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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
thence West, on the said parallel, to the north-west | Returning Officer at the said election to be duly
boundary of the Province of Hawke's Bay; thence elected thereat: And whereas, by reason of the pre-
on the eastern boundary of the Province of Wel- mises, the said Returning Officer was unable to make
lington to where it crosses the Mohaka River; a return to the said writ as therein provided, and
thence to the southern and south-western base of such writ has only been returned to and received by
Ruapehu; thence, turning North and skirting the the Clerk of the Writs on this day: And whereas it
forest, to Porere, and on to the summit of Hurakia is expedient to declare the said election valid, not-
Range; thence East, on the summit of the said range, withstanding the said irregularities, misfeasances,
to Titiraupenga; thence North-east to Waikato and omissions :
River; thence down the said river to the southern
boundaries of lands adjudicated upon by the Native Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
Lands Court, following along the said southern New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of all powers
boundary lines to their termination; from thence to and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and with
Wairere; thence along the west-south-west and the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
south boundary line of Tauranga confiscation line to the said Colony, doth hereby declare all the pro-
Otanewainuku, the starting point.
ceedings at and for the said election valid, as to and
notwithstanding the hereinbefore in part recited
Proceedings of Election of a Member of the House impediments, misfeasances, and omissions.
of Representatives for the Mongonui and Bay of
Islands District, validated.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
Auditor-General to audit Accounts of the Official
At the Government House, at Wellington, this Agent, Thames Gold Fields.
fifteenth day of August, 1873.
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by the sixty-seventh section of "The At the Government House, at Wellington, this
Regulation of Elections Act, 1870," it is twentieth day of August, 1873.
enacted that no election shall be void in consequence
Present:
only of there having been no Returning Officer at
the time of the issue of the writ, or of any delay in
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
the return of the writ; and where any accidental or
unavoidable impediment, misfeasance, or omission WHEREAS by "The Mining Companies Limited
shall have happened, the Governor in Council may Liability Act Amendment Act, 1869," it is
take all such measures as may be necessary for enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
removing such impediment or rectifying such mis- Council to appoint one or more persons, to be called
feasance or omission, or may declare any or all of Official Auditors, to audit the accounts of all Official
the proceedings at or for any election valid as to Agents theretofore appointed, or thereafter to be ap-
and notwithstanding such impediment, misfeasance, pointed, under "The Mining Companies Limited
or omission, and every such Order in Council shall Liability Act, 1865:"
state specifically the nature of the impediment, mis-
feasance or omission, and shall be forthwith pub- Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
lished in the New Zealand Gazette : And whereas a the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
writ for the election of a Member of the House of exercise of the power and authority vested in him by
Representatives was issued on the seventeenth day the above in part recited Act, and of every other
of June, now last past, for the Electoral District of power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and
Mongonui and Bay of Islands, and such writ was, in by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
pursuance of the above in part recited Act, directed Council of the said Colony, doth hereby appoint
to the Returning Officer of the said district, and was
made returnable on the twenty-fifth day of July, CHARLES KNIGHT, Esq.,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three : the Auditor-General of the said Colony, as and to be
And whereas, in consequence of delays in the con- an Official Auditor of the accounts of the Official
veyance of mails to the Bay of Islands, the said writ Agent appointed under "The Mining Companies
did not reach the hands of the said Returning Officer Limited Liability Act, 1865," in and for the Mining
until the first day of July aforesaid, and the said District of the Thames Gold Fields, with all the
Returning Officer, on the fourth day of that month, powers and subject to the provisions in the said in
fixed and gave a notice as required by the said Act, part reçited Act contained, from and after the ninth
appointing the sixteenth day of July aforesaid as the day day of August instant.
of nomination under the said Act, and in like manner
gave notice of the twenty-eighth day of July aforesaid
FORSTER GORING,
as the day on which the poll should, if necessary, be
Clerk of Executive Council.
taken : And whereas, by reason of the extent of the
said electoral district, in consequence of the premises, Governor of Nelson College appointed.
and in order to give due effect to the provisions of
the said Act, the Returning Officer could not appoint
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
other days or times for the respective purposes afore-
said, and so as to enable such election to be held
WHEREAS by "The Nelson College Act, 1870,"
within the time fixed for the return of the said writ:
And whereas, in accordance with the terms of the
it is enacted that six of the Governors of the
said College shall be deemed to represent the Pro-
said writ, the election of a Member for the said
vince of Nelson, and shall be from time to time
district was held on the said twenty-eighth day of
appointed as vacancies shall occur by the Visitor, and
July within the said district, and one John William
the remaining three Governors shall be deemed to
Williams, Freeholder, Pakaraka, was declared by the
represent the Province of Marlborough, and shall be
appointed in like manner; and by the said Act it
is further enacted, that any retiring Governor may
continue to hold office until his successor is appointed,
and may be reappointed: And whereas Francis
Wemyss Irvine, Esq., was on or about the first
day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two, appointed to be one of the