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And whereas by the said Act it is further
enacted that every Provincial Council shall
continue for the period of four years from the
day of return of the Writs for choosing the
same, and no longer. Provided always that
it shall be lawful for the Governor of New
Zealand by Proclamation or otherwise, to dis-
solve the same whenever he shall think it ex-
pedient so to do.
Now, therefore I the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do, by this Procla-
mition, dissolve the Provincial Council of
the said Province of Canterbury accordingly.

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, in the Colony, afore-
said, this fourteenth day of
July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, July 14th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to authorize the undermèntioned
Gentlemen to grant Licenses for the importation
and sale of arms, gunpowder, etc., in conformity
with the provisions of the Proclamation of the
25th June, 1857,—
Josiah Flight, Esq., New Plymouth.
John Poynter, Esq., Nelson.
Henry Godfrey Gouland, Esq., Collingwood..
Stephen Lunn Muller, Esq., Wsirau.
Henry St. Hill, Esq., Wellington.
David Stark Durie, Esq., Whanganui.
John Curling, Esq., Napier.
William John Warburton Hamilton, Esq.,
Lyttelton.
John Hall, Esq., Christchurch.
John Watson, Esq., Akaroa.
John Gillies, Esq., Dunedin.
Andrew Jamieson Elles, Esq., Invercargill.
These appointments respectively to take effect
from the date in which the Proclamation above
referred to comes into force in each Province.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, July 11th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified for general information that
he has, this day, given his assent to the follow-
ing Bills passed by the Provincial Council of
the Province of Wellington, intituled "An Act
tanthosive the Superintentlh36 ipus Land
Scrip to satisfy awards of Commissioners under
Act Session II, No. 12, of the Provincial
Council, 1857," and "An Act to extend the time
for adjudication on certain claims to Scrip,
1857;" which Bills were reserved for His Excel-
lency's assent, under the provisions of the Consti-
tution Act.

E. W. STAFFORD..

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, July 14th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified for general information that
he has, this day given his assent to a Bill
passed by the Provincial Council of the Pro-
vince of Canterbury, intituled the "Provincial
Council Extension Ordinance," Sess. VIII, No. 8,
which Bill was reserved for His Excellency's
assent under the provisions of the Constitution
Act.

E. W. STAFFORD.

The Treasury,
Auckland, July 14th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
ROBERT PARRIS, Esq.,
to be District Land Purchase Commissioner
within the Province of New Plymouth.
C. W. RICHMOND.

The Treasury,
Auckland, July 14th, 1857.
THE Sub-Treasurers of the Colony are
hereby required to receive into the public
chests in their respective charge, without
special instructions for the purpose, all sums of
money tendered to them on the public account,
in pursuance of directions received from the
Government by the person tendering.
C. W. RICHMOND.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, July 14th, 1857.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
STEPHEN LUNN MULLER, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Resident Magistrate.

E. W. STAFFORD.

IN THE SUPREME COURT, NEW
ZEALAND.

In the Estates of BRUCE MCGILLEWIE, of
Waiheki, WILLIAM WALKER, of
Patamahoe and DENNIS CAMPBELL,
and JOHN GREEN, of Coromandel,
deceased intestates.

PURSUANT to the Rule of this Honor-
able Court, the creditors of the above-
named intestates are, on or before the fifteenth
day of September next, to come in and prove
their debts before LAUGHLIN O'BRIEN, Esq.,
at his Office in the Court House, Queen-street,
Auckland; or in default thereof, they will be
peremptorily excluded from all benefit arising
from the said estate.
Dated the 16th day of June, 1857.
L. O'BRIEN,
Receiver of Intestate Estates.
Supreme Court Office, Auckland.