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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

to or received by the Trustees of all such Estates in
respect of the same:

Now know ye, that We, reposing great trust and
confidence in your knowledge and ability, have
authorized and appointed, and by these presents do
authorize and appoint you,

ALFRED DOMETT,
FRANCIS DILLON BELL,
GEORGE SISSON COOPER,
ROBERT HART,

to be, during Our pleasure, Commissioners for the
purpose aforesaid; and, for the better effecting the
purpose of this Commission, we do give and grant
you, or each of you, power and authority to call
before you such persons as you shall judge likely to
afford you any information upon the subject of this
Commission, and to inquire of and concerning the
premises by all other lawful means and ways whatso-
ever: And this Commission shall continue in full
force and virtue, and you the said Commissioners,
or any one of you, may, from time to time, and at
any place or places, proceed in the execution thereof
and of every matter and thing therein contained,
although the inquiry be not regularly continued
from time to time by adjournment; and also, that
the before-named

ALFRED DOMETT

be the Chairman of you the said Commissioners :
And lastly, that you do, with as little delay as
possible, report to Us, under your hands and seals,
your opinion, resulting from the said inquiry, of the
matter and things set forth in this Our Commission.

In testimony whereof We have caused these Our
Letters to be made Patent, and the seal of Our
said Colony to be hereunto affixed.

Witness Our trusty and well-beloved Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George, Our
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Our Colony of New Zealand and
its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of
the same, and issued at Wellington, in
New Zealand aforesaid, on the third day
of February, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine,
and in the thirty-second year of Our
reign.

Issued by the Governor in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 sixth day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, the Court House, Naseby,
was appointed the principal polling place for the
District of the Gold Fields for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives :
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 principal polling
place for the District of the Gold Fields for the
election of Members of the House of Representatives,
and do appoint in lieu thereof-

The Court House, Clyde.

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 fifteenth day of
February, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1869.

IT is hereby notified that a Writ issued for the
election of a Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives for the Electoral District of Marsden, has
been returned with a certificate to the effect that

JOHN MUNRO,
of Kaiwha, Whangarei, Freeholder, has been duly
elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1869.

IT is hereby notified that, in accordance with the
Resolution of the House of Representatives on
14th October, 1868, His Excellency the Governor
has been pleased to appoint a Commission to inquire
into and report upon the Fisheries of New Zealand, to
consist of the under-mentioned persons :-

James Hector, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., Chairman.

Province of Auckland.
Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Esq.
Frederick W. Hutton, Esq.

Province of Taranaki.
The Hon. Henry Scotland, M.L.C.
George Cutfield, Esq.
Thomas King, Esq.

Province of Hawke's Bay.
Joseph Rhodes, Esq.,
Henry Bowman Sealy, Esq.;
Edward Lister Green, Esq.,
Charles Herman Weber, Esq.

Province of Wellington.
Hon. Walter Baldock Durant Mantell, M.L.C.,
William Thomas Locke Travers, Esq., M.G.A.

Province of Nelson.
Frederick Huddleston, Esq.,
Charles Lendrick McLean, Esq.

Province of Marlborough.
Hon. Arthur Penrose Seymour, M.L.C.,
Courtenay William Aylmer Thomas Kenny, Esq.,
M.G.A.

Province of Canterbury.
Julius Von Haast, Esq., F.R.S.
Arthur Charles Barker, Esq.
Mark Pringle Stoddart, Esq.