PROCLAMATION.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 734, 14 August 1852, Page 3

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency, Sir George Gjret, a Knight Commander of the, most Honor- • able Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in and over the Islands of New. Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New

Munster, and "Vice- Admiral of' the same, ' &c, &c, &c. - I Whereas, by an Ordinance enacted by the [ Gbvernor-in-Chief of New Zealand, with the - advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session XL No. 6, intituled "An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of • Provincial Legislative Councils, and for, the Election, &c, of Members to serve therein," it was amongst other things enacted that, for each of the Provinces into which the Islands 1 of New Zealand then were, or might thereafter • be divided, there should be a Legislative CounI cil, to consist of such number of Members, not less than nine, as the Governor-in-s Chief should by Proclamation in that F behalf from time to time direct ' and apr point, and that two-thirds of the members of every such Council should'be elected by the inhabitants of the Province, as thereinafter proI vided, and that it should be lawful for the Goi vernor-in- Chief of New Zealand, until provision should be made by law in that behalf, by ' Proclamation to be published in the NewZea- ■ land Government Gazette, to constitute within every such Province convenient Electoral Dist ricts and to appoint and declare the number ' of Members to be elected for each such l District, and to make provision for the regis- , tration and revision of lists of all persons qualified to vote at the Elections to be holden ! within such~ Districts, and for the. appointing of j s Returning Officers, anS for the -issuing, ex- I ecuting, and returning the necessary Writs for such Elections, and for taking the Poll thereat, and for determining the validity of all disputed Returns, and otherwise for ensuring the orderly, effective, and impartial conduct of such Elections ; and by the said recited Ordinance power was given to the GoVernor-in-Chief by Proclamation to declare certain places to be "Towns " for the purposes of the said Ordinance : And. whereas, in pursuance of the said Ordidance a Proclamation was issued by the Go-verner-in-Chief"upon the 3rd day of June last, by which it was proclaimed of and concerning the Province of New Munster that the said Province should be divided into Electoral Districts : - And whereas, by the eaid Proclamation, provision was , made in the Province of New Munster for the registration, and revision of lists of all persons qualified to vote at the Elections to be holden within such Districts, and for the appointment of Returning Officers, and for the issuing, executing and returning the necessary Writs for such Elections, and. for taking the Poll thereat, and for determining the validity of all disputed Returns, and otherwise for ensuring the orderly, effective, and impartial conduct of such Elections : And whereas, by the said Proclamation of the third day of June last, the Governor-in-Chief, did not appoint and declare the number of members to be elected for the several Electoral Districts : Now therefore, I, the Governor-in- Chief of New Zealand, in pursuance and by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the said recited Ordinance, and under and by virtue of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, Do hereby -Proclaim, declare, direct, and appoint that as to and concerning the Province of New Munster, as follows ; that is to say : Number of Members of Council. 1 . That the Legislative Council of the said Province shall consist of Thirty-three Members. Number of Members for each District. 2. That the number of Members to be elected to serve for the several Electoral Districts in the said Province, shall be as follows viz. : — Wellington. 1. For the City of Wellington, Three Members. 2. For the Wellington Country, One Member. 3. For the Hutt, Two Members. 4. For the Wairarapa and Hawkes' Bay, One Member. 5. For the Whanganui and Rangitikei, One Member. Nelson. 1. For the Town of Nelson, Two Members. 2. For the Waimea, .Two Members. 3. For the Motueka and Massacre Bay, One Member. 4. For the Wairau, One Member. Canterbury. ' 1. For the Town of Christchurch, One Member. • . 2. For the Christchurch Country, Two Members. 3. For the Town of Lyttelton, One Member. 4. For the Akaroa, One Member. - Otago., 1. For the Town of Dunedin* One .Member. - \. _ v 2. For the Dunedin Country, Two Members. ,' . Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at QovernmentHouse, at Wel(l. s.) lington, in the Province of New Munster, in the. Islands aforesaid, this ninth day of August, in the year of Our Lord ; One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fiftytwo. G. GREY, ■ - ■ Governor-fn-Chief. , By His Excellency's command, Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary. , God Save the Queen ! A Government Sale of 140 feet frontage of the land reclaimed from the sea at Larabton Quay is also notified to take-place on the 11th Sept. next, under the same conditions as the former sale, the upset price £6 per lineal foot. Notice is given of a Criminal Sitting of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the Ist September, and of a Special Meeting of Magistrates on Tuesday, 7th September, at 12 o'clock, for the' transfer of, Publican's Licences. The quarterly return for June of Immigration and Emigration for Akaroa shews 9 persons to have arrived and 3 to have left; at New Plymouth 26 persons to have arrived and 1 to have left. . . . • "- -

The Supplement to the Gazette, under tlat June 29th, contains a notice from the Com. missioner to persons holding leases of land in this Settlement, and another that one hundred and three claims of purchasers under the New Zealand Company, in this Settlement, have heen decided to be duly entitled to Crown .Grants*