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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

B Troop or Alexandra Cavalry Volunteers.
James Higgie to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 8th April, 1887.

O Battery of Artillery Volunteers.
George Charles Gilmore to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 25th August, 1886.

Bruce Rifle Volunteers.
Dugald Lewis Poppelwell to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 2nd May, 1887.

East Taieri Rifle Volunteers.
Alexander Cameron to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 24th June, 1887.

North Dunedin Rifle Volunteers.
Septimus Solomon Myers to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 17th November, 1886.

1st Westland Rifle Volunteers.
Henry Willis Kiernan to be Lieutenant.
Jules Cæsar Malfroy to be Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 24th March, 1887.

Wanganui Rifle Volunteers.
Robert Hughes to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 10th May, 1887.

Hobson Rifle Volunteers.
Henry Ellis Nightingale to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 8th February, 1887.

Greytown Rifle Volunteers.
Thomas Johnston to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 16th November, 1886.

Wanganui City Rifles.
Michael Foley to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 17th January, 1887.

Wellington Rifle Volunteers.
Freeman Lawlor Jackson to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 19th August, 1887.

Dunedin Irish Rifle Volunteers.
John Murray to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 28th February, 1887.

Queen’s Own Rifle Volunteers.
Edward Stevenson Vernon Mowbray to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 22nd March, 1887.

Tuapeka Rifle Volunteers.
William George Urquhart to be Lieutenant.
Robert McKeich to be Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 31st March, 1887.

Kaitangata Rifle Volunteers.
James Rutherford to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 3rd May, 1887.

Hamilton Light Infantry.
James Coombes to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 22nd March, 1887.

Blenheim City Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Christopher James Whitney Griffiths, from the Blenheim Rifle Volunteers, to be Captain.
Joseph Arthur Chuck to be Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 15th April, 1887.

Blenheim Rifle Cadet Volunteers.
Honorary Captain John Pearson Lucas to be Captain. Date of commission, 8th July, 1887.

Nelson College Rifle Cadet Volunteers.
Honorary Lieutenant James Withers to be Lieutenant.
Honorary Lieutenant Sisley Richard Davidson to be Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 15th August, 1887.

J. BALLANCE.

Promotion and Appointment in Permanent Militia.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th September, 1887.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the under-mentioned promotion and appointment:—
Permanent Militia.
Lieutenant John Falconer to be Captain and Inspector of Submarine Mining Stores and Establishments. Date of commission, 1st September, 1887.

J. BALLANCE.

Issue of New Zealand War Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th September, 1887.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise the issue of New Zealand war medals to the individuals named hereunder, whose claims, after investigation, have been established.

J. BALLANCE.

Member of Representation Commission resigned.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th September, 1887.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

The Hon. THEODORE MINET HAULTAIN

of his appointment as an unofficial Member of the Representation Commission appointed under “The Representation Act, 1887.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Resignation of a Native Land Court Assessor accepted.

Native Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1887.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

PEPENE EKETONE,

of Ohinemuri, of his appointment as Assessor of the Native Land Court.

J. BALLANCE.

Despatch.—Royal Holloway College for the Education of Women, Mount Lee, Egham, Surrey.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th September, 1887.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information, by command of His Excellency the Governor.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Downing Street, 28th June, 1887.

SIR,—At the request of His Royal Highness the Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, K.G., Chairman of the House Committee of the Governors of the Royal Holloway College for the Education of Women, at Mount Lee, Egham, I have the honour to transmit herewith, for the information of the colony under your Government, printed copies of a prospectus showing the scope and objects of the institution, together with copies of a memorandum relating to entrance and scholarship examinations, and of a form of application for admission to the college.

I have to request that you will take such measures as you may think desirable for giving publicity to the prospectus, and inviting public attention to the advantages offered by the college.

I have, &c.,

H. T. HOLLAND.

The Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand.

THE ROYAL HOLLOWAY COLLEGE FOR THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN, MOUNT LEE, EGHAM, SURREY.

Governors: His Royal Highness the Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, K.G., Cumberland Lodge, Windsor; His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace, London, S.E.; the Right Honourable the Earl Granville, K.G., F.R.S., Walmer Castle, Deal; the Right Honourable Lord Thring, K.C.B., 5, Queen’s Gate Gardens, S.W.; the Right Honourable A. J. Mundella, M.P., F.R.S., 16, Elvaston Place, S.W.; the Worshipful Richard Copley Christie, M.A., Chancellor of the Diocese of Manchester, Virginia Water, Surrey; the Very Rev. Randall Thomas Davidson, M.A., Dean of Windsor, the Deanery, Windsor; George Martin-Holloway, Esq., Tittenhurst, Sunninghill, Surrey; Henry Driver-Holloway, Esq., Ellenborough House, Barnes, Surrey; David Chadwick, Esq., The Poplars, Herne Hill, London, S.E.; Joseph Savory, Esq., Alderman, Buckhurst Park, Ascot; Walpole Greenwell, Esq., 17, Portman Square, London, W.

Principal: Miss Bishop (at present Head Mistress of the Oxford High School).

The college will open on Tuesday, the 4th October, 1887.