HENRY WIDOWSON TUR- { Takaka
NELL, Esq. { Collingwood.
ALEXANDER LE GRAND { Moutere
CAMPBELL, Esq. { Motueka
GEORGE RUTHERFORD, Esq., Amuri.

J. C. RICHMOND.

Warrant Appointing Additional Polling Places.

By his Excellency SIR GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath, Gover-
nor 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.

To all to whom these Presents shall come,
Greeting:—

WHEREAS by "The Regulation
of Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, to
appoint polling places for each electoral
district, within or without the limits thereof,
and to appoint any one of such places to be
the principal polling place for the district,
and all or any of such polling places at any
time to abolish and to appoint other polling
places in lieu thereof:

Now know ye, that I, the Governor of
New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and
authority in me vested by the said Act, do
hereby appoint the following places to be
additional polling places for the electoral
district hereinafter specified, as constituted
by "The Representation Act, 1862," for the
election of Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, namely—for the District of Motu-
eka;

SCHOOL HOUSE, Riwaka; and
SCHOOL HOUSE, Lower Moutere.

Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.

G. GREY.

By his Excellency's command,
J. C. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

Warrant appointing an additional Polling Place.

By his Excellency SIR GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath, Gover-
nor 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.

To all to whom these Presents shall
come, Greeting:—

WHEREAS by "The Regulation
of Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by
warrant under his hand, from time to time, to
appoint polling places for each electoral dis-
trict within or without the limits thereof,
and to appoint any one of such places to be
the principal polling place for the district,
and all or any of such polling places at any
time to abolish, and to appoint other polling
places in lieu thereof:

Now know ye, that I, the Governor
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power
and authority in me vested by the said Act,
do hereby appoint the following place to be
an additional polling place for the electoral
district hereinafter specified, as constituted
by "The Representation Act, 1862," for the
election of Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, namely, Waimea District—

LIBRARY, Motueka Valley.

Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Wellington, this
Twenty-sixth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.

G. GREY.

By his Excellency's command,
J. C. RICHMOND.

Acts left to their operation (Nelson).
Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington,
13th September, 1865.

THE following Acts passed by the
Provincial Council of the Province of
Nelson, intituled—

"Appropriation Act," Session 13, No. 6;
"Thistle Repeal Act," Session 13, No. 5;
"Scab Act," Session 13, No. 4;
"Annuity Act," Session 13, No. 2;
"Public Carriages Inspection Act,"
Session 13, No. 1;

having been laid before the Governor, his
Excellency has been pleased to leave the
same to their operation.

J. C. RICHMOND.

Memorandum on the distribution of Customs
and Gold Duty in Western Gold-fields.

THE Grey is chiefly a port for the
Gold-fields on the northern or Nelson
side of the river; Hokitika supplies the