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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
TO JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels of Waste Lands of the Crown particularly specified
and described in the Schedule hereunder written are required for the purposes mentioned and set
opposite to the descriptions of the said parcels of land respectively in the said Schedule, and that the
same have been respectively excepted from sale and reserved to Her Majesty by the Orders in Council
bearing the dates mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
FIRST COLUMN.
Description of Land.
PROVINCE OF OTAGO.
Queenstown.
All that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement
25 poles, more or less, being portion of the block called
"The Camp Reserve;" bounded towards the North-west
by Ballarat Street, 71 feet; towards the North-east by a
line bearing 139° 14', 102 feet; towards the South-east by
a line bearing 226° 25', 66 feet; and towards the South-
west by Camp Street, 102 feet.
Purpose for which Reserve is
made.
SECOND COLUMN.
Date of Order in
Council excepting
Land from Sale.
As a site for Telegraph 3rd August, 1870.
Station and Post Office.

Approved in Council, August 3rd, 1870.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

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:
And whereas by Warrant under the hand of the
Governor, bearing date the nineteenth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy, the Court
House, Coromandel, was appointed a polling place
for the District of the Thames, for the election of
Superintendent and Members of the Provincial
Council of the Province of Auckland:
And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:
Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Act,
do hereby abolish the above-named polling place for
the District of the Thames, for the election of
Superintendent and Members of the Provincial
Council of the Province of Auckland.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House at Wellington, this fifteenth day
of August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1870.
THE following Letters, with Enclosures, from
Commodore Rowley Lambert, C.B., A.D.C., are
published for general information.
W. GISBORNE.

H.M.S. "Challenger,"
At Wellington, 1st August, 1870.
SIR, With reference to your Excellency's letter
of 30th May last, I have the honor to transmit
herewith, for your information, a copy of Captain
Palmer's report of proceedings on the visit of
H.M.S. "Rosario," under his command, to the
Bounty Islands, last month.
I have, &c.,
ROWLEY LAMBERT,
Commodore and Senior Officer.
His Excellency Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G.,
Governor, &c., &c.

[Enclosures.]
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS.
H.M.S. "Rosario,"
Wellington, N.Z., 13th July, 1870.
SIR, In accordance with your orders, I left
Auckland on the 29th of June for the Bounty
Islands, but owing to the weather coming on thick,
with a strong head-wind, I anchored for the night in
Tofino Bay. I weighed on the following morning, and
experienced strong westerly winds until the evening
of the 4th July, when a heavy gale sprang up from
the S. W., which obliged me to lie to for thirty-six
hours, during which time the second cutter was stove
by a sea, and several feet of the port waist hammock
netting washed away.
On the forenoon of the 6th, the wind moderating
and being again west, I made sail, and on the 8th got