THE COUNTIES ACT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 282, 19 March 1877, Page 3

THE COUNTIES ACT.

Irs Wt>a.KUW at Hawke's Bay. » ("OfeifT" Daily Times." Jtaivh IC.Y A little hitch lias occnred in the smooth workimr<>E the new Constitutional mae'uni>ryat Haw Ice's Buy. There is a County there named Waipawa, and the members of the County Council have, strange to siiy, disagreed upon, the place where the Council should hold its meetings, the mult being that the members representing a certain part of the County stopaway from the meeting altogether, titerebv pruventing a quorum, being present, and so about what, under the Provincial system, was fauutiarly called A DEAD 1 LOCK. Meanwhile,, the inhabitants of the district whose claims have been slighted, are agitating f"i' " Separation." To fcho unpleasantness, twie of the members of the Council has resigned, and the lieturning OlKeer declares that he CA.SSOT 'CAKE WTEPS FOB Tf-tE TEo:, of another until he is supplied by trie Council with a copy of the Electors' Roll of the riding the sear, for which is vacant ; but this tre ntle in an. i ri preferring his request, frankly admits that the demand is something Uku ' ; takiu' the breeks oj* a Hicdamler," since the Council has no il<>\\ t,- "ire; consequently, the time within ■;v ; r.-!, i : lt ) election should have, been he hi ii.is ,i.i,-i ady elapsed, and the vacancy still ■v...,■.!:..; unltited. The position- thus - ,e.!-< ! is rather ,v ct-anfa on-e. •f'.h' Counties Act makes special provisoes .'..r ti.s>, -ii-ctioiis, but does not e;>utempi.;e- "'e- vH-curreTioe f>E vacancies between Mi'- nVs- 1 ! cl.-rtion and t!ie time when theCo'mtv Wee'oral Rolls will come into force, uio' ') will be tire Ist of July ties?, and it is <:•; ictly during this iutm-vaUhar. tt resignation has taken plac •. The Chrk of the County Council is required to. g -t a .Roll for each riding prepared by r.'.ie t>h of April, and copies of all the Rolls he kept for public inspection- at the i I'ric • of the Council from the -Oliii of A; n-1 until the loth of May. A copy of t;e Kollof each riding will atso be deposited at some place within the riding for the same period. An APPISAL AUAINVC TttG EN'TtUEH *>>* TtCE Ror.t.. lies to the Resident Magistrate's Court in the riiliu.:; but where there is no such Court, or in t le'event of there being more than o;ie in the riding, the Ctoveruor is to. appoint a Court where appeals can be eeanl. The Resident Magistrate is to tix. a <h.y for hearing appeals, but it huh!' be eilh-r on or after the first (lay of June ; ami. While the Magistrate lias full power to adjourn the Court from time to time,. lm must not sit aft; r tho 20th of that mom*::. JS'o particular form of appeal is eueeteil. but the person aggrieved is reepiired b> 1 "apply for relief by the Slat of May. The Roll,, as corrected by the Magistrate, is to be signed by the Clerk of the County, and wilt come into force on tuw tst of' July, being renewed year by year.