APRIL 21.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Further information and particulars may be
obtained by application at the Colonial Secretary's
Office.
THOMAS DICK.

J. H. Whitelaw dismissed from the Civil Service.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st April, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been
pleased to dismiss

JOHN HENRY WHITELAW,
Keeper of the Wellington Lunatic Asylum, from the
Civil Service of the colony.

THOMAS DICK.

Alterations and Additions to the Rates for the Con-
veyance, Delivery, and Storage of Goods, Parcels,
&c., on the New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with the By-laws for the New Zea-
land Railways, fixed by Order in Council dated
the 6th January, 1881, the following alterations
and additions to the rates for the conveyance,
delivery, and storage of goods, parcels, &c., on all the
New Zealand Railways, are hereby declared to be
fixed and to come into force from the 1st May,
1881:-

PART VIII.—WHARVES.

FOXTON AND EASTOWN WHARVES.

These wharves shall be open for receipt and de-
livery of goods on all days (Sundays and holidays
observed at H.M. Customs excepted) from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m., but on Saturdays they may be closed at
2 p.m. Vessels may load or discharge from 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m., but on Saturdays until 1 p.m. only.

Masters of vessels discharging or loading cargo
outside of regular wharf hours shall pay 10s. per
hour for vessels discharged or loaded by steam-
power, and 5s. per hour for vessels worked by hand-
power; but this shall not apply to vessels loading or
discharging ballast, coal, or timber, where whar-
fingers' labour is not required.

Dated this 20th day of April, 1881.

R. OLIVER,
Minister for Public Works.

Appointment of Volunteer Officer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointment:—

Bruce Rifle Volunteers.

Alexander Adams to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 19th March, 1881.

JOHN HALL.

Resignation of Volunteer Officer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by the under-mentioned officer:—

Olutha Rifle Volunteers.

Captain James Smail. Date of resignation, 31st
March, 1881.

JOHN HALL.

Resignation of Auditor, Wellington.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 20th April, 1881.

IT is hereby notified for public information that
Mr. W. B. Yaldwyn has resigned his appoint-

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ments as Auditor under "The Harbours Act, 1878,"
"The Counties Act, 1876," "The Local Boards Act,
1873" (Wellington), and "The Rabbit Nuisance
Act, 1880," as on the 1st instant.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

Post Office and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, 20th April, 1881.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
a Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be
opened at

TAKAKA (Chief Office, Nelson),
from and after the 1st May proximo.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1881.—Notice No. 10.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 16th April, 1881.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1880," the following names of Officiating Ministers
within the meaning of the said Act are published for
general information :—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly
called the Church of England.
The Reverend Charles Melville Pym.
The Reverend Joseph Hewson.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Robert McGregor.

Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Reverend George Hall.
The Reverend Jacob Urwin Spence.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Governor of Auckland College and Grammar School
elected.

IN pursuance of "The Auckland College and
Grammar School Act, 1877," and of the regula-
tions thereunder for conducting the election of
Governors by the persons authorized to do so by
subsection 2 of section 3 of that Act, I hereby notify
that

FRANCIS DART FENTON, Esq.,
has been elected a Governor of the Board of
Governors constituted by the said Act.

JOHN JAMES,
Auckland, 5th April, 1881.
Returning Officer.

Crown Lands Notices.

Changing Purpose of Reserve No. 204, Kakaramea.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1881.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor intends, under the provisions of
section 8 of "The Public Reserves Act, 1878," to
change the specific purpose of the land described in
the second column of the Schedule hereto for which
the land was heretofore set apart as a reserve, as
specified in the first column of the said Schedule, to
the specific purposes specified in the third column of
the said Schedule.