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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
PROCLAMATION.

W HEREAS by a writ directed to the Returning
Officer for the election of a Member of the
House of Representatives for the Electoral District
of Westland South, the time limited for the return
of such writ was the fifteenth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
And whereas the sixth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, was duly appointed and
notified as the day on which a poll would be taken,
but unforeseen difficulties and delays have arisen in
taking the said poll at Okarita, one of the duly
appointed polling places within and for the said
electoral district. And whereas by the thirty-
second section of an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Regulation of
Elections Act, 1858," after reciting that unforeseen
difficulties and delays may arise in carrying into
effect the several provisions in the said Act con-
tained, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council to extend the time allowed for
the holding of any election or for the return of the
writ issued for the same, notwithstanding the day
may have passed on which such writ shall be
returnable, and to adopt or cause to be adopted such
measures as may be necessary to remove any obstacle
of a technical or formal nature by which the due
course of any such election may be impeded, and to
supply any deficiency that may otherwise affect the
same:

WH EREAS by a writ directed to the Returning
Officer for the election of a Member of the
House of Representatives for the Electoral District
of Westland South until the twenty-eighth day of
May next; and with the like advice and consent, doth
hereby extend the time allowed for holding the election
of a Member of the House of Representatives for the
Electoral District of Westland South until the twenty-eighth
day of May next; and with the like advice and consent, doth
hereby extend the time allowed for the return of the
writ issued for such election until the twenty-eighth
day of May next; and with the like advice and consent
doth order and direct that a poll shall be taken at
the duly appointed polling place at Okarita, in the
manner and form provided by the said Act, on such
day as shall be appointed by the Returning Officer
of the said district, and which day he shall give
notice of not less than five days nor more than fifty
days; and with the like advice and consent, doth
order and direct that all proceedings subsequent to
the taking of the said poll, shall be taken in accord-
ance with the provisions of the said Act, in like

manner as if the said writ had been originally made
returnable on the twenty-eighth day of May next.

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 Welling-
ton, this seventeenth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
PROCLAMATION.

WH EREAS by a writ directed to the Returning
Officer for the election of a Member of the
House of Representatives for the Electoral District
of Westland North, the time limited for the return
of such writ was the fifteenth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. And
whereas by the thirty-second section of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The
Regulation of Elections Act, 1858," after reciting
that unforeseen difficulties and delays may arise in
carrying into effect the several provisions in the
said Act contained, it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council to extend the
time allowed for the holding of any election or for
the return of the writ issued for the same, notwith-
standing the day may have passed on which such
writ shall be returnable, and to adopt or cause to be
adopted such measures as may be necessary to
remove any obstacle of a technical or formal nature
by which the due course of any such election may
be impeded, and to supply any deficiency that may
otherwise affect the same. And whereas unforeseen
difficulties and delays have arisen in holding such
elections, and it is expedient that the time for the
return of the said writ should be extended:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, doth hereby extend the time
allowed for holding the election of a Member of the
House of Representatives for the Electoral District
of Westland South until the twenty-eighth day of
May next; and with the like advice and consent, doth
hereby extend the time allowed for the return of the
writ issued for such election until the twenty-eighth
day of May next; and with the like advice and consent
doth order and direct that a poll shall be taken at
the duly appointed polling place at Okarita, in the
manner and form provided by the said Act, on such
day as shall be appointed by the Returning Officer
of the said district, and which day he shall give
notice of not less than five days nor more than fifty
days; and with the like advice and consent, doth
order and direct that all proceedings subsequent to
the taking of the said poll, shall be taken in accord-
ance with the provisions of the said Act, in like
election of a Member of the House of Representatives