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PROCLAMATION.

By his Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor of the Co-
lony of New Zealand, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted
in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth
and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her
Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act
to grant a Representative Constitution to the
Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other
things enacted that whenever any Bill shall
have been assented to by the Superintendent
as in the said recited Act provided, the Superin-
tendent shall forthwith transmit to the Go-
vernor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall
be lawful for the Governor at any time within
three months after any such Bill shall have
beeu received by him to declare by Proclama-
tion his disallowance of suelı Bill, and that any
such disallowance shall make void and annul
the same from and after the day of the date of
such Proclamation, or any subsequent day to
be named therein.

• AND WHEREAS an Ordinance hath been
  enacted by the Superintendent of the Province
  of Otago, with the advice and consent of the
  Provincial Council thereof, intituled, "Breach
  of Privilege Ordinance, 1856," and the said
  Ordinance was received by the Governor on
  the twenty-first day of April, 1856.

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the said
recited Ordinance should be disallowed;

Now therefore I, the Governor of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested
in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of
Parliament do hereby proclaim and declare
my disallowance of the said recited Ordi-
nance.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Auckland, in the Islands afore-
said, this fifth day of June, in
the nineteenth year of the reign
of Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
and in the year of onr Lord
One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By His Excellency's command,
C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honour William Cargill,
Esquire, Superintendent of the
Province of Otago, in the Is-
lands of New Zealand.

W
HEREAS in the third Session of the
Provincial Council of Otago held in
the ninteenth year of the reign of Her Majes-
ty Queen Victoria, an Ordinance was passed,
intituled "the Provincial Council Ordinance,
1856," And Whereas the said Ordinance was,
presented to me for the assent of His Excellency
the Governor of New Zealand on the 18th
March, 1856, and was then reserved by me
for His Excellency's assent or dis-allowance;
And Whereas His Excellency has been pleased
to assent to the said Ordinance.

Now I the said William Cargill, Superin-
tendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby
proclaim that His Excellency Colonel Thomas
Gore Browne, the Governor of New Zealand,
has assented to the said Ordinance, and that I
received the signification of His Excellency's
assent on the 27th day of May, 1856.

Given under my hand at Auckland,
in New Zealand, this 29th day
of May, 1856.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland
29th May, 1856.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct that the following
Notice received from H. M. Secretary of state,
setting forth the dates and other particulars
connected with the departure of Mails twice a
month by clipper sailing vessels between Great
Britain and Australia should be published for
general information.

His Excellency desires it to be notified at
the same time that this arrangement is tem-
porary only, and intended to supply a regular
Mail service until the re-establishment of
Steam communication.

By his Excellency's command,
JOHN HALL,
Colonial Secretary.

By command of the Postmaster-General.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC,
AND
INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL POSTMASTERS.

MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.

General Post Office, December, 1855.

Subject to a Notice of discontinuance on
the re-establishment of regular Steam com-
munication, arrangements have been made for
the conveyance of Mails to Australia, twice in
every month during the ensuing year, by
clipper ships, from Liverpool, the owners of
which have entered into a contract with the
Postmaster-General for the performance of
this service in a stated number of days.

Unless a further Notice be issued, the
Mails for Australia will be made up in London,
on the evening of the undermentioned days,
viz:-

January .. .. 7th
February .. .. 6th
66 .. .. 21st
66 .. .. 21st