City of Auckland,
To wit.

NOTICE is hereby given that the first Election of Members for the City Council will take place on Wednesday, the 22nd instant.

Thos. Beckham,
Returning Officer.
Police Office, City of Auckland,
Feb. 6, 1854.

City of Auckland
To wit.

In pursuance of my notice dated February 6th, relative to the first Election of Members for the City Council, I hereby further notify that the Election of “seven” duly qualified Candidates, to serve as Members of the “City Council,” will take place on Wednesday, the 22nd instant, in the manner described in the following clauses of the Auckland “City Council Bill,” viz:—

6. Every person whose name shall be on the Electoral Roll, for the time being, of persons entitled to vote for Members for the City of Auckland, in the Provincial Council of the Province of Auckland, shall be qualified to vote at the Election of Councillors for the City of Auckland; and the said Electoral Roll shall be deemed the Burgess Roll for the purposes of this Act.

7. Every person whose name shall be on such Burgess Roll, shall be qualified to be elected a Member of such Council.

8. Any two persons entitled to vote at any Election may propose as Members for the said Council, any persons not exceeding the number to be elected, having the qualification hereinbefore prescribed.

9. Such proposers shall, at least six days before the day of Election, deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Returning Officer, or such person as he may appoint to receive the same, a Nomination, in writing, containing the Christian Names and Surnames of the persons whom they propose, together with their Places of Abode and Descriptions, and signed with the Names of the Proposers, and setting forth their own Places of Abode and Descriptions.

10. The Returning Officer shall examine, within two days next after the last day upon which the names of the persons proposed as Candidates could be delivered in, the nomination papers which have been so delivered as aforesaid.

11. If the number of Candidates duly qualified and duly proposed as aforesaid shall not exceed the number of members to be then elected, the Candidates so proposed shall be declared duly elected by a notice to be published by the said Returning Officer in the Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

12. If the number of Candidates duly qualified and proposed as aforesaid shall exceed the number to be then elected, the Returning Officer shall forthwith give notice in the Auckland Provincial Government Gazette, and all the newspapers published before the day of election in the City of Auckland, stating the names of the persons proposed, their residences, and descriptions, and also the names, residences, and descriptions of the proposers.

13. The polling shall take place before the Returning Officer, or a deputy to be appointed by him, and the voting shall be conducted in manner following, that is to say:—

Every Elector may vote for any number of persons (not exceeding the number of persons then to be chosen), by delivering to the returning officer or his deputy a voting paper, containing the Christian names and Surnames of the persons for whom he votes, together with their places of abode and descriptions, and signed with the name of the Elector so voting, and setting forth his own place of abode and description.

In the event of there being more Candidates than the number to be elected, the polling will take place on the day aforesaid at some one or more convenient place or places within the City aforesaid, to be hereafter specified.

Thos. Beckham,
Returning Officer.
Police Office, City of Auckland,
7th of February, 1854.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

In the Estates of Abraham Haigh and Cooper Walker, of Auckland, deceased, intestate, and William Lillico, of Wangaroa, deceased, intestate.

PURSUANT to the rule of this honorable Court, the creditors of the above-named Intestates are, on or before the twenty-fifth day of April next, to come in and prove their debts before Thomas Outhwaite, Esq., Registrar of the said Court, at his Office, in the Court House, Queen Street, Auckland, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from all benefit arising from the said estates.

Thos. Outhwaite,
Registrar.
Supreme Court Office, Auckland,
25th January, 1854.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

In the Estate of John Goroy Stewart, of Tunapahore, Deceased, Intestate.

PURSUANT to the Rule of this Honorable Court, the Creditors of the above-named Intestate are, on or before the Sixth day of May next, to come in and prove their debts before Thomas Outhwaite, Esquire, Registrar of said Court, at his Office, in the Court House, Queen Street, Auckland, or,