From the New Zealand Gazette, October 28, 1868, No. 60.
Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th October, 1868.

THE undermentioned Members of the Otago Volunteer Force having obtained 20 points and upwards in the 1st Class in the Rifle Practice for the year ended 30th June, 1868, are entitled to wear the Badges of Marksmen, denoted in sub-section C., section 93, Volunteer Regulations.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Dunedin Artillery Volunteers.

No. of Points obtained.
Captain A. McFarland ... 34
Sergeant Sidney Muir ... 53
Private William Hannah ... 44
„ Charles C. Hardy ... 36
„ William B. Ogilvie ... 34
„ George Blythe ... 25
„ James Curie ... 27
„ Walter Cato ... 49
„ Walter Hislop ... 40
„ William D. Smith ... 47
„ Thomas Moodie ... 31
„ Edward Brown ... 28
„ Harry Fell ... 46

No. 1 Company (City Guards) Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant N. Y. A. Wales ... 38
Sergeant John S. Douglas ... 39
„ John Speight ... 23
Corporal Peter Tressider ... 27
„ John M’Gregor ... 36
„ John Wedderspoon ... 26
Private Thomas Wilkinson ... 25
„ William M’Bride ... 33
„ John Shepherd ... 38
„ Donald Reid ... 30
„ Michael Creagh ... 46
„ James Melville ... 21
„ Benjamin Mollison ... 24
„ George Miller ... 20
„ David Stalker ... 34
„ William M’Nee ... 24
„ John Mackie ... 32
„ Thomas Goodfellow ... 20
„ Edward Wright ... 30

No. 2 Company (Dunedin Scottish) Rifle Volunteers.

Ensign John M. Jamieson ... 21
Sergeant William Taylor ... 31
Corporal Andrew Dunn ... 39
„ William White ... 34
Private James Robertson ... 36
„ James Eastgate ... 28
„ William Corrie ... 25
„ James M’Laren ... 32
„ Andrew R. Spalding ... 24
„ David Miller, jun. ... 34
„ Henry Neill ... 24
„ John M’Donald ... 31
„ Hugh Fraser ... 24
„ William Robinson ... 34
„ John Lindsay ... 28

Bruce Rifle Volunteers.

No. 1st Class Rifle Range.
North Dunedin Rifle Volunteers.
No. of Points obtained.
Ensign John M’Kellar ... 28
Private John Douglass ... 39
„ William Kernahan ... 21

Waikairi Rangers Volunteers.

Sergeant Fountain ... 28
Corporal James Hague ... 21

South District Rangers Volunteers.

Sergeant William Laing ... 22
Private John C. Fulton ... 22
„ Robert Wilson ... 35
„ William Milne ... 21

West Taieri Rifle Volunteers.

Captain James Fulton ... 26
Sergeant Alexander Chisholm ... 38
Corporal Joseph Robertson ... 22
„ William Richardson ... 32
Lance-Corporal John Buchanan ... 26
Private William Reid ... 21
„ David Buchanan ... 25
„ James Buchanan ... 22
„ Walter Richardson ... 24
„ Peter C. Grant ... 28

Dunedin Naval Volunteers.

Captain William Stavely ... 30
Lieutenant John Dobbie ... 51
Sub-Lieutenant William Stewart ... 27
Petty Officer Robert Smith ... 28
„ James M’Kenzie ... 43
Private Thomas Bridd ... 36
„ George Brown ... 26
„ Charles W. Cutten ... 30
„ William Dobbie ... 28
„ Thomas Dobbie ... 25
„ John Chapman ... 40
„ John Frew ... 31
„ John Begg ... 25
„ Peter Mackenzie ... 36
„ John Patrick ... 44
„ Thomas Granger, senr. ... 33
„ Alexander Miller ... 38
„ William Batchelor ... 23
„ Walter F. Stevens ... 55
Capt. and Adjutant J. J. Atkinson ... 36

From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 61, October 31, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested in this behalf by “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,” I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the second day of November next, the jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates’ Courts for the CLUTHA DISTRICT, and SOUTHLAND DISTRICT, respectively, as the same are defined by Proclamation bearing date the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, shall be extended to One Hundred Pounds.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House at Wellington; and issued under the Public Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick & Co., of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.