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Appointments in the Civil Seevicb. Various appointments in the Civil Service are specially kept for deserving men who serve their time for pension (such as, for example, writerships in the dock and victualling yards, and mesengerships in the Admiralty), with pay ranging up to 7s. a day.

The information contained in this paper is extracted from the different regulations, which are liable to alteration; no person has any right to pay, pension, or other advantage on account of apparent eligibility under the rules as herein published. [M. & V. 92/1254.]

[Prom New Zealand Gazette No. 74, 22nd September, 1892, Page 1303.] REMOVAL OP CERTAIN WORDS FROM PAMPHLET RELATIVE TO THE ENTRY OP BOYS OP AUSTRALASIAN BIRTH INTO ROYAL NAVY. Defence Office, Wellington, 21st September, 1892. A despatch has been received from the Admiralty notifying that the words "allotting or," in the first line of the paragraph in above pamphlet, relating to the transmission of money to relations and friends, has been cancelled. The pamphlet was published in New Zealand Gazette No. 52, of the 30th June, 1892. R. J. Seddon. Approximate Cost of Paper.—Preparation, not given; printing (1,350 copies), £2 ss.

By Authority: Samuel Costall, Government Printer, Wellington—lB9s. Price 3d]