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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to

Surgeon-Major HARRY COMPTON PARSONS,
New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff, he having a total efficient rank and commissioned service counting towards the medal, to the 10th July, 1902, of twenty years five months and twenty-four days.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to

No. 178, Private RICHARD JOHN FRANK HARRISON,
Kelburne Rifle Volunteers, he having a total efficient service to 28th February, 1902, of twenty-five years three hundred and one days.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to

No. 300, Bandsman GEORGE HOWE,
Wellington Garrison Band Volunteers, he having a total efficient service to 28th February, 1902, of twenty years and one hundred and eighty-seven days.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th August, 1902.

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

CHARLES JOSEPH MOLLOY, Esq.,
of Auckland, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th August, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1902.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

MIDLAND RAILWAY (TADMOR SECTION).—MOTUEKA BRIDGE CONTRACT.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
C. Dixon and W. Langlands and Co., Napier 8,681 18 0

Declined.
J. McLean and Son, Auckland .. .. 9,574 17 3
M. O’Connor, Wellington .. .. 9,934 4 0
W. Rhodes, Clinton .. .. 10,032 5 0
T. F. Slowey, Westport .. .. 10,187 8 0
Sutherland and Son, Dunedin .. .. 10,319 13 6
T. Dillon, Greymouth .. .. 10,643 0 0
Mathison Brothers, Dunedin .. .. 10,695 0 0
F. G. Mace, Collingwood .. .. 10,986 0 0
J. Jay, Greymouth .. .. 11,454 10 0
D. McFarlane, Balclutha .. .. 11,716 10 8
Knewstubb Bros., Port Chalmers .. .. 12,295 2 7
P. Marpin, Westport .. .. 12,737 17 11

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 15th August, 1902.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

CUSTOMHOUSE CONTRACT, WELLINGTON.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
W. H. Bennett, Wellington .. .. 26,998 0 0

Declined.
J. Trevor and Sons, Wellington .. .. 27,400 0 0
J. Russell, Wellington .. .. 34,300 0 0
A. Maguire, Wellington .. .. 35,166 3 7

Notice to Mariners No. 58 of 1902.

NORTH COAST OF PERU.—EXHIBITION OF LIGHT AT SUPE.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 15th August, 1902.

NOTICE has been received from the Consul for Peru at Auckland that a lighthouse has been erected at the Port of Supe, Province of Chancay, Department of Lima, Peru, and is situated in approximately latitude 10° 48′ 15″ S. and longitude 77° 45′ 37″ W. of Greenwich. The light, which was exhibited on the 1st June last, is placed in a white conical tower on Punta Patillo, at the south entrance to the port. The height of the tower above high water is 128⅓ ft., and the height of the focal plane is 120⅓ ft. The light is fixed white, fifth order, catoptric, and is visible at a range of eleven miles; and the sector of illumination covers an arc of the horizon of 96° 26′ from Cape Thomas S. 38° 34′ W. to Point Santander to N.W. magnetic.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice to Mariners No. 59 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 15th August, 1902.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 6 of 1902, issued by this Department on the 24th January last, the following notice, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

VICTORIA.—PORT OF PORT PHILLIP.—LOWER LIGHT, QUEENSCLIFF.

REFERRING to general notice to mariners, Victoria, dated 24th September, 1901, page 61, and to notice to mariners No. 4, dated 19th December, 1901, mariners and others are hereby informed that a new apparatus will shortly be erected on the low lighthouse at Shortlands Bluff, Queens-