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WILLIAM MACKETT, Greenwich Out-pensioner,

is requested to call immediately at the Pay-master’s Office, Custom House, Dunedin.

STOLEN, from Forbury, about 20th April, a black Gelding; horse-shoe brand, off neck. £5 reward on conviction.—HENRY SCOTT, Commercial Yards. 8s.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, July 4, 1871, No. 38.]

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Weights and Measures Act 1868,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time to appoint one Inspector of Weights and Measures for any Province, County, Borough, or District, or for each of two or more divisions of any Province, County, Borough, or District, the boundaries of which divisions shall be proclaimed from time to time in the New Zealand Gazette by the Governor: And whereas it is expedient that Inspectors should be appointed for the divisions of the Province of Otago, the boundaries whereof are set forth in the Schedule hereto, and that the boundaries of such divisions should be proclaimed:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred on me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that for the purposes of the said Act there shall be within the said Province of Otago a division or district, the boundaries whereof shall be the boundaries set forth in the Schedule hereto.

Schedule.

The District of Southland.

Bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the River Mataura, and continued along the right bank of the Mataura River to its source in the Eyre Mountains; thence to the summit of Eyre Peak; thence in a south westerly direction to the junction of the Windley with the Oreti or New River; thence due west to the River Waiau; thence along the left bank of the Waiau to the sea; thence by the coast line to the mouth of the Mataura.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 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 Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. Gisborne,
God Save The Queen!

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of June, 1871.

Present:
THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER, PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the sixty-seventh section of “The Regulation of Elections Act 1870,” it is enacted that no election shall be void in consequence only of there having been no Returning Officer at the election:

AND WHEREAS on the seventh day of February last a Writ was issued by His Excellency the Governor for the election of a Member to serve in the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago for the Electoral District of Dunstan: And whereas on the said seventh day of February a Writ was also issued by His Excellency the Governor for the election of a Member to serve in the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago for the Electoral District of Kawarau: And whereas on the fourth day of February last His Excellency the Governor did, by Warrant under his hand (published in the New Zealand Gazette on the seventh day of the said month of February), amongst other Polling Places for the said Electoral District of Dunstan, appoint for the said Electoral District of Dunstan a Polling Place described therein as follows, that is to say:

The Canvass Booth, Nevis.

And whereas the said place so described was not situate within the said District of Dunstan or within one mile of the limits thereof: And whereas the said place so described was situate within the said District of Kawarau, but was not appointed as a Polling Place for the said District of Kawarau: And whereas the appointment of the said place as a Polling Place for the said District of Dunstan was by mistake, and the said place ought to have been appointed as a Polling Place for the said District of Kawarau, and that the mistake in the appointment of the said place as a Polling Place for the said District of Dunstan should be rectified, and that the said elections should be declared valid notwithstanding such mistake.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby declare the said elections valid notwithstanding the said mistakes and omissions, and doth, with the like advice and consent, rectify the said mistakes and omissions by declaring that the said votes tendered and accepted as aforesaid at the said Polling Place shall be deemed to have been as duly tendered and accepted, and to have been as valid, as if the said Polling Place had been duly appointed for the District of Kawarau; and that the said votes tendered and refused as aforesaid at the said Polling Places shall be deemed to have been duly refused, and to have been as invalid as if the said Polling Place had not been so appointed as aforesaid for the said District of Dunstan.

William Fox,
Presiding.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick and Co., Stafford street, Dunedin Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.