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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 46

HERBERT WILLIAM BRABANT, Esq., R.M.,
to be Returning Officer for the Districts of Tauranga
and Waimapu under "The Licensing Act, 1881."
THOMAS DICK.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th May, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES JONES
to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the
District of Mount Wellington, vice P. Ganley,
resigned;
GEORGE HAINES
to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the
District of Paparoa, vice C. Hook, resigned;
JOHN LEMON
to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the
District of Papakaio, vice A. Smellie, deceased;
JAMES HARDCASTLE and
FREDERICK EVANS
to be Members of the Licensing Committee for the
District of Greenstone, vice R. Johnson and E. Gibb,
resigned; and
ARTHUR WILLIAM TRAILL
to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the
Special District of Stewart Island, vice C. Traill,
resigned.
THOMAS DICK.

Coroner appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th May, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES JOHN TURNBULL, Esq., R.M.,
of Blenheim, to be a Coroner within the colony.
THOMAS DICK.

Revising Barrister appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 16th May, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
CLEMENT WILLIAM GOVETT, Esq.,
to be Revising Barrister for the District of Taranaki,
under the provisions of "The Building Societies Act,
1880," as from the 12th instant.
H. A. ATKINSON.

Appointment of Inspectors of Licensed Premises.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
Constable WILLIAM WALKER, stationed at
Mercer;
Constable ANDREW MCKNIGHT, stationed at
Papakura; and
Constable MICHAEL NAUGHTON, stationed at
Helensville,
to be Inspectors of Licensed Premises, under "The
Licensing Act, 1881."
H. A. ATKINSON,
(in absence of the Defence Minister.)

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th May, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointment :-
James Harford Blackmore to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 18th March, 1882.
JOHN BRYCE.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th May, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to disband the under-mentioned Volunteer
corps :--
No. 3 Company, Thames Scottish Battalion Rifle
Volunteers.
JOHN BRYCE.

Appointing Four Assistant Warders.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 16th May, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint the under-mentioned persons to
be Assistant Warders in the Prison Service of
the colony :-
CHARLES RUSSELL,
GEORGE HARPER,
THOMAS BLATCHFORD, and
ALEXANDER BURNS.
THOMAS DICK.

Insurance Agents appointed.

Government Insurance Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1882.
THE following appointments have been made in
the Government Insurance Department:-
SOMERSET WILLIAM D'ARCY IRVINE, Esq., to
be Resident Agent at Auckland;
JOSEPH CUMBERLAND PRUDHOE, Esq., to be
Resident Agent at Christchurch; and
ROBERT CAMPBELL NIVEN, Esq., to be Resi-
dent Agent at Dunedin.
These appointments to have effect from the 1st
May, 1882.
D. M. LUCKIE,
Commissioner.

Despatch.-Acknowledging Expression of Sympathy on
the Occasion of the Death of President Garfield.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1882.
THE following despatch, received from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies, is published for general information.
THOMAS DICK.

Downing Street, 8th March, 1882.
SIR,-With reference to my despatch (general) of the
13th October last, I have the honor to transmit
to you a copy of a further letter from the Foreign
Office, enclosing a copy of a letter from the United
States Minister at this Court, expressing the appre-
ciation of the American people of the sympathy
afforded to them by the Government of New Zealand
on the death of President Garfield.
I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.
Governor the Hon. Sir A. H. Gordon,
G.C.M.G.