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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Royal Rifle Volunteers.
William George Watt to be Captain. Date of com-
mission, 19th December, 1878.

Palmerston North Rifles.
George Mathew Snelson to be Captain.
George Marsh to be Lieutenant.
Benetto Louis Pirani to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 3rd February, 1879.

Manchester Rifle Volunteers.
Daniel Johnston to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon.
Date of commission, 6th August, 1879.

No. 1. Carlyle Rifle Volunteers.
John Black to be Captain.
Frederick Martin Chapman to be Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 18th August, 1879.

No. 4 Company Inglewood Rangers.
Michael Kelly to be Lieutenant. Date of commisson,
28th June, 1879.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Volunteer Officer dismissed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
dismiss from the Volunteer Force
Lieutenant Alexander Grant, Dunedin Naval
Brigade.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Services of Volunteer Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the services of the under-mentioned
Volunteer Corps :-
The Coromandel Rifle Volunteers.
The Ashburton Rifle Volunteers.
Date of acceptance, 15th August, 1879.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Designation of Volunteer Corps altered.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
alter the designation of the Feilding Rifle
Volunteers to
The Manchester Rifle Volunteers.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers:-
E Battery of Artillery.
Lieutenant John Brough Stansell. Date of resigna-
tion, 31st July, 1879.
Wanganui City Rifle Volunteers.
Honorary Assistant-Surgeon George William Cole.
Date of resignation, 15th August, 1879.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Resignation of Commissioner, Dunedin Drill-shed
Reserve.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
THOMAS CHALMERS REID,
late Captain, Waikari Rifle Volunteers, as a Commis-
sioner of the Dunedin Drill-shed Reserve.
G. S. WHITMORE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 43 of 1879.

ALTERATION IN LOCAL SIGNALS FOR THE PORT OF
WANGANUI.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 21st August, 1879.

THE following alteration in local signals author-
ized to be used at the Port of Wanganui is
published for general information:-

Two shifting beacons, the inner one higher than
the outer one, have been erected on the North Head,
which bear red flags by day and red lights by night
when the tide serves and the bar is safe, and are to
be taken as guides by mariners crossing the bar,
instead of the beacon and signal mast as heretofore.

Masters of vessels crossing the bar by day should
keep the two beacons in one, and also pay particular
attention to the semaphore arm, on account of the
curves taken by the channel inside the bar.

Masters of vessels crossing the bar at night should
keep the red lights of the beacons in one, and pay
particular attention to the green light which will be
used, like the semaphore arm, for guiding vessels in-
side the bar. This green light travels on a yard fixed
on the outer beacon, and vessels must be steered in
the direction in which the green light is moved.

Masters of vessels should, on arriving off the bar at
night, burn flash or blue lights to make their posi-
tions known to the look-out at the pilot station, who
will answer this signal with a torch or flare-up light.
Sailing vessels should not attempt to cross the bar at
night, as the wind generally dies away or draws off
the land.

These alterations will come into effect on and after
the 1st day of October, 1879.
G. GREY.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 27th August, 1879.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful
tenders is published for general information.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Public Works.

AMBERLEY-BRUNNERTON RAILWAY (STILL-
WATER CONTRACT).

Accepted.
W. Rowe, Greymouth ... ... ... £ 12,234 0 s. d.
0 0

Declined.
J. Clark, Hokitika ... ... ... 12,995 0 0
O'Connor and Grey, Greymouth ... ... 14,874 14 6
J. Maher, Christchurch ... ... ... 15,260 0 0
Price and Co., Greymouth ... ... 15,621 0 6

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE. His Honor the Chief Justice has; this
twentieth day of August, 1879, appointed
HENRY HOUGHTON BURTON BRADLEY, of Sydney, in