Nov. 12.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1511

Tangata e pootitia ana:
Kai-titiro:
Candidate voted for:
Witness:
...................................................Returning Officer.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Dis-
tinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Her Majesty's High
Commissioner for the Western Pacific,
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-ninth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one.

WM. ROLLESTON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Appointing Returning Officers.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested, I,
Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke all exist-
ing appointments of Returning Officers for Maori
electoral districts, under "The Maori Representation
Act, 1867," and do hereby appoint the following
persons to be Returning Officers for the Maori
electoral districts hereinafter specified :-

Northern Maori Electoral District-
James Stephenson Clendon, Esq., R.M.

Western Maori Electoral District-
William Gilbert Mair, Esq., R.M.

Eastern Maori Electoral District-
George Augustus Preece, Esq., R.M.

Southern Maori Electoral District-
Alexander Mackay, Esq.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this second day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
one.

WM. ROLLESTON.

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

Native Office, Wellington, 12th November, 1881.

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-ninth day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

By command.
T. W. LEWIS,
Under-Secretary.

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

TO JAMES STEPHENSON CLENDON, Esquire, Returning Officer for the Northern
Maori Electoral District-Greeting :

WHEREAS it is necessary that an election of a Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives 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 twenty-fourth day of November, and the polling, in case it shall be required,
to be at the several polling-places, on the eighth day of December, and that this our