THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 319

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 con-
ducted in the manner prescribed by "The Regulation
of Elections Act, 1858," aforesaid, and the provisions
of the said last-mentioned Act shall apply to the
elections of Superintendents and Members of Pro-
vincial 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
additional polling places for the District of Wakatip,
for the election of Superintendent and Members of
the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago,
namely:-

The School House, Tapanui.
The Court House, Switzers.

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-sixth day of
June, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

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,
Mr. Hare's Store, on Section 18, Block 1, Inver-
cargill Hundred, was appointed a polling place and
principal polling place for the District of Mataura,
for the election of Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives:

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 and principal polling place for the District of
Mataura for the election of Members of the House
of Representatives, and do appoint in lieu thereof
for that district and for such purpose—

The Old Church in Thomson's Paddock, East Road.

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 third day of
July, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

WILLIAM Fox.

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 pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and authority
in me vested in this behalf, do hereby appoint

FREDERICK JOHN LITCHFIELD, Esq.,
the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Blenheim, 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 second day of
July, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE
(for the Colonial Secretary).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th July, 1869.

THE following Ordinances, passed by the Provin-
cial Council, and assented to by the Superin-
tendent of the Province of Taranaki, intituled

"The Recovery of Penalties Ordinance, 1869;"
and

"The Appropriation Ordinance, 1869;"

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

W. GISBORNE
(for the Colonial Secretary).