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[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 10, March 25th, 1864.]

WARRANT

Abolishing a Polling Place, and appointing another in lieu thereof.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable 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.

To all 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 Resident Magistrate’s Camp at Wakatipu was appointed a Polling Place for the Wakatip District for the Election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago:

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 Wakatip District, for the Election of Members of the Provincial Council of the said Province, and do appoint in lieu thereof the Station of Francis W. M’Kenzie, Esq., Glenkerrick, which said Polling Place I do further appoint to be the principal Polling Place for the District aforesaid.

Given under my hand, at New Plymouth, this ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. GREY.
By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

Note—The foregoing Warrant was accidentally not published at the time it was signed by His Excellency the Governor.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 10, March 25, 1864.]

Auckland,
24th March 1864.

IT is hereby notified that Messrs. Atkinson and Richmond have withdrawn their application for a Patent for Smelting Iron Sand at Taranaki, and the notice from them published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 9, of the 12th instant, page 120, is hereby cancelled.

CHARLES KNIGHT,
Investigator under “Patents’ Act.”

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 10, March 25th, 1864.]

Resignation of J. B. Cockerill, Esq., of his office of Justice of the Peace accepted.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 23rd March, 1864.

IT is Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by John Cockerill, Esq., of West Taieri, in the Province of Otago, of his appointment of Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

THOMAS B. GILLIES,
For Mr. Whitaker.

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