AUGUSTUS EDWARD WHITE, Esq.,
to be Members of the Executive Council.

GEORGE ARTHUR EMILIUS ROSS, Esq.,
to be Keeper of the Public Records.

By his Honor’s command,
GEORGE A. E. ROSS,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 8th November, 1859.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the
notification of the following appointments:

CHARLES WILLIAM WYATT, Esq.,
to be Provincial Solicitor.

CHARLES WILLIAM WYATT, Esq.,
to be Crown Prosecutor.

By his Honor’s command,
GEORGE A. E. ROSS,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 1st November, 1859.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it
to be notified that he has appointed

THOMAS WILLIAM MAUDE, Esq.,
to be Chief Clerk in the Office of the Provincial
Secretary, and Clerk to the Executive Council.

By his Honor’s command,
JOHN OLLIVIER,
Provincial Secretary.

ELECTION NOTICE.

ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF THE RAKAIA.

In pursuance of the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
“The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858,” I, John
Hall, Returning Officer for the Electoral District
of the Rakaia, do hereby give notice, that by virtue of
a writ bearing date the ninth day of November,
1859, issued under the hand of His Honor the
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, an
election will be held for the return of a qualified
person to serve as a member of the Provincial
Council for the said electoral district; and that
the nomination of candidates will take place at Mr.
Ross’s house on the river Selwyn, on Thursday,
the seventeenth day of November, 1859; and that
the poll (if necessary) will be taken on Monday,
the 21st day of November, 1859.\n
Dated this ninth day of November, 1859.

JOHN HALL,
Returning Officer.

The following are Polling Places for the Elec-
toral District of the Rakaia:

Mr. Ross’s house, river Selwyn.
Mr. E. Chapman’s house, river Rakaia.

JOHN HALL,
Returning Officer.

Dated the ninth day of November, 1859.

ELECTION NOTICE.

ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF THE AVON.

In pursuance of the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
“The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858,” I, John
Hall, Returning Officer for the Electoral District
of the Avon, do hereby give notice, that by virtue of
a writ bearing date the ninth day of November,
1859, issued under the hand of His Honor the
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, an
election will be held for the return of a qualified
person to serve as a member of the Provincial
Council for the said electoral district; and that
the nomination of candidates will take place at the
School house, Papanui, on Friday, the eighteenth
day of November, 1859; and that the poll (if
necessary) will be taken on Saturday, the nine-
teenth day of November, 1859.

Dated this ninth day of November, 1859.

JOHN HALL,
Returning Officer.

The following are Polling Places for the Elec-
toral District of the Avon:
The School House, Papanui.
The School House, Riccarton.

JOHN HALL,
Returning Officer.

Dated this ninth day of November, 1859.

HARBOUR REGULATIONS.

At the Government House at Auckland,
the 25th day of October, 1859.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor
Col. Gould
Mr. Whitaker
Mr. Richmond
Mr. Tancred.

WHEREAS by the Harbour Regulations
Ordinance, No. 15, of Session 2, it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council from time to time to make all such Regula-
tions respecting Pilots and Pilotage, Quarantine,
and Harbours, as in the said Ordinance provided:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of his Executive
Council, doth hereby make the following Regula-
tions for the Port and Harbour of Port Victoria.

PILOT AND MASTERS OF VESSELS.

1. No person shall be deemed a Pilot unless he
   be duly licensed by His Excellency the Governor.

2. All persons so licensed shall be provided with
   a license according to the form hereto annexed.

3. Every Pilot shall carry his license with him,
   and shall produce it to the Master of any ship or
   vessel on its being demanded, or forfeit a sum not
   exceeding forty shillings.

4. The master of any vessel employing any
   other than a duly licensed Pilot, if such shall have
   offered his services, shall forfeit double the amount
   of pilotage.

5. The master of any vessel requiring a Pilot to
   conduct her to sea must make an application at the
   Harbour Master’s office, 24 hours previously to
   sailing.

6. The rate of pilotage into or out of Port Vic-
   toria, from or to the distance of one league from
   the pilot station is two-pence per ton inwards or
   outwards; and one penny per ton upon each occasion
   that a vessel is shifted from one part of the harbour
   to another.

7. Pilots are not bound to conduct any vessel to
   sea until payment of the pilotage has been satis-
   factorily secured.

8. Pilots on being appointed to outward bound
   vessels, before taking charge, are to ascertain that
   their decks are clear, and that they are sufficiently
   manned, and in a proper state for working as re-
   gards masts, rigging, sails, anchors, and boats.

9. Any master who shall make a signal for a
   Pilot, or cause a Pilot to be sent for to take his
   vessel to sea, and shall not, within 12 hours from
   the time of the arrival of the Pilot on board such
   vessel, proceed to sea, shall pay a sum at the rate of
   one pound per day for every day such Pilot may be
   detained on board such vessel, in addition to the
   regular pilotage. And the Pilot shall not be com-
   pelled to conduct such vessel to sea until such ad-
   ditional payment shall have been secured.