DEC. 2.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1709

Appointment of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Department,
Wellington, 26th November, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to make the under-
mentioned promotions and appointments:--

Southland Hussar Volunteers.
William Cotterell to be Honorary Assistant Surgeon.
Date of commission, 17th May, 1880.

Oamaru Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Alfred Headland to be Captain, vice
Sumpter, promoted.
Sub-Lieutenant Alfred Clarke to be Lieutenant.
Richard Bennett to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 17th October, 1880.
H. A. ATKINSON.

Resignation of Volunteer Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1880.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to accept the resigna-
tion of the commissions held by the under-mentioned
officers :-

Auckland Scottish Rifle Volunteers.
Sub-Lieutenant John Horne. Date of resignation,
3rd November, 1880.

Wanganui City Rifles.
Captain Herbert Thomas Hasley Knight. Date of
resignation, 20th November, 1880.
H. A. ATKINSON.

Despatch.—Amending Article 4 of Western Pacific
Order in Council, 1879.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1880.

THE following despatch, received from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies, is published for general information.
THOMAS DICK.

(No. 30.) Downing Street,
14th September, 1880.

SIR,—I have the honor to transmit to you an
Order of the Queen in Council, dated the 6th of
September, amending Article 4 of the Western Pacific
Order in Council of the 14th August, 1879, provid-
ing for the appointment of an Assistant High Com-
missioner for the Western Pacific.

I request that this Order may be duly published
in the Gazette of the colony under your Government.
I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering the
Government of New Zealand.

At the Court at Balmoral, the sixth day of
September, 1880.
Present:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the Western Pacific Order in Council
of 1877, Her Majesty the Queen was pleased to create
and constitute the office of High Commissioner in,
over, and for certain islands and places in the West-
ern Pacific Ocean, with such powers and jurisdiction
as are in the said Order set forth:

And whereas by the Western Pacific Order in
Council of 1879, Her Majesty was pleased, in the

fourth article thereof, to order that, whenever the
High Commissioner has occasion to leave his ordinary
place of official residence in order to visit any dis-
tant places within which he has jurisdiction as High
Commissioner, he may appoint an Assistant High
Commissioner to represent him during his absence:

And whereas it is expedient to amend and extend
the provisions of the fourth article of the said Order
of 1879:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in
exercise of the powers in this behalf by the Pacific
Islanders Protection Acts, 1872 and 1875, and by
the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843 to 1878, or
otherwise, in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and
with the advice of her Privy Council, to order, and it
it hereby ordered, as follows:—

Preliminary.

1. This Order may be cited as the Western Pacific
   Order in Council of 1880; and the Western Pacific
   Orders in Council of 1877, 1879, and this Order may
   be cited together as the Western Pacific Orders in
   Council of 1877 to 1880.

2. This Order shall be read as if it were part of
   the Western Pacific Orders in Council of 1877 and

Assistant High Commissioner.

3. The fourth article of the Western Pacific
   Order in Council of 1879 is hereby revoked, but
   without prejudice to anything lawfully done there-
   under.

4. (1.) Whenever the High Commissioner has
   occasion to leave his ordinary place of official resi-
   dence in order to visit any distant places within
   which he has jurisdiction as High Commissioner, or
   at any other time, with the previous sanction of Her
   Majesty conveyed through the Secretary of State, he
   may, by an instrument under his hand and official
   seal, appoint a Judicial Commissioner, or some one of
   Her Majesty's Deputy Commissioners for the West-
   ern Pacific, to represent him in his office of High
   Commissioner; and the person so appointed shall be
   styled the Assistant High Commissioner, and may,
   so long as his appointment remains in force, exercise
   all the powers and authorities of the High Commis-
   sioner, or so much thereof as is specified in the in-
   strument appointing him.

(2.) Such appointment shall not affect the right of
the High Commissioner to exercise his full power
and authority in any place within his jurisdiction.

(3.) The High Commissioner may revoke any such
appointment by a similar instrument; and every such
appointment, if made on account of the absence of
the High Commissioner, shall cease on his return to
his ordinary place of official residence.

5. In this Order, and in the Western Pacific Orders
   in Council of 1877 and 1879, unless inconsistent with
   the context, the High Commissioner includes the
   person for the time being exercising any of the
   powers and authorities of High Commissioner under
   the provisions of this Order, or of the Western Pacific
   Order in Council of 1877 or of 1879.

6. This Order shall commence and have effect on
   the 15th November, 1880, and shall be published in
   the Royal Gazette of Fiji, and in such other manner
   as the High Commissioner thinks fit.

And the Right Honorable Earl Granville, Knight
of our Most Noble Order of the Garter, and the
Right Honorable the Earl of Kimberley, two of Her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the
necessary directions herein as to them may respec-
tively appertain.

C. L. PEEL.