The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-19 00:00:00

OUR FORCES IN NEW ZEALAND.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief—Sir George Grey,
K.C.B.

Aide•de.Camp—Captain Francis B. Bulkeley.
Commanding the Forces—Lieutenant-General Duncan
A. Cameron, C.B.

Assistant Military Secretary—Lieutenant-Colonel W. G.
Hutchings.
Major of Brigade—Major James Paul.
Aide-de-Camp—Major John C.

Deputy-Quartermaster-General—Lieutenant-Colonel D.
J. Gamble.

Commanding Royal Artillery--Captain H. Mercer.
Commanding Royal Engineers—Colonel Thos. Rawlings
Mould, C.B.
Garrison Adjutants—Lient. John Glancy and Lieut. E.
Gould Halsted.

Deputy Commissary-General—Humphrey S. H. Jones.
Assistant Commissary-Generals—Henry Bartlett, Henry
Maule, and James Bailey.
Deputy-Assistant Commissary-Generals—Alex. Clerk,
Vim. Henry Newland, Ed ward Cattell, Francis Jnnes, W.
Oakley Chialett, John Draper, Edwin Dunn, and George
James Neill.

Deputy-Inspector-General of the Medical Department—
James Mouat, C.B , V.C.
Staff-Surgeon—James Hamilton Bews. _ _

Staff Assistant •Surgeons-1;;;S. Grace. MTh, Alex.
Thomson, M.D., E. D. Tomlinson, and George ElmBlY Will,
Assistant-Superintendent of Stores and Barrack-Master
—J. 0. Hamley.
Deputy Assistant-Superintendents of Stores—William
Marvin, A. R. Tribe, and Joseph Rainsford,
Purveyor—H. de B. Adams.
Deputy Purveyor—George W. Warwick,
Purveyor's Clerk—T. F. Gooch.
Chaplain—Rev. L. Farlsly, R.C.
Second Battalion of the 14th (Buckinghamshire) Infantry
—Colonel W. Wood, C 8., K.H., Lieut.-Col. C. W. Austen.
Second Battalion of the 18th (Royal Irish) Infantry—
Colonel Sir J. F. Fitz Gerald, G.C.8., Lieut.-Col. Allied
A. Chapman.
40th (Second Somersetshire) Infantry—Colonel Richard
Grooves, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Leslie, C.B.
b7th (West Middlesex) Infantry—Colonel Sir J F. Love,
K.c,8., K.H., Lieut.-Col. Henry J. Warre, C.B.
65th (Second Yorkshire, North Riding) Infantry—Col.
R. B. Coles, Lieut • Col. Alfred F. W. Wyatt, C.B.
70th (The Surrey) Infantry—Colonel Sir U. W. Path
5.C.8., K.H., Lieut.-Col. T. J. Galloway.
Royal Engineers—Sixth Company.
The Eclipse, 4, screw gun-vessel, 200-horse power and 700
tons, Commander Richard C. Mayne, has of late been doing
good service. She was off the Katikara river, June 4, and
at Manukau on the 6th.
The Himalaya, 6, iron screw troop-ship, 700 horse-power,
and 3,453 tons, Captain Edward Lacy, embarked at Ports-
mouth, July 28, 33 officers, 38 sergeants, 21 drummers, 38
corporals, 662 men, 64 wives of soldiers, and 92 children of
the second battalion of the 25th King's Own Borderers, and
sailed on the following day for Ceylon, and it is reported
that on her arrival at that place she would embark the 50th
Queen's Own, for service at New Zealand.
Several men of the first and second battalions of the 4th
King's Own, 36th Royal Sussex, 19th and 81st Regiments
at Chatham, have volunteered their services into the second
battalion 18th Royal Irish, 40th, 57th, 65th, and 70th Regi-
ments, and al,o for the 31st, which regiment is ordered from
China to New Zealand. A number of men from the diffe••
rent depots at Colchester have also volunteered their ser-
vices in the above regiments.
Deputy-Assistant Commissary-Gcneral Ivan Graham,
lately serving at Guernsey, is under orders to proceed to
New Zealand.

THE HOP PLANTATIONS,—ROCHESTER, Aug. 18.
—Most of the plantations are looking decidedly
better, the late gentle showers having done much to bring
about this improvement. In the rich hop •growing districts
in the centre of the county the plant has article surprising
progress within the last few days, and a general belief is
entertained that the yield will be much larger than was
calculated upon a week or two since. The agreeable change
in the weather has Caused the hops t) grow rapidly, end so
great has been the improvement that many plantations
which appeared a few weeks since in an altogether hopeless
condition now show signs of yielding a moderate crop. This
improvement, however, is not general, and there are some
hundreds of acres upon which the hops grown will not pay
the expense of picking. In some of the best plantations a
yield of from 15cwt. to 1 ton per acre is confidently antici-
pated, but these will be extreme cases. The probable ave-
rage is likely to be about 4cwt. to &wt. per acre. Should
the present hue weather continue picking will COMIXteIICC, in
parts of limit in about a fortnight,