from time to time, by Warrant under his

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1867.

hand, appoint as his Deputy for that purpose, to direct the Officer Commanding the

Militia of any District, with all convenient speed, to draw out for actual service, such

Militia force: Now know ye, that I, Daniel

Pollen, the Deputy appointed for that purpose, by Warrant under the hand of His

Excellency Sir George Grey, the Governor

of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby

order and direct you, Charles William Lyon,
the officer commanding the Militia of the

Waikato District, and of the Middle

Waikato District, with all convenient speed, to draw out for actual service the

whole Militia force within the said Districts of Waikato and of Middle Waikato.

Given under my hand at Auckland,

this thirty-first day of

October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 1st November, 1867.

THE following Proclamation is re-published from the New Zealand Gazette,
for general information.

J. A. GILFILLAN,
Provincial Secretary.

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled

"An Act to provide for the Establishment and Maintenance of an Armed Constabulary," it is enacted that the said Act shall come into operation on and after a day to be fixed by the Governor by proclamation in the Government Gazette;

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said Act to provide for the Establishment and Maintenance of an Armed Constabulary shall come into operation on and after the first day of November next.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House, at Wellington, and issued under the seal of the said Colony, this nineteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

God Save the Queen!

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1867.

THE following Order is published for general information.

T. M. HAULTAIN,

Militia General Order.

1. The following Corps will be disbanded on the 31st October next, viz:—

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Regiments of Waikato Militia.

The 1st and 2nd Companies of Forest Rangers.

The 10 (ten) Companies of Taranaki Military Settlers.

The Hawke’s Bay Military Settlers.

The Patea Rangers.

The Wanganui Rangers.

The Wanganui Yeomanry Cavalry.

2. The Commissions of all Officers of the above Corps, who are absent from the Colony without leave on the 31st instant, will lapse, as will also the commissions of those who do not, before the 31st December next, send in to the Defence Office a certificate of their residence within the Colony.

3. The names of Officers who comply with the above Order, and who are not appointed to any battalion or company of Militia, will be retained on the unattached list of the New Zealand Militia.

By command of His Excellency the Governor,

T. M. HAULTAIN,
Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1867.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

BY virtue of the powers in me vested by the forty-second section of "The Highways Act, 1867," I do hereby delegate unto the Highway Trustees of the Hunua District, the powers and authority vested in me, as Superintendent, by the fourth, fifth, and ninth Sections of "The Thistle Act, 1858."

Given under my hand at Auckland, this thirtieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested by the third Section of "The Highways Act, 1867," I do hereby notify for general information.