Election Polling Places and Legal Notice




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For the District of Aparima—The House of Samuel Hodgkinson.

For the District of Longewoo—The Warden’s Office, Orepuki.

For the District of Waianewa—The House of John Howell, Esq., Flint’s Bush.

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

E. W. STAFFORD.


G. GREY, Governor.

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 by warrant under the hand of the Governor, bearing date the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

The House of Messrs. Sutton, Wright’s Bush,

was appointed a polling place for the District of Waianewa, for the election of Members of 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 above-named polling place for the

District of Waianewa, for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Southland.

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

E. W. STAFFORD.


No. 5.

VICTORIA by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen. To Charles Dopping Irvine of Invercargill in the Province of Southland and Colony of New Zealand Civil Engineer his servants and workmen and his sub-contractors and their servants and workmen and William Henderson Calder and James Blacklock both of Invercargill aforesaid Merchants and their servants and workmen and their sub-contractors and their servants and workmen and to all persons whomsoever.

WHEREAS John Macpherson of Invercargill aforesaid owner of the ship Ella Gladstone hath brought an action against you the said Charles Dopping Irvine in Our Supreme Court of New Zealand wherein he complains that you have wrongfully by force removed certain Timber from the Mokomoko Jetty and refused to pay the freight for the said timber. We therefore do strictly enjoin you and command you the said Charles Dopping Irvine William Henderson Calder and James Blacklock and all and every the persons before mentioned under peril of the further process of the said Court that you and every of you do absolutely desist from cutting or using in the erection of the Oreti Bridge situated at the Oreti Ferry on the Riverton Road or in otherwise injuring or in any way removing or using the timber imported on account of the said Charles Dopping Irvine by the Ships or Vessels called the Swordfish and Ella Gladstone until



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Southland Provincial Gazette 1867, No 21





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🏘️ Appointment of Additional Polling Places for Southland Provincial Council Election (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
13 July 1867
Elections, Polling Places, Southland, Aparima, Longwood, Waianewa
  • Samuel Hodgkinson, House appointed as polling place for Aparima
  • John Howell (Esquire), House appointed as polling place for Waianewa

  • Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
  • E. W. Stafford

🏘️ Abolition of Polling Place for Waianewa District

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
13 July 1867
Elections, Polling Places, Waianewa, Southland
  • Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
  • E. W. Stafford

⚖️ Legal Injunction Against Charles Dopping Irvine and Others

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
Legal Action, Injunction, Timber, Oreti Bridge, Supreme Court
  • Charles Dopping Irvine (Civil Engineer), Defendant in legal action
  • William Henderson Calder, Defendant in legal action
  • James Blacklock, Defendant in legal action
  • John Macpherson, Plaintiff in legal action

  • Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland