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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The New Zealand
Post Office Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council from time-to
time, by Proclamation to be published in the New
Zealand Gazette, to fix alter and abolish the Rates of
Postage at any time payable within the Colony for
the transmission of letters and newspapers by Post,
either between places within New Zealand, or to or
from places beyond seas, and at what time the same
shall be paid, and that the postage so made payable
shall be charged and paid accordingly: And whereas,
by a Proclamation duly made and issued, bearing
date the twenty-ninth day of December, 1860, the
Governor in Council did, in pursuance of the said re-
cited power and authority, fix certain Rates of Postage,
and the times at which the same respectively should
be paid: And whereas it is desirable that some of
the said rates should be altered as hereinafter
mentioned: Now therefore, in exercise of the said
recited power and authority, I, Sir George Grey,
Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council thereof, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the postage payable within
the Colony for the transmission of all letters, news-
papers and packets by Post, viâ Panama, to or from
the countries mentioned in the Schedule hereto, shall
be according to the rates mentioned in such Schedule,
and that this Proclamation shall take effect from and
after the twenty-third day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six.

SCHEDULE.

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

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Approved in Council,
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Council.

May 23, 1866.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th May, 1866.

THE following General Order, bringing into force
the Mutiny Act in the Colony of New Zealand,
is published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

[Extract.]
General Order No. 1185.

Head Quarters,
Auckland, 29th July, 1865.

Paragraph 3.—The Lieut.-General Commanding
notifies that an Act of the present session of Parlia-
ment, for the punishment of Mutiny and Desertion,
dated 7th April, 1865, has been received, and that,
in pursuance of the 101st clause of the Act, the
same will take effect at the Head Quarters of the
command from this date, and at the other out-
stations on receipt thereof; and all Officers are
directed to make themselves acquainted with the
particulars contained therein.

By command,
R. CAREY, Colonel,
Deputy Adjutant-General.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th May, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN DAVIS ORMOND, Esq.,
of Hawke's Bay, to be a Member of the Commission
dated 8th February, 1866, under "The Loan Alloca-
tion Act, 1865," in the room of Charles Heaphy,
Esq., resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1866.

TENDERS will be received at this office until
noon of Tuesday, the nineteenth day of June
next, for reprinting such of the Acts of the General
Assembly and Ordinances of the Legislative Council
of New Zealand, passed prior to the year 1860, as
are still in force and of practical utility, and such
Imperial Acts as may be indicated. The work will be
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full of all Ordinances and Acts passed up to 1860,
with reference to amending and repealing Acts, and
by an Alphabetical Index of Acts and Ordinances
reprinted.

Tenders are to be for printing One thousand
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