THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 189

Resignation by J. H. Harris, Esq., of Office of
Superintendent, Otago.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1865.

THE Governor directs it to be notified for general
information that
JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Esq.,
having resigned the Office of Superintendent of the
Province of Otago, His Excellency, in behalf of Her
Majesty the Queen, has this day accepted that
resignation.
FRED. A. WELD.

Deputy Returning Officer appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th June, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM INNES BRIDGES, Esq.,
to be Deputy Returning Officer for the election of
members of the Provincial Council of Southland for
the Electoral Districts of Riverton, Longwood,
Aparima, Waianewa, and Waiau, under "The
Regulation of Elections Act Amendment Act, 1863."
F. A. WELD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th June, 1865.

THE following additional correspondence respect-
ing the late engagement between the Forest
Rangers and Waikato Militia and the Natives in the
Bush near Patea, is published for general infor-
mation.
FRED. A. WELD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, May 31st, 1865.

SIR,---I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 16th instant, reporting the
particulars of an attack by a party of Forest Rangers
and Waikato Militia Volunteers under your com-
mand, upon rebel natives encamped in a strong
position in the forest near the Patea River.

I anticipate important results from the moral
effect of this action, as you have shewn the natives
that it is possible to surprise and successfully to
attack them in their fastnesses, with inferior num-
bers-and I have great pleasure in expressing to you
the cordial thanks of the Government. I have also
to request that you will convey to the officers, non-
commissioned officers and men under your command,
the thanks of the Government, for the gallant man-
ner in which they performed a very difficult and
arduous service.
I have, &c.,
FRED. A. WELD.

Major Von Tempsky, &c.

Extract from a Letter from Horopapera, a Native
Assessor at Putiki Wharanui, to Hori Kerei,
Wellington, dated 18th May, 1865.

• • • • E hoa,---Kua mate te Pakeha ki
        Patea---tokoturu---kotahi apiha e rua hoia; nga
        Maori 15.

[TRANSLATION.]

• • • • Friend,---Pakehas have been killed
        at Patea, three of them---one officer and two soldiers;
        fifteen Maories (were killed).

• ---

Mem. by Mr. Halse.

Hori Kerei informs me that as the Putiki Natives
have constant communication with their friends at
Patea, that this in all probability is a correct report
gathered from Native sources.
H. HALSE.

22nd May, 1865.

Members of Provincial Council, Wellington, Elected.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st June, 1865.

IT is hereby notified that writs issued for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council of
the Province of Wellington, have been returned with
certificates to the effect that---

For the Hutt District,
Messrs. Alfred Ludlam, Steven Fagan, William
Milne, Richard Burt, and William Mc-
Dowell;

For the District of the City of Wellington,
Messrs. Edward Pearce, Walter Turnbull, Charles
Bonythorne Borlase, William Barnard Rhodes,
Joe Dransfield, George Hunter, William
Waring Taylor, George Crawford, William
Fitzherbert, William Hickson, John Howard
Wallace, and Robert Pharazyn;

For the Karori and Makara District,
Messrs. John Johnstone and John Brown Reading;

For the Porirau District,
Messrs. Alfred de Bathe Brandon, David Galloway,
and James Taylor;

For the Wairarapa West District,
Messrs. Henry Bunny, Joseph Masters, and Robert
Porter Welch;

For the Rangitikei District,
Messrs. A. W. F. Halcombe, Alexander Milne,
and James Allison;

For the District of Wanganui,
Messrs. John Bryce, Thomas Kells, and William
Hogg Watt;

For the District of Wairarapa East,
Robert Stokes, Esq.,
have been duly elected.
FRED. A. WELD.

Notice to Mariners.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th June, 1865.

THE following Notice, received from the Govern-
ment of Western Australia, respecting the
discovery of a low sandy Island off the North-west
coast of Australia, is published for general information.
FRED. A. WELD.

Fremantle, 20th April, 1865.

SIR,---I have the honor to report to you the
existence of an island not laid down on the Admiralty
chart, sheet No. V., of N.W. Australia, surveys of
Capts. King and Stokes, 1842, or on a general chart
of Australia, dated 1864; the nearest danger on the
charts being the Beagle Banks, distant some eighteen
miles to the North-westward. The following is an
extract from my Journal:---

Feb. 15th, 1865.---Daylight, moderate breeze from
W.S.W., vessel steering E. S., fine clear weather.
At 7h. 20m. a.m., the look-out from aloft reported
land to N.N.-eastward; hauled the vessel up direct
for it, until had shoaled the water from forty fathoms
to five fathoms, over a rocky bottom, the West end
of the land then bearing due North, and distant five
miles.

It proved to be an island, low and sandy, somewhat
elevated towards its centre, which portion was
apparently dotted with stunted bushes. It is six
miles in length, trending nearly East and West, with
an apparent breadth of not more than two or three
miles.

The island is now about fifty feet in height, giving
it a probable elevation of about thirty feet at high