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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 Clutha,
for the election of Superintendent and Members of
the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago,
namely-

The School House, Mimihau.

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, Gover-
nor 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 fourteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Walsh and Others Pension
Act, 1869," it is enacted that there shall be
paid to such person or persons as the Governor shall
from time to time, by warrant under his hand,
appoint, for the benefit of one James Wilson, an
infant, an annuity of fifty pounds a year by quarterly
payments, on the day and during the time in the said
Act mentioned: And by the said Act it is further
enacted that the said person or persons may, within
six months from the passing of the said Act, select,
as in the said Act provided, one hundred acres from
any lands within the Province of Hawke's Bay, taken
under "The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and
not then sold or agreed to be sold, and not then
reserved from sale, and that upon any such selection
being made it shall be lawful for the Governor to
execute a Crown Grant thereof to such persons as
the Governor shall think fit, in trust for the said
James Wilson under the said Act :

And whereas it has been made to appear to me
that Robert Wilson, of Turakina, in the Province of
Wellington, gentleman, and Nathaniel E. Beamish,
of Rangitikei, in the Province of Wellington, gentle-
man, are fit persons to be appointed for the purposes
aforesaid :

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, do by this Warrant under
my hand, in exercise of the power vested in me by
the said Act, appoint the said

ROBERT WILSON and
NATHANIEL E. BEAMISH

to be the persons to whom the said annuity shall be
paid until this appointment shall be revoked, and
also to be the persons who shall select the said

hundred acres of land under the provisions of the
said Act, and to whom such land when selected shall
be conveyed in trust for the said James Wilson under
the said Act.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of
Saint Michael and St. 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 Auckland, this
fourteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Institute Act,
1867," provision is made for the appointment
of Members of a Board of Governors of the New
Zealand Institute, and it is enacted that on the first
day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight, and on the first day of November in each
succeeding year, three members of the said Board of
Governors (other than the Governor, the Colonial
Secretary, and the Superintendent of the Province of
Wellington, respectively, for the time being,) shall
retire from office, but shall be eligible for reappoint-
ment: And whereas the Honorable Sir David
Monro, Theodore Minet Haultain, Esquire, and
James Edward Fitzgerald, Esquire, three of the
members of the said Board of Governors, have
retired from office, and are eligible for reappointment
under the provisions of the said Act :

And whereas by the said Act it is also provided
that on the annual retirement of the said three
members, the successors of such retiring members
shall be appointed by the Governor :

And whereas the said Theodore Minet Haultain,
Esquire, has signified his desire that he should not
be reappointed a Governor of the said Institute:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority in that behalf
vested in me by the said Act, do hereby reappoint
The Honorable Sir DAVID MONRO, and
JAMES EDWARD FITZGERALD, Esq.,

to be Governors of the Institution called the New
Zealand Institute; and I do also hereby appoint
CHARLES KNIGHT, Esq., M.D.,

to be a Governor of the said Institution, in the room
of, and as successor to, Theodore Minet Haultain,
Esquire, who has retired as aforesaid.

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 fourteenth day of Decem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the
Proclamation dated the seventeenth day of Novem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, by
the Governor in Council, of Regulations for the sale,
letting, disposal, occupation, and management of the
Waste Lands within the County of Westland: