84
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief inand over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House at
Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Revising Barrister appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN EDWARD DENNISTON, Esq.,
to be Revising Barrister, under "The Friendly
Societies Act, 1867," for the Province of Otago.
CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Registration Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOSEPH GILES, Esq.,
to be Registration Officer for the Election of Mem-
bers of the House of Representatives for the District
of Rangitikei.
CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Registration and Returning Officers appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the undermeritioned gentlemen to be
Registration and Returning Officers for the Election
of Members of the House of Representatives for the
districts set opposite their names.
Name. District.
ARCHIBALD RUSSELL URE } City of Dunedin,
Roslyn, and Caversham.
JOSEPH GILES ... Wanganui.
CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the undermeritioned gentlemen to be
the Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages and
also Vaccination Inspectors, for the Districts set
opposite their names, as the same are defined in
Proclamation of the 8th day of May, 1873, and pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 28, of the
9th day of May, 1873.
Name. District.
ARCHIBALD RUSSELL URE ... Dunedin.
JOSEPH GILES ... Wanganui.
CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Clerk in Resident Magistrate's Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st February, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WALTER MARTIN, Esq.,
to be a Clerk in the Resident Magistrate's Court at
Christchurch, vice William George Walker, Esq.,
promoted.
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Clerk of Resident Magistrate's Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st January, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
FREDERICK HENRY IBBETSON
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court at
Lyell, vice Thomas Ely Chichester, resigned.
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Examiner of Titles appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st February, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
THOMAS COTTER, Esq.,
to be an Examiner of Titles for the Districts of Can-
terbury and Otago, under "The Land Transfer Act,
1870," from the 17th ultimo. This notice is published
in lieu of one published in the New Zealand Gazette
of 27th January, 1876.
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Resignation of Coroner accepted.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st February, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
JAMES CORSE, Esq.,
of Cromwell, of his appointment as a Coroner
within the colony.
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1876.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to make the undermeritioned promotion and
appointments, viz.,-

In the Canterbury Engineer Volunteers.
Charles Gordon Ross to be Captain. Date of com-
mission, 27th August, 1875.
James Godfrey Warner to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 15th October, 1875.

In the No. 1 Company, Pukekohe Rifle Volunteers.
Hugh Wylie to be Lieutenant. Date of commission,
10th January, 1876.

In the No. 2 Company, Waiuku Rifle Volunteers.
Sub-Lieutenant Hugh Douglas to be Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 10th January, 1876.
Joseph Coulthard to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 10th January, 1876.

In the Invercargill Rifle Volunteers.
David Macrorie to be Captain. Date of commission,
6th December, 1875.