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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 181, 1 July 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

The Seat of Government. —We take the following from the Lyttelton Times of the 9th inst.: —The Melbourne Despatch, a new paper, whose first number has just reached us, says :—The Commissioners appointed by the various governors of the Australian colonies to decide upon the locale of the future capital of New Zealand, will shortly start for the scene of their labors. Sir Charles Darling has appointed Sir Francis Murphy ; and we believe that Sir John Young, of New South Wales, has conferred the appointment on Mr. Docker, M.L.C. ; and that Colonel Gore Browne, of Tasmania, has selected Mr. Gunn, thb police magistrate of Launceston. The Commissioners will reach Auckland about the first July, and upon their arrival there the New Zealand Government will place a steamer at their disposal for the purpose of visiting Cook’s Strait, in some portion of which the future capital is to be chosen.

NAPIER ELECTORAL DISTRICT. "jVTOTICE is hereby given that a Court will be -L 1 held for Revising the List of Voters for the District of NAPIER, at the COURT-HOUSE, Napier, on FRIDAY, the 22nd day of July, 1861, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at which— The claims of Persons objected to will be determined. The names of Persons proved to be deaA will be expunged. The names of Persons whose Christian names or places of abode, or the nature of whose quantifications shall be wholly omitted, where by law required to be specified in the List, or whose places of abode, or the nature or description of whose qualifications are insufficiently described for the purpose of being identified, will be expunged ; unless the matter so omitted or insufficiently described, be supplied to the satisfaction of the Revising officer, before he shall have completed the revision of such List of Voters. G. A. OLIVER, Revising Ofilcer. Napier, 30th June, 1861. CLIVE ELECTORAL DISTRICT. "VTOTICE is hereby given that a Court will be -i-1 held for revising the List of Voters for the District of CLIVE, at the COURT-HOUSE, Napier, on FRIDAY, the 22nd day of July, 1861, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at which— The claims of Persons objected to will be determined. The names of persons proved to be dead will be expunged. The names of persons whoso Christian names or Places oi Abode, or the nature of whose quantifications shall be wholly omitted, where by law required to be specified in the List, or whose places of Abode, or the nature or description of whoso qualifications are insufficiently described for the purpose of being identified will bo expunged ; unless the matter so omitted or insufficiently described, be supplied to the satisfaction of the Revising officer, before ho shall have completed the revision of such List of Voters. G. A. OLIVER, Revising Officer. Napier, 30th June, 1861. ELECTION NOTICE. IN PURSUANCE of the provisions of an A.ct of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled, “The Provincial Elections Act, 1858,” I, John Russell Duncan, Esq., Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Waipukurau, do hereby give notice that by virtue of a Writ bearng date the 21th June, 1861, issued under the hand of his honor the Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, an election will be held for the return of one qualified person to serve as a member of the Provincial Council of Hawke’s Bay for the said Electoral District, in lieu of T. P. Russell Esq., resigned ; and that the nomination of candidates will take place at Mr. T. P. Russell’s Wool-shed, Waipukurau, on Tuesday, the sth July, and that the Poll (if necessary) will take place on Wednesday, the 6th July, and that I shall declare the state of the Poll on Thursday, the 7th July. Dated this 27th day of June, 186 L J. RUSSELL DUNCAN, Returning Officer. The following places are the Polling Places for the Electoral District of Waipukurau. Principal Polling Place—Mr. T. P. Russell’s Wool-shed, Waipukurau. Polling Places—Mr. Tucker’s Wool-shed, Ruatauiwha; Mr. Tanner’s Out-station, Hampden. J. RUSSELL DUNCAN, Returning Officer. Dated at W aipukurau, this 27th day of June 1861.