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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

Volunteer Officer resigned, and transferred to District Reserve Corps.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1901.

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

3rd Battalion, Wellington (East Coast) Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant and Quartermaster Arthur Stubbs. Resignation to date from 1st March, 1901.

And to approve, under paragraph 93, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, of his name being placed on the list of the Volunteer District Reserve Corps, Wellington, as from 1st March, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the under-mentioned resignations:—

Wanganui Guards Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Samuel Ridgway. Resignation to date from the 20th June, 1901.

Gordon Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Henry Shaw. Date of resignation, 28th May, 1901.

Timaru City Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant George Crawshaw. Date of resignation, 29th May, 1901.

B Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant Charles William Nicoll. Date of resignation, 22nd May, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th August, 1901.

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

CHARLES JACKSON, Esq.,

of Kawatau, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Special English for Senior Civil Service Examination, 1903.

Education Department,
Wellington, 5th August, 1901.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Examination Act, 1900,” notice is hereby given that, for the Senior Examination of January, 1903, no period of literature is fixed. The special books a knowledge of which will be required are as follows:—

Shakespeare—Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet.
Burke—Reflections on the French Revolution.
Macaulay—Essays on Bacon and on Walpole.
Seeley—The Expansion of England.

W. C. WALKER.

Notice with Regard to Civil Service Examinations, 1902.

Education Department,
Wellington, 5th August, 1901.

CANDIDATES for the Junior Examination will, in 1902, be examined under the regulations set forth in the Order in Council of 6th September, 1898—the regulations, that is to say, under which the examinations have for some years been conducted. After 1902 the examinations will be conducted under the regulations set forth in the Order in Council of 4th July, 1901.

Candidates at the Senior Examination of 1902 will be allowed to choose whether they will be examined under the old or the new regulations. It will be necessary for them to say at the time of entering for examination what choice they make.

Senior candidates that elect to be examined under the old regulations will be allowed to take three or more subjects as the first section of the examination, provided that the subjects chosen are together equivalent to at least three subjects under the new regulations. After the examination of January, 1902, no candidate will have a right to complete his examination otherwise than under the new regulations.

W. C. WALKER,

Notice to Mariners No. 50 of 1901.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 3rd August, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that Captain Bollons, of the Government s.s. “Hinemoa,” reports having sounded over a pinnacle rock on the N.W. end of Tiri Tiri Island. The rock is distant 2¼ cables from the island, and 1¼ cables from the rock which dries 2 ft. at low water.

It is about 40 square feet in area, carrying from 3 to 5 fathoms, with a pinnacle which has 10 ft. of water over it at low water springs. To clear it the whole of Rakino Island must be kept open of the west side of Tiri Tiri Island, when the north end of the latter island bears S.E. The rock lies with one-third of Rakino Island open of the west side of Tiri Tiri, and West Wanga Point just open of East Wanga Point.

Correct Magnetic Bearings from the Rock.
North end of Tiri Tiri Island, N. 67° E.
West end of Tiri Tiri Island, S. 37° E.
Rock awash, S. 45° E.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 2543; “New Zealand Pilot,” page 46, Chap. i. of Vol. 1891.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice to Mariners No. 51 of 1901.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 6th August, 1901.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

TORRES STRAIT.—REEF SOUTH-WEST OF BANKS ISLAND, AND SANDBANK WEST OF JERVIS ISLAND.

Notice is hereby given that Mr. G. W. Thom, master of the pearling-schooner “Tarawa,” reports the existence of the following dangers:—

A reef, 100 yards in extent, with 1 fathom of water over it, from which

Gibbs Head (Banks Island) bears .. N. 84° E.
Barney Island bears.. .. N. 59° W.
West end Banks Island bears .. N. 10° W.

A sandbank, lying a little to the northward of the track of vessels using Napoleon Passage, and extending some distance to the westward, with 1¼ fathoms over it, from which

Mulgrave Hill (686'), Mulgrave Island (Badu), bears .. .. S. 43° E.
Jervis Peak (525'), Jervis Island (Mobyag), bears .. .. S. 78° E.

Charts affected: Nos. 2375 and 447, and Australia Directory, Vol. ii.

T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Marine Department, Brisbane, 13th July, 1901.

Officiating Ministers for 1901.—Notice No. 35.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1901.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Rev. Aubrey Edward Aston.
The Rev. Sydney Glanville Fielding.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Examination for Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 31st July, 1901.

IT is hereby notified that the first examination for land surveyors under “The New Zealand Institute of Surveyors and Board of Examiners Act, 1900,” will be held on Tuesday, 24th September next.

T. M. GRANT,
Secretary to Surveyors’ Board,