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1867, and would urge the desirability
of giving the Colony a prominent position
on that occasion, for Tasmania, Victoria,
New South Wales, and other Australian
Colonies, have already been favourably
known in France and Europe by their
products shown at these Exhibitions.

"As this could be well carried out in con-
nection with any collection of articles
permanently kept in London, it is there-
fore to be hoped that some sum may be
granted by the General Government for
such a judicious purpose when the finances
of the Colony are in a more favourable
condition."

In furtherance of Mr Morison’s
views, I am instructed to express the very
strong sense the Commissioners entertain
of the desirability of active steps being
taken to ensure the due representation
of New Zealand at the Paris Exhibition,
1867, and their hope that the Government
will be pleased to devise measures for the
active promotion of a project so certain
to benefit the Colony.

I have, &c.,

ALFRED ECCLES,
Honorary Secretary.

The Honorable the Colonial Secretary.

(Re-published from the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 28, July 28, 1865.)

Warrant Abolishing a Polling Place.

By His Excellency Sir George
Grey, Knight Commander
of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath, Go-
vernor 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 ap-
point 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 by Warrant under the
hand of the Governor, bearing date the
twenty-eighth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four,
Mrs. Gibson’s Grain,
Run No. 119 A, in the Province of South-
land, was appointed a polling place for
the district of Oreti, for the election of
Members for the Provincial Council of
the Province of Southland; 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 abovenamed polling place for
the district of Oreti, for the election of
Members of the Provincial Council of
the said Province.

Given under my hand, at the
Government House, at
Wellington, this eleventh
day of July, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-
five.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s Command,
F.D. BELL.

(Re-published from the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 32, August 17, 1865.)

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Authorizing additional Postal Regulation

for the transmission by Post of
Patterns of Merchandize.

G. Grey, Governor,
At the Government House, at Wellington, on the fifth day of August,
1865.

Present:

His Excellency THE GOVERNOR
IN COUNCIL.

Whereas by The New Zealand
Post Office Act, 1858, power is
given to the Governor in Council from
time to time to make rules and regula-
tions for the managing of the several
Post Offices within the said Colony, for
the receiving, despatching, conveying,
and delivering of letters (including the
imposition of fees for private boxes and
deliveries); for the detaining, opening,
and return, or other disposal of irregu-
larly posted, unclaimed, and refused let-
ters;