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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Children under twelve years of age ... Half-price.
Children under three years in charge of ... Free.
an adult ...

Passengers' Luggage.
Charges for each route any one way in
each district—
14 lb. passenger's luggage ... Free.
28 lb. " per journey 3d.
56 lb. " " 6d.
112 lb. " " 9d.
All packages exceeding 112 lb. chargeable at discre-
tion of Company.

The above rates may be charged between the hours
of 7 o'clock a.m. and 8 o'clock p.m. during the months
of October, November, December, January, Febru-
ary, and March, and between the hours of 7 a.m. and
7 p.m. during the remaining months of the year.
Double the above rates may be charged after the
above-mentioned hours.

Regulations.

1. Carriages for traffic shall commence running
   not later than 7 o'clock a.m., and cease running not
   earlier than 7 o'clock p.m.
2. Carriages for traffic shall run at least three
   times each way each day.
3. The Company shall have power to stop their
   carriages at corners of streets, and other convenient
   places, for the purpose of taking up and putting
   down passengers and parcels.
4. The rate of speed of the carriages in no case
   shall exceed a maximum rate of ten miles per hour,
   and round street corners and in crowded thorough-
   fares the carriages shall travel only at a reasonable
   speed, such as the circumstances of the case may
   require.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor this twenty-fourth day of Sep-
tember, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.
J. MACANDREW.

Appointing Places for holding Licensing Courts.

NORMANBY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and au-
thorities enabling me in this behalf, I, George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
appoint that sittings of the Licensing Court for the
Licensing District of Lower Wairarapa shall, until
otherwise ordered, be held at the Resident Magis-
trate's Courthouse at Featherston; that sittings of
the Licensing Court for the Licensing District of
Upper Wairarapa shall, until otherwise ordered, be
held at the Resident Magistrate's Courthouse at
Carterton; and that sittings of the Licensing Court
for the Licensing District of Whareama shall, until
otherwise ordered, be held at the Public Hall, Tinui.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-fourth day of
September, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.
JOHN SHEEHAN.

Returning Officers for County Council Elections
appointed.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by section fifty-two of "The Counties
Act, 1876," it is, amongst other things, pro-
vided that, for the purposes of the elections in any
county in which the whole of that Act is not in force,
the Governor shall have full power to make all such
appointments, and to fix all such times for the doing
of anything requiring to be done in such county:
And whereas the whole of the Counties Act is not
in force in the counties set out in the Schedule
hereto: And whereas it is desirable to appoint the
persons whose names are set out in the second column
of the Schedule hereto Returning Officers in and for
the ridings of the said several counties set forth in
the first column of the Schedule hereto, opposite the
name of each such person respectively:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities vested in me by the said
"Counties Act, 1876," do hereby appoint the persons
named in the second column of the Schedule hereto
to be Returning Officers to conduct the elections of
the County Councillors for the ridings respectively
set opposite their names in the first column of the
said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
NORTH ISLAND.
County of Mongonui.
Riding. Returning Officer.
Kaitaia ... Ephraim Shannon.
Whangaroa... William Maxwell.

County of Eden.
Whau ... James Dennes Kelly.
Newton ... Daniel Austin Tole.
Grafton ... Thomas Joseph Waters.
Epsom ... Bernard Greene.
Parnell ... Henry Richards.
Tamaki ... Charles Durbridge.

County of Manukau.
Otahuhu ... Thomas Graham.
Howick ... William George Pring
Papakura ... O'Callaghan.
Mangatawhiri ... William Shanahan.
Pukekohe ... Frederick Ford.
Waiuku ... Henry Parker.
Awhitu ... Philip Hanson King.
John Garland.

County of Coromandel.
Harataunga ... James Brown Gatland.
Mercury Bay ... James McLean Clark.

County of Piako.
Waitoa ... William Noon.
Matamata ... William White.
Taotaoroa ... Michael John Droyer.
Patetere ... Frederick Wild.

County of Raglan.
Onewhero ... William Walker.
Te Akau ... Charles Marshall.
Karioi ... James La Trobe.
Pirongia ... Robert Ormsby.
Whangape ... John Coyle.

County of Whakatane.
Omataroa ... James John Piercy.
Waioeka ... Forster Yelverton Goring.
Waikana ... John Macalister.

MIDDLE ISLAND.
County of Marlborough.
Awatere ... James Gorrie.
Wairau ... C. J. W. Griffiths.
Spring Creek ... T. A. Dickens.
Omaka ... C. J. Rae.
Picton ... Joshua Green.
Pelorus ... James Hadfield Smith.
Havelock ... Horatio Nelson Firth.

County of Waimea.
Riwaka ... Joseph Foord Wilson.