232 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that the districts
comprised within any of the cities, towns, or places
therein particularly specified, incorporated or reputed
to have been incorporated as therein mentioned
(including, amongst other cities and towns or places,
the city and towns hereinafter named and specified),
may, upon the performance or happening of the
conditions and upon compliance with the terms by
the said Act imposed, by proclamation of the
Governor, be constituted a borough under the said
Act. And whereas the conditions and terms by the
said Act imposed for the constitution as boroughs
of the districts within the city, towns, or places
hereinafter specified have been duly performed, have
happened, and have been complied with:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
constitute and proclaim the district comprised within

THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH,
the district comprised within

THE TOWN OF LYTTELTON,
and the district comprised within

THE TOWN OF KAIAPOI,

as the boundaries thereof respectively are defined in
and by "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," to
be each of them a Borough under the said Act.

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 Public
Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this twenty-eighth day of May, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
fifteenth day of May, 1868.

Present:

THE HONORABLE THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, PRE-
SIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor 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 of such Courts, as in the said Act
mentioned. And whereas by an Order in Council
under the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
dated at Wellington the twelfth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the several
Wardens' Courts within the portions of the Colony
in the said Order mentioned, including (amongst
other portions) the County of Westland, were con-
stituted Wardens' Courts within the meaning of the
said Act. And whereas by the said Order the several
persons named therein were appointed Wardens of
such Courts as in the said Order mentioned. And
whereas it is expedient to appoint the person herein-
after mentioned to be a Warden of the Wardens'
Courts within the County of Westland as hereinafter
mentioned, in addition to the persons in the said
Order named:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and exercise of the power vested in him
in this behalf under "The Gold Fields Act, 1866,"
doth with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, appoint

MICHAEL KEOGH, Esq.,

to be a Warden of all Wardens' Courts within
the gold fields of the County of Westland, with
power to act alone or with Assessors, and in such
manner as by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," or any
Act amending the same is provided, and to exercise
all such powers as are mentioned in the said Acts.
and which the Governor has power to direct them so
to exercise.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

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:

Now therefore the Governor of New Zealand, in
pursuance of the power and authority in him vested
by the said Act, doth hereby appoint the following
places to be additional polling places for the electoral
district hereinafter specified, for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives, namely,—

The District of Franklin:

The Court House, Shortland, Thames Gold Field.
Messrs. Allen and Hall's Store, Tapu Creek, Thames
Gold Field.

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 at
Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of
May, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. BOWEN, 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 the provisions of the said last-mentioned Act