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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
public roads, and except the Reserve lying between
the sections numbered thirty (30) and thirty-one
(31) of Block one (I), in the said Forest Hill Dis-
trict, and adjoining the Hedgehope Stream.
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 eighteenth
day of September, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.
W. GISBORNE.

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 an additional polling place for the
Electoral Districts hereinafter specified, for the
election of Members of the House of Representa-
tives, namely-

For the District of Raglan-
Post Office, Upper Mauku.

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 eighteenth
day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.
W. GISBORNE.

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 Regu-
lation of Elections Act, 1858," aforesaid, and the
provisions of the said last-mentioned Act 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 place to be an
additional polling place for the District of Raglan,
for the election of Superintendent and Members
of the Provincial Council of the Province of Auck-
land, namely,-

Post Office, Upper Mauku.

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 eighteenth
day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.
W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and autho-
rity in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir George
Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that Sittings
of the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields,
additional to those already appointed, shall be held
as follows:-
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence,
on the second Tuesday in December next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby, on
the second Wednesday in January next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde, on
the Monday next after the second Wednesday
in January next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queenstown,
on the Monday second after the second Wednes-
day in January next.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this fourteenth day of Sep-
tember, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th September, 1869.
THE following Despatches, with enclosures from
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies, are published for general information.
W. GISBORNE.

Downing Street, 16th July, 1869.
SIR,—The Queen has heard from His Royal Highness
the Duke of Edinburgh of the great cordiality and
loyalty with which he has been received in Her
Majesty's Australasian Colonies, and she is anxious
to express her strong sense of the feeling displayed
in this reception, which the Duke is most desirous
that she should recognize.
Her Majesty commands you, therefore, to convey
to the people of New Zealand her warm acknow-
ledgments of the kind reception which has been
given to His Royal Highness, and of their hearty and
unanimous loyalty to her person and throne.
I have, &c.,
GRANVILLE.
Governor Sir G. Bowen, G.C.M.G.,
&c., &c.