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enacted that every Provincial Council shall
continue for the period of four years from
the day of return of the writs for choosing
the same, and no longer: Provided always
that it shall be lawful for the Governor of
New Zealand, by proclamation or otherwise,
to dissolve the same, whenever he shall think
it expedient so to do. Now therefore I,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
do by this Proclamation dissolve the Pro-
vincial Council of the said Province of Can-
terbury accordingly.

Given under my hand, at the Government
House at Auckland, and issued under
the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand,
this Fifth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Sixty-two.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

HENRY SEWELL.

God Save The Queen!

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 21st March, 1862.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it
to be notified that, by virtue of the
powers delegated to him by His Excellency
the Governor, under “The Provincial Elec-
tions Act, 1858,” he has appointed the fol-
lowing gentlemen to be Returning Officers
for the several districts set opposite to their
names respectively:

Wm. Donald, The Selwyn district
Esq.

The Oxford district
The Rangiora district
The Town of Kaiapoi district
The Mandeville district
The City of Christchurch district
The Avon district
The Town of Lyttelton district
The Heathcote district
The Lincoln district
The Port Victoria district
Robert Greaves, Esq. The Town of Akaroa
district
The Wainui district
Edwd. Chapman, Esq. The Bays district
The Rakaia district
Belfield Woollcombe, The Town of Timaru
Esq. district
The Waitangi district
The Geraldine district

Edward G. Stericker, The Mount Cook dis-
Esq. trict.

And by virtue of the like powers His Honor
the Superintendent has appointed the following
places to be Polling Places for the election
of the Superintendent and Members of
the Provincial Council:—

For the City of Christ- The Town Hall
church
For the Town of Resident Magistrate’s
Lyttelton Office.
For the Town of Kaia- Resident Magistrate’s
poi Office.
For the Mandeville Police Office, Rangi-
district ora and Kaiapoi.
For the Rangiora dis- Police Office.
triet
For the Avon District School-rooms, Papa-
nui and Riccarton
For the Heathcote Christchurch Quay &
district School-house, Lin-
coln Road.
For the Lincoln dis- Residence of W. B.
trict Tosswill, Esq.
For the Port Victoria Resident Magistrate’s
district Office, Lyttelton
and the residence
of C. K. Vigers,
Esq.
For the Town of Resident Magistrate’s
Akaroa Office.
For the Wainui dis- Carew’s Woolshed,
triet Piraki
For the Bays’ district School-house, Okain’s
Bay and Pigeon
Bay.
For the Oxford district Saw Mills (Kenrick
and Quin).
For the Sefton district J. T. White and Co.’s
Woolshed, Salt-
water Creek.
For the Rakaia district Woolshed (R. Wes-
tenra, Esq.)
For the Ashburton Woolshed (T. Moor-
district house, Esq.)
For the Geraldine dis- Woolshed (A. Cox,
trict Esq.)
For the Waitangi dis- Woolshed (M. Stud-
trict holme, Esq.) Waimati.
For the Mount Cook Woolshed (E. G. Ste-
district ricker, Esq.)
For the Town of Resident Magistrate’s
Timaru Office.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

CHRISTCHURCH: PRINTED AT THE UNION PRINTING OFFICE, GLOUCESTER STREET, BY MESSRS. WARD AND REEVES, OFFICIAL PRINTERS TO THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF CANTERBURY.