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November, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five.

HENRY ST. HILL,
Returning Officer.

NOTICE

Election for one Member for the Wellington Country District.
Province of Wellington,
to-wit.

WHEREAS a Writ under the hand of
Isaac Earl Featherston, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, and
under the Public Seal of the Province, bearing
date this twenty-eighth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, hath
been directed to me, Henry St. Hill, Esquire,
Returning Officer of the "Wellington Country
District," requiring and commanding me to
cause to be elected by and from amongst
the Voters duly qualified for that purpose,
freely and indifferently, and in manner and
form by law prescribed, one person to serve
as a Member for the "Wellington Country
District" in the Provincial Council of the
Province of Wellington, in the place of
William Bromley, late a Member for the said
District in the said Provincial Council, who
has resigned his seat in the said Council:

Now therefore I, the said Henry St. Hill,
Esquire, Returning Officer for the "Wellington
Country District" aforesaid, do hereby, in pursuance of the said Writ, give notice that a
Public Meeting of the Electors of the "Wellington
Country District" aforesaid, will be
holden at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, at
Wellington, in the said Province, on Monday,
the seventeenth (17th) day of December next,
at twelve o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of nominating one person to serve as a
Member of the said Council for the said District,
in the place of the said William Bromley; and in
the event of a Poll being demanded for the
Candidates, or any of them, such polling shall
take place at the Resident Magistrate’s Court
aforesaid, and at the several other polling
places in the said District, on THURSDAY,
the twentieth (20th) day of December next; the
voting to commence at any time after nine
o’clock in the forenoon of the said day, and
to close at four o’clock in the afternoon of the
said day.

Dated at the Resident Magistrate’s Court
at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day
of November, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five.

HENRY ST. HILL,
Returning Officer.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, November 10, 1855.

TO HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT

It is hereby notified for general information,
that :

Hugh Ross, Esq., of Rangitikei,
has been duly elected Coroner for the Rangitikei district.

By His Honor’s command,

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

CONTRACTS

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, November 20, 1855.

SEALED TENDERS, in duplicate, will be
received at this Office, on or before the
twentieth of December next, from Persons desirous of executing, by contract, any of the undermentioned Services for the Provincial Government during the twelve months ending the
31st December, 1856...

LUNATIC PATIENTS

Oil, at per gallon...
Catlin Wich, at per lb...

A copy of the established Scale of Rations
may be obtained at the Sheriff’s Office.

RATIONS TO PAUPERS

A copy of the established Scale may be obtained at the Resident Magistrate’s Office.

Firewood, rate or manuka, at per cord, in two feet
lengths, delivered and stacked at the office or building
where the supply is required.

Coals, (English or Sydney), at per ton,
delivered at the office requiring the same.

TOOLS FOR ROAD PARTIES

Adzes, each...
Augers, 1 inch, 1¼ inch, 1½ inch each...
Axes, felling, each...
Billhooks...
Blocks, per inch...
Blasting Tools, crowbars, jumpers, rammers, spoons
and needles, wedges per lb...
Coals, English or Sydney, per 100lbs...
Chains, timber, per lb...
Files, band, cross-cut, and pit-saw, per dozen...
Grindstones, 18 inch diameter, 24 inch each...
Hammers, sledge, stone, faced with steel, per lb...
Lines, 1 inch, 100 feet long, each...
Levels, common, similar to bricklayers’, per foot...
Mattocks, each...
Pickaxes...
Stone Picks...
Rakes, 15 inches wide, each...
Rope, 3 inch, 3½ inch, 4 inch, at per cwt...
Shovels, round; square, best quality; medium size,
at per dozen...