Numb. 75. 671

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1870.

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G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parlia-
ment, passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth
years of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72,
intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Con-
stitution to the Colony of New Zealand," the several
Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington,
Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago are thereby
established, and it is enacted that for each of the
said Provinces there shall be a Superintendent and
Provincial Council:

And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted
that every Provincial Council shall continue for the
period of four years from the day of return of the
Writs for choosing the same, and no longer: Provided
always that it shall be lawful for the Governor of
New Zealand, by Proclamation or otherwise, to dis-
solve the same whenever he shall think it expedient
so to do:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do, by
this Proclamation, dissolve the Provincial Council of
the said Province of Otago accordingly.

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 under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this thirty-first day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1870," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, by Warrant uuder his hand, from time
to time to appoint polling places for each Electoral
District, within one mile of the limits thereof, and to
appoint any one of such polling places to be the
principal polling place for the district, and all or any
of such polling places from time to time to abolish,
and, if he think fit, to appoint other polling places in
lieu of those abolished, and that every such Warrant
shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette: Pro-
vided always that no polling place shall be appointed
by the Governor under the said Act unless he shall
be first satisfied that the place to be appointed is
more convenient than any other for at least twenty
electors to record their votes thereat. And whereas
by Warrants under the hand of the Governor, certain
places were appointed polling places for the Province
of Otago, for the election of Superintendent thereof:
And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:

Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do
hereby abolish all existing polling places for the
Province of Otago, for the election of Superintendent
thereof, and do appoint in lieu thereof—

The Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin.
The School House, North-East Valley.
The Court House, Port Chalmers.
The Drill Shed, Kaikorai.
The School House, Green Island.
The School House, Kaikorai.
The School House, Caversham.
The School House, Mornington.
The School House, Anderson's Bay.
The School House, North Harbour.