Paul Kingdon, as Lieutenant. Date of Commission, 3rd August, 1863.

George Ross, as Lieutenant. Date of Commission, 3rd May, 1864.

Alexander Johnston, as Assistant Surgeon. Date of Commission, 8th August, 1863.

T. RUSSELL.

New Zealand Gazette, 20th September, 1864.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 16th September, 1864.

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

In the “Masterton” Rifle Volunteers.

Ensign Robert Hare, to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission, 7th September, 1864.

Walter Perry, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 7th September, 1864.

In the “Alexander” Troop, Wanganui Cavalry Volunteers.

Captain Henry Shafto Harrison, of the Wanganui Militia, to be Captain. Date of Commission, 6th September, 1864.

Stephen Herbert Towgood, to be Lieut. Date of Commission, 6th September, 1864.

John Howie, to be Cornet. Date of Commission, 6th September, 1864.

T. RUSSELL.

Ibid.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 16th September, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the following resignations, viz. :

Lieutenant Thomas A. Pearse, Wellington Militia.

T. RUSSELL.

Ibid.

Sale of Valuable Building Allotments in the Town of Wellington, New Zealand.

UNDER authority of an Act, Session III, No. 14, of the Provincial Council of Wellington, intituled “Harbour Reserves,” and of an Act, Session VIII, No. 3, of the said Provincial Council, intituled “Harbour Reserves Amendment”: Notice is hereby given that the following Allotments of Land, situated in the Town of Wellington, will be offered for sale at Public Auction, at the Office of the Provincial Treasury, at Wellington, on Friday the 11th day of November, 1864, at one o’clock p.m., at the upset prices affixed in the subjoined Schedule :

Immediate payment in cash of one-tenth of the purchase money shall be the condition of any such sale by auction, and the remaining nine-tenths of the purchase money must be paid by the purchaser within one calendar month next after the time of such sale by auction, or the one-tenth of the purchase money which has been deposited will be forfeited, and the original contract for the sale of the land will thenceforward be null and void.

Any further conditions will be published either on, or before, the day of sale. In the mean time, information may be obtained, and plans inspected, on application at the Office of the Provincial Secretary, Wellington.

J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.
Wellington, 29th July, 1864.

SCHEDULE.
Of upset prices of land on the Eastern side of Lambton Quay, opposite to the premises of Messrs. J. Joseph & Co.

TO BE SOLD ON FRIDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER, 1864.

£1000 Reward.

AVAILABLE GOLD FIELD.

Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1864.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Provincial Government of Wellington will award a sum or sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the amount of One Thousand Pounds Sterling, payable to any one person, or distributable rateably amongst any number of persons, who shall discover and make known to the Government the existence of an available Gold field within the Province of Wellington.

All claims for the payment of this Reward, or any portion of it, are to be sent in to the Government, addressed to the Provincial Secretary in the first instance, to whom they will be afterwards referred to the decision of a Commission consisting of three persons, one to be named by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and two by the Superintendent.

By “Available Gold Field” is meant a district within which Gold shall be judged by the Commissioners to exist capable of affording employment to a body of not less than six hundred (600) diggers at a remunerative rate of wages.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.