Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th March, 1858.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs
it to be notified for general information that a Writ for the Election of a
Member to serve in the Provincial Council
for the Wellington Country District
having been issued in accordance with
clause 12 of "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of
New Zealand," the Returning Officer has
returned the said Writ, with a Certificate
that the undermentioned gentleman has
been duly elected to serve as a member
of the said Provincial Council for the
said Wellington Country District:—
CHARLES WILLIAM SCHULTZE,
of Hobson-street, Wellington, Merchant.
By His Honor’s command,

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1858.

HIS HONOR the SUPERINTENDENT
has directed the publication
of the following letter for general information.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Hospital, Wellington,
February 23rd, 1858.

SIR,—I send you the following list of
legally qualified Medical Practitioners
residing in the Province of Wellington,
to be published as the Act directs for
the information of Coroners, Magistrates,
and the public,

Remaining your obedient servant,
C. FRANCE,
Hon. Secretary to the Medical Board.

William Fitzherbert, Esq.,
Provincial Secretary.

G. D. Monteith B. Buck
C. France T. Hitchings
R. P. Welch G. Rees
A. Johnston J. Rees
M. Kebbell C. G. Hewson
A. Florence B. Tuke
F. J. Knox H. T. Spratt.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Col. Thomas Gore
Browne, Companion of the
Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of
the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand passed
in the Session holden in the nineteenth
and twentieth years of Her Majesty, No.
19, intituled "The Counties Act, 1856,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor on the recommendation of
the Superintendent of any Province of
the said Colony, from time to time, by
Proclamation to be published in the
Government Gazette of the Colony, to constitute any portion of such Province or
County, Hundred or Parish, and that all
such Counties, Hundreds, and Parishes
shall have such designation and limits
as in and by the Proclamation constituting the same shall be prescribed.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of
New Zealand, on the recommendation of
the Superintendent of the Province of
Wellington, do proclaim and declare
and I do hereby constitute that portion
of the Province of Wellington, bounded
as follows, viz.:—North, by a line commencing at the north-east corner of section No. 71, and running to a point 60
chains from the Waipona river at the
Pa-kai-ko-kiri-kiri,—and from thence in
a straight line till it strikes the Waipona
river. East by the Rua-mahunga river.
South, by the Waingaroa river. West,
by the Tararua Range—to be the Hundred
of Masterton.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House at Auckland,
this twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.

Thomas Gore Browne.
By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.

MARRIAGE ACT, 1854.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR
1858.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Auckland, January 23rd 1858.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an
Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, passed in the eighteenth
year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen
Victoria, and entitled "Marriage Act,
1854," the following List of Officiating
Ministers within the meaning of the said
Act is published for general information.