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me vested by the said Act, do hereby appoint the
following places to be polling places for the electoral
district hereinafter specified, as constituted by "The
Representation Act, 1862," for the election of Mem-
bers for the House of Representatives, namely, the
District of Bruce:-
SCHOOL HOUSE, North Taieri.
SCHOOL HOUSE, West Taieri.
POST OFFICE, Clutha Ferry.
SCHOOL HOUSE, South Clutha.
Given under my hand, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this fifth 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.

Warrant appointing a Polling Place.
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., &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
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 place to be a polling place for the electoral
district hereinafter specified, as constituted by "The
Representation Act, 1862," for the election of Mem-
bers of the House of Representatives, namely, the
Districts of the Gold Fields:-
POST OFFICE, Macetown (Arrow District).
Given under my hand, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this fifth 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.

Warrant appointing Polling Places.
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., &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 contained, every election of the Superinten-
dent 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, Sir George Grey, 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 districts hereinafter mentioned for
the election of Members of the Provincial Council of
the Province of Otago, namely-
Queen's Town District, Court House, Queens-
town; do. Arrowtown.
Lawrence District, Court House, Lawrence:
do. Waipori: do., Waitahuna.
Clyde District, Court House, Clyde: do., Alex-
andra; do., Cromwell.
Gold Fields District, -Post Office, Macetown:
(Arrow District.)
Given under my hand at Government House,
at Wellington, this fifth 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.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1865.

THE following Act of the Imperial Parliament,
intituled "An Act to make better Provision
for the Naval Defence of the Colonies," is published
for general information.
J. C. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

CAP. XIV.
An Act to make better Provision for the Naval
Defence of the Colonies. [7th April, 1865.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to enable the several
Colonial Possessions of Her Majesty the Queen to
make better provision for Naval Defence, and to that
end to provide and man Vessels of War, and also to
raise a Volunteer Force to form part of the Royal
Naval Reserve established under the Act of Parlia-
ment of 1859 "for the establishment of a Reserve
Volunteer Force of Seamen, and for the government
of the same," 22 and 23 Vict. c. 40 (hereafter in this
Act called the Act of 1859,) and accordingly to be
available for general service in the Royal Navy in
emergency :

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excel-
lent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Colonial Naval
   Defence Act, 1865."

Interpretation.
2. In this Act-
The term "Colony" includes any plantation,
island, or other possessions within Her Majesty's
dominions, exclusive of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and of the islands
being immediate dependencies thereof, and
exclusive of India as defined by the Act of
Parliament of 1858 "for the better government
of India:"
The term "the Admiralty" means the Lord High