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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 9TH, 1865.

Proclamation Revoking a Proclamation dated
the twenty-ninth day of December, 1864,
Fixing Rate of Postage on Newspapers.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey,
Knight Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Batll,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependen-
cies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

IN pursuance of the power and authority in
me vested under section 8 of the "New
Zealand Post Office Act, 1858," I, SIR GEORGE
GREY, the Governor of the said Colony, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of New Zealand, do hereby revoke a Proclama-
tion dated at Government House at Auckland,
the twenty-ninth day of December, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-four, fixing Rate
of Postage on Newspapers, and do hereby pro-
claim and declare the rate of postage thereby
fixed for the transmission of Newspapers by
post to be and the same is hereby abolished.

And I do further declare that this Procla-
mation shall take effect on and after the
twentieth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.

Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Wellington, and
issued under the Seal of the Colony
this fourth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-
five.

G. GREY.

Approved in Council.—FORSTER GORING.
By His Excellency's command,
J. RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A Proclamation Disallowing certain Canterbury
Ordinances.

By His Excellency SIR GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander of the most
Honorable Order of the Bath, Go-
vernor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over her Majesty's Colony of

New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same, &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 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 Act provided, the Superintendent shall
forthwith transmit to the Governor 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 disallow-
ance of such Bill, and that any such disallow-
ance shall make void and annul the same from
and after the day of the date of such Proclama-
tion, or any subsequent day to be named
therein.

And whereas the Ordinances hereinafter
specified have been enacted by the Superinten-
dent of Canterbury, with the advice and con-
sent of the Provincial Council thereof, and the
said Ordinances were received by the Governor
on the twentieth day of October, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four.

And whereas it is expedient that the said
Ordinances should be disallowed.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zea-
land, 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 Ordinances passed
by the Superintendent and Provincial Council
of the Province of Canterbury, viz. :—

"The Wilson Mill Dam Ordinance, No. 1, 1864."
"The Wilson Mill Dam Ordinance, No. 2, 1864."

Given under my hand at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the Colony
of New Zealand, this fourteenth
day of January, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
FRED. A. WELD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!