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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Given under my hand and
issued under the Public
Seal of the Colony of New
Zealand, at Government
House, at Auckland, this thir-
ty-first day of December,
in the year of Our Lord,
One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 29th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that a Writ issued for the
election of a Superintendent of the Province
of Wellington has been returned with a certifi-
cate to the effect that
ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, of Tinakori Road,
Wellington,
has been duly elected.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 29th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that Writs issued for the
Election of Members of the Provincial Council,
for the Province of Wellington, have been
returned with certificates to the effect, that
For the City or Town of Wellington;
George Hunter
William Bowler
John Varnham
Edward Jerningham Wakefield
William Allen
Edward Toomath
John King
Robert Holt Carpenter
Robert Stokes
Richard Barry
John McLazzan
Thomas Kimmis Warburton
For the Wellington Country District,
Alfred De Bathe Brandon
James Wallace
John Johnston
Ashton St. Hill
Thomas Dalton McManaway
For the Hutt District,
Alfred Ludlam
George Hart
William Corbett
William Phillips
William Wilcock
For the Wairarapa District,
Charles Rooking
Charles Bonythorn Borlaise
For the Ahuriri District,
Thomas Henry Fitzgerald
Donald Gollan

For the Wanganui and Rangitikei District,
William Hogg Watt
William Fox
Moses Campbell
John Handley
have been duly elected.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 29th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that
JOHN YEEDEN LLOYD, Esq.,
has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council
of New Zealand, and that his Excellency has
been pleased to accept such resignation.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 29th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint the undermentioned
gentlemen to the Auckland Battalion of New
Zealand Militia:-
GEORGE WILLIAM DRUMMOND HAY, Esq.,
to be Captain vice Theodore Minet
Haultain, Esq., who resigns-date of
commission, 10th November, 1857.
WILLIAM MOIR, Esq., to be Quarter Master
-date of commission, 10th November,
1857.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 29th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that
Ensign HENRY JOHN WYNYARD has re-
signed his commission in the Auckland
Battalion of New Zealand Militia,
being appointed to the Line-date, 26th
February, 1857.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 29th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
Lieut.-Colonel MOULD, R.E.,
to be Inspector of Public Works for the
Colony of New Zealand,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 29th, 1857.
THE following Despatch from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies, with its Enclosure, is published for
general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Downing Street,
4th June, 1857.
SIR,-You are aware that it was provided
by the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, that
from and after the 1st of May, 1855, an