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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 Warrant under the hand of
the Governor, bearing date the eleventh day
of December, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty, the Schoolroom, Lower Moutere, was
appointed a Polling Place for the Motueka
District for the election of Members of the
House of Representatives: and whereas it is
expedient to abolish the same:

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 Act, do hereby abolish the
above named Polling Place for the Motueka
District for the election of Members of the
House of Representatives, and to appoint in
lieu thereof the Schoolhouse, Upper Moutere.

Given under my hand, at the Go-
vernment House, at Auckland,
this sixteenth day of March, in
the year of our Lord, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-
one.

T. GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th March, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
WILLIAM DOUGLAS HALL BAILLIE
to be Captain Commandant of Militia and
Volunteers in the Marlborough Militia District.
Date of Commission-1st February, 1861.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th March, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appoint-
ment in the "Marlborough" Mounted Rifle
Volunteers:-

ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR,
to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission-4th
March, 1861.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th March, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appoint-
ment in the "Marlborough" Rifle Volunteers:-

THOMAS WALL,
to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission-5th
March, 1861.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th March, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appoint-
ments in the "Picton Rangers" Volunteers:-

COURTNEY WILLIAM AYLMER THOMAS KENNY
to be Captain. Date of Commission--2nd
February, 1861.

BRYAN SNEYD HERBERT BROUGHTON,
to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission-2nd
February, 1861.

EDWARD CHARLES MORGAN,
to be Ensign. Date of Commission-2nd
February, 1861.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th March, 1861.

IT is hereby notified that a Writ issued for
the election of Superintendent for the Pro-
vince of Wellington, has been returned with an
endorsement to the effect that

ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON,
has been duly elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th March, 1861.

THE following Ordinance passed by the
Superintendent and Provincial Council of
Taranaki, entitled
"Ware's Licensing Ordinance, 1860,"
having been laid before the Governor, His
Excellency has been pleased to leave the same
to its operation.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th March, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

J. CURNIN, Esquire,
to be Clerk to the Legislative Council.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Treasury,
Auckland, 20th March, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

RICHARD JAMES S. HARMAN, Esq.,
to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Pro-
vince of Canterbury. The appointment to
bear date from the 1st February, 1861.

C. W. RICHMOND.

Office of Minister for Native Affairs,
Auckland, 20th March, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to authorise

BELFIELD WOOLCOMBE, Esq.,
Resident Magistrate, Timaru, to lay informa-
tions or complaints under the provisions of the
"Native Land Purchase Ordinance," Session
VII, No. 19.

FRED. A. WELD.