Numb. 31.
255

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Regulation of
Elections Act, 1858," provision is made for the
regulation and conduct of elections of Members of
the House of Representatives. And whereas by
the said Act, after reciting that unforseen difficul-
ties or 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 such 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 have been impeded, and to
supply any deficiency that may otherwise affect the
same. And whereas by "The Maori Representation
Act, 1867," provision is made for the representation
in the said House of Representatives of Her Majesty's
subjects of the race of the Native Aboriginal inhabi-
tants of New Zealand. And whereas by the said
last-mentioned Act, amongst other electoral districts
for the return of Members to represent Her Majesty's
subjects of the race aforesaid in the said House
of Representatives, is constituted and defined an
electoral district called the Southern Maori Electoral
District, for the return of one Member of the House
of Representatives aforesaid. And whereas by the
said last-mentioned Act it is also 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 issuing, collecting and returning the necessary
writs for election of Members, and otherwise for
ensuring the orderly, effective, and impartial conduct
of each election under the said last-mentioned Act.
And whereas under and by virtue of the provisions
of the said last-mentioned Act a writ was directed to
the Returning Officer duly appointed for the election
of a Member for the said Southern Maori Electoral
District, and the time therein limited for the return
of such writ was the twenty-eighth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. And
whereas the sixth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, was duly appointed as the
day on which a poll should be taken, but unforeseen
difficulties and delays have arisen in taking the said
poll at Ruapuke, one of the duly appointed polling
places within and for the said electoral district:

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 Southern Maori
Electoral District aforesaid, until the fifteenth day of
July, 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 thirty-first
day of July next; and with the like advice and
consent doth order and direct that a poll shall be
taken at the duly appointed place at Ruapuke
aforesaid, on such day as shall be appointed by the
Returning Officer of the said district, and of which
day the said Returning Officer shall give not less
than five nor more than fifty days notice; and that
for the purpose of taking such poll the Returning
Officer may appoint such Deputy Returning Officer,
and Registration Officer, as he may deem necessary,
and any previous appointment of a Deputy Returning
Officer, or Registration Officer, at Ruapuke aforesaid,
may revoke. And His Excellency the Governor, with
the like advice and consent, doth hereby further
order and direct that the said poll, and all proceedings
subsequent thereto, shall be taken in accordance
with the provisions of "The Maori Representation
Act, 1867;" and any regulations issued or made
under the authority of the same in like manner as if
the said writ had been originally made returnable on
the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

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, at the Government House, at
Auckland, this first day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

J. C. RICHMOND.

Signed in Council:

ALGERNON LEMPRIERE,
for the Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!