July 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1365

resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by warrants under the hand of His Excellency the Governor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th July, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE BENNETT

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Albertland.

J. CARROLL.

Conservator of North Egmont Forest Reserve appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 17th July, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in pursuance of section 12 of “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885,” to appoint

CHRISTOPHER KEATING STOCK

to be a Conservator of the North Egmont Forest Reserve, in the place of Robert George Bauchope, deceased, and to act in conjunction with the Conservators appointed on the 25th February, 1892.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Assayers of Gold appointed.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 24th July, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Joseph Campbell,
Alexander Ramsay Carnie,
Robert Clarke,
John McLean Cochrane,
Clement Dixon,
Eustace Cosby Fletcher,
Colin Fraser,
Acheson Jones,
George Henry Launder,
Percy Gates Morgan,
Hamilton More Wingate,

to be Assayers of Gold under “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Members of Westport Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th July, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Westport Harbour Board Act, 1884,” and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, to appoint

ADAM JAMIESON,
RODERICK McKENZIE, M.H.R.,
PATRICK JOSEPH O’REGAN, M.H.R.,
The Hon. RICHARD HARMAN JEFFARES REEVES, M.L.C.,
JAMES SUISTED,
JAMES COLVIN, and
GEORGE GRIFFITHS

to be members of the Westport Harbour Board.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Appointment in Railway Department.

Railway Department,
Wellington, 24th July, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN COOM, Esq., M.Inst.C.E.,

to be Chief Engineer, Working Railways Department, from 1st August, 1899.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment under paragraph 63, Volunteer Regulations, 1895:—

1st Westland Rifle Volunteers.

James Chicago Macfarlane to be Captain. Date of commission, 11th May, 1899.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1899.

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

No. 1 Company, Waikato Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Arthur Burgoyne Heather, to be Lieutenant.

No. 2 Company, Waikato Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Eugene Horace Aubin, to be Lieutenant.

Joseph Hodgson, to be Lieutenant.

Ellesmere Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

John Boag, to be Captain.

Rowland Parker Hill, to be Lieutenant.

South Canterbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

John Turnbull Murray Hayhurst, to be Captain.

John Findlay, to be Lieutenant.

Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

William Douthwaite Holgate, to be Captain.

Harry Cecil Banks, to be Lieutenant.

No. 3 Company, Waikato Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

George Henry Walker, to be Lieutenant.

Star Boating Club Submarine Mining Volunteers.

Alexander Whitelaw Newton, to be Lieutenant.

Canterbury Engineer Volunteers.

Augustus William Jones, to be Lieutenant.

Dunedin City Guards Volunteers.

James Sandilands Douglas, to be Lieutenant.

Christchurch City Rifle Volunteers.

Henry Hay Webb, to be Lieutenant.

Port Guards Rifle Volunteers.

Thomas Laing Wood, to be Lieutenant.

No. 1 Company, New Zealand Native Rifle Volunteers.

Frederick Edward Norman Gaudin, to be Lieutenant.

No. 2 Company, Victoria Rifle Volunteers.

Frederick William Abbott, to be Captain.

Newton Rifle Volunteers.

Arthur Miebziner Myers, to be Captain.

Thomas John Marr Todd, to be Lieutenant.

Linwood Rifle Volunteers.

Thomas Oliver Johnson, to be Lieutenant.

The commissions of all the above-mentioned officers to date from the 7th day of June, 1899.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1899.

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

Auckland Engineer Volunteers.

The Reverend Joseph Campbell to be Honorary Chaplain. Date of commission, 6th June, 1899.

New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff.

Henry George Horace Naylor to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of commission, 6th June, 1899.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Defence.