Numb. 25,
177

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parlia-
ment passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth
years of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap.
seventy-two, intituled "An Act to grant a Represent-
ative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,"
the several Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth,
Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago, are
thereby established, and it is enacted that for each
of the said Provinces there shall be a Superintendent
and Provincial Council.

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
dissolve the same whenever he shall think it expedient
so to do:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this Proclama-
tion dissolve the Provincial Council of the said
Province of Canterbury accordingly.

Given under the hand of 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 Zea-
land and its Dependencies, at the Govern-
ment House, at Wellington, and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, this
seventh day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

G. GREY, Governor.

Approved in Council this twenty-third day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

Present:

THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Otago Loan Ordinance,
1861," passed by the Superintendent and Pro-
vincial Council of the Province of Otago, provision
was made for raising a Loan of fifty thousand pounds
for the public service of the said Province, and for
liquidation of its public debt.

And whereas by "The Otago Loan Ordinance,
1861-2," provision was made for the appointment by
the Governor of Trustees for receiving such sums as
by the said Ordinance are required to be paid to
them.

And whereas by the said last-mentioned Ordinance
it is further provided that every sum so paid should
be invested on the security of Debentures issued by
the General Government, or otherwise as His Excel-
lency the Governor and the Superintendent should
direct.

And whereas by "The Otago Loan Ordinance,
1862," provision was made for raising a Loan of five
hundred thousand pounds for the public service of
the Province of Otago, and for providing a Sinking
Fund for the liquidation thereof.

And whereas by the said Ordinance it was further
provided that every sum so paid should be invested
in the security of Debentures issued by the General
Government or otherwise, as His Excellency the
Governor and the Superintendent should direct.

And whereas Alfred Rowland Chetham Strode, of
Dunedin, and John Jones, of Waikouaiti, have been
duly appointed Trustees under and by virtue of the
powers in the said respective Ordinances in that
behalf contained.

And whereas the said Trustees have received and
now hold for the purpose of the said Sinking Funds,
by the said respective Ordinances provided for, certain
sums as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, for the
purposes of "The Otago Loan Ordinance, 1861," and
"The Otago Loan Ordinance, 1861-2," the sum of
four hundred and thirty-three pounds five shillings
and ten pence.

And whereas it is expedient that the said sum of
four hundred and thirty-three pounds five shillings
and ten pence, and every sum which shall hereafter
be so held by the said Trustees until a further
direction varying the mode of investment shall be