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Adjutants and Officers commanding corps of Militia and Volunteers in the North Island to frank and receive Official Letters.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 20th July, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise ADJUTANTS and OFFICERS commanding corps of MILITIA and VOLUNTEERS in the North Island to frank and receive Official Letters and Packets free.

ALFRED DOMETT,
For the Postmaster General.

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Resignation of Major Dwyer.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 30th July, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of Major J. Dwyer, as Major Commanding the Wellington Militia District.

T. RUSSELL.

Appointment of Major Gordon.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 30th July, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Edward Gordon, to be Major, Commanding the Wellington Militia District. Date of Commission, 30th July, 1863.

T. RUSSELL.

Appointment of Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 25th July, 1863.

THE appointments in the Wellington Militia published in Gazette No. 28 of the 11th July, 1863, page 271, are hereby cancelled, and the following substituted:

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments in the first Battalion of the Wellington Regiment of Militia:

James Coutts Crawford, to be Captain, date of commission, 1st June, 1863.
Stephen Carkeek, to be Captain, date of commission, 2nd June, 1863.
Edward Battersbee, to be Captain, date of commission, 3rd June, 1863.
George Hunter, to be Captain, date of commission, 4th June, 1863.
John Johnston, to be Captain, date of commission, 5th June, 1863.
John Hugh Bethune, to be Captain, date of commission, 6th June, 1863.
William Robert Edward Brown, to be Captain, date of commission, 7th June, 1863.
Charles Bonnythorn Borlase, to be Captain, date of commission, 8th June, 1863.
Charles William Schultz, to be Captain, date of commission, 9th June, 1863.

Alfred Hickson, to be Lieutenant, date of commission, 1st June, 1863.
Robert Hunter, to be Lieutenant, date of commission, 2nd June, 1863.
Charles Daniel De Castro, to be Lieutenant, date of commission, 3rd June, 1863.
John Tully, to be Lieutenant, date of commission, 4th June, 1863.
Richard Septimus Ledger, to be Lieutenant, date of commission, 5th June, 1863.
John Knowles, to be Lieutenant, date of commission, 6th June, 1863.
Samuel Deighton, to be Lieutenant, date of commission, 7th June, 1863.
Walter Johnston, to be Lieutenant, date of commission, 8th June, 1863.
Edward Pearce, to be Lieutenant, date of commission, 9th June, 1863.

Joseph Godfrey Holdsworth, to be Ensign, date of commission, 1st June, 1863.
Houston Francis Logan, to be Ensign, date of commission, 2nd June, 1863.
Robert Pharazyn, to be Ensign, date of commission, 3 June, 1863.
Richard Collins, to be Ensign, date of commission, 4th June, 1863.
Frederick Hickson, to be Ensign, date of commission, 5th June, 1863.
Frederick Arnold Baker, to be Ensign, date of commission, 6th June, 1863.
David Brown, to be Ensign, date of commission, 7th June, 1863.
Joe Dransfield, to be Ensign, date of commission, 8th June, 1863.

In the Hutt, or Wainuiomata Battalion.

William Beetham, to be Captain, date of commission, 10th June, 1863.
James Cruickshank, to be Captain, date of commission, 11th June, 1863.
John Grace, to be Captain, date of commission, 12th June, 1863.
Pierce Cotter, to be Lieutenant, date of commission, 10th June, 1863.
Richard Barton (junior), to be Ensign, date of commission, 10th June, 1863.

T. RUSSELL.

Printed under the Authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington, by THOMAS McKENZIE and JAMES MUIR, Printers for the time being for such Government.