THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 233

shall apply to the elections of Superintendents and
Members of Provincial Councils:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, 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 addi-
tional polling places for the District of Franklin, for
the election of Members of the Provincial Council of
the Province of Auckland, namely—

The Court House, Shortland, Thames Gold Field.
Messrs. Allan 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.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1868.

IT is hereby notified that a Writ issued for the
election of a Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives for the Electoral District of Westland
North, has been returned with a certificate to the
effect that

TIMOTHY GALLAGHER,
of Addison, has been duly elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1868.

IT is hereby notified that a Writ issued for the
election of a Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives for the Electoral District of Westland
South, has been returned with a certificate to the
effect that

EDMUND BARFF,
of Hokitika, has been duly elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1868.

IT is hereby notified that a Writ issued for the
election of a Superintendent for the Province of
Canterbury, has been returned with an endorsement
to the effect that

WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Esq.,
of the Electoral District of Coleridge, freeholder, has
been duly elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN LAVIN, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Mohaka, as the
same is defined in proclamation of fifth day of May,
1863, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 17,
of twelfth May, 1863, vice Andrew Thompson,
resigned.

This appointment to take effect on and from tenth
day of June, 1868.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1868,

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the undermentioned
persons, viz. :-

E. W. STAFFORD.

THE subjoined General Order of His Excellency
the Governor - General of India in Council,
is, at the instance of the Government of India,
published for the information of officers of Her
Majesty's Indian Forces who may be residing on leave
in the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
No. 808 of 1866.

GENERAL ORDER BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-
GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL.

Simla, the 26th September, 1866.

His Excellency the Governor-General of India in
Council is pleased to direct the publication, for
general information, of the following Despatches
received from the Right Hon. the Secretary of State
for India:—

India Office, London, 8th August, 1866.
Military. No. 159.

To His Excellency the Right Hon. the Governor-
General of India in Council.

SIR, — Para. 1. With his Despatch No. 194, of the
17th June, 1864, Sir C. Wood forwarded, for the
information of your Excellency's Government, a copy
of the Report of a Royal Commission, of which Lord
Cranworth was President, and which had been
appointed for the purpose of inquiring into certain
complaints which had been made by officers of the
Indian Army, to the effect that the measures recently
adopted by Her Majesty's Government in relation to
that army had been in violation of the assurance of
Parliament contained in certain clauses of the Acts
21 and 22 Vic., c. 106, and 23 and 24 Vic., c. 100.

2. Your Excellency was at the same time informed
   of the steps which Her Majesty's Government had
   taken in consequence of the opinion expressed by the
   Commissioners in their report.

3. The Commission necessarily turned, in the first
   instance, to a consideration of the nature and extent
   of the Parliamentary guarantee, and upon that subject
   expressed themselves in the following terms:—

"Para. 34. In considering this subject, we must
begin by assuming that the word 'entitled' cannot
be understood as referring to rights capable of being
enforced in a Court of Justice. If any such rights
exist, no opinion we may express can or ought to
affect them. We propose, therefore, to assume that
the Officers had not against the Company, and have
not against the Crown, any such rights. And the
question is, what, on that assumption, is the proper
interpretation to be put on the language of the Act.
It could not have been intended to prevent the
Crown, if in the interests of India and of the Empire