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Timaru Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 1597, 9 December 1876, Page 3

POST OVFIOK NOTICES. Mails for the United Kingdom, Coutiuenl o( Enrope (via San Francisco) North and South America, India, China, Randwich Islands, and Northern ports of New Zealand, will closi- al 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday, the 13th inst. Money orders and registered letters at 11 a.m. Mails for the United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, and America (via Suez), India, China, and Australian Colonies, will close at 6 a.m. on Monday, the 18th. instant. Money orders and registered letters at 2 p.m. on Saturday, the 16tb instant. W. W. Bbswick, Postmaster. Post Office, Timaru, 2nd December, 1875. DON'T PURCHASE YOUR ALMANAC FOB 1877 TILL YOU SEE THE SIXPENNY SOUTH CANTEBBUBY BOOK ALMANAC, PUBLISHED AT THIS OFFICE, TO BE HAD IN A FEW DAYS FROM OUR COUNTRY AGENTS AND LOCAL BOOKSELLERS. IT WILL CONTAIN. A mass of Useful Information for all Classes: of Persons, ALSO, .A. DIABT FOB EVERY DAY IN THE YEAK. COUNTY ELECTIONS; THE following Sections of THE REGULATION of LOCAL ELECTIONS ACT, 1876,- and the 51st Section of the COUNT7ES ACT, 1876, are published for general information. TO. KOLLESTON; Regpiatxon of Locax Elections Act; 8. Every Returning Officer and every substitute for a Returning Officer shall before entering on the duties of his office, make and sign before a, Justice of. the Peace, or before the chairman of thn local body the declaration set forth m the first schedule. 10. Not less than fourteen clear days before, any election to liU an ordinary Vacancy,, the Returning Officer shall give public notice thereof, and shall, m such notice appoint a place within the district, . and a. day, not leas ' than five nor more than, ten days after such publication, for. the nomination of candidates. 11. No per.'ou shall bo deemed to be a candidate for any local elective office unless, nominated m the following manner, that is to say, a, nomination paper, m the form.in the. second schedule, signed by two electors of the district and: by the candidate m token of- his assent to such, nomination, shall be addressed to the Returning. Officer, and. delivered at the place named m the said notice, at, any time after the publication thereof andlbefore n6on_of'the day appointed, therein., 12. Afc. the hour of noon on the stud day, the Returning Officer shall f oat the names of all the candidates so nominated m a conBpiruous public- place outside the place appointed m tlte said notice. ' 13. If the number of candidates does. not exceed the number of vaoincies' to '■■ be. filled, the Returning Officer shall, at the place and on- the day so appointed publicly declare such candidate or candidates to bo. duly elected' to the office or officoß to re filled at the election then being held. 14. If;the number of candidates exceeds the number of offices then to be filled, the" Returning Officer shall forthwith give public notice of the day on which the poll is to bo. taken, of the names of the several candidates, ntid of the situation of the polling booths. The. dny on which the poll is to be taken shall be . the day appointed for holding the election as hereinbefore provided; Pbovisioks toe Fibbt Elections Counties Act. 51. For the purposes of the first elections to be held under this Act, and of every. election m: a county m which, the. whole.of. this Act. is not m force, the following personsshaU be deemed to be county, electors • within each, riding.: — (1.) Every person, who ■, is entitled : for tfye time, being to vote, at a: Road Board election m any road, district m the riding. (2 ) Every person not bo. entitled who is for thei time being, entitled \o. yote at an election of a member:of:the;Hou^e of Representatives upon a: qoalifica-.. t ion m any outlying district m the riding. (3.) Any legal holder of a miner's right which shall have been issued. : within, the electoral district m which the riding or part therkofis- included not less than three months prior to :the : election. 7de :

NOW PUBLISHED, THE ' QOUTHERN PROVINOES; ALMANACj YJ ' "" ' ' ' '.' DIBEOTOBY, YEAB I BPPK,.ANp D I A; B, V, •808., i ; 18 -7: 7 , BBING THK-TWENTY-FOUBTH YEAB OF PUBLIC ATION. , This Almanao is untTersallj admitjted.to be THE BEST PUBLIBHED;nf .■•NEW \ ZEAiiAND,;' And, every ■endeaypur hop' been made to 'render-, tha 1877, " to.imyj'ofjits'.predßce'sßors.