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Southland Times, Issue 1226, 22 March 1870, Page 4

CLAUSES OF THE CONSTITUTION ACT RELATING TO THE QUALIFICATION OF ELECTORS, V 6. Every person within any Province hereby established, or hereafter to be established, who shall be legally qualified as an elector, and duly registered as such, shall be qualified to be elected a member of the Provincial Council thereof, or to be elected Superintendent thereof : Fito tided always, That it shaL not be necessary that he reside or possess the qualification in the particular district for which he may be elected to serve as a member. 7. The members of every such Council shall be chosen by the votes of the inhabitants of the Province who may be qualified as hereinafter mentioned ; that is to say, every man of the age of twentyone years or upwards, having a freehold estate in possession, situate within the, . district for which the vote is to be given, of the clear value of fifty pounds above all charges and incumbrances, and of or to which he has been seised or entitled, either at law or in equity, for at least six calendar months next before the last registration of electors, or having a leasehold estate in possession, situate within such district, of the clear annual value of ten pounds, held upon a lease which at the time of such registration shall have not less than three years to run, or having a leasehold estate so situate, and of such value as aforesaid, of which he has been in possession for three years or upwards next before such registration, or being a householder within such district, occupying a tenement within the limits of a town (to be proclaimed as such by the Governor for the purposes of this Act), of the clear annual value of ten pound-, or without the limits of a town of the clear annual value of five pounds, and having resided therein six calendar months next before such registration as aforesaid, shall if duly registered, be entitled to vote at the election of a member or members for the district. 8. Peovided always, That ito person shall be entitled to vote at any such election who is an alien, or who at any time theretofore shall have been attainted or convicted of any treason, felony, ; pr infamous offence, within any part of Her Majesty's dominions, unless he shall have received a free pardon, or shall have undergone the sentence or punishment to which he shall have been adjudged for such offence. 42. The members of the said House of Representatives to be chosen in every electoral district appointed for that purpose, shall be chosen by the votes of the inhabitants of New Zealand who shall possess within such district the like qualifications which, when possessed within an electoral district appointed for the election of members of a Provincial Council, would entitle inhabitants of jbhie Province to vote in the election of members of the Provincial Council thereof, and who shall be duly registered as electors ; and every person legally qualified as such elector shall be qualified to be elected a member of the said House. TELEGRAPH STATIONS. i The following list of telegraph stations in New Zealand is published in the ' New Zealand Gazette .— - --(3 <o Name. §, S Province. O 5 a.m p.m. Alexandra ... 9 5 Auckland Alexandra ... 9 5 Otago Auckland ... 9 5 Auckland Baldutha ... 9 5 Otago Bealey ... 9 5 Canterbury • Blenheim ... 9 5 Marlborough Bluff ... 9 5 Southland Brighton ... 9 5 Westland Cambridge ... 9 5 Auckland Castle Point „: 9 5 Wellington Cheviot .... 9 5 Nelson Christchurch .. 8 8 Canterbury Charleston -.9 5 Westland Clyde ... 9 5 Otago Cromwell ... 9 5 Otago Dunedin ... 8 8 Otago Featherston ... 9 5 Wellington Greymouth ... 9 5 Westland Grey town ... 9 5 Wellington Hokitika ... 9 5 Westland Hamilton ... 9 5 Auckland Havelock ... 9 5 Marlborough Invercargfll ... 9 5 „ Southland Kaiapoi ... 9 5 Canterbury Kaikoura ... 9 5 Marlborough Lawrence ... 9 5 Otago Lyttelton ... 8 8 Canterbury Masterton ... 9 5 Wellington Mercer ... 9 5 Auckland Napier ... 8 8 Hawke's Bay Newcastle ... 9 5 Auckland Nelson ... 8 8 Nelson Oamaru ... 9 5 Otago Onehunga ... 9 5 Auckland Picton ... 9 5 Marlborough Port Chalmers ... 8 8 Otago Queenstown ... 9 5 Otago Roxburgh ... 9 5 Otago Selwyn ... 9 5 Canterbury Spit * ... 9 5 Hawke's Bay Tokomairiro .. 9 5 Otago Timaru ... 9 5 Canterbury Temuka ... 9 5 Canterbury Wanganui ... 9 5 Wellington Waipukurau ... 9 5 Hawke's Bay Waipawa ... 9 5 Hawke's Bay Wellington ... 8 8 Wellington Govt. 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