laid before the Queen, Her Majesty has been pleased to confirm and allow the same: Now THEREFORE, I, the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand do hereby proclaim and make known to all whom it may concern that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confirm and allow the before mentioned Ordinance.

Given under my Hand and Issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand at Government House at Auckland in the Province of New Ulster in the Islands aforesaid, this twelfth day of July, in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency’s Command,
C. A. DILLON,
Civil Secretary.

God Save the Queen!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1850.

HIS EXCELLENCY the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to direct, under instructions from the Governor-in-Chief, the publication of the following Despatches and Additional Royal Instructions, for general information.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

Government House,
Auckland, 9th July, 1850.

SIR,—I have the honor to enclose for your information the copy of a Despatch from Earl Grey No. 3 of the 13th of January last, enclosing additional Instructions under the Royal Signet and Sign Manual, appointing certain persons to be Members of the Legislative Council of New Munster. I have to request that you will cause the confirmation of these appointments by Her Majesty to be notified in the Government Gazette of New Munster.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,

G. GREY.

His Excellency
The Lieutenant-Governor,
of New Munster.

(COPY.)
Downing-street,
15th January, 1850.

SIR,—Adverting to that part of my Despatch No. 89, of the 22nd ultimo, in which I signified to you that the Queen had been pleased to confirm and allow an Ordinance made and passed in the month of November, 1848, by yourself with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, intituled "An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of Legislative Councils in the colony of New Zealand," I have now to acquaint you that I have had the honor to lay before Her Majesty, your Despatches of the numbers and dates noted in the margin reporting the provisional appointment by yourself and the Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster of the following gentlemen to be Members of the Legislative Council of that Province, viz:

WILLIAM McLEOD BANNATYNE,
FRANCIS DILLON BELL,
WILLIAM HICKSON,
GEORGE HUNTER,
ALFRED LUDLAM,
GEORGE MOORE,
DAVID MONRO,
JOHN DAMFORTH GREENWOOD,
HENRY SEYMOUR,
and
WILLIAM OLDFIELD CAUTLEY, Esquires.

I transmit herewith additional Instructions which Her Majesty has been pleased to issue under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet ratifying and confirming the appointments so made by yourself and the Lieutenant-Governor.

I have, &c.,

GREY.

Governor
Sir George Grey, K. C. B.
&c., &c., &c.

VICTORIA R.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS

to Our Governor in Chief of New Zealand, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor-in-Chief for the time being,

to Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of New Munster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being, or to our Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster, or to the Officer exercising the said Office of Lieutenant-Governor for the time being; Given at Our Court at Windsor this fourteenth day of January, 1850, in the thirteenth year of Our Reign.

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance made and passed in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign, by the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled "An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of Legislative Councils in the colony of New Zealand," it is, amongst other things enacted that for each of the Provinces into which the Islands of New Zealand now are, or may hereafter be divided, there shall be a Legislative Council to consist of not less than nine Members; that the Members of the Executive Council of the Province for the time being shall be Members ex officio of the said Provincial Council, and that it shall be lawful for the Governor or the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Province from time to time to summon and appoint such other persons as he may think proper, to be personally, or by virtue of his or their office, a Member or Members of the said Legislative Council, and that all such appointments to be made by such Letters Patent as aforesaid without Our previous Warrant, shall be provisional only, and subject to our confirmation or disallowance, but shall be valid to all intents and purposes, and irrevocable until Our pleasure shall have been signified thereupon.

AND WHEREAS, you, Our Governor as aforesaid, did, in pursuance and in the exercise of the power so vested in you, appoint provisionally and until Our pleasure should be known, Our trusty and well beloved,