ARMY AND NAVY LETTERS.
Non-commissioned Officers, Captain's Stew-
ards, Seamen, and Soldiers, may send and re-
ceive letters not exceeding half an ounce in
weight by the Post on their own private con-
cerns only, while they are employed on Her
Majesty's service, at the rate of one penny for
each letter. And with respect to letters sent
or received by any such privileged persons the
following conditions shall be observed, that is
to say, the Postage of each letter (unless sent
from parts beyond the seas) shall be paid on
being put into the Post Office, and upon such
letter shall be subscribed the name of the
writer and his class or description in the vessel,
regiment, corps, or detachment to which he be-
longs, and signed by the officer having at the
time the command of the vessel, or of the regi-
ment, corps, or detachment to which the privi-
leged person belongs.

Whenever the letters sent or received by any
such privileged person shall be sent from
parts beyond the seas, without the said postage
of one penny being pre-paid, every such letter
shall be charged to the party receiving the
same with a rate of two-pence, and any let-
ters received by the Post, under this regulation,
by any such privileged persons, which may
have been re-directed, shall not be charged
with any Postage for such re-direction.

This Proclamation shall take effect from and
after the day of the date hereof.

ditions required to be observed, from treble the rate
they would have borne as letters, to a single such
rate.

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Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Government House at Welling-
ton, in the Province of New
Munster, in the Islands afore-
said, this eighteenth day of De-
cember, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-two.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary..

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

NOTE. It will be observed that the only amend-
ments in the above Regulations are the exclusion of
Deeds, Law Proceedings, and Law Papers, from the
class of Documents passed through the Post Offices at
reduced rates, and the reduction of the penalty on
newspapers, papers, or packets, not fulfilling the con-

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
18th October, 1855.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

Lieut. WILLIAM D. SHIPLEY,
of H.M. 58th Regiment to be his Excellency's
Aide-de-Camp.

This appointment to bear date from the 6th
ultimo.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
18th October, 1855.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct and appoint that at the
ensuing Elections in this Province for the Su-
perintendency, the House of Representatives,
and the Provincial Council, there shall be an
additional polling place for the undermentioned
Districts, viz.-

PENSIONERS' SETTLEMENTS
and
THE SOUTHERN DIVISION,

At the "Royal George Inn," at Newmarket.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
18th October, 1855.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
CHARLES CHRISTOPHER BOWEN, Esq.,
to be principal Returning Officer in the Pro-
vince of Canterbury and also to be Returning
Officer for the undermentioned Electoral Dis-
tricts.

The Town of Christchurch,
The Christchurch Country District,
The Town of Lyttelton,

instead of CHARLES BOWEN, Esq., as notified in
the Government Gazette, No. 24, of the 29th
ultimo, page 222.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

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