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thereof, the following duty upon gold : that is to say,—At the Customs, previously to exportation from New Zealand, the sum of two shillings and sixpence upon every ounce troy weight of such gold, and so on in proportion for any greater or less quantity than an ounce : provided always, that until the then next session of the General Assembly, it should be lawful for the Governor, by an Order in Council, to declare that a lower rate of duty than two shillings and sixpence should be collected on each ounce ; and also from time to time to suspend the collection of such duty whenever to the Governor in Council it should seem meet :

And whereas, by an Order in Council, made the 23rd day of September last, the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, did suspend the collection of the said duty from the time of the coming into operation of the said act until such time as should thereafter be appointed by his Excellency, by and with such advice and consent as aforesaid :

Now, therefore, his Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, doth by this present Order appoint that such suspension of the collection of the said duty shall cease and determine on the 1st day of November next, on and after which day the said duty shall be levied, collected, and paid.

F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Gold Fields Act, 1858," it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by the said act, except the powers conferred by sections 7, 8, 27 and 40 thereof, subject or not subject to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit :

Now, therefore, I, THOMAS GORE BROWNE, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of the power and authority for this purpose in me

vested, do hereby delegate absolutely and without restriction unto

JAMES MACKAY the younger, of Nelson, Esq., all the powers vested in me under or by virtue of sections 3, 5, and 6, of the said Act, so far as regards the "Gold Fields" constituted by Order in Council of the 4th October instant.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, the Seventh day of October, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

T. GORE BROWNE.

Crown Lands Office, Auckland,
October 5th, 1859.

NOTICE is hereby given that applications for leases of land in the Massacre Bay Gold Fields, for gold-mining purposes, should be forwarded to JAMES MACKAY, Esq., junr., of Massacre Bay, for transmission to His Excellency the Governor.

HENRY JOHN TANCRED.

Attorney-General\'s Office, Auckland,
October, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the name of the undermentioned gentleman be added to the Commission of the Peace for the Colony,

JAMES MACKAY, the younger, Esq.

FREDK. WHITAKER.

Attorney-General\'s Office, Auckland,
6th October, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES MACKAY, the younger, Esq., J.P.,

to be a Resident Magistrate.

FREDK. WHITAKER.

Treasury, Auckland,
7th October, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES MACKAY, Esq., jun.,

to be Receiver of Land Revenue within the district proclaimed as a Gold Field, at Massacre Bay.

This appointment is to take effect on the 1st of November next.

C. W. RICHMOND.