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and continue in force until the Thirtieth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this Twenty-first day of April, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

S. BEaley,
Superintendent.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 27th April, 1863.

THE following Conditional License, granted by His Honor the Superintendent, is published for general information.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Province of Canterbury. } Know all Men by these presents that I, Samuel Bealey, New Zealand, } Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, do hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the “Public-house Ordinance,” Session VI., No. 3, license Reuben Cook, to sell any Spirituous or Fermented liquors in any quantity, in his House of Accommodation situate on the North West Track in the Waimakariri District, in the occupation of the said Reuben Cook, subject to the conditions imposed by the Bench of Magistrates at the annual licensing meeting, held at Christchurch, on the Seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

This license shall commence on the day of the date hereof, and continue in force until the First day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this Sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

S. BEaley,
Superintendent.

NOTICE.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 30th April, 1863.

WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether a certain Reserve for a Coal Field made by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, on the 27th day of November, 1860, temporarily, until the then next session of the Provincial Council, containing five thousand acres of land more or less, situate on the south bank of the river Grey, which reserve was confirmed by a resolution of the Provincial Council of the said Province, the 29th day of November, 1860, was duly made pursuant to the Waste Land Regulations of the said Province and the provisions of the “Public Reserves Act, 1854.” Now therefore His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified for public information, that in pursuance of the powers vested in him by the Waste Lands Regulations now in force within the said Province of Canterbury, he has made the following Reserve, for purposes of public utility, within the said province, temporarily, until the next session of the Provincial Council, that is to say: Five Thousand Acres of Land, situate on the south bank of the River Grey, commencing at the north-west corner of a reserve for Native purposes, containing 250 acres, and numbered 34 of the General Government Reserves, in the Grey district, for Native purposes, situated at the junction of the River Arnold with the River Grey, and extending along the western and southern boundaries of the said reserve to the River Arnold, thence following along the said river in a south-easterly direction a distance of two and a half miles, thence by a straight line in a westerly direction to a point, being fifteen chains distant from and in continuation of the eastern boundary of a reserve for Native purposes, containing 250 acres, and numbered 33 of the General Government Reserves in the Grey district, for Native purposes, thence following along the eastern side of the said reserve to the river Grey, and thence along the river Grey to the commencing point. And his Honor directs that a full and complete description of the said reserve shall, as soon as possible, be set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Office of the Province. And his Honor further directs it to be notified, that the said reserve is made for the purpose following, (that is to say:) by means of the revenue to be derived from the letting, sale, or other disposition of the said lands for mining purposes, to provide a fund for the improvement of the navigation of the River Grey, or for such other and different purposes of public utility, for the public service of the said Province, as shall be declared and appropriated by any Act or Ordinance of the said Province to be duly passed in that behalf.

By order of His Honor the Superintendent,

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

A PROCLAMATION.

Disallowing certain Canterbury Ordinances.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the most Honourable the 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 made and enacted in the Imperial 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 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