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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.

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 Superintendent 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 Pro-
vincial Councils :

Now therefore, 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 of Buller and Grey, for the election of
Members of the Provincial Council of the Province
of Nelson, namely:---

Buller District—Court House, Westport.
Grey District—Court House, Cobden, Police
Camp, Ahaura;
Court House, Brighton;
Court House, Charleston:

And I do further appoint the following polling
places to be the principal polling places of such
districts respectively, viz. :-

Buller District—Court House, Westport;
Grey District—Court House, Cobden.

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, and issued
at Wellington, this fifth day of March,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.
W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st March, 1867.

THE following Ordinances passed by the Provincial
Council of the Province of Canterbury, intituled—
"The Cameron Grant Ordinance, 1866;"
"The Sheep Rating Ordinance, 1866;"
"Fencing Ordinance, 1866;"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st March, 1867.

THE following Bills passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Nelson, intituled:—
"Publicans' Licensing Act, Session XV. No. 3;"
"The Auctioneers' Licensing Amendment Act,
1867;"
"Supplementary Appropriation Act, Session
XV. No. 3;"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st March, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN NUGENT WOOD, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for the election of Members
of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago,
for the District of Manuherikia.
This appointment dates from the 21st February,
1867.
E. W. STAFFORD.

ERRATUM.—In Gazette No. 3, of the 12th January, 1867, in the Order in Council ordering a piece of land in the
Waiwakaiho District, Taranaki, to be sold to John Whitely and Charles Edward Rawson, in the seventh line, after
the words "the section marked," for "E" read "F," and in the eleventh line, after the words "by section marked," for "EI"
read "Fl."