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Places at any time to abolish and to appoint other Polling Places in lieu thereof;
And whereas Mr. Gleeson’s Station, Moeraki, was appointed a Polling Place for the Hampden District, for the Election of Members for the House of Representatives;

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same.

Now know Ye, that I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish the above named principal Polling place for the Hampden District, for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives, and do appoint in lieu thereof:

The Court House Hawksbury.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, this twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,
Alfred Domett.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 31st July, 1863.

THE following dispatch, with its enclosure, from H.M. Principal Secretary of State for Colonies respecting a Child supposed to have been recently stolen from her parents at Islington, is published for general information.

Alfred Domett.

Downing Street,
9th May, 1863.

Sir—I transmit to you a copy of a Hand Bill which has been issued descriptive of a Child, who is supposed to have been recently stolen from her parents at Islington. At the request of the child’s friend, and at the instance of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, I transmit this Hand Bill to you and to the Governors of other Colonies to which emigration from England ordinarily takes place, and I should be glad if you would give publicity to the Notice, and acquaint me whether its publication may have been attended with any successful result.

I am, &c.,
Newcastle.

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B., &c., &c., &c.

CHILD STEALING.

£100 REWARD.

WHEREAS on the evening of Sunday, 30th March, 1862, Elizabeth Hunter, 8 years old, was decoyed away by a respectively dressed man from the bottom of Green Man’s Lane, Frog Lane, Lower Road, Islington, and not having been heard of up to the present time, May 9, 1863, Her Majesty’s Government hereby offer a reward of £50 for the discovery and conviction of the person or persons who decoyed away the said Elizabeth.

Warrant abolishing a Principal Polling Place and appointing another in lieu thereof.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:—

WHEREAS by “The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858,” 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 without the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the principal Polling Place for the District, and all or any of such Polling Places at any time to abolish, and to appoint other Polling Places in lieu thereof;

And whereas the School House, Hawksbury, was appointed the principal Polling Place for the Hampden District, for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives;

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same;

Now know Ye, that I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish the above named Polling Place for the Hampden District, for the Election of Members for the House of Representatives, and do appoint in lieu thereof:

The Police Station, Hampden.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, this twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,
Alfred Domett.