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GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
EDWARD JERNINGHAM WAKEFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. V WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1858. [No. 19.]
NOTICE.
ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE CITY OF WELLINGTON.
Province of Wellington,
To Wit.
WHEREAS a Writ under the hand of His Excellency Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c., bearing date the 19th day of June, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Eight, and under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand aforesaid, hath been directed to me John Elisha Smith, Esquire, Returning Officer for the “City of Wellington,” reciting that it is necessary that an Election of Two Members of the House of Representatives for the “City of Wellington” should now take place; and requiring and commanding me to cause to be Elected by the Voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently and in manner and form by law prescribed, Two Legally Qualified Persons to serve as Members of the said House of Representatives, for the “City of Wellington.”
Now therefore, I, the said John Elisha Smith, Esquire, Returning Officer for the “City of Wellington” do hereby in pursuance of the said Recited Writ, give Notice that a Public Meeting of the Electors of the “City of Wellington” will be holden at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, situate on Lambton Quay, in the “City of Wellington,” aforesaid, on Monday the twenty-sixth (26th) day of July instant, at Noon, for the purpose of Nominating Two Persons to serve as Members for the “City of Wellington” in the House of Representatives of the Islands of New Zealand aforesaid: and in the event of a Poll being demanded for the Candidates, or any of them, such Polling shall take place at such Resident Magistrate’s Court aforesaid, on Tuesday, the twenty-seventh (27th) day of July instant; the Voting to commence at any time after Nine o’Clock in the forenoon of the said day, and to close at Four o’Clock in the afternoon of the said day.
Dated at Wellington, this Ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight.
John E. Smith,
Returning Officer.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1858, No 19
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🏛️ Election of Members of the House of Representatives for the City of Wellington
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration9 July 1858
Election, House of Representatives, Wellington, Nomination, Polling
- John Elisha Smith, Returning Officer