TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

[From the New Zealand Gazette.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the second section of "The Colonial Forces Courts-Martial Act, 1868," it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, appoint and declare any portion of the Colony defined in such Proclamation to be a "Disturbed District" within the meaning of the said second section of the said Act; and that during the time that any of the officers or men of the New Zealand Armed Constabulary, embodied under "The Armed Constabulary Act, 1867," shall be stationed, employed, or in any way on service within any district proclaimed under the said section of the said Act as a Disturbed District, all things contained in any Act of the Imperial Parliament which shall then be in force in New Zealand for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better payment of the Army and their quarters, and in the Articles of War made in pursuance of such Act shall apply to, and the powers thereby created shall be exercised by, such officers and men of the New Zealand Armed Constabulary aforesaid:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and in pursuance of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby proclaim and declare all that portion of the Colony situated within the Province of Taranaki and bounded as follows, that is to say:—On the South by the River Hangatahua from its mouth to its source, thence a straight line to the summit of Mount Egmont, thence by a straight line running due East to the eastern boundary of the said Province; on the East by the eastern boundary of the said Province; on the North by the northern boundary of the said Province; on the West by the sea,—to be a "Disturbed District" within the meaning of the second section of "The Colonial Forces Courts-Martial Act, 1868," aforesaid.

Given under the hand of His Excellency

SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. 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 twenty-sixth day of February, 1869.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of February, 1869.

Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Militia Act, 1865," it is provided that the Governor in Council may from time to time constitute districts throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, and may designate the Militia of any such district by such name as he may think fit: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred on him by the said Act, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby constitute all that part of the Colony situated in the Province of Taranaki, whereof the boundaries are as follows:—On the South by the River Hangatahua from its mouth to the source, thence a straight line to the summit of Mount Egmont, thence by a straight line running due East to the eastern boundary of the said Province; on the East by the eastern boundary of the said Province; on the North by the northern boundary of the said Province; on the West by the sea, to be a District within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act, and doth designate the Militia of the said District as "The Taranaki Militia."

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th March, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the undermentioned promotions, viz.:—

In the Taranaki Militia.

Frederick Charles Rowan to be Captain.
Date of commission, 4th March, 1869.

Ensign Charles Wilson Hursthouse to be Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 23rd February, 1869.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Shifting of the "Tranmere" Buoy, Manukau Harbour.

Marine Department,
Wellington, March 17, 1869.

NOTICE is hereby given that the "Tranmere" Shoal Buoy, Manukau Harbour, has again shifted. Mariners are warned not to place any dependence on it.

G. Eliott Eliott,
(For the Colonial Marine Engineer).