THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1105

Appointment of Volunteer Officer.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th November, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to make the under-mentioned appointment,
viz.,-
In the Christchurch City Guards Rifle Volunteers.
John Leslie Radcliffe to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date
of commission, 18th October, 1877.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Resignation of Volunteer Officer.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th November, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the appointment
held by
Captain W. E. Heywood (New Zealand Militia),
as Officer Commanding the Volunteers in the
Southland District.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Resignation of Armed Constabulary Officer.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th November, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by
Sub-Inspector F. C. Rowan, Armed Constabulary
Force. From the 14th November, 1877.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Appointments (Constructed Railways).

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 14th November, 1877.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the following appointments in the Con-
structed Railways Branch of the Public Works
Department:----
HUGH BOSCAWEN, Clerk, Stores Manager's Office.
From 1st August, 1877.
SAMUEL SEBASTOPOL QUINN, Clerk. From 13th
August, 1877.
FREDERICK BACK, Assistant Traffic Manager at
Christchurch. From 30th October, 1877.
RICHARD WHITAKER, Accountant. From 30th
October, 1877.
W. J. M. LARNACH.

Alterations and Additions to the Rates for the Con-
veyance, Delivery, and Storage of Goods, Parcels,
&c., on all the New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with the By-laws for the New Zea-
land Railways, fixed by Order in Council,
dated the 17th day of April, 1877, the following
alterations and additions to the rates for the con-
veyance, delivery, and storage of goods, parcels, &c.,
on all the New Zealand Railways, are hereby declared
to be fixed, and shall come into force from the day
of the date hereof: -

PASSENGERS.

Family season tickets will be issued on application
to the Manager at two-thirds the rate of ordinary
season tickets. Minimum charge as for four persons.
The rate for special trains with one large or two
small carriages to be fifteen shillings (15s.) per mile.
For every additional carriage five shillings (5s.)
per mile. Minimum charge five pounds (£5).
Mileage charged one way only.
Season tickets at half ordinary fares will be issued
to apprentices and pupil teachers whose age does
not exceed 19 years, upon production of satisfactory
certificates from their masters or employers that the

applicants are actually serving as apprentices or
pupil teachers, and that their age is within the pre-
scribed limits.
GRAIN.
If bags contain more than 4 bushels the excess
weight will be charged at a rate and a half.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The driver of any public vehicle plying for hire
within the precincts of any railway will be charged
a fee of one pound (£1) for a twelve months' license,
to be issued at the option of the Manager. No public
vehicle allowed to ply within the limits of the railway
without a license.
Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of November,
1877.
W. J. M. LARNACH,
Minister for Public Works.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1877.—NOTICE No. 20.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 12th November, 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 names of Officiating Ministers,
within the meaning of the said Act, are published for
general information: ---
Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.
The Reverend FREDERICK RICHARD INWOOD.
The Reverend GEOFFREY FYNES CLINTON.
WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Civil Service Examination postponed.
THE Examination appointed to be held in Decem-
ber next is unavoidably postponed till January.
Notice of the exact time and place will be given to
Candidates.
By order of the Board.
C. C. N. BARRON,
Wellington, 12th November, 1877.
Secretary.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels
of land hereinafter described will be brought
under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act,
1870," unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same
within one calendar month from the date of the
Gazette containing this notice.
EDWARD LYNDON, Applicant.—Part Town
Section 563, Napier, containing 7½ perches. Unoc-
cupied. (E. Lyndon, Broker.) 579.
EDWARD LYNDON, Applicant.—Town Section
183, Napier, containing 2 roods. In occupation of
Michael Boylan and — Jack. (E. Lyndon, Broker.)
580.
EDWARD LYNDON, Applicant.----Town Section
384, Napier, containing 2 roods 28 perches. Unoc-
cupied. (E. Lyndon, Broker.) 581.
EDWARD LYNDON, Applicant.—Part Sub-
urban Sections 18 and 19, Napier, containing 1 acre 2
roods 23 perches. In occupation of Hugh Sinclair,
Edward White Blackwell, Albert Brockman, Charles
Baldwin, and Charles Alderton. (E. Lyndon,
Broker.) 582.
Diagrams may be inspected at this office.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1877, at the
Lands Registry Office, Napier.
582
J. M. BATHAM,
District Land Registrar.