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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral
of the same.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted
in the Imperial 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 Super-
intendent 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
been received by him to declare, by Proclama-
tion, his disallowance of such 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 the Ordinances hereinafter
specified have been enacted by the Superinten-
dent of the Province of Canterbury with the
advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof, and the said Ordinances were received
by the Governor on the fourth day of
January, 1857.

And whereas it is expedient that the said
recited Ordinances 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 following Ordi-
nances passed by the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of the Province of Can-
terbury, viz:-

The "Diversion of Roads Ordinance," Session
VIII, No. 14, and
The "Governor's Bay Road Ordinance,"
Session VIII, No. 15.

Given under my hand and
issued under the Public
Seal of the Colony of New
Zealand, at Government
House, Auckland, this twen-
ty-first day of January,
in the year of Our Lord,
One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-eight.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honorable 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 passed in
the Session holden in the nineteenth and
twentieth years of Her Majesty, No. 19, in-
tituled "The Counties Act, 1856," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
on the recommendation of the Superintendent
of any Province of the said Colony, from time
to time by Proclamation to be published in the
Government Gazette of the Colony to consti-
tute any portion of such Province or County,
Hundred or Parish, and that all such Counties,
Hundreds, and Parishes shall have such desig-
nation and limits as in and by the Proclama-
tion constituting the same shall be prescribed.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, on the recommendation of the Super-
intendent of the Province of Wellington, do
proclaim and declare, and I do hereby consti-
tute that portion of the Province of Welling-
ton, bounded as follows, viz:-North, by a line
commencing at the north-east corner of Section
No. 71, and running to a point 60 chains from
the Waipona river at the Pa-kai-ko-kiri-kiri,-
and from thence in a straight line till it strikes
the Waipona river. East, by the Rua-ma-
hunga river. South, by the Waingaroa river.
West, by the Tararua Range to be the
Hundred of Masterton.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand,
at Government House, at
Auckland, this twenty-fifth
day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-
eight.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, January 22nd, 1858.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that a Writ issued for the
election of a Superintendent of the Province
of Canterbury has been returned with a certifi-
cate to the effect that

WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, of Christ-
church, Barrister-at-Law,

has been duly elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, January 22nd, 1858.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that Writs issued for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council
for the Province of Canterbury have been re-
turned with certificates to the effect that