Numb. 17. 131

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

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:

And whereas by Warrant under the hand of the
Governor, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of
February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one, the Court House, Gladstone, was appointed a
Polling Place for the District of Waiopai, for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council of the
Province of Otago:
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 the above-named Polling Place for
the District of Waiopai, for the election of Members
of the Provincial Council of the said Province, and
do appoint in lieu thereof—

The Court House, Invercargill.

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

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

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 8th March, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ANDREW BONAR, Esq.,
and
THOMAS STIRRUP WEBB, Esq.,
of Wairoa, in the Province of Auckland, to be
Coroners within the Colony.

HENRY SEWELL
(in the absence of Mr. Gisborne).

Customs Department,
(Marine Branch,)
Wellington, 1st March, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM SIMPSON
to be Harbour Master for the Port of Hokianga, vice
Alexander Beveridge;

GEORGE THOMSON
to be Harbour Master for the Port of Okarita, vice
Edward Fawconer Tizard; and

JOHN CAMERON
to be Harbour Master for the Port of Waitara.

HENRY SEWELL.

NOTICE.

WHEREAS by clauses 5 and 6 of the "Confis-
cated Lands Regulations," of 13th April, 1870,
it is provided that the Government may make
Reserves for Public Purposes out of any Confiscated
Lands, of which notice shall be given in the New
Zealand Gazette, it is hereby notified that section 3
of Block XIV., in the Township of Carlyle, Patea Dis-
trict, containing thirty (30) poles, is reserved for
Educational Purposes, and that the said section is
bounded as follows:—

On the North, 125 links, by Leicester Street; on
the East, 150 links, by section 4; on the South, 125
links, by section 9; and on the West, 150 links, by
section 2, all in Block XIV.

Wellington, 10th March, 1871.

WILLIAM FOX.