Num. 101.

2215

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1899.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1899.

Time for holding Election, Lyttelton Electoral District, extended.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of December, 1899.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS on the twenty-second day of November last past the Clerk of the Writs, pursuant to the provisions of “The Electoral Act, 1893,” and its amendments, duly issued a writ for the election of one member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Lyttelton: And whereas George Arthur Lewin, the Returning Officer for the said district (hereinafter referred to as “the Returning Officer”), in accordance with the provisions of “The Electoral Act, 1893,” and its amendments, duly received nominations of William Jacques, John Joyce, and George Laurensen as candidates for election as such member of the House of Representatives for the said district: And whereas according to the terms of the said writ so issued as aforesaid the poll for the said election was directed to be taken on the sixth day of December instant, and such writ was made returnable on the thirteenth day of the same month: And whereas on the first day of December now instant the said John Joyce died: And whereas by the eighty-second section of “The Electoral Act, 1893” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that if a duly nominated candidate, who has not withdrawn, shall die after the last day on which nomination-papers can be sent in, and before the day appointed for the poll at an election, the Returning Officer shall, upon being satisfied of the fact of such death, countermand notice of the poll, and also that all proceedings with reference to the election shall be commenced afresh in all respects as if the writ had been received by the Returning Officer on the day on which proof was given him of such death, and also that it shall not be necessary to nominate afresh any candidate in respect of whom the nomination required by this Act was given at the time of the countermand of the poll: And whereas, proof having been given to the Returning Officer of the fact of such death, he hath, by notice published in the Lyttelton Times of the second day of December aforesaid, duly countermanded notice of the poll intended to be taken as aforesaid, and hath also indorsed the said writ as required by the provisions of the eighty-third section of the said Act: And whereas by the one-hundred-and-sixty-eighth section of the said Act it is enacted that, within twenty-one days before or after the day appointed for doing any act, matter, or thing by the said Act required to be done on or before a day certain, the Governor in Council may extend the time allowed for doing any such act, matter, or thing, and adopt, or cause to be adopted, such measures as may be necessary to remove any obstacle or difficulty of a technical or formal nature by which the carrying-out of the provisions of the said Act may be impeded, and supply any deficiency which may be required to be supplied in order to enable the said provisions to be carried out:

Now, therefore, in order to enable the said election to be carried out, and to remove any obstacle of a formal or technical nature by which the provisions of “The Electoral Act, 1893,” might be impeded, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in this behalf enabling him, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare as follows, that is to say,—

1. The time up to which nominations of candidates for the said election may be received is hereby extended to not later than five o'clock in the afternoon of the seventh day before the day appointed hereunder for the poll;

2. The date appointed by the said writ for taking the poll at such election is hereby extended to the fifteenth day of December now instant;

3. And the date appointed by the said writ for the return thereof is hereby extended to the twenty-second day of December now instant,—

And in further pursuance of the said powers and authorities, and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth hereby order and direct that all acts and things required to be done by or under the said Act for the purpose of carrying out the said election as directed by this Order in Council shall be done, and that all officers and persons concerned shall act and govern themselves accordingly.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.