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Timaru District.

Places at which claims will be received
{

The Resident Magistrate\'s Office, Timaru.
Mr. MacDonald\'s station, Talbot Forest
The Provincial Council Chamber, Christchurch.

Person appointed to make up list of
claims

The Resident Magistrate, Timaru.

Place where list of claims will be posted

The Resident Magistrate\'s office, Timaru.

Revising Officer

The Resident Magistrate.

Returning Officer

The Resident Magistrate.

Polling place

Mr. MacDonald\'s station, Talbot Forest.

By his Honor\'s command,

RICHARD PACKER,
Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent\'s Office,
Christchurch, July 28, 1857.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the following Ordinance to be printed for the purpose of affording full information as to the ensuing elections.

RICHARD PACKER,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Council Extension
Ordinance.

Whereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled an "Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it was enacted, that it should be lawful for the Governor by proclamation to constitute within each of the Provinces by the said established, convenient electoral districts for the election of members for the Provincial Council and of the Superintendent; and to appoint and declare the number of members to be elected for each such District for the Provincial Council, and to make provisions for the registration and revision of lists of all persons qualified to vote at the elections to be holden within such districts: And whereas, the then Governor of New Zealand did accordingly by a proclamation bearing date the 5th day of March, 1853, constitute certain Districts for the election of the Superintendent and members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, and did appoint and declare the number of members to be elected to serve in the said districts; and did further make certain provisions for the registration and revision of the lists of persons qualified to vote as aforesaid; And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Province, entitled "The Provincial Council Extension Ordinance, Sess. III., No.1," certain provisions of the said Proclamation were repealed, and certain other provisions were enacted in lieu thereof: And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinance should be repealed, and that the provisions of the said proclamation should be further amended.

Be it therefore enacted, by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows:—

1. The said recited Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council is hereby repealed.

2. The provisions made in the said proclamation by the Governor of New Zealand, under the authority of the said recited act of the Imperial Parliament, in respect to the number and extent of the said districts, the number of members of the Provincial Council to be elected for each district, and the registration and revision of the lists of persons qualified to vote at such elections, so far as the said provisions are repugnant to or would interfere with the operation of this Ordinance, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, void and of no effect.

3. The Province of Canterbury for the election of Superintendent and the members of the Provincial Council, shall be divided into ten districts, to be named as follows :—

4. The town of Christchurch.

5. The town of Lyttelton.

6. The Kaiapoi District.

7. The Avon District.

8. The Heathcote District.

9. The Port Victoria District.

10. The Akaroa District.

11. The Ashley District.

12. The Rakaia District.

13. The Timaru District.

And the boundaries of the said districts