THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

59

January last under the hand of His Excellency
the Governor, and issued under the public seal
of the Colony of New Zealand, the said
Governor did require and command John
Curling, Esquire, the duly appointed Returning
Officer for each of the Electoral Districts of
the Province of Hawke's Bay to cause to be
elected by the Voters duly qualified for that
purpose, freely and indifferently and in manner
and form by law prescribed, legally qualified
persons to serve as Members of the Provincial
Council of the said Province for the several
Electoral Districts thereof, and the said writs
were severally made returnable within fifty days
from the date thereof: And whereas unfore-
seen difficulties have arisen in executing the
said writs respectively, and it is expedient that
the time therein mentioned for the return
thereof respectively shall be extended.

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor
by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council doth hereby extend the
time allowed for the holding of the said
elections, and for the return of the said writs,
but so nevertheless that the said writs shall be
severally returnable within one hundred days
from the date thereof.

F. G. STEWARD.

TO THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
LYTTELTON SAVINGS' BANK.

I, THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Com-
panion of the Most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.,
&c., by virtue of the power in this behalf in
me vested by the "Savings' Bank Act, 1858,"
and in pursuance of a Petition to this effect
signed by not less than two-thirds of the
Trustees of the said Savings Bank, do, by and
with the advice and consent of my Executive
Council, by this writing, under my hand, direc
ted to the said President of the said Savings
Bank, empower the Trustees of the said Bank
not being less than four, attending at any
meeting or meetings appointed for that pur-
pose to Discount at a rate of Interest not less
than Eight per centum per annum, any Bill of
Exchange or Promissory Note for any amount
not exceeding £100, provided the same shall
bear the names of not less than two persons
not being Trustees of the said Bank, to be
approved by such Trustees so attending as
aforesaid, or the major part of them, and be
payable at a period not exceeding three calen-
dar months from the time when the same shall
be discounted. And provided further that the
total amount of Funds invested in such Pro-
missory Notes or Bills of Exchange shall at no
time exceed one-half of the whole deposits
in the said Bank.

As witnesss my hand this second
day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-eight.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

TO THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
NEW PLYMOUTH SAVINGS' BANK.

I, THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Com-
panion of the Most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.,
&c., &c., by virtue of the power in this behalf
in me vested by "The Savings' Bank Act,
1858," and in pursuance of a Petition to this
effect signed by not less than two thirds of the
Trustees of the said Savings Bank, do, by and
with the advice and consent of my Executive
Council, by this writing under my hand
directed to the said President of the said
Savings' Bank empower the Trustees of the
said Bank, not being less than four, attending
at any Meeting or Meetings appointed for that
purpose, to Discount at a rate of Interest not
less than Eight per centum per annum any
Bill of Exchange or Promissory Note for any
amount not exceeding One Hundred Pounds:
Provided the same shall bear the names of not
less than two persons not being Trustees of the
said Bank to be approved by the said Trustees
so attending as aforesaid, or the major part of
them, and to be payable at a period not exceed-
ing three calendar months from the time when
the same shall be discounted: And pro-
vided further that the total amount of
Funds invested in such Promissory Notes or
Bills of Exchange shall at no time exceed one
half of the whole Deposits in the said Bank.

As witness my hand this twenty-
twenty-third day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-nine.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 10th February, 1859

TENDERS will be received at the Public
Works Office, Melbourne, until 12 o'clock
on Tuesday, 8th March, 1859, for Nine
Hundred Telegraph Posts of Timber known
in New Zealand as Totara Wood.
Specification may be seen at this Office.
Tenders to be endorsed "Tender for Nine
Hundred Telegraph Posts of Totara Wood,"
and address (if by post prepaid) to the Honor-
able the President of the Board of Land and
Works, Public Lands Office, Melbourne.
The Victorian Government will not neces-
sarily accept the lowest or any tender.

W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.

Treasury, Auckland,
24th February, 1859.

NOTICE is hereby given that a limited
number of Queen's Printer's Copies of
"Acts relating to Justices of Peace, 11 & 12
Vict., Cap. 42, 43, and 44," have been received,
and may be procured by applying at this office,