THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Governor and Commander-in-Chief in tives: And whereas it is expedient to abolish the
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New same:
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth
day of December, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he
shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be a
Justice of the Peace, by warrant under his hand,
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is made
under the one hundred and thirty-third section of
the said Act: And it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during
the Mayoralty of such person, and the person so
appointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment,
be authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the said power and
authority in me vested in this behalf, do hereby
appoint

SAMUEL HEWLINGS, Esq.,

the person elected to be Mayor of the Borough of
Timaru, to be a Justice of the Peace under the one
hundred and thirty-third section of "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 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, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth
day of December in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

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: And whereas by Warrant under the hand
of the Governor, bearing date the seventeenth day
of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
six, the School House, Otepopo, was appointed a
polling place for the District of Oamaru, for the
election of Members of the House of Representa-

tives: And whereas it is expedient to abolish the
same:

Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do
hereby abolish the above-named polling place for the
District of Oamaru, for the election of Members of
the House of Representatives, and do appoint in lieu
thereof

The NEW SCHOOL HOUSE, OTEPOPO.

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 Wellington, this twenty-fourth
day of December, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1868.

THE following Ordinance passed by the Provincial
Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of
the Province of Southland for the signification of the
Governor's pleasure thereon, intituled

"The Executive Council Ordinance, 1866,
Amendment Ordinance, 1868,"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1868.

THE following Act passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Auckland, intituled

"The Appropriation Act, 1868, No. 3,"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has not been advised to exercise his power of dis-
allowance in respect of it.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st December, 1868.

IN accordance with the terms of a Resolution
adopted by the House of Representatives on the
15th of October last, the Government offers the
under-mentioned Premiums for the best Essays to be
written on the following subject:-

"The means for securing the Permanent Settlement
of the Mining Population of New Zealand, and for
fixing within the Colony the Capital which is being
drained away from the Gold Fields, as shown in the
great excess of exports over imports at the Ports of
the exclusively Gold-Mining Districts."

The Premiums will be Fifty Pounds (£50), Thirty
Pounds (£30), and Twenty Pounds (£20), for three
Essays respectively first, second, and third in degree
of merit on the above-named subject. The Govern-
ment will appoint Examiners to decide on the com-
parative merits of the Essays.

The Essays should be sent to and received in the
Colonial Secretary's Office on or before the 28th
February, 1869, under distinctive mottoes, the
respective name and motto of each writer to be
enclosed in separate sealed envelopes, which will not
be opened until after the Examiners have made their
decision. Each Essay should be enclosed in a sealed
envelope superscribed "Essay on Settlement of Gold
Fields."