RETURN of the Sale of Licences under the Town Pasturage Ordinance, Session 2, No. 2,
for the period commencing the 9th day of January and ending the 31st day of March,
1859.

THOMAS KING,
Provincial Treasurer.

Provincial Treasurer’s Office,
New Plymouth, 8th January, 1859.

[Reprinted from the New Zealand Gazette.]

Treasury,
Auckland, 1st January, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that
The Hon. Christopher William Richmond
has been appointed Commissioner of Customs.

C. W. Richmond.

Treasury,
Auckland, 1st January, 1859.

NOTICE is hereby given that from this date
the Collectors of Customs will receive their
Instructions from, and will report to, the Commissioner of Customs.

C. W. Richmond.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,

IN exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested, by "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858," I, the Commissioner of Customs, do hereby appoint and declare, that the undermentioned Ports shall be Ports at which persons acting as Agents in the Entrance or Clearance of Ships, Goods, or Baggage, or any business relating thereto, shall be required to be duly licensed for that purpose, viz.,

• Monganui,
• Russell,
• Auckland,
• New Plymouth,
• Wanganui,
• Wellington,
• Napier,
• Nelson,
• Lyttelton,
• Dunedin.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this 1st day of January, 1859.

C. W. Richmond.

At GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCKLAND,
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1859.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor,
Colonel Gold,
Mr. Richmond,
Mr. Stafford,
Mr. Whitaker.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Militia Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, Militia Districts, and such Districts from time to time to vary, and to designate the Militia of any such District by the name of a Regiment, Battalion, Corps, or Company;

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, in exercise of the above recited power, doth by this present order, constitute four several Militia Districts, to be called and known by the names following, namely,

• Auckland Country,
• Taranaki,
• Wellington, and
• Napier,

And doth define the respective boundaries of the said districts, as follows:

Of the Auckland Country District, the circumference of a circle, whereof the radius extends twenty miles from the present police office in the city of Auckland, excepting therefrom the Militia District, constituted by order in Council of the twelfth day of November, 1858, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirtieth day of the same month.

Of the Taranaki District, the circumference of a circle, whereof the radius extends twenty miles from the present police office in the town of New Plymouth.

Of the Wellington District, the circumference of a circle, whereof the radius extends twenty miles from the police office in the city of Wellington.

Of the Napier District, the circumference of a circle, whereof the radius extends twenty miles from the police office in the town of Napier.

And doth designate the Militia within each of the said Districts by the name of a Battalion.

F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.

At GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCKLAND,
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1859.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor,
Colonel Gold,
Mr. Richmond,
Mr. Stafford,
Mr. Tancred,
Mr. Whitaker.