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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Clerk in the Crown Lands Office, Patea, appointed.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
promote

THOMAS GEORGE WAITT, Esq.,
from the General Crown Lands and Immigration
Department, Wellington, to be Clerk in the office of
the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the West
Coast (North Island) Land District.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Governor of Waitaki High School appointed.

Education Department,
Wellington, 17th May, 1882.

PURSUANT to section 4 of "The Waitaki High
School Act, 1878," His Excellency the Governor
has been pleased to appoint

JOHN REID, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Waitaki High School Board,
vice S. E. Shrimski, Esq., resigned.

THOMAS DICK.

Volunteer Officers appointed and promoted

Defence Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointments and
promotion :-

Nelson City Rifle Volunteers.
Thomas Rowling to be Sub-Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 20th December, 1881.

Patea Rifle Volunteers.
Sub-Lieutenant Andrew Gui King to be Lieutenant.
Joseph Kitchen to be Sub-Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 25th April, 1882.

JOHN BRYCE.

Commission of Volunteer Officer cancelled.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
cancel the commission held by
Sub-Lieutenant William Robertson, jun.,
in the Portobello Rifle Volunteers, for absence with-
out leave.

JOHN BRYCE.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
disband the
New Plymouth Guards Rifle Volunteers.
Date of disbandment, 10th May, 1882.

The under-mentioned gentlemen therefore cease to
be officers in the Volunteer Force, their commissions
having lapsed under "The Volunteer Act, 1881":-

Frederick Lewis Webster, late Captain.
Francis Peacock Corkhill, late Lieutenant.
Thomas Kingwell Skinner, late Sub-Lieutenant.
John Murray Gibbes, late Honorary Assistant
Surgeon.

JOHN BRYCE.

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Resignation of Receiver of Land Revenue and Clerk
in Land Office, West Coast (North Island) Land
District.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to accept the resignation of
G. N. BAGGETT, Esq.,
as Receiver of Land Revenue for the West Coast
(North Island), and Clerk in the office of the Com-
missioner of Crown Lands for the same district.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Resignation of Cemetery Trustee.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
RICHARD WESTENRA, Esq.,
as a Trustee for the Dunsandel (Canterbury) Ceme-
tery.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of proposed Addition to the Borough of the
City of Auckland.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1882.

AN application having been made to the Governor
to incorporate into the Borough of the City of
Auckland the lands hereunder described, His Excel-
lency directs it to be notified that, unless within two
months from the date of the public notification hereof,
a petition or petitions, as required by "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Acts Amendment Act, 1880," is or
are presented to His Excellency, he will proceed to
incorporate the said land into the Borough of the
City of Auckland, and constitute the said land a
separate ward of the said borough, to be called the
Ponsonby Ward.

The description of the land proposed to be added
is as follows: All that district known as the Ponsonby
Highway District. Bounded on the North by the
Waitemata Harbour; on the East by the Borough of
the City of Auckland; on the South by Richmond
Road to Cox's Creek; and thence by the said creek
to the Waitemata Harbour aforesaid.

THOMAS DICK.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th May, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalisation, under "The
Aliens Act, 1880," in favour of the under-mentioned
person, viz. :-

Name. Occupation. Residence.
Chong Sike ... Merchant Dunedin.

THOMAS DICK.

Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st February, 1882.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following bonuses
will be paid on articles produced in the Colony
of New Zealand, as under :-