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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

Napier Rifle Volunteers.
James Sidney Millner to be Lieutenant.

Waipawa Rifle Volunteers.
Herbert Melville Rathbone to be Captain.
William Joll to be Lieutenant.
Henry Charles Collett to be Lieutenant.

Christchurch Volunteer Cycle Corps.
Philip Norman Hunt to be Lieutenant.

Wellington Post and Telegraph Rifle Volunteers.
William Russell Morris to be Captain.
James Gorthorn Rule to be Lieutenant.
George Wilson Moorhouse to be Lieutenant,

Wanganui Guards Volunteers.
Henry Fowle Seager to be Captain.
William Samuel Dustin to be Lieutenant.

The commissions of all the above officers to date from the 1st March, 1899.
T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment, under amended paragraph 72, Volunteer Regulations, 1895:—

New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff.
James Moir to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of commission, 22nd May, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Formation of Mounted Rifle Volunteer Battalion.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under paragraph 211, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, of the formation of the under-mentioned corps in the Canterbury District into a mounted battalion, under the designation of the “Canterbury Battalion of Mounted Rifle Volunteers,” with headquarters at Christchurch, and with effect from the 1st day of May, 1899,—

A Company—The Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry Volunteers,
B „ The Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers,
C „ The Ellesmere Mounted Rifle Volunteers,
D „ The South Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers;

and also to approve of the appointment of

Major HENRY SLATER, V.D., Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers,

to command the battalion.

T. THOMPSON.

Additional Members appointed to Local Military Examination Board.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointments of

Major EDMUND ROBINSON SMITH and
Captain and Adjutant JOHN STUART HISLOP,

1st Battalion, Otago Rifle Volunteers, as additional members of the local Board for the Otago District for the Examination of Candidates for Commissions in the New Zealand Forces. Appointments to date from the 6th day of June, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Chief Justice resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 20th June, 1899.

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

Sir JAMES PRENDERGAST, Kt.,

of his appointment of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, as and from the 25th day of May, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 13th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignations of the commissions held by the under-mentioned officers:—

No. 1 Company, Ohinemuri Rifle Volunteers.
Captain Frederick Duncan Ferguson. Date of resignation, 25th January, 1899.

Hauraki Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Thomas Radford. Date of resignation, 29th April, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignations of the commissions held by the under-mentioned officers:—

Dunedin Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant William John Struthers Dunlop. Date of resignation, 4th June, 1899.

First Westland Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Jules Cæsar Malfroy. Date of resignation, 11th May, 1899.

Hastings Rifle Volunteers.
Captain Bethel Charles Ware. Date of resignation, 25th May, 1899.

No. 1 Company, N.Z. Native Rifle Volunteers (Auckland).
Captain Edwin Harold Montgomery. Date of resignation, 25th April, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Issue of New Zealand War Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the issue of a New Zealand War Medal to

Mr. ROBERT BERESFORD MAUNSELL,

late trooper, Taranaki Mounted Rifle Volunteers, whose claim has been investigated and admitted.

T. THOMPSON.

Special Order made by the Manganui Road Board, County of Stratford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1899.

THE following special order, made by the Manganui Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

W. C. WALKER.

MANGANUI ROAD BOARD.

Notice is hereby given that the following special order was made on Monday, 1st May, 1899, and confirmed on Monday, 5th June, 1899:—

“That, to secure the repayment of a further loan of £30 raised under ‘The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,’ for the purpose of completing the draining, culverting, and formation required to give access to the sections in Block XVI., Egmont, on the upper portion of Radnor Road, and of forming and metalling a portion of the road commencing at the eastern boundary of Section 24, Manganui, and extending westward about 40 chains; to set aside the Land Fund money accruing from Sections 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, Block XVI., Egmont, for the purpose of paying interest on this loan; to strike as security on this loan a special rate of ½d. in the pound over the following lands—namely, Sections 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, Block XVI., Egmont Survey District, such rate to be an annually recurring rate for twenty-six years, and shall be payable in two half-yearly instalments on the 1st of January and the 1st of July if required.”

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HENRY WATSON,
Clerk.

Special Order made by the Rangitikei County Council, altering the Boundaries of the Paraekaretu, Otairi, and Ohingaiti Ridings.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th June, 1899.

THE following special order, made by the Rangitikei County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

W. C. WALKER.

SPECIAL ORDER of the Rangitikei County Council, altering the Boundaries of the Paraekaretu, Otairi, and Ohingaiti Ridings of the Rangitikei County.

RESOLVED, That the boundaries of the Paraekaretu, Otairi, and Ohingaiti Ridings of the Rangitikei County be altered by the inclusion within the Paraekaretu Riding of those portions of the Otairi and Ohingaiti Ridings that were contained within the boundaries of the Hunter ville Road District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette of the 10th