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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Downing Street,
18th October, 1859.

SIR,-I have to acknowledge your Des-
patch No. 47, of 21st June last, in reply to
that of Sir E. B. Lytton informing you that
Her Majesty's assent to the New Zealand
Waste Land Act of 1858 would be delayed;
and enclosing memorial from your Attorney-
General and your responsible advisers, stating
their reasons for recommending that the
assent should be given.

I have fully considered the correspondence
relating to this Act, including Sir E. B. Lyt-
ton's Despatch of 15th April last, which you
had not received at the date of yours now
answered.

It is perfectly clear from this correspond-
ence that the New Zealand Legislature was
equally solicitous with Her Majesty's Govern-
ment to preserve the stipulations of the
guarantee, and I do not think it necessary to
enter into the question whether the Legisla-
ture had or had not technically interfered
with these stipulations by the enactment in
question, as the Attorney-General for New
Zealand with much shew of reason denies
them to have done. For I am satisfied that
in any case no real danger will accrue to the
guarantee by the giving of Her Majesty's
assent to the Act, which will accordingly be
done at the next Council. I presume that no
inconvenience is likely to be thereby occa-
sioned, as the recommendation of Sir E. Lyt-
ton in his Despatch of April last to amend
the Act, cannot, probably, have been submit-
ted to the Legislature in the interval.

You are fully aware from former instruc-
tions of your duty in respect to the substan-
tial maintenance of this guarantee; and as to
its technical maintenance, I agree with my
predecessor that the best course would be to
introduce á general clause saving the rights
of the Imperial Treasury in any law affecting
the Land Revenue.

I have, &c., &c., NEWCASTLE.

Governor Gore Browne, C.B,
&c., &c., &c.
New Zealand.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion 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.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL
COME, GREETING :

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly, intituled "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 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: AND WHEREAS by another Act
of the General Assembly, intituled "The
Provincial Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted
that, subject to certain provisions therein con-
tained, every Election of the Superintendent
or of a Member of the Provincial Council of a
Province, shall be conducted in the manner
prescribed, by "The Regulation of Elections
Act, 1858," aforesaid, and all the provisions of
the said last mentioned Act, shall apply to the
Elections of Superintendents and Members of
Provincial Councils.

NOW KNOW YE, that I, Thomas Gore
Browne, the Governor of the said Colony, in
pursuance of the power and authority in me
vested by the said Acts, do hereby appoint the
following places to be Polling Places for the
respective Districts hereinafter specified for the
Election of Members of the Provincial Council
of the Province of Marlborough, namely :-

For the District of Picton. - The House of
Mr. Downes, Picton.
For the District of Beaver. - The Court
House, Beaver.
For the District of Lower Wairau. - The
House of Mr. Archibald McKune,
Lower Wairau.
For the District of Upper Wairau.-The
Delta Dairy, Omaka Valley.
For the District of Wairau Valley. - The
House of Mr. Charles Watts, Wairau
Valley.
For the District of Awatere. - The House
of Mr. Philip McRae, Blarich.
For the District of Flaxbourne and Clar-
ence. - The House of Mr. Lovegrove,
Flaxbourne.

AND I do further appoint the several Poll-
ing Places hereinbefore specified to be the
Principal Polling Places for the Districts oppo-
site to which they are respectively written.

Given under my hand and issued under
the Public Seal of the Colony of
New Zealand, at the Government
House at Auckland, this Tenth
day of February, in the year of
our Lord, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty.

T. GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, Feb. 14, 1860.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
Mr. HENRY OATES
to be Harbour Master for the harbour of New
River and Bluff.

E. W. STAFFORD.