NOTICE. PUBLIC MEETING. MEETING of the ELECTORS of the Electoral DISTRICT OF PICTON will beheld at the COURT HOUSE, PICTON, on FRIDAY, the sth June, at Seven o’clock p.m., to consider the propriety of Petitioning the General Assembly to separate the said Electoral District from the Province of Marlborough, and to constitute it into a County. Picton, 30th May, 1868. 316 ELECTION NOTICE. TN pursuance of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “ The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858,” I, Stephen Lunn Muu.hr, Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Picton, do hereby give notice that by virtue of a writ, bearing date the 23rd day of May, 1868, -issued under the hand of Ilis Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, an Election will be held for the return of a qualified person to serve as a Member of the House of Representatives for the said Electoral District, and that the Nomination of Candidates will take place at the Court House, in the Town of Picton, on THURSDAY, the the Eleventh day of June, 1868, at 12 o’clock at noon ; and that the Poll (if necessary) will be taken on THURSDAY, the Eighteenth day of June, 1868. Dated this 29th day of May, 1868. S. L. Muller, Returning Officer. The following places are Polling Places for the Electoral District of Picton : POLLING PLACES. The Court House, Picton. The Court House. Havelock. Mr J. Smith's House, Tuamarina. Mr M. Maher’s House, Kaituna. The Warden’s Office, Deep Creek. Dated the 29th day of May, 1868. S. L. Muller, 315 Returning Officer. SKAv., NOTICE. J TIIE COMMSSIONER OF 1 ? CROWN LANDS for the Province of Marlborough, do hereby give notice that at noon on Saturday, the twenty-seventh day of June next, the Allotments of Suburban Land, Rural Land, and’ Pasture Land, set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed, will be put up to Auction, and offered for Sale by Public Competition, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, in this Province, at the upset prices mentioned in the said Schedule, in accordance with the provisions of “ The Marlborough Waste Lands Act, 1867.” Ten per cent, of the purchase money must be deposited at the Sale, and the remainder within one month, or the deposit forfeited. Dated at the Crown Lands Office, Blenheim. in the said province, this Twenty-second day of May, 1868. James Balfour Wemyss, Commissioner of Crown Lands. - SCHEDULE. SUBURBAN LAND. District of Kaikoura Suburban. Section. Contents. Upset Price. RURAL LAND. District of North Bank of Wairau. Fabian’s Valley. PASTURE LAND. District of Waihopai. Bank House Run. Section. Contents. Upset Price. A. it. p. £ s. <l. No. 78 ... 109 1 0 ... 27 6 3 James Balfour Wemyss, Commissioner of Crown Lands. 308
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Marlborough Press, Volume IX, Issue 594, 3 June 1868, Page 5
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