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1073

DIEU ET MON DROIT

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1878.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1878.

Appointing a Day for Election of Members for the
Deborah Bay Subdivision, Blueskin Road Board.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section ten of "The Otago Roads
Ordinance 1871 Amendment Ordinance,
1874," it is enacted that, if from any cause whatever,
the persons entitled to vote at any election for any
subdivision of any district shall fail or neglect to hold
an election of members of the District Board of such
district on the day appointed by the said Ordinance
for that purpose, it shall be lawful for the Super-
intendent, by Proclamation in the Gazette, to appoint
a day for the holding of such election, and an election
may be held upon the day so appointed, and the
election so held shall for all purposes whatsoever be
deemed to have been duly held on the day appointed
by the said Ordinance for holding the same: And
whereas the powers and authorities vested in the
Superintendent by the said section are, by "The
Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," now vested in the
Governor: And whereas the persons entitled to vote
in the election of members for the Deborah Bay
Subdivision of the Blueskin Road District failed on
the day appointed by "The Otago Roads Ordinance,
1871," to hold an election:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities vested in me by the said
Ordinance and Act, do hereby proclaim and appoint
that an election shall be held on the twentieth day
of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight, at noon, at the house of Mr. Lean, the
Rocks, Port Chalmers, of two members of the Blue-
skin Road Board for the Deborah Bay Subdivision
of the said Blueskin Road District; and I appoint
the aforesaid house of Mr. Lean, the Rocks, Port
Chalmers, to be the place of polling at such election.

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 Grand Cross 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
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Reservation of Land for the purpose of granting it to
the Corporation of the Borough of Arrowtown.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-third day of July, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and autho-
fifty-fifth section of "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1876," and upon the request of the Borough of Arrow-
town, His Excellency the Governor, by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby order that
the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be
and the same is hereby reserved out of the waste
lands of the Provincial District of Otago for the
purpose of granting the same to the Corporation of
the Borough of Arrowtown.