THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 859

Election of Councillors for the Borough of Napier.

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

W HEREAS by "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that for the first
election of Councillors under the said Act in every
borough in which no Councillors shall as yet have
been in office, those persons enrolled on any electoral
roll which, under the provisions of "The Registration
of Electors Act, 1866," shall for the time being be in
force, whose qualifications are in respect of lands
and tenements situate within the borough, and none
other, shall, on such day as the Governor shall
appoint, not being less than forty days after the
same shall have become such borough, and in the
manner therein mentioned, elect the whole number of
Councillors by the said Act assigned to such borough;
and by the said Act it is also provided that every
election of Councillors for any borough not divided
into wards shall be held by and before the Mayor of
the borough, and that if at any time there shall be
no Mayor the Council of the borough, or if there be
no such Council, the Governor may and shall appoint
some person by and before whom such election shall
be conducted:

And whereas the Town of Napier was, by Pro-
clamation bearing date the twenty-sixth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, of
the 3rd day of December, 1874, constituted a borough
under the said Act:

And whereas it has been made to appear to me
that there is no Mayor of the said borough, nor any
Council of the said borough, and that the said
borough is not divided into wards:

Now know ye that I, George Augustus Constan-
tine, Marquis of Normanby, the Administrator of the
Government of New Zealand, in exercise and pur-
suance of the powers vested in me by the said Act,
do hereby appoint the eighteenth day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, to be
the day whereon the first election of Councillors for
the Borough of Napier shall take place; and in further
exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me
by the said Act, I do hereby appoint

HENRY BOWMAN SEALY, Esq.,

of Napier, to be the person by and before whom the
said election shall be held.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom, and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Administrator of the
Government in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies; at the Government House at
Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Notice of Election of Mayors.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1874.

IT is hereby notified, that, in conformity with clause
133 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,"
the names of the under-mentioned persons have been
sent in to this office by the several Town Clerks, as
the names of those who have been elected Mayors
for the boroughs set opposite their names :-

FREDERICK LAMBERT PRIME-Auckland.
JAMES EDMUND HODSON-Blenheim.
FREDERICK HOBBS-Christchurch.
WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE-Wellington.
ROBERT WHYTE-Westport.
GEORGE WILLIAM Moss-Greymouth.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Notice of Re-election of Mayors.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1874.

IT is hereby notified, that, in conformity with clause
133 of "The Muncipal Corporations Act, 1867,"
the names of the under-mentioned persons have been
sent in to this office by the several Town Clerks
as the names of those who have been re-elected
Mayors for the boroughs set opposite their names :-

EDWARD GEORGE KERR-Kaiapoi.
JOSEPH REID DODSON-Nelson.
EDWARD CHURTON-Wanganui.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1874.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to issue Letters of
Naturalization under "The Aliens Act, 1866," in
favour of the under-mentioned persons, viz., -

DANIEL POLLEN.

Public Vaccinator appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1874.

IT is hereby notified, that, under the provisions
of "The Public Health Act, 1872," His Excel-
lency the Administrator of the Government has been
pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentleman to
be a Public Vaccinator to perform gratuitous vaccina-
tion in accordance with the provisions of the said
Act, and any Regulations made or to be made there-
under, for the district mentioned in the Schedule
hereto, and set opposite his name.

DANIEL POLLEN.

SCHEDULE.
PROVINCE OF OTAGO.
THOMAS LEAHY-Roxburgh.