PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled “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 Superintendent as in the said 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 the Ordinances hereinafter specified have been enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, and the said Ordinances were received by the Governor on the 11th day of January, 1859:

And whereas it is expedient that the said recited Ordinances should be disallowed:

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the following Ordinances passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, viz.:—

“The Immigrants’ Barracks Ordinance, Sess. X., No. 2,”

“The Public Hospital Ordinance, Sess. X., No. 6.”

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, in the Colony aforesaid, this 26th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 26th January, 1859.

THE following Bill passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, entitled—

“The Scab Prevention Ordinance, Session X., No. 10,”

which Bill was reserved for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, having been laid before the Governor, in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution Act, his Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 26th January, 1859.

THE following Ordinances, passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, entitled—

“Canterbury Police Ordinance, 1858,”

“Planting of Forest Trees Ordinance, 1858,”

“Trespass of Cattle Amendment Ordinance, Session X., No. 4,”

“Cathedral Square Ordinance, Session X., No. 5,”

“Appropriation Ordinance, 1858-9, Session X., No. 7,”

“Christ’s College Amendment Ordinance, Session X., No. 8,”

“Sheep Ordinance, Session X., No. 9,”

having been laid before the Governor, in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution Act, his Excellency has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.

E. W. STAFFORD.

MARRIAGE ACT, 1854.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1859.

Registrar General’s Office,
Auckland, January 20, 1859.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and entitled “The Marriage Act, 1854,” the following List of Officiating Ministers, within the meaning of the said Act, is published for general information:—

UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

The Right Reverend C. J. Abraham, Bishop

The Reverend B. Y. Ashwell

Wm. Aylmer

J. C. Bagshaw

A. Baker

C. Baker

Croasdaile Bowen

The Ven. Archdeacon A. N. Brown

The Reverend R. Burrows

H. F. Butt

T. Chapman

G. Cotterill

C. P. Davies

R. Davis

B. W. Dudley

Henry Fendall

John A. Fenton

F. Gould

H. Govett

T. S. Grace

The Ven. Archdeacon O. Hadfield

The Reverend J. Hamlin

The Right Reverend H. J. C. Harper, Bishop

The Reverend Henry Wm. Harper

E. H. Heywood