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PROCLAMATION.

BY HIS EXCELLENCY COLONEL
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.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL
COME GREETING:

WHEREAS by an Act of the Gene-
ral Assembly, intituled "The
Regulation of Elections Act, 1858," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor, by warrant under his hand,
from time to time, to appoint Polling
Places for each Electoral District,
within or without the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places,
to be the principal Polling Place for the
District, and all or any of such Polling
Places at any time to abolish, and to appoint other Polling Places in lieu thereof.
And whereas by another Act of the
General Assembly, intituled "The Provincial Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted that, subject to certain provisions
therein contained, every Election of the
Superintendent or of a Member of the
Provincial Council of a Province shall be
conducted in the manner prescribed by
"The Regulation of Elections Act,
1858," aforesaid; and all the provisions
of the said last mentioned Act shall
apply to the elections of Superintendents
and Members of Provincial Councils.

Now know ye, that I, Thomas Gore
Browne, the Governor of the said Colony,
in pursuance of the power and authority
in me vested by the said Acts, do hereby
appoint the following place to be a Polling
Place for the District of the Wellington
Country District for the Election of the
Superintendent and Members of the
Provincial Council of the Province of
Wellington, namely,

At Manawatu, the Residence of
F. ROBINSON, Esq.

Given under my hand, at Government House, at Auckland,
this Seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fiftynine.
(Signed) T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency’s command,
HENRY JOHN TANCRED.

WHEREAS by the "Coroner’s Act,
1858," the Governor is empowered
in the manner therein mentioned to appoint fit persons to be Coroners of the
several districts of the Colony of New
Zealand, and from time to time to define
the districts within which such Coroners
shall respectively have jurisdiction, and
every such definition to revoke or amend,
and the limits of such districts to alter
as occasion may require.

Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the said power and authority,
do hereby define the District of
WELLINGTON.
in the Province of Wellington, to be all
the territory comprised within the limits
following, that is to say...a line from
the point where the Horokiwi road strikes
the beach, to the point on the Rimutaka
range where that range is crossed by the
Wairarapa road, thence by the summit
of the Rimutaka and Turakirae ridges to
the sea at Orongorongo Point, and thence
by the sea beach to the starting point.

Given under my hand, at Government House, at Auckland, this
eighth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine.
T. GORE BROWNE.
By his Excellency’s command,
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 7th November, 1859.
HIS Excellency the Governor has
been pleased to appoint
MARK KEBBELL, Esq.,
to be Coroner under "The Coroner’s
Act, 1858," for the District of Wellington.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, November 29, 1859.
THE following Notice relative to the
Light on Cape Pembroke, Falkland Islands, is published for general information.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
FALKLAND ISLANDS.
Fixed Light on Cape Pembroke.

THE Colonial Government at the Falkland
Islands has given notice that a fixed
Light of the natural colour was established on