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Hawke's Bay Times, 10 August 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)

Napier, July f^^Tß63,. • ~OY virtue and in exercise of the power and authority for this purpose vested in me, I. George Stoddart Whitmore, Major, the officer commanding in the Napier Mili.’ tia District, do hereby fix and appoint the times and places hereunder written to be the times and places for the training and exercise of such of the men of the first and second classes of the Napier Regiment of Militia who are resident within that portion of the District assigned to Company No. 3, as is described and called out in this days Gazette for exercise and training. TIME. Monday, 10th day of August, at noon, and each succeeding week three days, at such places and hours as may be fixed by the Officer CoramandPLACE. Clive township. G. S. WhitmopvE, Major Commanding Militia and Volunteers. Superintendent’s Office, Napier, Aug. 5, 1863. TT is hereby notified for general informatiou that the following rules, republished from the General Government Gazette , No. 24, are substituted for the notification in the Hawke’s Bay Provincial Gazette, (in reference to ballotting) dated July 27,1863 DONALD M’LEAN, Superintendent. By his Excellency Sir Geoege Geey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Com-mander-in-chief in and over her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, & c ., &c., &c, TVrHEREAS by the “Militia Acts Amendment Act, 1860,” it is provided that if all the men of any class be not required, the men to be drawn out shall be taken by ballot, according to such rules as the Governor shall from time to time make for that purpose: Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid, in execution of the said recited Act, do hereby make the following Buies for the Ballotting of Militiamen ; that is to say,— 1. The name of each Militiaman liable to be drawn is to be written on a separate piece of paper or card of a uniform size. 2. All the pieces of paper or card so inscribed are to be placed in a bag together. 3. The Officer Commanding in the District, iu the presence of a Justice of the Peace, is to draw from the bag, one by one, as many pieces of paper or card as there are Militiamen required. 4. If any Militiamen are drawn and not liable to serve, from any sufficient reason, the drawing is to continue until the full number of serviceable Militiamen is obtained. 5. The names so drawn are to be written in a list, which list is to be signed by the Officer Commanding and the Justice. 6. Any Militiamen liable to be drawn may be present at the drawing. The officer Commanding in the District respectively is charged with the execution of these Fades. Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, this twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, eight hundred and sixty-three. G. GREY. By his Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett. GUNPOWDER. Superintendent’s Office, August sth, 1863. OTICE is hereby given, that from the ~ ' uaie hereof the following scale of charges for the store rent of Merchant’s Gunpowder deposited in the Provincial Magazine will be made. PEK-. WEEK. Packages or Barrels measuring under 2| feet cube 2d Packages or Barrels exceeding feet cube and not exceeding 5 feet cube 4d. Packages or Barrels exceeding 5 feet cube, per foot cube DONALD M’LEAN, * Superintendent.