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tenant-Governor to divide any such Allotment for the purpose of such alienation aforesaid into Allotments of one-half or one-quarter of a square mile.”

And Whereas it is further directed by the Twenty-fourth Section of the said Chapter, that “No part of the domains of Us in right of Our Crown in New Zealand shall be alienated, either in perpetuity or otherwise, either absolutely or conditionally, until after the same shall first have been put up to Sale at a Public Auction, of which Auction three Calendar Months’ notice shall first have been given by such Proclamation as aforesaid:” And whereas it is further directed by the Twenty-eighth Section of the said Chapter, that “It shall be competent to any person within three Calendar Months next after any such Auction to become, without any further Auction, the purchaser of any lands so put up to Sale as aforesaid, and not then sold, by offering and paying for the same the upset price at which the same may have been so put up to Sale.”

And Whereas, by the said recited Act, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for Us from time to time to amend, and for that purpose to add to, or if necessary repeal any such Instructions as aforesaid: And Whereas it hath appeared to us expedient to amend our said Instructions by repealing the said recited provisions and substituting others for them respectively:—

Now, therefore, by virtue of the power in Us by the said Act vested, We do hereby declare: One, Well, and Blesses that the said recited provisions shall be, and they are hereby respectively repealed.

And that in lieu of the aforesaid Twenty-fourth Section, the following directions shall be and the same is hereby added to the said Instructions:—“It shall be competent for the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of any such Province, with the advice of his Executive Council, to determine the Size of Rural Allotments within the said domains, provided that no such Allotment shall exceed the size of One Square Mile.”

And that in lieu of the aforesaid Twenty-eighth Section, the following directions shall be and the same is hereby added to the said Instructions:—“No part of the domains of Us in right of Our Crown in New Zealand shall be alienated, either in perpetuity or otherwise, either absolutely or conditionally, until after the same shall first have been put up to Sale at a Public Auction. And it shall be competent for such Governor or Lieutenant-Governor, with such advice, as aforesaid, to fix the time at which any such Auction shall take place, provided that notice of such Auction shall be given by such Proclamations as aforesaid, not more than three months, and less than one month, before the same shall take place.”

And that in lieu of the said Third Twenty-eighth Section, the following directions shall be and the same is hereby added to the said Instructions:—“It shall be competent to any person, within three years next after any such Auction, to become, without any further Auction, the purchaser of any Lands so put up to Sale as aforesaid and not then sold, by offering and paying for the same the upset price at which the same may have been put up to Sale:—Provided, always, that it shall be competent for such Governor or Lieutenant-Governor as aforesaid, with such advice as aforesaid, instead of permitting such lands to be so purchased, by any person applying for them as aforesaid, to put up the same again to Auction, giving such notice thereof as is hereinbefore provided.”

V. R.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the 6th and 6th years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “An Act for regulating the carriage of passengers in Merchant vessels:” And whereas an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the 10th and 11th years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “An Act to amend the Passengers’ Act, and to make further provision for the carriage of passengers by sea:” And whereas by the Act first hereinafter referred to it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any British Colony, other than the British West Indies, to extend by Proclamation the said Act so as to extend and shall apply to the carriage of passengers by sea from such Colony to such places as may by him be named for the purposes of such Proclamation; and that thereupon the said Act shall be thenceforth so extended and shall apply accordingly: Now, therefore, I, the said Governor-in-Chief, by virtue of the authority in me for that purpose vested as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said recited Acts of Parliament shall be extended and shall apply to the carriage of passengers by sea from the said Colony of New Zealand to all ports and places lying between the 70th and 75th degrees of longitude west of Greenwich. And whereas by the said first-recited Act it is further enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any such Colony as aforesaid, by Proclamation, to declare the rule of computation by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying passengers from such Colony to any other place shall be estimated for the purposes of the said Act: Now, therefore, I, the said Governor-in-Chief, pursuant to such authority as aforesaid, do hereby further proclaim and declare that the number of weeks deemed to be necessary for the voyage of any such ship shall be as follows, that is to say:

For a voyage to any Islands in the Pacific Ocean………………… Five weeks.

For a voyage to any place on the Coast of North or South America……………………………… Nine weeks.