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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th February, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to make the undermentioned promotions and
appointments, viz.,—

In the Wairoa Light Horse Volunteers.
Lieutenant John Butter Worthington to be Captain.
Date of commission, 28th January, 1876.
Sub-Lieutenant George Johnstone to be Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 28th January, 1876.
John Old to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of commis-
sion, 28th January, 1876.

In the Alexandra Cavalry Volunteers.
Julius Decimus Tripe, M.D., to be Honorary Assis-
tant Surgeon. Date of commission, 1st February,
1869.

In the Oamaru Artillery Volunteers.
Harry Archibald De Latour, M.R.C.S.E., to be
Honorary Assistant Surgeon. Date of commis-
sion, 27th July, 1875.

In the Nelson Naval Volunteers.
Peter Lewis Gully to be Lieutenant. Date of com-
mission, 12th March, 1875.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(in the absence of the Native Minister).

Resignation of Volunteer Officer.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th February, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by Honorary Assistant Surgeon J. D. Tripe, Picton
Company, Marlborough Rangers Rifle Volun-
teers.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(in the absence of the Native Minister).

Assessor appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been
pleased to appoint
HORI KUKUTAI,
of Waikato, to be an Assessor of the Native Land
Court of New Zealand.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(in the absence of the Native Minister).

Notice of intention to withdraw Land from
Reservation.

PURSUANT to the Regulations for the sale, dis-
prosal, and occupation of lands taken under the
provisions of "The New Zealand Settlements Act,
1863," and "The New Zealand Settlements Amend-
ment and Continuance Act, 1865," and which said
Regulations are contained in the Schedule to an
Order in Council made and issued on the 11th day
of May, 1871, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 1st of June in the same year, it is
hereby notified that the parcel of land specified in
the Schedule hereto, and which land was reserved
on the 3rd day of August, 1871 (with the remaining
portion of Section No. 9 of the Manutahi 10-acre
Lots), for the purpose therein mentioned, will, on

the expiration of three calendar months from the
publication of this notice, be withdrawn from such
reservation.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Dated this 10th day of February, 1876.

SCHEDULE.

Notice of intention to withdraw Land from
Reservation.

PURSUANT to the Regulations for the sale, dis-
prosal, and occupation of lands taken under the
provisions of "The New Zealand Settlements Act,
1863," and "The New Zealand Settlements Amend-
ment and Continuance Act, 1865," and which said
Regulations are contained in the Schedule to an
Order in Council made and issued on the 11th day
of May, 1871, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 1st of June in the same year, it is
hereby notified that the parcel of land specified in
the Schedule hereto, and which land was reserved
on the 3rd day of August, 1871, for the purposes
therein mentioned, will, on the expiration of three
calendar months from the publication of this notice,
be withdrawn from such reservation.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

Dated this 12th day of February, 1876.

SCHEDULE.

Designation of Post Office changed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th February, 1876.
IT is hereby notified, for general information, that
the designation of the Post Office at Wairoa, in
the Province of Wellington, has been changed to
WAVERLEY.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Postmaster-General.