MAY 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 673

William Wilcox Tanner, Esq., of Christchurch.
William George Thompson, Esq., of Hunterville, co.
Rangitikei.
Austin Walsh, Esq., of Auckland.
Thomas Henry White, Esq., of Auckland.
William Thomas Wood, Esq., of Palmerston North.
W. P. REEVES.

Secretary of Customs appointed.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM THOMPSON GLASGOW

to be Secretary of Customs, Secretary to the Marine Depart-
ment, and Chief Inspector of Distilleries, vice Henry Scott
McKellar, retired. Appointment to date from the 1st May,
1892.

J. BALLANCE,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Member of Hospital and Charitable Aid Board appointed.

Lunacy and Charitable Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has, in terms of section 7 of "The Hospitals and
Charitable Institutions Act, 1885," been pleased to appoint

JAMES WALKER BAIN, Esq.,

to represent the Borough Councils of Riverton, Winton,
Campbelltown, and Gore on the Southland Hospital and
Charitable Aid Board.

W. P. REEVES,
For Minister of Department.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned
appointments:—

Hawera Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Nathaniel Johnston to be Captain. Date of
commission, 6th April, 1892.

D Battery, New Zealand Regiment, Artillery Volunteers.
Charles Pearce to be Lieutenant. Date of commission,
6th April, 1892.

Palmerston North Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant John Ernest Hall to be Captain. Date of
commission, 6th April, 1892.

Manchester Rifle Volunteers.
Charles Bray to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 6th
April, 1892.

Albert Rifle Volunteers.
Frederick Charles Skipwith to be Lieutenant. Date of
commission, 6th April, 1892.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Defence.

Commandant to New Zealand Forces appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th May, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to approve of the appointment of

Captain FRANCIS JOHN FOX,

Royal Artillery, Local Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Com-
mandant of the New Zealand Forces. Date of commission,
2nd May, 1892.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Defence.

Officer to New Zealand Militia appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th May, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to approve of the appointment of

Captain FRANCIS JOHN FOX,

Royal Artillery, Local Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel in
the New Zealand Militia, on assuming the command of the
New Zealand Forces. Date of commission, 2nd May, 1892.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1892.

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

Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Alfred Garland. Date of resignation, 22nd
April, 1892.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Defence.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

EUSTACE GILES, of No. 408, Collins Street, Mel-
bourne, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Vic-
toria, has been this day appointed, by His Honour the Chief
Justice, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zea-
land in Victoria, under the 2nd section of "The Commis-
sioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875," for the purpose of
administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and
affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of April, 1892.

D. G. A. COOPER,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Despatch.—The "Mail Ships Act, 1891," to apply to New
Zealand in the case of the Postal Convention with
France of the 30th August, 1890.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1892.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is pub-
lished for general information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 20th February, 1892.
SIR,—With reference to my circular despatch of the 12th
August last, transmitting a copy of "The Mail Ships Act,
1891," I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication
in the colony under your Government, a sealed copy of an
Order of the Queen in Council, dated the 6th February,
1892, applying to the colony under your Government the
Act in the case of the postal convention with France of the
30th August, 1890, of which a copy accompanied my circular
despatch of the 9th May last.

I have, &c.,
KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering the Government of
New Zealand.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 6th day
of February, 1892.

Present:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,
LORD PRESIDENT, MR. RITCHIE, MR. JACKSON.

WHEREAS by "The Mail Ships Act, 1891," it is provided
that, where Her Majesty the Queen has made a convention
with a foreign State respecting the postal service between
such foreign State and the United Kingdom, or respecting
the privileges of mail-ships, that is to say, ships engaged in
any postal service of such foreign State, or of any part of
Her Majesty's dominions, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty
in Council to order that the said Act shall, subject to any
conditions, exceptions, and qualifications contained in the
order, apply during the continuance of the order as regards
such convention and foreign State and the postal service and
mail-ships described in the convention:

And whereas by section 8 of the said Act it is also pro-
vided that an Order in Council may for the purpose of a
convention with a foreign State apply the said Act, subject
to any exceptions or modifications not inconsistent with the
provisions of the said Act, to any British possession, and
that the said Act when so applied should, subject to those
exceptions and modifications, and subject as thereinafter
mentioned, have effect as if it were re-enacted with the sub-
stitution of such British possession for the United Kingdom;
provided that, before it should be applied to any British
possession named in the Schedule to the said Act, the
Government of such possession should have adhered to the
convention:

And whereas on the 30th day of August, 1890, a con-
vention was made at London between Her Majesty and the
President of the French Republic respecting the postal ser-
vice between France and French possessions and the United
Kingdom and British possessions, the terms of which con-
vention are set forth in the Schedule to this order:

And whereas the ratifications of the said convention were
exchanged on the 23rd day of March, 1891: