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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND
GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1880.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1880.

2nd June to be a Bank Holiday in County and
Borough of Waimate.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and
authorities enabling me in that behalf, I, Her-
cules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, by an Order in Council made under the
provisions of "The Bank Holidays Act, 1873," and
bearing even date herewith, I have declared that
Wednesday, the second day of June next, shall be a
bank holiday within the Borough of Waimate and
County of Waimate, under and for the purposes of
the said Act.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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
eighteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Warrant abolishing Polling-place.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING.

WHEREAS 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:
And whereas by warrant under the hand of the
Governor, bearing date the nineteenth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine,

The Residence of Mr. A. Chrystal, Waiareka,
was appointed a polling-place for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives for the
Electoral District of Waitaki:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:
Now know ye that I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursu-
ance of the power and authority in me vested by the
said Act, do hereby abolish the above-named polling-
place for the election of Members of the House of
Representatives for the Electoral District of Waitaki.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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, at Wel-
lington, this seventeenth day of May, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty.

THOMAS DICK.

Notification of Resignation of Seat in the House of
Representatives for the Electoral District of
Waitaki.

IN compliance with the provisions of the thirteenth
section of "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1870," I hereby notify that Thomas William Hislop
Esquire, has resigned his seat in the House of Repre-
sentatives for the Electoral District of Waitaki, and
that his letter of resignation was received by me
on the seventeenth day of May, 1880; and that the
said seat is vacant by reason of such resignation.

Dated at Auckland, this 17th day of May, 1880.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE,
Speaker.

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.