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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Appointing a Justice of the Peace under "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867."

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

W HEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he
shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be a
Justice of the Peace, by warrant under his hand
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is made
under the one hundred and thirty-third section of the
said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during the
Mayoralty of such person, and the person so appointed
shall not, by virtue of such appointment, be author-
ized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace elsewhere
than within the borough:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the said power and
authority in mo vested in this behalf, do hereby
appoint

HENRY CAIN, Esq.,

the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough of
Timaru to be a Justice of the Peace under the one
hundred and thirty-third section of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867."

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 second day of January,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.

JOHN BATIGATE.

inafter specified, for the election of Members of the
House of Representatives, namely, -

For the District of Manawatu.
The School House, Palmerston.

Given under the hand of Ilis 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 eighth day of January, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three.

JOHN HALL.

Warrant appointing an Additional Polling Place.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SIHALL COME,
GREETING:

W HEREAS 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 haud,
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 dis-
trict, 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 Zea-
land 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 Mem-
ber of the Provincial Council of a Province shall be
conducted in the manner prescribed therein for the
election of Members of the House of Representatives,
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 thereinbefore con-
tained, 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 Manawatu,
for the election of Members of the Provincial Council
of the Province of Wellington, namely, -

The School House, Palmerston.

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
eighth day of January, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three.

JOHN HALL.