[NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE]

60

said, in pursuance and execution of the power given to me by the instrument before recited.
Do hereby call out for training and exercise
All the men of the first and second classes
of the Napier Regiment of Militia who
are resident within the limits of that
portion of the District proclaimed in the General Government Gazette of
Thursday, the 23rd July, 1863, as
constituted Company No. 3 of the Napier
Regiment of Militia, not included in
the Notification dated July 27th, 1863,
calling out certain portions of that Com-
pany, published in the Hawke’s Bay
Government Gazette, No. 13,
and I hereby authorise and request George
Stoddart Whitmore, Major, the Officer Com-
manding the said District to carry into ef-
fect this direction.

Given under my hand at Napier,
this 27th day of July, One
thousand, eight hundred and
sixty-three.

DONALD M’LEAN.

Napier, July 27th, 1863.

By virtue and in exercise of the power
and authority for this purpose vested
in me, I, George Stoddart Whitmore, Major,
the officer commanding in the Napier Mili-
tia District, do hereby fix and appoint the
times and places hereunder written to be the
times and places for the training and exer-
cise of such of the men of the first and se-
cond classes of the Napier Regiment of Mili-
tia who are resident within that portion of
the District assigned to Company No. 3, as
is described and called out in this day’s Ga-
zette for exercise and training.

TIME. PLACE.
Monday, 10th day Clive township.
of August, at noon,
and each succeeding
week three days, at
such places and hours
as may be fixed by
the Officer Command-
ing.

G. S. Whitmore,
Major Commanding Militia
and Volunteers.

Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, Aug. 5, 1863.

IT is hereby notified for general informa-
tion that the following rules, republish-
ed from the General Government Gazette,
No. 24, are substituted for the notification
in the Hawke’s Bay Provincial Gazette, (in
reference to ballotting) dated July 27, 1863.

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, the
Governor as aforesaid, in execution of the
said recited Act, do hereby make the follow-
ing Rules for the Ballotting of Militiamen;
that is to say,—

1. The name of each Militiaman liable
   to be drawn is to be written on
   a separate piece of paper or card
   of a uniform size.

2. All the pieces of paper or card so
   inscribed are to be placed in a bag
   together.

3. The Officer Commanding in the Dis-
   trict, in the presence of a Justice
   of the Peace, is to draw from the
   bag, one by one, as many pieces of
   paper or card as there are Militia-
   men required.

4. If any Militiamen are drawn and
   not liable to serve, from any suffic-
   ient reason, the drawing is to
   continue until the full number of
   serviceable Militiamen is obtained.

5. The names so drawn are to be writ-
   ten in a list, which list is to be
   signed by the Officer Commanding
   and the Justice.

6. Any Militiamen liable to be drawn
   may be present at the drawing.

The officer Commanding in the District
respectively is charged with the execution
of these Rules.

Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, this twenty-third day
of June, in the year of our
Lord, One thousand, eight
hundred and sixty-three.

By His Excellency’s command,
G. GREY.

ALFRED DOMETT.

GUNPOWDER.

Superintendent’s Office,
August 5th, 1863.

NOTICE is hereby given, that from the
date hereof the following scale of char-
ges for the store rent of Merchant’s Gun-
powder deposited in the Provincial Maga-
zine will be made:

Per week.
Packages or Barrels measuring under 2½ feet cube..................... 2d
Packages or Barrels exceeding 2½
feet cube and not exceeding 5 feet
cube..................... 4d
Packages or Barrels exceeding 5 feet
cube, per foot cube..................... 1½d

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

Printed by H. L. YATES,
for the Hawke’s Bay Provincial Government,
at the Printing Office,
Hastings street.