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take place at the Wellington Athenæum, at
twelve o'clock noon. And for Commis-
sioners for the TE ARO WARD shall take
place at the Stockyard of Messrs. Bethune
& Hunter, at two o'clock p.m.
Dated this fifteenth day of August, One
thousand Eight hundred and sixty-four.
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

General Government Notices.

A PROCLAMATION,

Altering the time for taking the Census in 1864.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight, Commander of the most
Honourable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and its
Dependencies, and Vice Admiral
of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by "The Census Act,
1858," it is provided that the ac-
count of the number and condition of the
Population of New Zealand, and of the Live
Stock, and of the Cultivations therein, re-
spectively, which the said Act directs to be
taken in every third year succeeding the
year One thousand Eight hundred and Fifty-
eight, shall be taken in the month of Decem-
ber, and that the forms of Returns for
obtaining the required information shall be
delivered by the several Sub-Enumerators
at the Dwelling-houses in their respective
Sub-Districts between the First and Twenty-
fourth days of December (both inclusive)
in the years appointed, and that the said
forms shall be demanded and received by
such Sub-Enumerators on the Twenty-sixth
day of December, or as soon after as prac-
ticable :

And whereas it is further provided by the
"Census Act Amendment Act, 1860," that
it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council
to appoint any other month, or any other
day or days for the purposes above cited in
the year One thousand Eight hundred and
Sixty-four, or in any or every third year
after, instead of the month or the day or
days appointed by "The Census Act, 1858,"
and the time or times so appointed by the
Governor in Council shall be declared by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette,
and also that all the provisions of "The
Census Act, 1858," relating to taking an
account of the Population of New Zealand,
and of the Live Stock and of the Cultiva-
tions therein, shall, except as therein pro-
vided, be deemed and taken to apply to such
time or times as fully as such month, or
day or days, had been specified in the said
Act :

Now therefore, I, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, with
the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, proclaim and de-
clare that the forms of Returns above re-
ferred to shall be delivered by the several
Sub-Enumerators at the Dwelling-houses in
their respective Sub-Districts, between the
Fourteenth day of November and the First
day of December (both days included) in
the year One thousand Eight hundred and
Sixty-four, and that the said forms shall be
demanded and received by such Sub-Enume-
rators on the second day of December, in the
same year, or as soon thereafter as practi-
cable :

Given under my hand at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this
Twenty-first day of July, in
the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four.
G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM FOX.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Militia and Volunteers.
Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 25th July, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept the following resig-
nations :—

Lieutenant W. H. Donald, Masterton
Rifle Volunteers.
T. RUSSELL.

Notice to Mariners.

ROCK IN HAWKE'S BAY.

THE Harbor-Master at Napier has re-
ported to the Marine Board, that he
has discovered a rock in Hawke's Bay,
having a depth of only 12½ feet on it at low
water spring tides. He gives the following
bearings :
From rock to east end of Ahuriri Bluff
S. by E.
From rock to west point of Bluff S.W.
by S.
From rock to Cape Kidnappers S.E. ½ E.

The above bearings place the rock on the
inner or southern portion of the shoal marked
in Captain Drury's charts with 4½ and 4
fathoms on it bearing N. by W. from Ahu-
riri Bluff, about five cable lengths distant.

A buoy has been placed ten fathoms north
of the rock, by keeping outside of which
vessels will clear the shoal east of the Bluff.
CHAS. SHARP,
President Marine Board.
Marine Board Office.
Wellington, 11th July, 1864.