1879.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1319

New Zealand Militia.
Captain Thomas Kells. Date of resignation, 7th
September, 1879.
I Battery of Artillery.
Lieutenant George Greenfield. Date of resigna-
tion, 8th August, 1879.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Commission cancelled.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th September, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
cancel the commission of the under-mentioned
officer:-
G Battery of Artillery.
Honorary Assistant-Surgeon Cecil Jackson.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 24th September, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointments :-
G Battery of Artillery.
Horace Gooch Button to be Honorary Assistant-
Surgeon. Date of commission, 12th August, 1879.
Arrow Rifle Cadet Volunteers.
Edsall Gruber to be Captain. Date of commission,
4th September, 1879.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Withdrawal of Applications for Gold-Mining Leases.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 19th September, 1879.
IT is hereby notified that the following applications
for gold-mining leases in the Nelson South-West
Gold Fields have been withdrawn, and that the ground
is open for application as if no lease of the said
ground had ever been applied for :-
John Trennery; 10 acres, Try Again Terrace, Nel-
son Creek.
Louis Davies; 10 acres, Try Again Terrace, Nelson
Creek.
W. GISBORNE,
Minister of Mines.

Agricultural Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th September, 1879.
IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned agricultural lease in the Otago
Gold Fields cancelled, and that the ground is now
open for application as if no lease of the said ground
had ever been applied for :-
Robert Gawn; 76 acres 2 roods 32 perches, Sec-
tion 13, Block II., District of Tuapeka West. No.
1708c.
W. GISBORNE,
Minister of Mines.

Resignation of Commissioner of Land Board,
Marlborough.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 20th September, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
A. P. SEYMOUR, Esq.,
as a Commissioner of the Land Board of the Land
District of Marlborough.
JAMES W. THOMSON,
Minister of Lands.

Resignation of Commissioners of Land Board,
Nelson.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 20th September, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
The Hon. NATHANIEL EDWARDS, M.L.C.,
OSWALD CURTIS, Esq., and
WILLIAM WASTNEY, Esq.,
as Commissioners of the Land Board of the Land
District of Nelson.
JAMES W. THOMSON,
Minister of Lands.

Commissioner of Land Board, Nelson, appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM WASTNEY, Esq.,
to be a Commissioner of the Land Board of the Land
District of Nelson.
JAMES W. THOMSON,
Minister of Lands.

Post Office and Telegraph Buildings, Wellington.—
Competitive Designs.

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1879.
DESIGNS for Post Office and Telegraph Buildings,
to be erected at Wellington, will be received at
the General Post Office, Wellington, until noon of
Friday, the 31st October proximo.
The premiums offered are £100 for first approved
design, and £50 for the second.
Copies of the conditions and plans of site may be
seen at the General Post Office, and Telegraph Office,
Wellington, and also at the Chief Post Offices at
Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.
J. T. FISHER,
Postmaster-General and Commissioner of
Telegraphs.

Designations of Post Offices changed.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1879.
IT is hereby notified for general information that
the designations of the Post Offices in the Christ-
church Postal District, known as Bealey Road and
Horndon Junction, have been changed respectively to
LOVAT and DARFIELD.
By order of the Postmaster-General.
W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Members of House of Representatives elected.

Clerk of Writs' Office,
Wellington, 24th September, 1879.
THE Clerk of the Writs has received returns to
the writs issued by him on the eighteenth day
of August last, for the election of Members to serve
in the House of Representatives for the electoral
districts hereinafter specified, and by the indorse-
ments on such writs it appears that the under-
mentioned gentlemen have been duly elected Mem-
bers for the said districts, viz.:-