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Cargill, hereby certify that the following persons were duly elected by a majority of votes:—

H. A. GILLER,
WILLIAM IRVINE.

Given under my hand at Invercargill, this Thirty-first day of October, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

ROBERT MITCHELL,
Returning Officer.

[Republished from New Zealand Gazette, No. 50, September 24.]

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Defender of the Faith and so forth. To our trusty and loving subjects.

(The following are the Gentlemen connected with Southland whose names appear in the list.)

Justin Aylmer, Esq., Wairaki.
John Blacklock, Esq., Invercargill.
William Henderson Calder, Esq., Invercargill.
Nathanael Chalmers, Esq., Invercargill.
Harold Hyde Fenton, Esq., Invercargill.
Donald Hankinson, Esq., Te Anau.
Theophilus Heale, Esq., Invercargill.
Samuel Hodgekinson, Esq., Riverton.
Matthew Holmes, Esq., Southland.
Freeman Jackson, Esq., Manapouri.
Daniel Shea Lawlor, Esq., Riverton.
Duncan M'Arthur, Esq., Invercargill.
Henry M'Culloch, Esq., Invercargill.
Alexander M'Nab, Esq., Mataura.
Alexander M'Neil, Esq., Mataura.
Hon. James Alexander Robertson Menzies, Esq., Mataura.
Hugh Nurse, Esq., Riverton.
Robert Stuart, Esq., Mataura.
William Francis Tarlton, Esq., Riverton.
John Parkin Taylor, Esq., Jacobs' River.
Isaac Newton Watt, Esq., Campbelltown, Bluff.
Fitzwilliam Wentworth, Esq., Five Rivers Plain.
Henry Whitton, Esq., Invercargill.
Henry Young, Esq., Riverton.

Know Ye, that we have assigned you and each and every of you, jointly and severally, to be Our Justices of the Peace, in our Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, to keep and cause to be kept all Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes in force within the said Colony, for the punishing of offenders, the preservation of the peace, and for the quiet rule, welfare, and good government of our people in the said Colony; and to have, exercise, and discharge all the powers, authorities, and duties belonging or pertaining to the office of a Justice of the Peace in the said Colony;

And, therefore, we command you and each and every of you that to keep the Peace and all Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes, and all and singular other the Premises you diligently apply yourselves, and that, at certain days and places duly appointed or to be appointed for these purposes; into the premises to make enquiry, and all and singular the premises hear and determine and perform according to the law and custom of England and of the said Colony.

And we command all our Sheriffs in the said Colony, at certain days and places appointed or to be appointed, to be aiding by all lawful means in the performance and due execution of the premises.

In testimony whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made patent, and the Seal of our Colony to be hereunto annexed.

Witness our trusty and well beloved Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, at Government House, at Auckland, in New Zealand aforesaid, this sixteenth day of September, in the twenty-seventh year of our reign, and in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. GREY,
Governor.

By His Excellency's Command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Printed for the Provincial Government by SMALLFIELD & BAIN, Dee-street, Invercargill, Southland.