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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Services of Armed Constabulary Officers dispensed
with.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
dispense with the services of the under-
mentioned Officers of the Armed Constabulary Force,
on the reduction of that Force, viz.,-
Surgeon J. CAREY,
Surgeon E. WADDINGTON,
Assistant-Surgeon F. W. ARMITAGE,
Assistant-Surgeon W. L. JACKSON,
from the 31st January, 1877.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(for the Native Minister).

Commissions cancelled.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
cancel the commissions held by
Ensign JOHN ROSS WATTS, New Zealand Militia.
1st Class Sub-Inspector JOHN ROSS WATTS,
Armed Constabulary Force.
From the 16th January, 1877.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(for the Native Minister).

Resignation and Appointment of Armed Constabulary
Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by
Inspector W. A. Richardson and
Inspector F. Y. Goring,
Armed Constabulary Force ; and to make the under-
mentioned appointments in that Force, viz.,-
William Airy Richardson to be Sub-Inspector, 1st
Class. Date of commission, 30th October, 1867.
Forster Yelverton Goring to be Sub-Inspector, 1st
Class. Date of commission, 22nd January, 1868.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(for the Native Minister).

Appointing Day for First Meeting of the Waitara
Harbour Board.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 24th January, 1877.
IT is hereby notified, that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to appoint Tuesday,
the 30th instant, to be the day on which the Waitara
Harbour Board shall hold its first meeting. The
place of meeting to be the Institute, at Raleigh.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(for the Commissioner of Customs).

Election of Members of the Lyttelton Harbour
Board.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 18th January, 1877.
IT is hereby notified, that the Selwyn County Coun-
cil have elected
The Hon. JOHN HALL, J.P., and
RICHARD JAMES HARMAN, Esq., J.P.,
to be Members of the Lyttelton Harbour Board.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(for the Commissioner of Customs).

Election of Members of the Lyttelton Harbour
Board.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 18th January, 1877.
IT is hereby notified, that the Ratepayers of the
City of Christchurch have elected
HENRY SAWTELL, Esq., and
EDWARD GEORGE WRIGHT, Esq.,
to be Members of the Lyttelton Harbour Board.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(for the Commissioner of Customs).

Commissioner of Otago Waste Land Board appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES GREEN, Esq.,
to be a Commissioner of the Waste Land Board of
the Land District of Otago, vice the Hon. Donald
Reid, resigned.

D. REID.

Inquiry for a Missing Person.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th January, 1877.
INQUIRIES have been made respecting a person
named
RICHARD CRAIG,
formerly Colour-Sergeant in the 57th Regiment,
stationed at Wanganui.

After purchasing his discharge he was employed
as a clerk in the Commissariat Department in New
Zealand, and he is afterwards supposed to have joined
the Forest Rangers.

Any person possessing information respecting the
above-named person is requested to communicate the
same to this office.

G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

Officiating Ministers under "The Marriage Act,
1854."

"MARRIAGE ACT, 1854."
OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1877.-NOTICE No. 1.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1877.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following LIST OF OFFICIATING MINISTERS
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information: -

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.
The Reverend Philip Cuthbert Anderson
John Chapman Andrew, M.A.
T. E. Ash, B.Α.
Benjamin Yate Ashwell
" Williamr Aylmer, M.A.
" Frederick Thomas Baker
" William Ballachey
" Joseph Bates
" George Philip Beaumont, M.Α.
" Henry Bevis
" William Booth
" Croasdaile Bowen
" Reginald Robert Bradley
" Laurence Carsley Brady
" Edward Nugent Bree
" Frederick George Brittan, M.A.
The Venerable Archdeacon Alfred Nesbitt Brown
The Reverend Henry Handley Brown, M.A.
Robert Burrows