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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

have authorised and appointed you, and do, by these
Presents authorize and appoint you the said Super-
intendents for the time being of the Provinces in the
Colony of New Zealand, to be a Commission for the
purpose of securing the proper representation at
such aforesaid Exhibitionsrespectively, of the produce,
arts, and manufactures of the said Colony.
And I do hereby further authorize you respectively
to appoint in the several Provinces of which you are
Superintendents, local Committees of such persons as
each of you may consider it expedient to appoint for
the purpose of encouraging the production of articles
to be exhibited.
And I do hereby further authorize you respectively
to conduct communication between the Exhibitors
and the Commissioners of the several aforesaid pro-
posed Exhibitions.
And I do hereby give and grant you the said
Commission, and each of you, power and authority
by all lawful means and ways whatsoever to carry
out all matters and things tending to the completion
of the object of this Commission.
Given under my hand, at the Government
House, at Wellington, and issued under
the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand,
this thirteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's command,
J. C. RICHMOND.

Alfred Saunders, Esq., elected Superintendent of
Nelson.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th October, 1865.
IT is hereby notified that a Writ issued for the
Election of a Superintendent of the Province of
Nelson has been duly returned with an endorsement
to the effect that
ALFRED SAUNDERS, Esq.,
has been duly elected.
J. C. RICHMOND.

Members of Provincial Council of Marlborough elected.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th October, 1865.
IT is hereby notified that Writs issued for the
Election of Members of the Provincial Council
of the Province of Marlborough have been returned
with certificates to the effect that—
For the District of Clarence,
Messrs. Joseph Ward and Charles Ruck Keene;
For the District of Awatere,
Messrs. Alexander Mouatt and Philip Roderick
McRae;
For the District of Upper Wairau,
Messrs. Henry Godfrey and Cyrus Goulter;
For the District of Wairau Valley,
Messrs. Thomas Carter and James Balfour Wemyss;
For the District of the Town of Picton,
Messrs. Arthur Beauchamp, Thomas Freeland, and
Courtenay William Aylmer Thomas Kenny;
For the District of Town of Blenheim,
Messrs John Tucker Robinson and William Nos-
worthy;
For the District of Lower Wairau,
Messrs. William Henry Eyes and James Sinclair;
For the District of Pelorus,
Messrs. John O'Sullivan the younger and William
Dowsling;

For the District of Queen Charlotte's Sound,
Augustus Adolphus Alexander Hood, Esq.;
For the District of Tua Marina,
Messrs. William Strachan and John Godfrey;
have been duly elected.
J. C. RICHMOND.

Returning Officer appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th October, 1865.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
EDWARD CROKER, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the Election of Members
of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago,
for the District of Lawrence.
J. C. RICHMOND.
NOTE.—This notice is republished in consequence of error in
notice published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 39, of 3rd instant
in which the christian name is given as EDMUND.

L. Stowe, Esq.; appointed Clerk of the Legislative
Council.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1865.
IT is hereby notified that
THOMAS JOHN LUCAS, Esq.,
having resigned his office as Clerk of the Legislative
Council of New Zealand, His Excellency the Gover-
nor has, on the recommendation of the Hon. the
Speaker, appointed
LEONARD STOWE, Esq.,
to that office.
J. C. RICHMOND.

Resident Magistrate appointed.
Attorney-General's Office,
Wellington, 16th October, 1865.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
THOMAS RICE HAMILTON,
of Auckland, in the Province of Auckland, Esquire,
J.P., to be a Resident Magistrate.
HENRY SEWELL.

NOTICE.
Free Pardon to an Accomplice.
Attorney-General's Office,
Wellington, October 11, 1865.
WHEREAS, on Monday, the 4th day of Septem-
ber, 1865, Mr. WALMSLEY, of the Bank of
New South Wales, was attacked and robbed, about
12 o'clock in the day, by about four or five armed
men, between No Town and the Twelve-Mile, on the
Grey River Gold Fields, in the Province of Nelson,
about 14 miles distant from the Grey Mouth, in the
Province of Canterbury, of 821 ounces of Gold Dust
and about £1000 in Bank-Notes.
This is to notify that His Excellency the Governor
will grant a Free Pardon to any person implicated in
the robbery aforesaid, who shall give such informa-
tion as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction
of any one or more of the other offenders.
HENRY SEWELL.

Justices of the Peace appointed.
Attorney-General's Office,
Wellington, 16th October, 1865.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint
JAMES BURNETT,
of Cobden (Grey River, West Coast), in the Province
of Nelson; and