THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 85
Warrant appointing a Polling Place.
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL 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 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 Repre-
sentatives, 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 therein-
before contained he has for Electoral Districts for
election of Members of the House of Representa-
tives:
Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
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 a Polling
Place for the District of Wairarapa East, for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council of the
Province of Wellington, namely,-
Mr. Brannigan's Woolshed, Alfredton.
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 Invercargill, this twentieth
day of January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.
Warrant appointing Polling Place.
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:
W
HEREAS 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:
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 appoint the following place
to be a Polling Place for the Electoral District here-
inafter specified, for the election of Members of the
House of Representatives, namely,-
For the District of Wairarapa :
Mr. Brannigan's Woolshed, Alfredton.
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 Invercargill, this twentieth
day of January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.
Despatch from Secretary of State re Estates of
Intestate Bastards.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th February, 1874.
T HE following Despatch from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
is published for general information.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).
[CIRCULAR.]
Downing Street, 1st November, 1873.
SIR,—I have been informed by the Lords Com-
missioners of the Treasury that their Minute of the
24th of July respecting the distribution of Estates of
Intestate Bastards, enclosed in my Circular Despatch
of the 10th of September last, is suspended, and that,
until further notice, the ordinary practice in the
distribution of such estates will be adhered to.
I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.
The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.
Provincial Registration Officer appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th February, 1874.
H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
GEORGE ALFRED BUCK, Esq.,
to be Registration Officer for the Province of Canter-
bury, under "The Provincial Elections Act, 1858,"
vice W. J. W. Hamilton, Esq., resigned.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary).
Justices of the Peace appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th January, 1874.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
THOMAS THOMSON, Esq., of Campbelltown ;
WILLIAM SINCLAIR TROTTER, Esq., of Kingston; and
JAMES WADDEL, Esq., of Campbelltown, Otago,
to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony.
JOHN BATHGATE.