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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1902.

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

College Rifle Volunteers (Wanganui).

Disbandment to date from the 3rd October, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Battalion Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1902.

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

No. 1 Battalion, Wellington (West Coast) Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Captain James Paton Watt, Alexandra Mounted Rifle Volunteers, to be Adjutant, with the rank of Captain. Commission to date from the 23rd October, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Battalion Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1902.

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

No. 1 Battalion, Wellington (West Coast) Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant Edmund Richard Morgan, Alexandra Mounted Rifle Volunteers, to be Pay- and Quarter-master, with the rank of Lieutenant. Commission to date from the 23rd October, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Battalion Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1902.

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

No. 1 Battalion, Wellington (West Coast) Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

James Blake Taylor to be Honorary Veterinary Surgeon. Commission to date from the 23rd October, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Battalion Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1902.

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

No. 1 Battalion, Wellington (West Coast) Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

The Reverend Reginald Hermon to be Honorary Chaplain. Commission to date from the 23rd October, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Defence Rifle Club accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th February, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 15, “The Defence Act Amendment Act, 1900,” the services of the

Woodville Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Woodville. Acceptance to date from the 12th February, 1902.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Defence.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th February, 1902.

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

THOMAS PATERSON, Esq.,

of Hokonui, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Notification of Settlement of Claims for Compensation under “The Mining Act, 1898.”

Mines Department,
Wellington, 11th February, 1902.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the 240th section of “The Mining Act, 1898,” it is hereby notified that the claims for compensation enumerated in the Schedule hereto, in respect to a Proclamation issued under the hand of His Excellency the Governor and the Public Seal of the Colony on the 18th day of December, 1901, declaring the Shotover River, with its tributaries, in the Land District of Otago, to be watercourses into which tailings, &c., may be discharged, have been settled, and all further claims and remedies in respect of the said Proclamation are barred, as provided by the said Act.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

SCHEDULE.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds.—Notice No. 686.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 18th February, 1902.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the undermentioned local governing bodies have, by special order, declared the plants enumerated opposite the name of each to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under the jurisdiction of each respectively:—

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Notice to Mariners No. 10 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 15th February, 1902.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

PORT OF CORNER INLET.—LEWIS CHANNEL.

REFERRING to the beacons marking the Lewis Channel, it is hereby notified that the third black beacon from the Welshpool Jetty has been washed away, and is now replaced by a black cask buoy.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 11th January, 1902.

PORT OF GEELONG.

Mariners and others are hereby notified that operations in connection with extending the Yarra Street Pier at Geelong a distance of 100 ft. seawards will be commenced on the 20th instant, and that a white light will be exhibited at the outermost pile of such extension, between sunset and sunrise, during the progress of the work.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 16th January, 1902.