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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

And I do further appoint the following to be the
Principal Polling Place for the said District,
namely,-

The Council Chamber, Blenheim.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 Dunedin, this fifth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
JOHN BATHGATE.

Warrant abolishing Polling Places and Principal
Polling Places, and appointing others in lieu
thereof, in Marlborough.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

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, certain places were appointed Polling
Places and Principal Polling Places for the Province
of Marlborough, for the election of Members of the
Provincial Council of the said Province: And
whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:

Now know ye that I, Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, the Governor of New Zealand, in pur-
suance of the power and authority in me vested by
the said Act, do hereby abolish all existing Polling
Places for the said Province for the election of
Members of the Provincial Council thereof, and do
appoint in lieu thereof,-

For Picton District:
The Court House, Picton.
For Blenheim District:
The Council Chamber, Blenheim.
For Lower Wairau District:
The Council Chamber, Blenheim.
For Queen Charlotte Sound District:
The School House, Mahakipawa.
The House of Mr. James Jackson, Te Awaite.
For Tua Marina District:
The School House, Massacre Hill.
The House of Mr. Green, Waitohi Valley.
For Spring Creek District:
The Public Hall, Marlborough Town.
For Pelorus District:
The Court House, Havelock.
The House of Mr. C. H. Mills, Homewood,
Pelorus Sound.
For Upper Wairau District:
The School House, Renwick.
The School House, North Bank of Wairau.

For Wairau Valley District :
The School House, Wairau Valley.
Brickman and Co.'s Flax Mill.
For Awatere District :
The House of Mr. R. Beaumont, Starborough.
For Clarence District :
The Court House, Kaikoura.
For Gold Fields District :
The Warden's Office, Deep Creek, Waka-
marina.

And I do also hereby abolish the existing Principal
Polling Places for the Province of Marlborough, for
the election of Members of the Provincial Council
thereof, and do appoint in lieu thereof,-

For Picton District:
The Court House, Picton.
For Blenheim District:
The Council Chamber, Blenheim.
For Lower Wairau District:
The Council Chamber, Blenheim.
For Queen Charlotte Sound District:
The School House, Mahakipawa.
For Tua Marina District:
The School House, Massacre Hill.
For Spring Creek District:
The Public Hall, Marlborough Town.
For Pelorus District:
The Court House, Havelock.
For Upper Wairau District:
The School House, Renwick.
For Wairau Valley District:
The School House, Wairau Valley.
For Awatere District:
The House of Mr. R. Beaumont, Starborough.
For Clarence District:
The Court House, Kaikoura.
For Gold Fields District:
The Warden's Office, Deep Creek, Waka-
marina.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 Dunedin, this fifth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
JOHN BATHGATE.

Visit of H.M.S. "Pearl" to Samoa.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th January, 1874.

THE following Letter from Commodore Good-
enough, R.N., Commanding the Australian
Station, as to the visit of H.M.S. "Pearl" to Samoa,
is published for general information.

SIR,-

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Her Majesty's Ship "Pearl,"
At Sea, Lat. 14° 59' S., Long. 174° 30′ W.,
14th November, 1873.

I have the honor to inform your Excellency
that, on a recent visit to Samoa on the 8th instant,
I found that the wars which have long been reducing
the islands to poverty were at an end, and that the
natives had been able to agree to a General Govern-
ment, under the leadership of a body of seven chiefs,
called the Taimua, and to a Constitution and Laws
which came into force on the 1st instant. This
appeared to me to be a thoroughly genuine attempt