.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
discontinue the services of the under-mentioned
Corps, viz. :—
The Prince Alfred (Auckland) Troop, Royal
Cavalry Volunteers; and
The No. 2 Company, Auckland Naval Volunteer
Cadets.
The under-mentioned gentlemen have therefore
ceased to hold the rank of officers, their commissions
having, under the provisions of "The Volunteer Act,
1865," lapsed:---
C. R. C. Smith, Esq., late Captain, Prince Alfred
(Auckland) Troop, Royal Cavalry Volunteers.
F. W. Wright, Esq., late Honorary Assistant-Sur-
geon, Prince Alfred (Auckland) Troop, Royal
Cavalry Volunteers.
JOHN HALL
(in the absence of Mr. McLean).

Native Office,
Wellington, 1st November, 1872.
IT is hereby notified, that the suspension of the
Certificate held by Mr. Josiah Hamlin, as
an Interpreter under the Native Lands Acts, is
rescinded from this date.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1872.
INQUIRIES having been made respecting the
under-mentioned persons, any one who can give
any information respecting them is requested to com-
municate with this office:—
Miss ANN WATSON COUPER, an Assisted Immi-
grant, who arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in the
ship "Victory" in 1863, and is now about 26 years
of age.
JAMES THOMAS COUCH, formerly of St. Anstill,
Cornwall, England; went to America, and thence to
New Zealand, within the last ten years. It is not
stated to what part of New Zealand Couch came;
and it is supposed that he died in this Colony.
By command.
G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867:" Notice is hereby given, that a transcript
of the By-laws of
"The Good Intent Lodge, No. 4369, Friendly
Society, Auckland District Branch, Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester
Unity,"
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 this eighth day of November, 1872.
G. S. COOPER
(for the Registrar).

Colonial Architect's Office,
Wellington, 7th November, 1872.
TENDERS will be received up to noon on the
fourteenth of November, for the following
Timber, at per hundred superficial feet, delivered in
Wellington within one month from acceptance of
tender. Each Tenderer to specify what quantity of
each description he undertakes to supply. All tim-
ber to be heart of its kind:—
Six by one dressed, tongued, and grooved Kauri,
Same in Matai.
Same in Red Pine.
Quantity, thirty thousand feet, more or less.
Eight by three-quarters dressed, tongued, grooved,
and beaded Kauri.
Same in Matai.
Same in Red Pine.
Quantity, thirty thousand feet, more or less.
Eight by one, feather-edged dressed Red Pine.
Ditto Matai.
Ditto Kauri.
Ditto Totara.
Ditto Scotch.
Quantity, twenty thousand feet, more or less.
Red Pine scantling and inch rough boards.
Quantity, one hundred thousand feet, more or
less.
W. H. CLAYTON,
Colonial Architect.