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Ordinance to increase the efficiency of the
Constabulary Force," it is amongst other things
enacted that the provisions of that Ordinance
should immediately be in force within the
limits of the Town of Wellington, as therein
mentioned, and that it should be lawful for the
Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the
Executive Council, from time to time, by pro-
clamation in the Government Gazette, to
specify any further or other limits of towns
within which any of the provisions of that
Ordinance should be enforced, upon a requisi-
tion to that effect from a majority of the
magistrates of the district in which such town
is situate: And whereas by an Ordinance
passed by the Provincial Council of the
Province of Nelson, in Session I., No. 2, inti-
tuled "An Ordinance to vest in the Superin-
tendent of the Province of Nelson certain
powers heretofore vested in the Governor and
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New
Munster," it is enacted that all the powers and
authority which by any Ordinance of the
Legislative Council of New Zealand, or of the
Provincial Council of New Munster, enume-
rated in the Schedule thereunto annexed, were
theretofore vested in the Governor and Lieu-
tenant-Governor, or other Officer administer-
ing the Government of the late Province of
New Munster; and all proclamations, acts,
matters, and things which by any such Ordi-
nance were required to be or might have been
issued or done by him, with his sanction or
approval, or by him and his Executive Coun-
cil, should and might thenceforth, within and
so far as the same might relate to the Province
of Nelson, be exercised, and exercised, issued,
and done by the Superintendent of the Pro-
vince of Nelson, or with his sanction and
approval, or in or by him and his Executive
Council respectively, as fully in all respects as
they were vested in and might have been ex-
ercised, issued, and done by the Governor and
Lieutenant-Governor, or other Officer adminis-
tering the Government of the said late Pro-
vince of New Munster, or in or by him and
his Executive Council: And whereas the be-
fore part recited Ordinance, No. 9 of Ses-
sion I., of the Legislative Council of New
Munster is enumerated in the Schedule to the
last recited Ordinance annexed: And whereas
a majority of the Magistrates of the district of
Massacre Bay, in the said Province of Nelson,
have requested that the provisions of the firstly
recited Ordinances should be enforced in the Town
of Collingwood, situated in the said district:

Now therefore I, the Superintendent of the
Province of Nelson, with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council thereof, pursuant
to the power and authority in me vested in
that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the aforesaid Ordinance, passed by the
Legislative Council of New Munster, in Session
I., No. 9, shall be in force within the limits of
the said Town of Collingwood, as delineated on
the Government plan of the said town, from
and after the publication hereof.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this
First day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven.

J. P. ROBINSON,
Superintendent.

By his Honour's command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Nelson, December 1st, 1857.

HIS Honour the Superintendent directs it
to be notified that he has appointed

MR. THOMAS WILKINS
Poundkeeper for the district of Suburban
North. The appointment to date from the
14th ultimo.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Provincial Secretary.

IMPOUNDED, at Suburban North, on the
16th November instant, ONE RED HEIFER,
branded with a triangle on the off flank, and
a mark on the off shoulder.

If not claimed within Twenty-one days from
this date, it will be sold, in accordance with
the provisions of the Impounding Ordinance.

THOMAS WILKINS,
Poundkeeper.

December 1st, 1857.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Nelson, December 1st, 1857.

HIS Honour the Superintendent directs it
to be notified that the undermentioned
gentlemen have been elected to form a Local
Committee under the provisions of the "Edu-
cation Act," for the district of SPRING
GROVE.

Mr. ALFRED SAUNDERS,
Mr. WILLIAM WHITE,
Mr. GEORGE RUTHERFORD,
Mr. J. B. SILCOCK,
Mr. W. J. HERRICK,
Mr. JOSEPH ANDREWS,
Mr. WILLIAM HIGGINS,
Mr. WILLIAM M'GOWAN,
Mr. JAMES LADLEY.

And further, that Mr. ALFRED SAUNDERS
has been, in accordance with the provisions of
the said Act, elected by the above Committee
as its representative at the Central Board of
Education.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Provincial Secretary.