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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly,
"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. And whereas by
another Act of the General Assembly, intituled "The
Provincial Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted that,
subject to certain provisions therein contained, every
election of the Superintendent or of a Member of the
Provincial Council of a Province shall be conducted
in the manner prescribed by "The Regulation of
Elections Act, 1858," aforesaid, and all the provisions
of the said last-mentioned Act shall apply to the
elections of Superintendents and Members of Pro-
vincial Councils :

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power and
authority in me vested by the said Acts, do hereby
appoint the following places to be additional polling
places for the District of Manuherikia, for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council of
the Province of Otago, namely :--

Beighton's Store, Roxburgh West, and
The Court House, Naseby.

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, and issued
at Wellington, this seventh day of March,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1867.

IT is hereby notified that a Writ issued for the
election of a Superintendent for the Province of
Otago, has been returned with a certificate that
Mr. JAMES MACANDREW,
has been duly elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1867.

THE following Notice to Mariners, issued by the
Port Master at Auckland, is published for general
information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Change in Channel over Bar of Hokianga River.

Harbour Office,
Auckland, 15th February, 1867.

NOTICE is hereby given that the channel over the bar
at the entrance of Hokianga River (as laid down in
Captain Drury's survey) has lately shoaled to seven
(7) feet at low water, and is no longer safe to enter.
The proper entrance now for vessels is by a new
channel, which has opened about two (2) cables'
length to the southward of the old one, having a
breadth of one and a half (1) cables' length, and a
depth of eighteen (18) feet at low water. The mark
for entering the same is to bring the flagstaff (on
South Head) to bear N.E. by E. E., and be further
guided by a white square at the yard-arms of the
flagstaff, which hoisted at the south yard-arm,
denotes "Keep more to the southward;" and when
hoisted at the north yard-arm, "Keep more to the
northward;" both squares down, denote "Steer as
you go."

Two beacons will, within a short time, be erected
on the South Head, as leading marks for crossing the
bar.

J. J. BURGESS,
Port Master.