THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 369

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1862," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, from time to time, to constitute
for any gold field or for any part thereof Wardens'
Courts for the administration of justice therein, and
to appoint Wardens as Judges of such Courts, with
power to act alone or with Assessors or Juries, and
in such manner, and to exercise all or any of the
powers thereinafter mentioned as the Governor shall
thing fit to direct: Now therefore, His Excellency
the Governor, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby
constitute for the district aftermentioned of the gold
fields of the Province of Nelson a Warden's Court
for the administration of justice within the said
district, that is to say for the district known as
the South-west Gold Fields District. And doth
further hereby appoint the persons undermentioned,
that is to say-

ALFRED GREENFIELD, Esq.,
THOMAS ALFRED SNEYD KYNNERSLEY, Esq., and
GEORGE WILLIAM LIGHTBAND, Esq.,

to be Wardens and Judges of such Court, with
power to them to act alone or with Assessors or
Juries, and to exercise all or any of the powers
mentioned in the twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-
second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth,
twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-
ninth, thirtieth, thirty-fourth and fifty - seventh
sections of "The Gold Fields Act, 1862," and all
other powers duties and authorities by "The Gold
Fields Act Amendment Act, 1863," or "The Gold
Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865," vested in or
imposed on Judges of Wardens' Courts.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.
Warrant abolishing a Principal Polling Place and
appointing another in lieu thereof.

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.

And whereas by warrant under the hand of the
Governor, bearing date the seventeenth day of Feb-
ruary, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine,
the Court House, in the Town of New Plymouth,
was appointed a principal polling place for the Dis-
tricts of the Town of New Plymouth, Grey and Bell,
and Omata, for the election of Superintendent and
Members of the Provincial Council of the Province
of Taranaki.

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 principal polling
place for the Districts of the Town of New Plymouth,
Grey and Bell, and Omata, for the election of Super-
intendent and Members of the Provincial Council of
the Province of Taranaki, and to appoint in lieu
thereof-

THE "TARANAKI INSTITUTE," NEW PLYMOUTH.

Given under the hand of 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, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. GREY, Governor.
Warrant abolishing a Principal Polling Place and
appointing another in lieu thereof.

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.

And whereas by warrant under the hand of the
Governor, bearing date the sixteenth day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the House
of Mr. John Shepherd, the Big Bush, Lower Wairau,
was appointed a principal polling place for the Dis-
trict of Lower Wairau, for the election of Members
of the Provincial Council of the Province of Marl-
borough.

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 principal polling
place for the District of Lower Wairau, for the elec-
tion of Members of the Provincial Council of the
Province of Marlborough, and do appoint in lieu
thereof-

THE COURT HOUSE, BLENHEIM.

Given under the hand of 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, at the
Government House at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.

E. W. STAFFORD.

J. B. Wemyss, Esq., appointed a Commissioner of
Crown Lands.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JAMES BALFOUR WEMYSS, Esq.,
to be a Commissioner of Crown Lands.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1865.

IT is hereby notified that

His Honor FREDERICK WHITAKER, Esq.,
has been appointed Agent at Auckland of the General
Government of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.