Numb. 29. 197

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Intestate Estates Act,
1865," it is enacted that the said Act shall
come into force in each Province of the Colony
respectively, on such day as the Governor may fix
by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette: Now
therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as
aforesaid, in pursuance and exercise of the said
power and authority in me vested, do hereby
appoint and fix the first day of June next to be the
day on and from which the said "Intestate Estates
Act, 1865," shall come into force within the
following Province, viz. :-

The PROVINCE OF HAWKE'S BAY,
in the said Colony.

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, and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at
Wellington, this fourteenth day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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 an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Militia Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to constitute
throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof,
Militia Districts, and such districts from time to
abolish, and the boundaries thereof to vary :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, in exercise of the above recited power, doth
by this present Order constitute a Militia District
in the Province of Auckland, to be called by the
name following, namely-

THE MIDDLE WAIKATO DISTRICT,
and doth define the said district to be all the terri-
tory comprised within the circumference of a circle
having a radius of fifteen miles from a point on the
Opuatia River one mile from its junction with the
River Waikato.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Auckland Militia Acts
Amendment Act, 1862," the Governor is
empowered to call out the whole or any part or
number of any Regiment, Battalion, Corps, or Com-
pany of Militia, in any district, as he shall think fit;
and it appears to me expedient to call out for training
and exercise part of the Militia of the Province of
Auckland hereinafter specified:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
said recited power, do hereby call out for training
and exercise such portions of the 3rd and 4th
Regiments of Auckland Militia, in the Middle
Waikato District, as by Proclamation dated fifth day
December, 1865, have been dismissed from actual
service; and I order Lieutenant-Colonel William
Moule, the officer commanding the said district, to
carry into effect this direction.

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
Zealand and its Dependencies, and dated
at Wellington, this twenty-third day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six.

T. M. HAULTAIN.