PAPERS RELATIVE TO ISSUE OE NEW ZEALAND WAR MEDAL.

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FURTHER REPORT OF MEDAL COMMISSIONERS. To His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., Ac, Ac, Ac. May it Please Your Excellency, We the Commissioners appointed by a Commission bearing date tho 3rd day of February, 1871, being enjoined to report within four calendar months such particulars as we have been directed to ascertain, do now forward as our final Report for your Excellency's consideration, Rolls A, B, and C, which contain the names of all applicants for the New Zealand AVar Medal which have been referred to us by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, and on which we have been able to arrive at any conclusion since the date of our Interim Report. The Commissioners desire to bring to your Excellency's notice that the Rolls they have prepared do not contain the names of all the officers and men of the Colonial Forces, both European and Maori, who are entitled to the New Zealand AVar Medal, in order that it may be taken into consideration whether longer time should be allowed and further steps taken to carry out fully the intentions of the Legislature on the subject. T. M. Haultain. AVellington, 2nd June, 1871. J. T. Edwards.

Roll A. Nominal Return of Officers aud Men of the Colonial Forces who have made application for the New Zealand AVar Medal for services performed prior to the 31st December, 1866, and whose claims are admitted by the Commissioners. Allen, Samuel, Private, Taranaki Volunteers Martin, Peter, Private, Taranaki Volunteers Armitago, Erasmus, Private, Taranaki A'olunteers Martin, AVilliam Peter, Private, Taranaki A'olunteers Armstrong, J. Henry, Captain, Taranaki Militia Mayo, AA'illiam, Private, Napier Military Settlers Bayley, James, Private, Taranaki Volunteers Mellon, Edward, Trooper, Auckland Defence Force Bridgman, AA'illiam R., Sergeant, Auckland A'chm-eers Murphy, Owen, Private, Hawke's Bay Militia. (Probably Brock, Adam, Private, Auckland Volunteers entitled to Imperial Medal for services in 65th Regiment.) Brownlie, John, Private, Ist AVaikato Regiment Munro, Daniel, Private, Auckland Militia Bryce, Thomas, Private, Hutt Militia : Morpeth, James Bruce, Private, Auckland Volunteers Carey, AA'illiam, Private, Auckland Colonial Defence Force j Morrison, Thomas, Private, Ist AA'aikato Regiment Christie, AA'alter, Trooper, AVanganui Yeomanry Cavalry I O'Kearney, Francis J., Private, 2nd Waikato Regiment Clark, James McC, Captain, Auckland Volunteers Pepperall, John, Private, Taranaki A'olunteers Cook, George, Private, Taranaki Volunteers Pierce, Octavius, Private, Forest Rangers Courtney, Frank, Private, Taranaki Military Settlers Putnam, Philip, Sergeant-Major, Napier Colonial Defence Cox, Alfred W., Private, Hawke's Bay Militia Force Crabbe, George Alfred, Private, Ist AVaikato Regiment Turner, Charles Henry, Private, Auckland Volunteers Crawford, James, Private, AA'airoa Rifle Volunteers Ramsay, Malcolm P., Corporal, Ist Waikato Regiment Crawford, Alexander, Private, 2nd AVaikato Regiment Ransley, Joseph, Private, Ist AVaikato Regiment Darneds, Charles, Private, Ist AA'aikato Regiment Rassman, Charles, Private, Taranaki Volunteers Davorcn, George T., Sergeant, Ist AVaikato Regiment Rayner, John, Private, Auckland Volunteers Edmonds, Thomas, Private, Ist AVaikato Regiment Rayner, Alfred, Private, Auckland Volunteers Elder, AA'illiam, Private, 3rd AA'aikato Regiment Rawson, Charles Edward, Private, Taranaki Volunteers Fookes, Frederick Pearse, Private, Taranaki Military Settlers Redmond, John James, Colour-Sergeant, Ist AVaikato Regiment Fortescue, Percival T., Ensign, Taranaki Military Settlers Rigby, John, Private, Taranaki Military Settlers Fraser, AVilliam, Sergeant, Auckland Defence Force Robinson, John, Private, AVanganui Rangers Gayne, Charles, Private, 3rd AVaikato Regiment Rookes, Charles Cecil, Lieut.-Coloncl, AVanganui Militia Ginger, T. E., Private, Taranaki A'olunteers Scammell, C. George, Private, Taranaki A Tolunteers Ginger, Diston, Private, Taranaki A roluntecrs Smith, AVilliam, Private, Ajtckland Militia Ginger, Stanley, Private, Taranaki A'olunteers Tuke, Arthur, Inspector, Armed Constabulary Grecnway, C, Private, Taranaki A'olunteers Walmsley, William, Private, Ist AVaikato Regiment Hammerton, G. Disney, Bugler, Taranaki A'olunteers AVatts, AV. J., Private, Auckland Defence Force Hassell, George, Private, 2nd AVaikato Regiment AA'alker, AArilliam Baker, Corporal, Taranaki A'olunteers Hedderwick, John, Private, Taranaki Military Settlers AA'alker, Alexander Newman, Private, Taranaki Volunteers Hegarty, James, Private, Ist AA'aikato Regiment AVclls, Robert, Sergeant, Taranaki Volunteers Henderson, James, Private, AVairoa Volunteers AVay, Thomas, Private, Ist AVaikato Regiment Hendersou, AA'illiam, Private, Wairoa A'olunteers AA'ilkinson, John AA'., Private, Taranaki Alilitia Higgins, David, Private, Taranaki Military Settlers Williams, George, Private, Taranaki Militia Hoby, Oliver Edward, Private, Taranaki A'olunteers AA'oon, Garland AA'illiam, Private, Taranaki A'olunteers Holloway, Henry, Sergeant, Taranaki Military Settlers Honeyfield, James Charles, Private, Taranaki Militia Atkyns, Augustus A., Private, Ist Waikato Regiment Hooper, Clarence, Surgeon, New Zealand Militia Burrows, John, Private, Taranaki Military Settlers Hutchinson, Charles John, Lieutenant, Taranaki Military Cooper, George E., Sergeant, 2nd AVaikato Regiment Settlers Gatland, James Brown, Private, Auckland A'olunteers Hyde, Thomas, Private, AA'airoa Volunteers Halpert, John, Private, Taranaki Military Settlers Jones, Henry Ireson, Captain, AVanganui Volunteers Hart, Theodore, Private, Taranaki Military Settlers Kates, George, Private, 2nd AVaikato Regiment Kerr, Thomas, Private, AVanganui Rangers Keeling, Robert North, Private, Taranaki A'olunteers McCashion, Patrick, Private, Hawke's Bay Military Settlers Kemp, Henry, Private, Taranaki Military Settlers Macdonald, Angus A. K, Private, Auckland Volunteers Lethbridge, Richard, Private, Taranaki Militia McKenzie, Daniel, Private, 2nd Waikato Regiment Long, Joseph, Private, AA'anganui Rangers Northcroft, H. AV., Sub-Inspector, Armed Constabulary McDonald, Charles, Private, AVairoa Volunteers Reede, Cavendish Henry, Private, 3rd AA'aikato Regiment McEvoy, James, Private, Taranaki Military Settlers Reed, AVilliam, Private, Hawke's Bay Arolunteers McLean, James, Private, Ist AA'aikato Regiment Somerville, Richard, Lieutenant, Auckland Volunteers McGregor, John, Guide to Her Majesty's Forces, Wanganui Temm, Charles, Private, 3rd AVaikato Regiment MeSweeney, Eugene, Corporal, 3rd AA'aikato Regiment , Von Stunner, Frederick John, Private, Auckland Volunteers Madden, John, Private, Ist Waikato Regiment ; Ward, John, Sergeant, Forest Rangers.