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ELECTORAL NOTICE.
ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF NAPIER, IN THE PROVINCE OF HAWKE\'S BAY.
IN PURSUANCE of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled \"The Provincial Elections Act of 1858,\" I, JOHN CURLING Esq., Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Town of Napier, in the Province of Hawke\'s Bay, do hereby give notice that by virtue of a Writ bearing date the second day of January, 1860, issued under the hand of his Honor the Superintendent of the said Province, an Election will be held for the return of a qualified person to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council of the said Province for the said Electoral District of Napier, in consequence of the seat of THOMAS HITCHINGS Esq., in the said Provincial Council, having been vacated by his acceptance of the office of Provincial Surgeon; and that the Nomination of the Candidates will take place at the School-house Hastings St., at noon, on Monday the sixteenth day of January, 1860, and that the Poll (if necessary) will be taken on Tuesday the seventeenth day of January, 1860, and the state of the Poll declared at the close thereof.
JOHN CURLING,
Returning Officer.
DATED this third day
of January, 1860.
THE following place is the Polling place for the Electoral District of Napier :—
The School-house, Hastings Street, Napier.
JOHN CURLING,
Returning Officer.
DATED this third day
of January, 1860.
Superintendent\'s Office,
Napier, Dec. 26, 1859.
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED for general information that a Writ for the Election of one Member to serve in the Provincial Council of Hawke\'s Bay for the Town of Napier, having been issued in accordance with Clause 12 of \"An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand\" the Returning Officer has returned the said Writ, with a certificate that the undermentioned gentleman has been duly elected to serve as a Member of the said Provincial Council for the said Town of Napier.
THOMAS HENRY FITZGERALD,
NAPIER.
T. H. FITZGERALD,
Superintendent.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Napier, Oct. 24, 1859.
A RED buoy has been placed a cable\'s length South by East from the Pania sunken reef in Hawke\'s Bay. The Ahuriri Bluff bears from the reef S.S.W., distant two miles.
The Pania reef runs N.E. and S.W. It is twenty fathoms in length and five fathoms in width; the average depth on the reef is twelve feet.
There are several large ledges of rock on the reef with only seven and eight feet of water on them; the water deepens immediately East and West of the reef.
THOMAS MURRAY,
Pilot.
ERRATUM.
IN Proclamation of Nov. 28, 1859, proclaiming a reserve of the Puketiti and Pohue forests, read \"Makahu\" for \"Mohaka,\" in the twelfth line from bottom.
Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1860, No 11
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🏘️ Election for Member of Provincial Council, Napier
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government3 January 1860
Electoral District, Napier, Provincial Council, Election, Nomination
- Thomas Hitchings (Esquire), Seat vacated as Provincial Surgeon
- John Curling, Returning Officer
🏘️ Appointment of Polling Place for Napier
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government3 January 1860
Polling place, Napier, School-house
- John Curling, Returning Officer
🏘️ Election of Member for Town of Napier
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government26 December 1859
Election result, Provincial Council, Napier
- Thomas Henry Fitzgerald, Elected as Member of Provincial Council
- T. H. Fitzgerald, Superintendent
🚂 Notice to Mariners regarding Pania Reef
🚂 Transport & Communications24 October 1859
Mariners, Navigation, Pania Reef, Hawke's Bay, Buoy
- Thomas Murray, Pilot
🏛️ Erratum to Proclamation of 28 November 1859
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationErratum, Correction, Forest reserve, Puketiti, Pohue