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A buoy has been placed ten fathoms north of the rock, by keeping outside of which vessels will clear the shoal east of the Bluff.

CHAS. SHARP,

President Marine Board.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 11th July, 1864.

(From New Zealand Gazette, No. 30, August 10, 1864.)

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 4th August, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointment, viz.:—

In the Dunedin Rifle Volunteers.
John Fargie, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 29th July, 1864.

T. RUSSELL.

(From New Zealand Gazette, No. 31, August 16, 1864.)

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the sixteenth day of August, 1864.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, by the “Court of Appeal Act, 1862,” it is enacted that the Court shall hold its sittings at such times and places as shall be, from time to time, fixed by the Governor in Council, and proclaimed in the Government Gazette sixty days at least before the times so fixed respectively:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby fix that a sitting of the Court of appeal of New Zealand shall be held within the Supreme Court, in the City of Dunedin, and Province of Otago, upon the seventeenth day of October, One Thousand Eight Hundred and sixty-four, at Eleven of the clock in the forenoon.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, on the sixteenth day of August, 1864.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, by the “New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858,” power is given to the Governor in Council from time to time to make Rules and Regulations for the managing of the several Post Offices within the said Colony, for the receiving, despatching, conveying, delivering of letters (including the imposition of fees for private boxes and deliveries); for the detaining, opening, and return, or other disposal of irregularly posted, unclaimed, and refused letters, or such as from any cause whatsoever cannot be delivered or forwarded, and the contents thereof respectively; and for the publication of the lists of the same; and for the making, custody, and sale of postage labels; for the receiving and paying of money in connection with the said postal service, and for the conduct of post officers; and any such Rules and Regulations at any time in force, to alter, vary, or revoke; and for the purpose of giving effect to the Rules and Regulations so to be made, further power is given to the Governor in Council by the said Act to impose any penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds for any one offence against such Rules and Regulations:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby revoke the present Post Office Regulation number Thirty-eight, and doth substitute the following in lieu thereof, and doth declare that the same shall be in force from and after the sixteenth day of August, 1864.

38. Any letter, newspaper, or packet requiring to be re-directed to any place within or without the Post Office district to which it is at first addressed, becomes liable to a fresh rate of New Zealand postage, which new rate shall be payable, upon delivery, by the person to whom such letter shall have been so re-directed.

This regulation shall not apply to letters addressed to the Officers and Men of Her Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces, or of the Militia or Volunteer Forces engaged in the field or on active service.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Registrar General’s Office,
Auckland, 6th August, 1864.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1854,” the following Name of an OFFICIATING MINISTER within the meaning of the said Act, is published for general information:—

United Church of England and Ireland.
The Reverend FRANK C. SIMMONS.

I, JOHN D. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby certify that the foregoing Name of an OFFICIATING MINISTER within the meaning of the “Marriage Act, 1854,” has been sent in to me, in addition to the names in the lists published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 3, of the 26th January; No. 4, of the 11th of February; No. 9, of the 12th of March; No. 10, of the 25th of March; No. 11, of the 6th of April; No. 15, of the 27th of April; No. 20, of the 21st of May; No. 21, of the 6th of June; No. 25, of the 2nd of July; No. 26, of the 9th of July; and No. 27, of the 20th of July, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this 6th day of August, 1864.

JOHN D. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.