Numb. 48.
445

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1864.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight
Commander of the Most Honorable Order
of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "New Zealand Post Office
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be law-
ful for the Governor from time to time, by writing
under his hand, to delegate to the Postmaster-General
all or any of the powers vested in the Governor by
this Act, except such powers as are conferred upon
the Governor in Council, and such powers as are
conferred by Clause 22 of the said Act, and such
delegation from time to time to alter or revoke as he
shall think fit:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
as aforesaid, in pursuance and exercise of the said
power and authority, do hereby delegate to the
Honourable
JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON, Esquire,
Postmaster-General of New Zealand, all the powers
vested in me by the said in part recited Act,
except the powers conferred upon the Governor
in Council, and the powers conferred by Clause
22 of the said in part recited Act, to be held
and exercised by him from time to time as he shall
think fit, so long as he shall hold the said office of
Postmaster-General.

Given under my hand, at the Government
House, at Auckland, this twenty-fourth
day of November, in the year of Our Lord,
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-
four.

G. GREY.

A PROCLAMATION

Disallowing certain Ordinances passed by the Superin-
tendent and Provincial Council of the Province of
Canterbury.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight
Commander of the Most Honorable Order
of the Bath, Governor and Commander-
in Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

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 Re-
presentative 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 Act provided, the
Superintendent 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 Proclamation, his disallowance
of such Bill, and that any such disallowance shall
make void and annul the same, from and after the
day of such Proclamation, or any subsequent date to
be named therein :

And whereas the Ordinances hereinafter specified
have been enacted by the Superintendent 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
Twenty-ninth day of October, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Sixty-four:

And whereas is is expedient that the said Ordi-
nances 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 Parlia-
ment, do hereby proclaim and declare my dis-
allowance of the following Ordinances passed by the
Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Pro-
vince of Canterbury, viz.:---

"The Wakefield Settled Estate Ordinance 1864,"
"The Christ's College Loan Ordinance 1864,"

Given under my hand, at the Government
House at Auckland, and issued under the
Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this