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Waste Land Regulations now in force within the said Province, do hereby reserve from sale until the first day of July, 1858, the portions of land here-inafter described, that is to say :—

Three hundred and twenty-five acres, more or less, situate in the Mandeville district, being bounded on the North by section 826, on the East by the edge of the swamp and sandhills as shewn on map M D 2, in the Land Office, Christchurch, on the South by the edge of the swamp, and terrace, and on the West by the North Road, subject to a road through it one chain wide, from Massacre Hillock on the North Road, to the old pah.

Twenty acres, more or less, situate in the Mandeville district, north of and adjoining Section 358, joining the North Road.

The whole of such land or such part thereof as the Waste Lands Board shall adjudge, to be granted to the Rev. John Raven, by way of payment for work to be done in accordance with a contract approved by me on the 5th instant, for the construction of a portion of the Great North Road.

JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD,
Superintendent.

Proclamation.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it was enacted that no bill passed by a Superintendent and Provincial Council which shall be reserved for the signification of the assent of the Governor shall have any force or authority within the Province until the Superintendent shall signify either by speech or Message to the Provincial Council, or by Proclamation in the Government Gazette that such bill has been laid before the Governor, and that the Governor has assented to the same. And whereas four Ordinances, entitled respectively "The Fuller Remission of Purchase Money Ordinance, Session VIII, No. 1," "The Akaroa Jetty Ordinance, Session VIII, No. 3," "The Kaiapoi Town Ordinance, Session VIII, No. 7," and "The Peacock Wharf Ordinance, Session VIII, No. 9," were passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, and the same were reserved by me for the assent of His Excellency the Governor.

Now therefore I, JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, Proclaim and Declare that the aforesaid several Ordinances have been laid before His Excellency the Governor, and that His Excellency has assented to the same.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this 10th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
RICHARD PACKER,
Provincial Secretary.

God save the Queen.

Proclamation.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted, that whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Governor in the said recited Act provided, the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him to declare by Proclamation his disallowance of such Bill, and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same from and after the day of the date of such Proclamation, or any subsequent day to be named therein.

And whereas an Ordinance hath been enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, intituled "The Inwood Mill Ordinance," Session VIII, No. 4, and the said Ordinance was received by the Governor on the 23rd day of July, 1857.

And whereas it is expedient that the