THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Martial, and that every officer so authorized to con-
vene Courts-Martial may confirm the sentence of
any Court-Martial convened by him according to the
terms of his warrant:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and in pur-
suance of the power and authority for that purpose
vested in me, do hereby authorize

ST. JOHN BRANIGAN, Esq., R.M.,

Commissioner of the New Zealand Armed Con-
stabulary, to convene Courts-Martial, as occasion
may require, for the trial of offences committed by
any of the Forces under his command.

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 Auckland, this twenty-second
day of December, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy.

DONALD MCLEAN.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested, I, Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New
Zealand, do hereby appoint the
following person to be Returning Officer for the
Eastern Maori Electoral District:-

SAMUEL LOCKE, Esq., R.M.

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 Wel-
lington, this thirty-first day of December,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.

DONALD MCLEAN.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of all powers in me
vested in this behalf, I, Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby
appoint

TAPUWAEHARURU, Lake Taupo,

as a Polling Place for the Eastern Maori Electoral
District, and as a Polling Place for the Western
Maori Electoral District, in lieu of

HINEMAIAI or HATEPE, on Lake Taupo.

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 Wel-
lington, this thirty-first day of December,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.

DONALD MCLEAN.

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G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN exercise of the power vested in me by "The
Native Schools Act, 1867," I, Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby nominate and appoint

HENRY JOHN TANCRED, Esq., and
The Reverend JAMES WEST STACK,

to be Trustees of the land described in the Schedule
hereto, being the Kaiapoi school site.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece of land situate at Kaiapoi, Canter-
bury, bounded as hereinafter described, that is to
say, twenty (20) acres of land commencing eighteen
chains and five links south of a point at which the
intersection of a line drawn from Trig. Pole No. 14
with one drawn from the Maori boundary post
marked H forms an angle of one hundred and fifty-
five degrees fifteen minutes; thence running Easterly
a distance of one thousand three hundred and thirty-
five links; thence Southerly, and at a right angle
with the last line, a distance of fifteen chains; thence
Westerly, one thousand three hundred and thirty-five
links; and from thence returning to the first point.

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, the thirtieth day of Decem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.

DONALD MCLEAN.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1870," 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 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: Provided 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:

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 appoint the following places to be additional
Polling Places for the Electoral Districts hereinafter
specified, for the election of Members of the House
of Representatives, namely, -

Coleridge-
Greenstreet's Woolshed, Ashburton.

Grey Valley-
Ryan's Buildings, Half-ounce.
Tramway Shed, Marsden.

Cheviot-
Mr. Robinson's Woolshed, Cheviot Hills.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order