Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 6

Page 17

✨ Provincial Proclamations

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s Command,

THOMAS WILLIAM MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. IX. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1862. [No. VI.]

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the Twenty-second year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled the "Provincial Reserved Bills Act, 1858," it was enacted that whenever any Bill shall have been passed by the Provincial Council of any Province, and shall have been reserved by the Superintendent for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, such Bill shall not have any force or authority within the said Province until the Superintendent shall signify either by speech or message to the Provincial Council or by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province that such Bill has been laid before the Governor, and that the Governor has assented to the same: And whereas an Ordinance entitled "The Provincial Council Extension Ordinance, Session XVII., No. 4," was passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, and the same was reserved by the Superintendent of the said Province for the assent of his Excellency the Governor: Now therefore I, William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury aforesaid, proclaim and declare that the aforesaid Ordinance has been laid before his Excellency the Governor, and that his Excellency has assented to the same.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-two.

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent.

By his Honor’s command,
THOS. Wᵐ. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION

For the Dissolution of the Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," the several Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago are thereby established, and it is enacted that for each of the said Provinces there shall be a Superintendent and Provincial Council:

Vol. 9, No. 6.

VUW Te Waharoa — Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1862, No 6

The Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings (depicted) were constructed between 1858 and 1865 and are the only purpose-built provincial government buildings in New Zealand still in existence.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Proclamation of Provincial Council Extension Ordinance

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated20 March 1862
KeywordsOrdinance, Proclamation, Provincial Council, Canterbury
👩‍💼 Officials

William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent
Thomas William Maude, Provincial Secretary

🏛️ Proclamation for Dissolution of Provincial Council

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
KeywordsDissolution, Proclamation, Provincial Council, Canterbury
👩‍💼 Officials

Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief

As the Gazette has been published for more than 185 years, copyright status depends on the publication date of each issue:

1840–1925 (Public Domain): Issues of the New Zealand Gazette and Provincial Gazettes from this period are in the public domain, as the term of Crown copyright (100 years) has expired. Mechanical reproductions (e.g., scanned PDFs) of these public domain documents do not attract new copyright.
1926–1999 (Crown Copyright): Issues from this period remain subject to Crown copyright. Usage of these issues in this project is "Fair Dealing" for research purposes and consistent with the spirit of the open-access principles championed by NZGOAL, ie, "The default licensing position under ... NZGOAL is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence ... [t]o the greatest extent possible, agencies should apply this licence to copyright material on their websites"
2000–Present (CC-BY 3.0 NZ): Gazette issues published on gazette.govt.nz are Crown copyright but are explicitly licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence (CC-BY 3.0 NZ). This project redistributes this content in accordance with those terms.

Nothing in this project is intended to infringe copyright, trademark law or personal privacy. Please contact me immediately if you have any concerns.

Third-Party Content

Where third-party content (e.g., notices submitted by external organisations) is identified within the Gazette, users should satisfy themselves regarding the copyright status of that specific content, as it may be subject to different ownership terms than the Gazette itself.

Sources and Attribution

NZ Gazette Sources

The primary sources for the issues of the NZ Gazette indexed by this project are:

New Zealand Gazette Archive, provided by Victoria University Library, copyright 2008 LexisNexis NZ Limited, Crown Copyright of New Zealand Gazette Office
- Issues from 1841-2008, including the New Munster, New Ulster, and Provincial Gazettes
New Zealand Gazettes by New Zealand Legal Information Institute (note: "NZLII is not the copyright owner in the source documents published on NZLII")
- Issues from 1913-1999
Gazette.govt.nz, Crown copyright / licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under CC-BY 3.0 NZ
- Issues from 2000-2017

Additional Sources

Wellington City Recollect have made available a comprehensive and excellent-quality scan of the Wellington Provincial Gazette which was used to fill in a number of issues missing from Victoria University's Gazette Archive; in particular, all 1856 issues, issues 22-34 for 1864 and issues 9-19 for 1870.
27 issues of The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette (1840) were sourced from Papers Past (public domain).
Gazette Extraordinary No. 1 (1840), held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Imaged by Luke Howison at the National Library reading rooms; PDF released into the public domain.

PDF Icon

The PDF PDF Icon was made by Good Ware, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Masthead

The logo in the header is an edited version of “Winning Coat of Arms Competition Entry, 1908” by Archives New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 (found via Wikipedia).

Who made this?

I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have created several websites for genealogical research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.

New Zealand Gazette Index