THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 place to be an
additional Polling Place for the District of Selwyn,
for the election of Members of the Provincial Council
of the Province of Canterbury, namely :-

The School House at Springstone.

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 Wellington, this eleventh day of
September, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. 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 Repre-
sentatives, 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 pro-
visions 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 place to be an additional
Polling Place for the District of Picton, for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council of the
Province of Marlborough, namely :-

Homewood, Pelorus Sound.

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 Wellington, this twenty-eighth
day of September, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1871.

THE following Ordinance, passed by the Provincial
Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of
the Province of Otago for the signification of the
Governor's pleasure thereon, intituled
"The Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1871,"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to assent to the same.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

EDWARD DENHAM, Esq.,
to be Deputy to the District Land Registrar of the
Canterbury Land Registration District.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS, Esq.,
to be Registrar-General of Land under "The Land
Transfer Act, 1870."

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 2nd October, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

FRANCIS FREDERICK BUTTER, Esq.,
of Mararoa, Otago, of his appointment as a Justice
of the Peace for the Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned promotions and
appointments, viz. :---

In the Auckland Scottish Rifle Volunteers.
Major Charles John Taylor, New Zealand Militia, to
be Captain. Date of commission, 30th August,
1871.

In the Victoria Troop, Rangitikei Cavalry Volunteers.
William Cawood to be Cornet. Date of commission,
13th August, 1870.

In the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry Volunteers.
Cornet William White, junior, to be Lieutenant.
Date of commission, 25th September, 1871.
Henry Slater to be Cornet. Date of commission,
25th September, 1871.

In the No. 4 Company, Canterbury Rifle Volunteers.
Charles Ffrench Pemberton to be Lieutenant. Date
of commission, 11th September, 1871.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commissions
held by

Honorary Captain D. B. Mann, Dunedin Rifle
Volunteer Cadets.
Honorary Lieutenant C. A. Rich, Lyttelton Artil-
lery Volunteer Cadets.

DONALD MCLEAN.