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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Warrant abolishing a Polling Place and ap-
pointing another in lieu thereof.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of
the most Honourable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty'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 Elec-
tions Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall
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 Mr. Gleeson's Station, Moraki,
was appointed a Polling Place for the Hampden
District for the Election of Members for the
House of Representatives;
And whereas it is expedient to abolish the
same;
NOW KNOW YE, that I, SIR GEORGE GREY,
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 Hampden District for the
Election of Members for the House of Repre-
sentatives and do appoint in lieu thereof;
The Police Station, Hampden.
Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, this
twenty-eighth day of July, in
the year of our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three.
By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

Warrant abolishing a Principal Polling Place
and appointing another in lieu thereof.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor 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 Elec-
tions Act, 1858," it is enacted that it
shall be lawful for the Governor, by Warrant
under his hand, from time to time, to appoint
Poiling Places for each Electoral District,
within or without the limits thereof, and to
appoint any one of such Places to be the Prin-
cipal Polling Place for the District, and all or

any of such Polling Places at auy time to
abolish and to appoint other Polling Places in
lieu thereo;
And whereas the School House, Hawksbury,
was appointed the Principal Polling Place for
the Hampden District for the Election of Mem-
bers of the House of Representatives;
And whereas it is expedient to abolish the
same;
NOW KNOW YE, that I, SIR GEORGE GREY,
the Governor of the sald Colony, in pursuance
of the power and authority in me vested by the
said Act, do hereby aholish the above named
Principal Polling place for the Hampden Dis-
trict for the Election of Members of the House
of Representatives. and do appoint in lieu
thereof;
The Court House, Hawksbury.
Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, this
twenty-eighth day of July in
the Year of Our Lord, One,
thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 31st July, 1863.
The following Despatch, with its enclosure,
from H. M. Principal Secretary of State for
Colonies respecting a Child supposed to have
been recently stolen from her parents at Islington,
is published for general information.
ALFRED DOMETT.

Downing Street,
9th May, 1863.
Sir—I transmit to you a copy of a Hand Bill
which has been issued descriptive of a Child,
who is supposed to have been recently stolen
from her parents at Islington. At the request
of the Child's friend, and at the instance of
the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, I transmit this Hand Bill to you and to
the Governors of other Colonies to which
Emigration from England ordinarily takes
place, and I should be glad if you would give
publicity to the Notice, and acquaint me whether
its publication may have been attended with
any successful result.
I am &c.,
NEWCASTLE.
Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.
&c., &c., &c.

CHILD STEALING.
£100 REWARD.
WHEREAS on the evening of Sunday 30th
March, 1862, Elizabeth Hunter, 8 years
old, was decoyed away by a respectbly dressed
man from the bottom of Green Man's Lane
and to Frog Lane, Lower Road, Islington, and not
having been heard of up to the present time,
May 9, 1863, Her Majesty's Government