THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1181

Voting Paper.

The under-mentioned person is entitled to vote at the election of a Member of the House of Representatives for the Maori Electoral District.

Tangata e pootitia ana
Kai-titiro—
Candidate voted for
Witness—

................................Registration Officer.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, 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-second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Native Minister.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Appointing Returning Officers.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested, I, Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, 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.
HENRY TACY KEMP, Esq.

Western Maori Electoral District.
LAWRENCE MARSHALL GRACE, Esq.

Eastern Maori Electoral District.
FRANCIS EDWARDS HAMLIN, Esq.

Southern Maori Electoral District.
ALEXANDER MACKAY, Esq.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, 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 at Wellington, this twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

G. GREY,
(for the Native Minister.)

Writes for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives.

Native Office,
Wellington, 22nd August, 1879.

THE following writs for the election of Members of the House of Representatives of New Zealand for the several Maori Electoral Districts constituted under “The Maori Representation Act, 1867,” “The Maori Representation Act Amendment and Continuance Act, 1872,” and “The Maori Representation Acts Continuance Act, 1876,” are published in the New Zealand Gazette, in accordance with regulations issued by Proclamation bearing date the twenty-second day of August, 1879.

By command.

T. W. LEWIS,
Under Secretary.

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

To HENRY TACY KEMP, Esq., Returning Officer for the Northern Maori Electoral District—
Greeting.

WHEREAS it is necessary that an election of a 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 Northern Maori Electoral District. And we do hereby further require and command that you cause the nomination of the said Member to be at

RUSSELL,

on the first day of September, and the polling, in case it shall be required, to be at the several polling-places on the eighth day of September, 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 seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

In witness whereof His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, 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 twenty-second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

HERCULES ROBINSON,
Governor.

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

To LAWRENCE MARSHALL GRACE, Esq., Returning Officer for the Western Maori Electoral District—
Greeting.

WHEREAS it is necessary that an election of a 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

CAMBRIDGE,

on the first day of September, and the polling, in case it shall be required, to be at the several polling-places on the eighth day of September, and that this our writ, with the name of the person so elected indorsed thereon by you, shall be