JAN. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 89

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointments :-

Wanganui City Rifles.
John Wilson to be Lieutenant.
James John Crawford to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 15th July, 1879.
JOHN BRYCE.

ROBERT MACALISTER, Esq., Wanganui High School.
JOHN OLLIVIER, Esq., Ashburton High School.
JOHN OLLIVIER, Esq., Timaru High School.
HENRY LIVINGSTON, Esq., Waitaki High School..
WM. ROLLESTON.

Organizing Inspector of Native Schools appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 27th January, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been
pleased to appoint
JAMES HENRY POPE, Esq.,
to be Organizing Inspector of Native Schools. The
appointment to date from the 21st instant.
H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Minister of Education.)

Resignation of Volunteer Officer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by the under-mentioned officer :-

Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry.
Captain Frederick Strouts. Date of resignation,
7th January, 1880.
JOHN BRYCE.

School Commissioner appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 28th January, 1880.
PURSUANT to section 11 of "The Education
Reserves Act, 1877," His Excellency the
Governor has appointed
HORACE BAKER, Esq.,
to be a School Commissioner for the Provincial Dis-
trict of Hawke's Bay, vice J. T. Tylee, Esq., resigned.
H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Minister of Education.)

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions held
by the under-mentioned officers:-

Wellington Naval Brigade.
Lieutenant John Inglis. Date of resignation, 14th
January, 1880.
Lieutenant John William Leahy. Date of resigna-
tion, 12th January, 1880.
H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Defence Minister.)

Gold-Mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 20th January, 1880.
IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to pronounce the
under-mentioned gold-mining lease cancelled, and
that the ground is now open for application as if no
lease of the said ground had ever been applied for :-
Walter Gardiner and James Gardiner; 7 acres 2
roods 24 perches, Section 16, Block VII., Mid-Waka-
tipu Survey District, Otago Gold Fields.
R. OLIVER.

Interpreter appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 24th January, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
EDWARD FRANCIS HARRIS, Esq.,
of Gisborne, to be an Interpreter under the twelfth
section of "The Native Land Act, 1873."
JOHN BRYCE.

Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar
appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 20th January, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES MCENNIS, 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 (Arnold) and Dunganville (Clifton),
in the Westland Mining District, as from the 22nd
December, 1879, vice Andrew Roby Bloxam, Esq.,
promoted.
R. OLIVER.

Trust Commissioner appointed.

Native Office,
Wellington, 27th January, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
MATTHEW PRICE, Esq.,
of Gisborne, to be a Trust Commissioner under "The
Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1870," for the
Poverty Bay District, vice Caleb Whitefoord, Esq.
H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Native Minister.)

Notice to Mariners.—No. 7 of 1880.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 27th January, 1880.
THE following Notices to Mariners, received from
the Portmaster at Brisbane, are published for
general information.
H. A. ATKINSON.

Auditors of High School Accounts appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th January, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been
pleased to appoint the gentlemen hereinafter
named to be Auditors of the accounts of the High
Schools set opposite the name of each respectively,
viz. :-
LOUIS ADOLPHUS DURRIEU, Esq., Whangarei High
School.
LOUIS ADOLPHUS DURRIEU, Esq., Thames Boys'
and Girls' High School.

LEADING LIGHTS, GREAT SANDY ISLAND STRAIT.
On and after this date two white leading lights will
be exhibited from the western end of Inskip Point,
which, when kept in line, will lead vessels up to the
Fairway Buoy.