THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 253

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Authorizing additional Postal Regulation for the
Transmission by Post of Patterns of Merchandise.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, on the
fifth day of August, 1865.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Post Office Act
1858," power is given to the Governor in Council
from time to time to make rules and regulations for
the managing of the several Post Offices within the
said Colony, for the receiving, despatching, conveying,
and delivering of letters (including the imposition of
fees for private boxes and deliveries); for the detain-
ing, opening, and return, or other disposal of irregu-
larly posted, unclaimed, and refused letters, or such
as from any cause whatsoever cannot be delivered or
forwarded, and the contents thereof respectively, and
for the publication of the lists of the same; for the
making, custody, and sale of postage labels; for the
receiving and paying of money in connection with
the said Postal Service, and for the conduct of Post
Officers; and any such rules and regulations at any
time in force to alter, vary, or revoke; and for the
purpose of giving effect to the rules and regulations
so to be made, further power is given to the Governor
in Council by the said Act to impose any penalty not
exceeding Ten Pounds for any one offence against
such rules and regulations :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, doth hereby make the
following additional Post Office Regulation, and doth
declare that the same shall be in force from and after
the fifth day of August, 1865:—

PATTERN POST.

Regulation 85.

A system of Pattern Post will be established be-
tween places within the Colony of New Zealand, and
also between the Colony and the United Kingdom
and the Colonies of Victoria and New South Wales,
whereby patterns of merchandize, of no intrinsic
value, may be sent by post under the same regula-
tions and at the same rates of postage as those of
the Book Post.

(1.) No packet of patterns must exceed twenty-
four ounces in weight.

(2.) The patterns must not be of intrinsic value:
—This rule excludes all articles of a saleable
nature, and indeed, whatever may have a value
of its own apart from its use as a pattern;
and the quantity of any material sent osten-
sibly as a pattern must not be so great that it
can be fairly considered as having on this
ground an intrinsic value.

(3.) There must be no writing or printing other
than the address of the person for whom the
packet is intended, the address of the sender,
a trade-mark and number, and the prices of
the articles.

(4.) The patterns must be sent in covers open at
the ends, so as to be easy of examination.

(5.) In all other respects the regulations of the
Book Post will apply to the Pattern Post.

(6.) Any packets not in accordance with the above
regulations will be treated as letters.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
Delegation of powers of Governor under "Protection
of Certain Animals Act, 1861," to Superintendent
of Taranaki.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
fifth day of August, 1865.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
entitled " The Protection of Certain Animals
Act, 1861," it is provided that it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council, by warrant under his hand,
from time to time to delegate all or any of the powers
vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council
by the aforesaid Act, subject to such regulations as
he may think fit, and may from time to time rescind
such delegation :

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in
exercise of the power and authority for this purpose
me vested, do hereby delegate unto

CHARLES BROWN, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki, all
the powers vested in me as Governor or as Governor
in Council by the aforesaid Act, to have hold and
exercise within the Province of Taranaki, the said
powers hereby delegated to the said Charles Brown,
so long as he shall continue and remain Superin-
tendent of the said Province, and no longer : Provided
always that copies of all instruments signed or issued
by the Superintendent under such delegation shall be
further transmitted to the Colonial Secretary for
record.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Consenting to surrender of lot No. 4, section No. 12,
City of Auckland.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
fifth day of August, 1865.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled " The Native Re-
serves Act Amendment Act, 1862," it is enacted that
where, under the provisions of the said Act ("The
New Zealand Native Reserves Act, 1856"), any act
required to be done by Commissioners, with the
approval or assent of the Governor, it shall be suffi-
cient if such act be done by the Governor with the
advice of his Executive Council : Now therefore His
Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise
of the said power and authority, doth hereby, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the Colony, declare his assent to the surrender to Her
Majesty the Queen, by William Swainson, Esq.,
the sole surviving trustee, of lot No. 4 of section
No. 12 of the City of Auckland, particularly described
in the Schedule hereto, and in a Deed of Grant bear-
ing date the seventh day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-four, and filed of record in the office
of the Secretary for Crown Lands.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Schedule.

All that allotment or parcel of land containing
by admeasurement two roods and fifteen perches,