PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 21st February, 1868.

HEREBY notify that the Chairman of the Highway Trustees for the Oramatu District has communicated to me the election of

Mr. Joseph Gane,

as a Highway Trustee for that District, in the room of Mr. James P. King, resigned.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 26th February, 1868.

HEREBY notify that the Chairman of the Board of Highway Trustees for the Waikato District has communicated to me the appointment of

Mr. J. S. Mellsop,

as Collector and Secretary to the Board in that District.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 2nd March, 1868.

It is hereby notified, for general information, that

Robert McVeagh

has been appointed Ferryman at Cambridge, in the place of William Murphy, resigned.

Geo. B. Davy,
Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 2nd March, 1868.

THE following notifications are republished from the New Zealand Gazette, for general information.

Geo. B. Davy,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th Feb., 1868.

THE following Bill, passed by the Provincial Council, and assented to by the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, intituled—

“The Auckland Municipal Police Act, 1866, Amendment Act, 1868;”
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance in respect of it.

E. W. Stafford.

THE “PROTECTION OF ANIMALS ACT, 1867.”

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 2nd March, 1868.

THE following Proclamation is republished from the New Zealand Gazette for general information.

Geo. B. Davy,
Provincial Secretary.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Protection of Animals Act, 1867,” it is enacted that no native game shall be hunted, shot, taken or killed in any part of the Colony except during the months of April, May, June, and July in each year. And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to declare that all or any of the provisions of the said Act relating to native game shall not be in force in such parts of the Colony as he shall in and by such proclamation define:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested in that behalf by the above-recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions of “The Protection of Animals Act, 1867,” relating to native game, shall not be in force within the Tauranga, Maketu, and Opotiki Districts, as the same districts are defined in a schedule to a proclamation bearing date the twenty-ninth of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, constituting districts to be called Resident Magistrates’ Districts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1868.

THE following Bill, passed by the Provincial Council, and assented to by the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, intituled—

“The Gunpowder Regulation Act, 1867;”
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance in respect of it.

E. W. Stafford.