THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 111

has been made for the construction of the
said Railway, and the efficient working
thereof.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

WARRANT
Abolishing a Polling Place, and appointing
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 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 "Regulations 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
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 the School-house, Motupipi,
was appointed a polling place for the District
of Collingwood, for the election of Members
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 said Colony, in pursu-
ance of the power and authority in me vested
by the said Act, do hereby abolish the above
named polling place for the Collingwood
District, for the election of Members of the
House of Representatives, and do appoint in
lieu thereof

The School-house, Clifton, near Motupipi.
Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, this
seventh day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY,
Governor.

By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

CUSTOMS.

Governor's Order, No. 45, Revoking the Appro-
val of a Bonding Warehouse at the Heathcote
River.

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 Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c.

IN exercise of the power in me for this pur-
pose vested by the "Customs Regulation
Act, 1858," I, Sir George Grey, the Gover-
nor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
revoke an Order given under the hand of J.
Hamilton, Esq., Collector of Her Ma-
jesty's Customs at the Port of Lyttelton,
dated the 27th of January, 1862, approving of
a portion of the building situated on the
Heathcote River, near Christchurch, and
known as Akman's Bonding Warehouse, as
a warehouse for the reception of goods under
bond, and do hereby appoint, that this revo-
cation shall take effect from the 31st day of
March, 1864.

Given under my hand, at Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, this
fourth day of March, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-
four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
THOMAS RUSSELL.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 10th March, 1864.
THE following Despatch received from
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for the Colonies is published for
general information.

WM. FOX.

Downing-street,
26th December, 1863.

SIR,—I have to acknowledge the receipt
of your Despatches of the numbers and
dates noted in the margin.*

It is with deep concern that I have read
accounts of the several murders committed
by Natives on unoffending settlers, especially
showing the mode in which it appears too
probable that the war will be carried on by
Natives.

I am fully aware how great a loss the
Colony will have sustained in Mr.
Armitage, who was qualified by his intelli-
gence, determination, and his relations to the
Natives, to render such valuable services to
New Zealand at the present juncture.

The singular account of Native feeling
is given by Mr. Stewart, in his letters
forwarded in your Despatch, No. 129, afford
ground for hoping that a decisive
defeat may have a considerable effect in
propping up the present confederacy of the
Natives.

I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.

By Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.

• 2nd October, No. 126.
  " 3rd " No. 124.
  " " No. 125.
  " " No. 129.