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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 93

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1903.

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

Popotunua Rifle Volunteers.

John Robert Garden to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 4th March, 1903.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1903.

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

Hikurangi Rifle Volunteers.

John Murdoch to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 2nd September, 1903.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1903.

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

Huntly Rifle Volunteers.

William Rollo Gillespie to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 2nd September, 1903.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1903.

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

Onehunga Rifle Volunteers.

Walter Edgar Graham Richardson to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 2nd September, 1903.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1903.

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

College Rifle Volunteers (Auckland).

Lieutenant Edward Percy Earle. Date of resignation, 19th September, 1903.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Special Order made by the Council of the County of Horowhenua.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1903.

THE following special order, made by the Horowhenua County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

HOROWHENUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order re Loan of £900 for defraying Cost of Erection Ohau Bridge.

Special Meeting, 17th October, 1903.

THAT the following resolution, made under the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886,” clause 124, relating to special orders, be adopted, as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £900, authorised to be raised by the Horowhenua County Council, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” subsection 3, clause 14, and “The Public Works Act, 1894,” clause 113, for the purpose of defraying the cost of erection of the Ohau High-level Bridge, the said Horowhenua County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1½d. in the pound upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property of the Horowhenua County; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of June in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off: the said special order to be confirmed at a special meeting to be held on the 25th day of November, 1903.

Adopted and carried, 17th October, 1903.

Special Meeting, 25th November, 1903.

This Council do now confirm the special order, made under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” subsection 3, clause 14, and “The Public Works Act, 1894,” clause 113, re loan of £900 to defray cost of the erection of Ohau High-level Bridge, made at a special meeting held on the 17th October, 1903.

I certify the above to be a copy of the special order made at special meetings held on the 17th October and the 25th November, 1903.

JOHN McCULLOCH,
Clerk to Council.

Special Order made by the Oroua County Council merging Manchester Road District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th December, 1903.

THE following special order, made by the Oroua County Council, is published for general information.

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

OROUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order.

THAT the prayer of the petitioners of the Manchester Road District, as set forth in a certain petition this day presented to the Oroua County Council, be acceded to, and the Council hereby declare the Manchester Road Board be dissolved as from the 4th day of December, 1903, and the said Manchester Road District merged in the Oroua County.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been made and confirmed in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

CHARLES BRAY,
County Clerk.

Notice to Mariners No. 86 of 1903.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th December, 1903.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

VICTORIA.—CAPE SCHANCK LIGHT.

REFERRING to General Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated the 24th September, 1901, page 89, mariners and others are hereby informed that on and after the 1st May, 1904, the fixed eclipsing and flashing white light exhibited from Cape Schanck will be screened to be visible only between the bearings S. 58° E. through E. and N. to N. 78° W.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Melbourne, 5th November, 1903.

Notice to Mariners No. 87 of 1903.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 7th December, 1903.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Presidency Port Officer, Madras, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

INDIA.—EAST COAST.—VIZAGAPATAM.

Exhibition of New Light at Bimlipatam.

NOTICE is hereby given that a dioptric 4th order group occulting white light, showing four occultations every minute (a group of four occultations of about 5½ seconds separated by light of about 6 seconds and followed by light of about 20 seconds’ duration), will be exhibited at Bimlipatam, from and after the 20th December, 1903, from a masonry tower close to the port flagstaff. The focal plane