THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Canterbury, has been appointed a Licensed Deposit-
ary of Duty Stamps, vice W. J. Grand, resigned.
By Order of the Commissioner of Stamps.
E. BRANDON.

Appointment of Militia and Volunteer Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1874.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointments, viz.:
In the New Zealand Militia.
Felix McGuire to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of com-
mission, 1st August, 1873.
In the Tauranga Light Horse Volunteers.
David Asher to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of commis-
sion, 14th June, 1873.
In the Wellington Veteran Volunteers.
William Scott to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of com-
mission, 9th July, 1873.
In the 1st Westland Rifle Volunteers.
Mauritz Henry Linstrom to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 9th December, 1873.
In the Nelson (City) Rifle Volunteers.
Alfred Otterson to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of com-
mission, 2nd February, 1874.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1874.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions
held by
Lieutenant-Colonel J. Cargill, Otago Volunteers.
Captain J. Howell, Thames Rifle Rangers Volunteers.
Captain G. B. Sinclair, Nelson City Rifles.
Lieutenant H. N. Harrison, Alexandra Cavalry
Volunteers.
Lieutenant A. Urquhart, Canterbury Engineer
Volunteers.
Lieutenant A. Chisholm, West Taieri Rifle
Volunteers.
Honorary Lieutenant A. Otterson, Nelson Rifle
Volunteer Cadets.
Honorary Sub-Lieutenant J. Molloy, Sir George
Grey Rifle Volunteer Cadets.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1874.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
disband
The Hutt Rifle Volunteer Cadet Corps.
DONALD MCLEAN.

Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 18th February, 1874.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ALFRED ROWLAND CHETHAM STRODE, Esq.,
to be the Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands for
the Province of Otago, exclusive of the District of
Southland.
G. MAURICE O'RORKE.

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Reserve for a Site for a Cemetery.
WHEREAS by the Regulations for the sale and
disposal of lands taken under the authority
of "The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and
"The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and
Continuance Act, 1865," contained in the Schedule
to an Order in Council made and issued, bearing date
the 11th day of May, 1871, it is provided that reserves
for roads and all other public purposes whatever,
and for education, and the sites for churches and
chapels or other places of worship for different
religious denominations, may be made by Govern-
ment out of any confiscated lands, and that notices of
all such reserves shall be published in the New Zea-
land Gazette : It is hereby notified, that the land
specified in the Schedule hereunder written shall be
reserved for the purpose therein mentioned and set
opposite the description of the said parcel of land.
G. MAURICE O'RORKE,
Secretary for Crown Lands.
24th February, 1874.

SCHEDULE.
Description of Reserve. | Purpose of Reserve.
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PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.
Waitara District.
All that parcel of land situated in | Cemetery.
the Township of Raleigh West, con- |
taining by admeasurement 29 poles |
more or less, being portion of Block |
CXVII., having a frontage of 120 links |
to McLean Street, and extending back |
in a rectangular section 150 links in |
depth; the north-west corner of the |
north-west corner of the said Block |
CXVII. 175 links. |

Notice of the intention of the Governor to make a
Road from Buccleugh Street, Greymouth, to the
south side of the South Town Belt of Greymouth.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Governor of
New Zealand having under the powers in him
vested by "The Immigration and Public Works Act,
1870," and the Acts amending the same, and of all
other powers enabling him in that behalf, deemed it
expedient to open and make a line of road from
Buccleugh Street, Greymouth, in the Province of
Westland, to the south side of the South Town Belt
of Greymouth, which road is, in the opinion of the
Governor and the Executive Council of the Colony,
not a road to be constructed by the Superintendent
and the Provincial Council of the said Province, and
the course and bearings of which said road, the ad-
measurements required for the same, and the lands
through which the same passes, together with the
names of the owners and occupiers thereof, so far as
known, are respectively shown and delineated on a
certain plan marked A. No. 2, and which said road is
also described in a certain Proclamation made under
the said Act and published in the same Gazette as
that in which this notice appears :
A copy of the said plan, marked A. No. 2, is
deposited and may be seen and inspected at the
office of the Public Works Department at Grey-
mouth aforesaid.

And notice is hereby further given, that all or any
person or persons affected by the making of the said
line of road from Buccleugh Street, Greymouth, to
the south side of the South Town Belt of Greymouth,
are required to set forth in writing, addressed to the