152
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 Warrant under the hand of the
Governor, bearing date the fourth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, the
Canvas Booth, Nevis, was appointed a Polling Place
for the District of Dunstan, for the election of Mem-
bers 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 Dunstan, for the election of
Members of the Provincial Council of the Province
of Otago.

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 fourteenth 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.

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 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 Represen-
tatives, 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
Provincial Councils as, under the provisions therein-
before contained, he has for Electoral Districts for
election of Members of the House of Representa-
tives:

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 place to be an
additional Polling Place for the District of Kawarau,
for the election of Members of the Provincial
Council of the Province of Otago, namely-

The Canvas Booth, Nevis.

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 fourteenth 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 exercise of the powers and authorities vested in
me by "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment
Act, 1865," I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, do hereby assent to the
regulations and prohibitory declarations contained
in two several Proclamations issued by William
Rolleston, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province
of Canterbury, dated respectively the thirteenth day
of February, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, and published consecutively in the New
Zealand Gazette on the eighteenth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

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
thirty-first 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,
Wellington, 25th March, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ROBERT CHISENHALL HAMMERTON, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Wellington, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of 27th day of
September, 1866, and published in New Zealand
Gazette, No. 55, of 15th October, 1866, vice John
Elisha Smith, Esq., recently appointed District Land
Registrar. This appointment to take effect on and
from the 1st April, 1871.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th March, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ALLAN SHAW DOUGLAS, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of New Plymouth, as
the same is defined in Proclamation of 10th day of
October, 1870, and published in New Zealand Gazette,