Num. 75 1501

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1890.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1890.

Returning Officer appointed.

ONSLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke all existing appointments of Returning Officers for the Northern Maori Electoral District, under “The Maori Representation Act, 1867,” and do hereby appoint

HELYAR WEDDERBURN BISHOP, Esq., R.M.,
to be Returning Officer for the said Northern Maori Electoral District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

EDWIN MITCHELSON.

Writ for the Election of a Member of the House of Representatives.

Native Office,
Wellington, 18th December, 1890.

THE following writ for the election of a Member of the House of Representatives of New Zealand for the Northern Maori electoral district, constituted under “The Maori Representation Act, 1867,” “The Maori Representation Act Amendment and Continuance Act, 1872,” and “The Maori Representation Acts Continuance Act, 1876,” is 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.

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

To HELYAR WEDDERBURN BISHOP, Esquire, 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 seventh day of January, and the polling, in case it shall be required, to be at the several polling-places on the seventh day of February; 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 seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

In witness whereof, our Trusty and Well-beloved William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley, of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, has caused the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed, at Wellington, the eighteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

ONSLOW,
Governor.

Polling-places appointed.

ONSLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the following places to be polling-places for the Northern Maori electoral district, constituted under “The Maori Representation Act, 1867,” “The Maori Representation Act Amendment and Continuance Act, 1872,” and “The Maori Representation Acts Continuance Act, 1876:”—