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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

1866," and "The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act,
1869," except the powers conferred by sections
twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and
one hundred and seven of "The Gold Fields Act,
1866," to have, hold, and exercise within the said
County the said powers hereby given to the said
Henry Hermann Lahman, so long as he shall continue
and remain Chairman of the said County Council and
no longer: Provided always that copies of all rules
and regulations made under the said delegation shall
be forthwith transmitted to the Colonial Secretary,
in order that the same may be laid before the General
Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of the
one hundred and tenth clause of "The Gold Fields
Act, 1866."

W. GISBORNE.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "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 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:

And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted
that every election of the Superintendent or of a
Member of the Provincial Council of a Province shall
be conducted in the manner prescribed therein for
the election of Members of the House of Representa-
tives, and that the Governor shall have the same
powers of appointing and altering Polling Places and
Principal Polling Places for Electoral Districts for the
election of Superintendents and Members of Provin-
cial Councils as, under the provisions thereinbefore
contained, he has for Electoral Districts for election
of Members of the House of Representatives:

Now therefore, 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 District of Mount Benger,
for the election of Members of the Provincial Council
of the Province of Otago, namely:-

The House of Mr. Fielding, at Upper Waikaia.
Miners' Hall, Welchman's Gully.

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 third day of March,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.

WILLIAM Fox
(in the absence of Mr. Gisborne).

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance of the power vested in me by the
provisions of "The Native Lands Frauds Pre-
vention Act, 1870," I, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do, by this Warrant under my hand,
revoke the appointment of Henry Bowman Sealy,
Esquire, as Trust Commissioner for the Hawke's
Bay District under the said Act, and do hereby
appoint

HANSON TURTON, Esq.,
to be a Trust Commissioner for the Hawke's Bay
District 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 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 third
day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.

HENRY SEWELL.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1871.

IT is hereby notified, that a Writ issued for the
Election of a Superintendent of the Province
of Otago has been returned with a Certificate to the
effect that

JAMES MACANDREW, Esq.,
has been duly elected.

WILLIAM Fox
(in the absence of Mr. Gisborne).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1871.

IT is hereby notified, that a Writ issued for the
Election of a Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives for the Northern Maori Electoral District
has been returned with a Certificate to the effect that

WIREMU KATENE,
of Ahuahu, near Waimate, has been duly elected.

WILLIAM Fox
(in the absence of Mr. Gisborne).

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th March, 1871.

IT is hereby notified, that a Writ issued for the
Election of a Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives for the Southern Maori Electoral District
has been returned with a Certificate to the effect
that

GEORGE GREY TATAROA,
of Otago Heads, has been duly elected.

WILLIAM Fox
(in the absence of Mr. Gisborne).