THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 79

David Scannell to be Inspector, and Second-class
Superintendent. Date of commission, 1st Decem-
ber, 1871.
John Bell Thomson to be Inspector, and Second-
class Superintendent. Date of commission, 17th
August, 1874.
John Emerson to be Inspector. Date of commis-
sion, 4th November, 1867.
Thomas Scully to be Inspector. Date of commission,
1st July, 1868.
William Griffin Stack to be Inspector. Date of
commission, 1st February, 1871.
James Hickson to be Inspector. Date of commission,
20th August, 1872.
Samuel Moore to be Inspector. Date of commission,
1st July, 1873.
Andrew Thompson to be Inspector. Date of com-
mission, 1st July, 1873.
William Graham Fox to be Inspector. Date of
commission, 1st July, 1873.
Peter Pender to be Inspector. Date of commission,
24th April, 1874.
Forster Yelverton Goring to be Inspector. Date of
commission, 17th August, 1874.
Frederick Mallard to be Inspector. Date of com-
mission, 23rd January, 1875.
William Aventon Kiely to be Inspector. Date of
commission, 7th May, 1875.
Alfred Buckley to be Inspector. Date of commis-
sion, 28th June, 1875.
Harry Feast to be Inspector. Date of commission,
28th June, 1875.
Walter Edward Gudgeon to be Sub-Inspector. Date
of commission, 17th October, 1868.
Frederick John William Gascoigne to be Sub-In-
spector. Date of commission, 27th November,
1868.
Henry William Northcroft to be Sub-Inspector.
Date of commission, 7th June, 1869.
Henry Charles Morrison to be Sub-Inspector. Date
of commission, 1st June, 1870.
Thomas Nepean Edward Kenny to be Sub-Inspector.
Date of commission, 1st June, 1870.
Robert Bullen to be Sub-Inspector. Date of com-
mission, 1st January, 1872.
Charles O'Donnell to be Sub-Inspector. Date of
commission, 2nd September, 1872.
Samuel Goodall to be Sub-Inspector. Date of com-
mission, 18th June, 1873.
Stuart Newall to be Sub-Inspector. Date of com-
mission, 17th August, 1874.
William Stone Pardy to be Sub-Inspector. Date of
commission, 17th November, 1875.
William Meredith Smith to be Sub-Inspector. Date
of commission, 1st May, 1877.
John Taylor Marshall to be Sub-Inspector. Date of
commission, 1st December, 1877.
William Bazire Messenger to be Sub-Inspector.
Date of commission, 1st December, 1877.
Patrick Joseph O'Carroll to be Surgeon. Date of
commission, 31st December, 1869.
Samuel Walker to be Surgeon. Date of commission,
1st July, 1872.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to accept the resignation of the commissions
held by

Lieut. J. B. SADD, Nelson Artillery Volunteers.
Lieut. G. HODGSON, Nelson (City) Rifle Volun-
teers.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
disband

The Marton Rifle Volunteer Cadets.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Member of Medical Board appointed.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

FREDERICK IRVING DE LISLE, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Medical Board constituted
12th November, 1866, under "The Military Pensions
Act, 1866."

G. S. WHITMORE.

Services of Constabulary Officer dispensed with.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1878.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
dispense with the services of First-class In-
spector

WILLIAM AIREY RICHARDSON,
of the New Zealand Armed Constabulary, from the
15th instant, on the reduction of the Force.

G. S. WHITMORE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 1 of 1878.

EXHIBITION OF REVOLVING WHITE LIGHT ON
PORTLAND ISLAND, HAWKE'S BAY.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 10th January, 1878.

WITH reference to the preliminary notice issued
by this department, dated the 22nd of October,
1877, it is hereby notified that on and after the 10th
day of February next a Light will be exhibited from
the Lighthouse which has been erected on Portland
Island, the position and characteristics of which are
as follow:-

The Portland Island Lighthouse is situated on the
southern extremity of Portland Island, which lies off
the southern end of the Mahia Peninsula, Hawke's
Bay, on the east coast of the North Island of New
Zealand.

The tower is 28 feet in height, is built of timber,
and painted white. The light will be a second order
REVOLVING WHITE LIGHT, visible all round the
horizon as far as the land will allow. It will attain
its greatest brilliance every THIRTY SECONDS. The
light is elevated 300 feet above the sea, and, allowing
15 feet for the height of the eye, will be seen at a
distance of about 24 nautic miles in clear weather,
and at lesser distances according to the state of the
atmosphere.

From the lower part of the tower a Fixed Red
Light, having an arc of about six degrees, will be
shown in the direction of Bull Rock, which bears
N.E. from the Lighthouse, distant four miles.

G. GREY.