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purposes whatever be deemed to comprise all
Territories, Islands, and Countries lying
between the One hundred and sixty-second
Degree of East Longitude and the One hun-
dred and seventy-third Degree of West
Longitude, and between the Thirty-third
and Fifty-third Parallels of South Lati-
tude.

Canterbury Ordinance left to its operation.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 25th August, 1863.

THE following Ordinance passed by the
Provincial Council of Canterbury, in-
tituled,
"The Superintendent's Corporate Powers
Ordinance, 1863,"

having been laid before the Governor, His
Excellency has been pleased to leave the same
to its operation.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Whitmore, Major, Summoned to Legislative
Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 1st September, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in
Her Majesty's name, summoned

Major GEORGE STODDART WHITMORE,
of Hawke's Bay,

to the Legislative Council of New Zealand,
by Writ of Summons under the Seal of the
Colony.

ALFRED DOMETT.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, August 29th, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs the
publication of the following Notice to
Mariners received from the Government of
Ceylon.

ALFRED DOMETT.

NOTICE.

ON and after the 1st of June, 1863, a
FLOATING LIGHT-SHIP will be moored
inside the Little Basses Reef:-The centre
of Rocks bearing S. b, W. W., distant
about one-third of a mile.
It will exhibit a FLASHING LIGHT between
the hours of sunset and sunrise, at intervals
of one minute and a half.
It is 33 feet above the Sea, and from the
horizon dips at 7 miles; to a ship within that
distance, in fine weather it does not entirely

disappear; and is visible 11 miles from a
ship's deck of 18 feet elivation.

DAN. BLYTH,
Master Attendant,
Master Attendant's Office,
Galle.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 3rd September, 1863.

IT is hereby notified for general informa-
tion that his Excellency the Governor in
Council has ordered that the Mutiny Act
and Articles of War shall be in force with
respect to all Officers, Non-Commissioned
Officers and Privates of the Colonial Defence
Force in all parts of the Colony.

T. RUSSELL.

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 3rd September, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appoint-
ments, viz.:-

In the Waipawa Cavalry Volunteers.
GEORGE SISSON COOPER, to be Captain.
Date of Commission, 1st Sept., 1863.
THOMAS TANNER, to be Lieutenant. Date
of Commission, 1st Sept., 1863.
JOHN RUSSELL DUNCAN, to be Cornet.
Date of Commission, 1st Sept., 1863.

In the Militia of the Rangitikei District.
JOHN WILLIAMS MARSHALL, to be Major,
and to Command the Militia and Volunteers
in the Rangitikei District. Date of Com-
mission, 31st August, 1863.

In the Auckland Militia.
WILLIAM THOMAS HUNT, to be Captain.
Date of Commission-28th August, 1863
JACKSON KEDDELL, to be Captain. Date of
Commission-28th August, 1863.
ALEXANDER STEWART, to be Assistant Sur-
geon. Date of Commission - 24th
August, 1863.
JOHN HUTCHINSON WOOD, to be Ensign.
Date of Commission - 31st August,
1863.
ROBERT JOHN COULTER, to be Ensign.
Date of Commission--3rd Sept., 1863.

In the No. 6 Company Auckland Rifle
Volunteers.
Ensign EMILIUS LEROY, to be Lieutenant.
Date of Commission-29th August, 1863
JOHN BATGER, to be Ensign. Date of
Commission-29th August, 1863.

T. RUSSELL.