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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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; and issued at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of October, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

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 ap-
pointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment, be
authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:
Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and authority
in me vested in that behalf, do hereby appoint
EDWARD CHURTON, Esq.,
the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Wanganui, to be a Justice of the Peace under
the one hundred and thirty-third section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."
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 Wellington, this fifteenth day of
October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
DANIEL POLLEN.

Fixing Sittings of District Court, Otago Gold Fields.
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir
James Fergusson, Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of
the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, during
the months of December and January next, shall be
held as follows:----
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby
on the second Wednesday in December next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde on
the Monday next after the second Wednesday
in December next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queens-
town on the Monday second after the second
Wednesday in December next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence
on the second Tuesday in January next (1875).
Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the
Court appointed for that day shall be holden on the
first day thereafter, not being a holiday.
Issued this fifteenth day of October, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-four.
DANIEL POLLEN.

Fixing Sittings at Waimate of District Court of
Timaru and Oamaru.
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power in this
behalf enabling me, I, Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of the
District Court of the Timaru and Oamaru District
shall be held as follows:-
In the Resident Magistrate's Court House at
Waimate, for the despatch of Civil Business
only, on the seventeenth day of the months of
January, March, May, July, September, and
November respectively, the first of such sit-
tings to take place on the seventeenth day of
January next.
Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a Sunday or holiday,
then the Court appointed for that day shall be
holden on the first day thereafter, not being a holi-
day.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this fifteenth day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
DANIEL POLLEN.

Appointing Mayor of Wanganui to be a Justice of
the Peace.
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of

Warrant appointing a Polling Place.
JAMES FERGUSSON, 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 Representa-
tives, 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 Pro-
vincial Councils as under the provisions therein-
before contained he has for Electoral Districts for