THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

57

G. GREY, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:-

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 18th January, 1866.

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, by warrant under his hand, from time
to time, to appoint polling places for each electoral
district, within or without the limits thereof, and to
appoint any one of such places to be the principal
polling place for the district, and all or any of such
polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint
other polling places in lieu thereof:

Now, know ye, that I, the Governor of New Zea-
land, in pursuance of the power and authority in me
vested by the said Act, do hereby appoint the follow-
ing place to be an additional polling place for the
electoral district hereinafter specified, as constituted
by "The Representation Act, 1865," for the Elec-
tion of Members of the House of Representatives,
namely:---

For the District of HEATHCOTE-The School House,
Lincoln Road.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight Commander of the
Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.

T. M. HAULTAIN,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1866.

THE following Notice to Mariners, issued by the
Government of the Colony of Victoria, respect-
ing the Antipodes and Bounty Islands, is published
for general information.

JAMES PATERSON,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Antipodes and Bounty Islands.

In consequence of considerable discrepancy having
been found in the latitude and longitude of the
Antipodes and Bounty Islands, as furnished by seve-
ral nautical books and charts, the following notice of
their correct position, ascertained by Commander
Norman during the "Victoria's " recent search
amongst these islands for shipwrecked men, is pub-
lished for general information.

JAS. G. FRANCIS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Department of Trade and Customs,
Melbourne, 4th January, 1866.

(COPY.)

H.M.C.S. "Victoria" found the Antipodes Island
to be in latitude 49° 42' South, longitude 178° 43'
East.

Bounty Island (a mere group of broken rocks with
outlying dangers) to be in latitude 47° 50' South,
longitude 179° East.

(Signed) W. H. NORMAN,
Commander.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

CHARLES HENRY MOFFITT, Esq.,
to be Crown Prosecutor under "The District Courts
Act, 1858," for the District of Marlborough.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th January, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JAMES FRASER,
of Wairoa, in the Province of Hawke's Bay, Esquire,
to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New
Zealand.

JAMES PATERSON,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 24th January, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JAMES FRASER, Esq., J.P.,
of Wairoa, in the Province of Hawke's Bay, to be a
Resident Magistrate.

JAMES PATERSON,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

General Post Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

JUDGES OF NATIVE LAND COURTS
to frank Letters free on the Public Service.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

TAREHA,
KARAITIANA TAKAMOANA,
RENATA KAWEPO,
NOA HUKE,
PARAONE HAKIHAKI,
TE HARAWIRA TE TATEREI,
MORENA HAWEA, and
HENARE KEMA,
to be Assessors under "The Native Lands Act,
1865."

A. H. RUSSELL.

"MARRIAGE ACT, 1854."
OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1866.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 17th January, 1866.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following List of OFFICIATING MINISTERS
within the meaning of the said Act is published
for general information:--