Bell Block Rifle Volunteers.
Urenui Rifle Volunteers.
Okato Rifle Volunteers.
Omato Rifle Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 5th June, 1879.
No. 2 Company Inglewood Rangers (Rifle Volun-
teers).
No. 2 Company Taranaki Rifle Volunteers.
No. 3 Company Taranaki Rifle Volunteers.
No. 1 Company Hawera Rifle Volunteers.
No. 2 Company Hawera Rifle Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 7th June, 1879.
Manutahi (Taranaki) Rifle Volunteers.
Tikorangi Rifle Volunteers.
Oakura Rifle Volunteers.
No. 1 Company Carlyle Rifle Volunteers.
No. 2 Company Carlyle Rifle Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 9th June, 1879.
Kent Road Rifle Volunteers. Date of acceptance,
11th June, 1879.
Manutahi (Patea) Rifle Volunteers.
Mangorie Rifle Volunteers.
Kaikaramea Rifle Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 16th June, 1879.
Waitara West Rifle Volunteers. Date of accept-
ance, 18th June, 1879.
No. 3 Company Inglewood Rangers, (Rifle Volun-
teers). Date of acceptance, 19th June, 1879.
No. 4 Company Inglewood Rangers (Rifle Volun-
teers). Date of acceptance, 28th June, 1879.
G. S. WHITMORE.

J. M. Barr appointed a Clerk, Auckland Savings
Bank.

Treasury,
Wellington, 12th July, 1879.
IT is notified for public information that the
Trustees of the Auckland Savings Bank have
appointed
Mr. JAMES MUIR BARR
to be a Clerk in the Auckland Savings Bank.
G. GREY.

Surveyor appointed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 4th July, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH RUDOLPH NEUMANN
to be a Surveyor in the Survey Department of New
Zealand. Appointment dating from 1st July, 1879.
W. GISBORNE,
Minister of Lands.

Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar
appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th July, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM ALFRED BARTON, Esq.,
to be a Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Regis-
trar under "The Mines Act, 1877," for the Kumara
Mining District, as from the 8th of July instant.
W. GISBORNE,
Minister of Mines.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 977
Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar
appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th July, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ANDREW ROBY BLOXAM, Esq.,
to be a Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Regis-
trar under "The Mines Act, 1877," for No Town,
in the Nelson South-West Mining District, and for
Maori Gully and Dunganville (Clifton), in the West-
land Mining District, as from the 16th June, 1879.
W. GISBORNE,
Minister of Mines.

Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar
appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th July, 1879.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ALEXANDER LE GRAND CAMPBELL, Esq.,
to be a Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Regis-
trar under "The Mines Act, 1877," for the Colling-
wood Mining District, as from the 1st May, 1879.
W. GISBORNE,
Minister of Mines.

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 10th July, 1879.
IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned gold-mining lease in the Nelson
South-West 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:—
Pierre Bossard and others; 4 acres 3 roods
12 perches, District of Buller. No. 828.
W. GISBORNE,
Minister of Mines.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 11th July, 1879.
THE following list of successful and unsuccessful
tenderers is published for general information.
J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Public Works.

LUMSDEN-MARAROA RAILWAY (LUMSDEN
CONTRACT).
Accepted.
£ s. d.
D. W. McArthur, Invercargill ... 3,616 11 4

Declined.
J. Campbell, Invercargill ... 4,213 15 10
M. Hughes and Co., Invercargill ... 4,264 12 3
J. M. Bennett, Invercargill ... 4,353 13 3
J. Shirley, Invercargill ... 4,450 10 1
Matheson Bros., Dunedin ... 4,595 0 0
J. Whitaker, Dunedin ... 4,764 0 8
J. Tosh, Invercargill ... 4,786 19 7
Macrorie and Cuthbertson, Invercargill ... 5,717 16 8

Notice of Times and Places for hearing Objections
to Valuations under "The Land-Tax Act, 1878."

VALUATION FOR NEW ZEALAND.
Wellington, 16th July, 1879.
IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the pro-
visions of "The Land-Tax Act, 1878" (section