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mit of the Maungaraki Range running
Southward along the summit of the Maungarakai and Aorangi ranges to Cape Palliser, on the south by the sea, on the
West by the summits of the Rimutaka
and Tararua Ranges.
And I do declare that this Proclamation
shall come into operation and take effect
on and from the first day of October, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

Given under my hand, at the
Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the
seal of the Colony of New
Zealand, this seventh day of
August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.

G. Grey.
By His Excellency’s command,
Alfred Domett.

God save the Queen!

Appointment of Registrars of Births,

Deaths and Marriages.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 10th August, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

Holmes Crayne
to be Registrar of Marriages, and Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for
the District of Wairarapa; and

James Edward Ind Boys
to be Registrar of Marriages, and Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
for the District of Grey Town, as the
said Districts are defined in Proclamations bearing date 7th August, 1863, and
published in this Gazette.

Alfred Domett.

Militia and Volunteers.

Appointment of Officers.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, July 11th, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appointments in the Wellington Militia:—

Capt. John S. Kirwan, to be Captain.
Date of Commission—June 2nd, 1863.

Capt. John S. Kirwan, to be Adjutant.
Date of Commission—June 2nd, 1863.

Capt. John S. Kirwan, to be Paymaster.
Date of Commission—June 2nd, 1863.

T. Russell.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 7th August, 1863.

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

Second Battalion, Wellington Militia.

Leonard Boor, to be Surgeon. Date of
Commission, 3rd August, 1863.

T. Russell.

Pay and Allowances.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 29th July, 1863.

THE Rules relative to Pay and Allowances to Militia and Volunteers are
published for general information.

T. Russell.

PAY AND ALLOWANCES TO OFFICERS.

Pay to officers will be issued at the
same rates as allowed in Her Majesty’s
service, excepting to those holding appoint
ments under the General Government,
who will be only entitled to half the pay
of their respective ranks.

Pay to commence from the day on
which the battalion was called out for
training or actual service; and those officers who have been appointed since that
period, provided that they have been
available and done duty, will be entitled
to pay from the dates of their respective
commissions.

No pay will be issued to officers absent
from their battalions, either with or without leave unless under special authority.

Allowances.

Command and forage allowance will be
allowed to all officers that would be entitled to the same in Her Majesty’s
army.

Officers when not called away from
the locality to which their battalion belongs will be allowed, in addition to their
regular pay, 2s 6d. a day for the days
they are on guard, escort or picquet.

Officers when called upon to leave
their homes and proceed on detachment
will receive an allowance of 2s 6d. a day
for every day they may be so situated
and a commissariat ration in addition
will be issued to them free of charge.

Adjutants to get 3s. 6d. per diem in
addition to captain’s pay.