Commanding Officer of the body of Volunteers in which he intends to serve, or by the Adjutant of Militia.

I, _____ do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and that I will faithfully serve in the __ until I shall be lawfully discharged.

16. In the construction of these Regulations the phrase "Officer Commanding" shall, in case of his absence from the District, or incapacity to act by reason of illness, or any other cause, mean the Officer of the same body of Volunteers next in seniority.

HAMPDEN WILLIS,
For Clerk of Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 16th January, 1862.

REFERRING to the above Regulations for Volunteer Forces, the Government will propose a measure to the House of Representatives, making provision to the following effect:—

"In the case of any Volunteer Officer being killed on service, his family shall be entitled to such pension as they would have been entitled to had he been an Officer of the same rank in Her Majesty’s Regular Service; and, in the case of a Non-commissioned Officer or Private being killed on service, he shall, for the purposes of such pension, be taken to have ranked with an Ensign of Her Majesty’s Regular Forces."

WILLIAM Fox,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 10th January, 1862.

The following letter to the Deputy Adjutant-General of Militia and Volunteers is published for general information.

WILLIAM Fox.

No. 10.
Militia Branch.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 16th January, 1862.

Sir,—The issue of new Regulations for the enrolment of Volunteers in New Zealand necessitates the disbandment of the present Force, and I have to request you, in communicating this circumstance to the respective Commanding Officers of Volunteer Corps, to express through them to the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of each Corps the full appreciation by His Excellency the Governor of the public spirit which led to the formation of these Corps, and to convey to them His Excellency’s best thanks for the services which they have thus rendered to the colony in a time of difficulty.

In these sentiments His Excellency’s Responsible Advisers cordially join.

The new Regulations have been framed with a view to the further encouragement of the Volunteer movement and to the permanent establishment, in this Colony, of a Volunteer Force on an improved basis, and it is earnestly hoped that they will lead to the attainment of so desirable a result.

I have, &c.,
WILLIAM Fox.

Lieut.-Colonel Balneavis,
Deputy Adjutant-General.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 18th January, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the name of the undermentioned gentleman should be added to the Commission of the Peace:—

CHARLES WORTHINGTON, Esq., Dunedin.
JAMES ARMITAGE, Esq., Waikato.

These appointments were omitted in the Gazette of the 14th inst., and are to take effect from that date.

HENRY SEWELL.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Auckland, 18th January, 1862.

IT is hereby notified that the Ports of Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Invercargill, have, by special licence, been constituted Ports from whence Gold may be exported from this Colony, under the provisions contained in the Proclamation of the 26th January, 1862.

READER WOOD.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, Jan. 28, 1862.)

PROCLAMATION.

"Execution of Criminals Act, 1858," to come into operation in the Province of Otago.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Execution of Criminals Act, 1858," it is enacted that the said Act shall come into operation in such part of the Colony of New Zealand as the Governor shall, by Proclamation from time to time, appoint to be Districts for that purpose.

Now, I, Sir George Grey, Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the said power, do hereby appoint and proclaim the Province of Otago to be a District within which the said Act shall, from the date hereof, come into operation.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,
HENRY SEWELL.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 27th January, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-General DUNCAN ALEXANDER CAMERON, C.B., to be his Deputy in the Province of Auckland.

WILLIAM Fox.