Oct. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1989

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th October, 1901.

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

Taranaki Guards Rifle Volunteers.
Arthur Harry Holmes to be Lieutenant.

Ruahine Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
William Henry Hartgill to be Captain.
Sidney Andrews to be Lieutenant.

Hawke’s Bay Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Charles Leith Travers Gordon to be Lieutenant.

Pahiatua Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Samuel Bolton to be Captain.
James Alexander Linton to be Lieutenant.

Ahuriri Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Julius Sandtmann to be Captain.
William Irving Peacock to be Lieutenant.

Hastings Rifle Volunteers.
Henry Lloyd Loring to be Lieutenant.

Napier Guards Rifle Volunteers.
Nathaniel Kettle to be Captain.

First Battalion, Wellington Rifle Volunteers.
Honorary Captain and Quartermaster William Henderson to be Captain.

Zealandia Rifle Volunteers (Wellington).
Lieutenant John Keir to be Captain.

Kelburne Rifle Volunteers (Wellington).
Alexander Burnet Charters to be Lieutenant.

No. 1 Company, Ohinemuri Rifle Volunteers (Paeroa).
William Hobbs to be Lieutenant.

Marsden Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
George Clark Walker to be Captain.
James Drury to be Lieutenant.
Frank Keyte to be Lieutenant.

Onehunga Rifle Volunteers.
John Thomas Williams to be Lieutenant.

Piako Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Henry John Clifford to be Captain.
Frederick Marychurch Strange to be Lieutenant.

College Rifle Volunteers (Auckland).
Edward Percy Earle to be Lieutenant.

Auckland Engineer Volunteers.
Lieutenant William Robert Cooper Walker to be Captain.

South Wairarapa Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Henry Stratton Izard to be Captain.

Huntly Rifle Volunteers.
James Elliot to be Lieutenant.

Lyttelton Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant Herbert Stanley Hewlett to be Lieutenant Commanding.

All the above commissions to date from 5th December, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Services of a Volunteer Cadet Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th October, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 39, (1), “The Defence Act, 1886,” the services of the under-mentioned cadet Volunteer corps:—

Dunedin Engineer Cadet Volunteers,
with headquarters at Dunedin. Date of acceptance, 19th March, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Promotion of Officer, New Zealand Militia.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointment:—

New Zealand Militia.
Captain George Cecil Burleigh Wolfe to be Major. Date of commission, 21st September, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Arrangements for First Elections, &c., West Taieri Drainage District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th October, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN GRANT,
of Outram, to be Returning Officer for the purpose of conducting the first elections of five members of the Board of Trustees for the West Taieri Drainage District as constituted under “The Land Drainage Act, 1893”; also to appoint Thursday, the 7th day of November, 1901, to be the date, and the Courthouse, Outram, to be the place, for holding such election; also to appoint Thursday, the 14th day of November, 1901, at 1 o’clock p.m., to be the time, and the Courthouse, Outram, to be the place, at which the first meeting of the Trustees shall be held.

J. G. WARD.

Retention of Title of “Honourable” by Mr. Alfred Jerome Cadman.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1901.

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

J. G. WARD.

Downing Street,
26th August, 1901.

(New Zealand—General.)
My Lord,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship’s despatch No. 24, of the 5th of April, recommending that Mr. Alfred Jerome Cadman may receive permission to retain the title of “Honourable.”

2. In reply, I have to refer you to Lord Ripon’s despatch, General, of the 2nd August, 1894, and to state that, as Mr. Cadman has now ceased to be a member of the Executive Council, the usual notification has been made in the London Gazette that the King has been pleased to approve of the retention of the title of “Honourable” by Mr. Cadman, who has served for more than three years as a member of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand.

I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.

Governor the Right Honourable
the Earl of Ranfurly, G.C.M.G., &c.

Notice to Mariners No. 64 of 1901.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 8th October, 1901.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

MORETON BAY.—PILOTAGE CRUISING-GROUND.
Masters of vessels departing by way of the North-west Channel, Moreton Bay, are reminded that pilots should be discharged at or within the prescribed Pilot Cruising-ground, off the entrance to the North Channel. This is necessary to prevent delay to vessels arriving from the south requiring pilots.

Charts affected: Nos. 1670, 1029, 1068; and Australia Directory, Vol. ii.

JOHN MACKAY,
Acting Portmaster.

Marine Department, Brisbane,
16th September, 1901.

MORETON BAY, NORTH CHANNEL.—NEW ENTRANCE LEADING-LIGHT.
Notice is hereby given that on and after 14th October a light will be exhibited from the western slope of Howard Range, Moreton Island, in the following position:—