110

Provincial Secretary\'s Office,
Nelson, August 15th, 1857.

HIS Honour the Superintendent directs
the re-publication for general information of the following notices from the General Government Gazette.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Provincial Secretary.

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 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 Auck-
land, 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:

And whereas by the said Act it is further
enacted that every Provincial Council shall
continue for the period of four years from the
day of return of the Writs for choosing the
same, and no longer: Provided always that
it shall be lawful for the Governor of New
Zealand, by Proclamation or otherwise, to dis-
solve the same whenever he shall think it ex-
pedient so to do:

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do, by this Pro-
clamation, dissolve the Provincial Council of
the said Province of Nelson accordingly.

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 first day of August, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By his Excellency\'s command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary\'s Office,
Auckland, August 3rd, 1857.

THE following Additional Instructions un-
der the Royal Sign Manual and Signet,
authorizing an additional number of persons
to be summoned to the Legislative Council of
New Zealand, but so that the whole number
shall not exceed twenty, are published for
general information.

By his Excellency\'s command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

VICTORIA R.

Additional Instructions to our trusty and
well-beloved THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Esquire, Companion of our most Ho-
nourable Order of the Bath, Colonel in
our Army, our Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over our Colony
of New Zealand, with all its members
and appurtenances whatever. Given
at our Court, at Osborne House, Isle
of Wight, this eighth day of May,
1857, in the twentieth year of our
reign.

WHEREAS we did by our Commission,
under the Great Seal of our United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bear-
ing date at Westminster, the ninth day of
February, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of our reign,
constitute and appoint you to be our Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony
of New Zealand, with all its members and ap-
purtenances whatever, during our will and
pleasure, and did thereby command you to do
and execute all things in due manner that
should belong to your said command, and to
the trust we have reposed in you, according to
and in pursuance of an Act made and passed
in the session holden in the fifteenth and six-
teenth years of our reign, intituled "An Act
to grant a Representative Constitution to the
Colony of New Zealand," and according to the
several powers and directions granted or ap-
pointed you by our said Commission, and the
Instructions and Authorities therewith given
you, or by such further Powers, Instructions,
and Authorities as should at any time there-
after be granted or appointed you under our
Sign Manual and Signet, or by our order in
our Privy Council, or by us through one of
our Principal Secretaries of State, and accord-
ing to such reasonable laws as were then in
force in our said Colony, or should thereafter
be made by the General Assembly of our said
Colony: And whereas we did, in pursuance of
the said recited Act, and in exercise of the
power thereby vested in us, by our Instruc-
tions under our Sign Manual and Signet ac-
companying our said Commission, and bearing
even date therewith, authorize you in our
name to summon from time to time to the
said Legislative Council such person or per-
sons as you should deem prudent and discreet
men, either in addition to the then existing
members of the said Council, or for supplying
any vacancies which might take place therein,