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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Member of the House of Representatives of New
Zealand shall take place:
Now therefore, we do hereby require and command
you to cause to be elected by the voters duly qualified
for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in
manner and form by law and regulations in this
behalf prescribed, a legally qualified person to serve
as Member of the said House of Representatives for
the Western Maori Electoral District. And we do
hereby further require and command that you cause
the nomination of the said Member to be at
WHANGANUI,

on the fourth day of January next, and the polling, in
case it shall be required, to be at the several polling
places, on the fifteenth day of January next, and
that this our Writ, with the name of the person so
elected indorsed thereon by you, shall be returned
to us here on or before the second day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

In witness whereof, His Excellency George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Nor-
manby, the Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of New Zealand, has caused the
Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand
to be hereunto affixed, at Wellington, the
fourteenth day of December, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-five.

NORMANBY,
Governor.

VICTORIA, by the grace of God, of the United
(L.S.) Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of
the Islands of New Zealand, Queen.

TO SAMUEL LOCKE, Esq., Returning Officer for the
Eastern Maori Electoral District—Greeting:

WHEREAS it is necessary that an election of a Mem-
ber of the House of Representatives of New Zealand
shall take place:

Now therefore, we do hereby require and command
you to cause to be elected by the voters duly qualified
for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in
manner and form by law and regulations in this
behalf prescribed, a legally qualified person to serve
as Member of the said House of Representatives,
for the Eastern Maori Electoral District. And
we do hereby further require and command that
you cause the nomination of the said Member to
be at
NAPIER,

on the fourth day of January next, and the polling, in
case it shall be required, to be at the several polling
places, on the fifteenth day of January next, and
that this our Writ, with the name of the person so
elected indorsed thereon by you, shall be returned to
us here on or before the second day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

In witness whereof, His Excellency George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Nor-
manby, the Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of New Zealand, has caused the
Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand
to be hereunto affixed, at Wellington, the
fourteenth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.

NORMANBY,
Governor.

VICTORIA, by the grace of God, of the United
(L.S.) Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of
the Islands of New Zealand, Queen.

TO ALEXANDER MACKAY, Esq., Returning Officer
for the Southern Maori Electoral District—
Greeting:

WHEREAS it is necessary that an election of a Mem-
ber of the House of Representatives of New Zealand
shall take place:

Now therefore, we do hereby require and command
you to cause to be elected by the voters duly qualified

for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in
manner and form by law and regulations in this
behalf prescribed, a legally qualified person to serve
as Member of the said House of Representatives
for the Southern Maori Electoral District. And
we do hereby further require and command that
you cause the nomination of the said Member to
be at
ΚΑΙΑΡΟΙ,

on the fourth day of January next, and the polling, in
case it shall be required, to be at the several polling
places, on the fifteenth day of January next, and
that this our Writ, with the name of the person so
elected indorsed thereon by you, shall be returned
to us here on or before the second day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

In witness whereof, His Excellency George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Nor-
manby, the Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of New Zealand, has caused the
Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand
to be hereunto affixed, at Wellington, the
fourteenth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.

NORMANBY,
Governor.

Appointing Returning Officers.

NORMANDY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested, I George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby appoint the following persons to be Returning
Officers for the Maori Electoral Districts hereinafter
specified.

Northern Maori Electoral District.
EDWARD MARSH WILLIAMS, Esq., R.M.

Eastern Maori Electoral District.
SAMUEL LOCKE, Esq., R.M.

Western Maori Electoral District.
ROBERT PARRIS, Esq., R.M.

Southern Maori Electoral District.
ALEXANDER MACKAY, Esq., R.M.

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
Council; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; 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 fourteenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Resignation of Returning Officer.

Native Office,
Wellington, 4th December, 1875.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

ROBERT CLAPHAM BARSTOW, Esq.,

as Returning Officer for the Northern Maori Electoral
District.

DONALD MCLEAN.

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.