THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 103

SCHEDULE No. 3.
Description of Reserve No. 438.
Three roods ten perches, more or less, situated in
the Town of Hokitika, having three chains frontage
to Tancred Street, and extending back westerly at
right angles a depth of two hundred and forty links
on the north boundary, and three hundred links on
the south boundary, being bounded on the West by
a straight line three hundred and six links, and on
the South by Hamilton Street.

Description of Reserve No. 449.
Two acres, more or less, situated in the Town of
Hokitika, commencing at a point two chains sixty
links from Gibson's Quay, and fronting on Jollie
Street, for a distance of four chains, thence at a right
angle, and fronting on Weld Street five chains,
thence again at a right angle and fronting on Hoff-
man Street three chains fifty links, thence at a right
angle one chain, and from thence in a line a distance
of four chains to the commencing point to include
the quantity, being bounded on the eastward by the
residences of the Resident Magistrate and Chief
Surveyor.

Description of Reserve No. 448.
Two acres one rood twenty-two perches, more or
less, situate in the Town of Hokitika, being bounded
on the North by Weld Street, on the East by
Livingstone Street, on the South by Gibson's Quay,
and on the West by Hoffman Street.

behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do
hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the
following Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki,
namely:-

"Furze Ordinance, 1867."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-eighth day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the
Imperial Parliament holden in the fifteenth
and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a
Representative Constitution to the Colony of New
Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted, that
whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the
Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the
Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the
Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be
lawful for the Governor, at any time within three
months after any such Bill shall have been received
by him, to declare by proclamation his disallowance
of such Bill; and that any such disallowance shall
make void and annul the same from and after the
day of the date of such proclamation, or any subse-
quent day to be named therein.

And whereas the Ordinance hereinafter specified
has been enacted by the Superintendent of Taranaki
with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof, and the said Ordinance was received by the
Governor on the seventh day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordi-
nance should be disallowed:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the ninth section of an Act of
the General Assembly of New Zealand,
intituled "The Maori Representation Act, 1867," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor,
by proclamation to be published in the New Zealand
Gazette, to make provision for the appointing of
Returning Officers, and for ascertaining and cer-
tifying the qualifications of persons claiming to vote,
and for issuing, collecting, and returning the
necessary writs for election of members, and for
testing the poll thereat, and otherwise for ensuring
the orderly, effective, and impartial conduct of each
election:

And whereas it is expedient that regulations
should be made for the above-mentioned purposes:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
exercise and pursuance of the above recited power,
do hereby proclaim that the following regulations,
making provision for the matters named in the ninth
section of the abovenamed Act, shall be in force.

REGULATIONS.

1. There shall be one Returning Officer for each
   Electoral District, to be appointed by the Governor,
   and the said Returning Officer shall have power to
   appoint, on the occasion of the election, such Deputy
   Returning Officers and Registration Officers as he may
   deem necessary.

2. Every Returning Officer, Deputy Returning
   Officer, and Registration Officer shall, before acting
   in his office, take an oath before a Justice of the Peace
   in the form A., and such Justice of the Peace
   shall transmit a record of the same to the Colonial
   Secretary.

3. Polling places shall be appointed in each
   Electoral District by the Governor, and notice of
   the places appointed shall be published in the Kahiti
   for at least one month previous to the day of nomi-
   nation.

4. The writ shall be in the form B. specifying
   the day and place of nomination, and the day on
   which the poll, if necessary, shall take place.

5. The above writ shall be forwarded to each
   Returning Officer, and a copy thereof shall be
   published in the Kahiti and New Zealand Gazette,
   and posted in such public places as shall be thought
   desirable by the Returning Officer.

6. On the day of nomination, so to be fixed as
   aforesaid, the Returning Officer shall preside at a