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"The Police Regulation Ordinance Amendment and Marriages, for the District of Blackstone, in the
Act, 1866;"
"The Fencing Act Amendment Act, 1866;" and
"The Blenheim and Picton Gorse Hedges Act,
1866;"
which Bills were reserved for the signification of the
Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid before
the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to
assent to the same.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th August, 1866.

THE following Bills, passed by the Provincial
Council of Wellington, intituled—
"Hutt Public Park and Racecourse Act, 1866;"
"Wairarapa Racecourse Act, 1866;"
"Wellington, Hutt and Wairarapa Railway Bill,
1866;"
"An Act to incorporate the Board of Works for
the City of Wellington, and for other
purposes, Sess. XIV., No. 9;"
which Bills were reserved for the signification of the
Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid before
the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to
assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th August, 1866.

THE following Bills, passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Wellington, intituled—
"An Act to indemnify the Superintendent of the
Province of Wellington for the Expenditure
of certain Moneys for the Civil Government
and Public Works and Undertakings of the
the said Province, Sess. 14, No. 6;"
"The Wallace Annuity Act, 1866;"
"The Licensing Amendment Act, 1866;"
"The Appropriation Act, 1866-7;"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st August, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ARTHUR DAVID HARVEY, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., for the
District of Blackstone, in the Province of Otago.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st August, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN SMITH HICKSON, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Mount Benger, in
the Province of Otago.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st August, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM LAWRENCE SIMPSON, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
Province of Otago.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th August, 1866.

IT is hereby notified, that in conformity with
clause 3 of "The Otago Municipal Corporation
Empowering Act, 1865," the names of the following
persons have been sent in to this office by the
several Town Clerks, as having been elected Mayors
for the places set opposite their names :-

WILLIAM MASON ... Dunedin.
DANIEL ROLFE ... Port Chalmers.
JEAN DESIRE FERAND ... Clyde.
JOHN CAMPBELL GILCHRIST... Oamaru.
MACLEOD CLEMENT ORBELL... West Hawksbury.
JAMES ELDER BROWN ... Milton.
WILLIAM JACKSON BARRY Cromwell.

E. W. STAFFORD.

NOTICE.

Free Pardon to an Accomplice.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 15th August, 1866.

WHEREAS, on or about Tuesday, the 22nd day
of May last, one bag of fine beach Gold Dust,
weighing 463 oz. 15 dwts., and one bar of Gold,
marked "Bank of New Zealand," weighing 204 oz.
15 dwts. 12 grs., were stolen from the Branch of the
Bank of New Zealand at Okarito, on the West
Coast Gold Fields, in the Province of Canterbury :
This is to notify that His Excellency the Governor
will grant a free pardon to any person implicated in
the robbery aforesaid who shall give such information
as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of
any other person or persons who committed the
robbery aforesaid.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 23d August, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

SAMUEL POPHAM KING, Esq.,
of New Plymouth, of his appointment as Deputy
Sheriff.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 23rd August, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM MORGAN CROMPTON, Esq.,
of New Plymouth, to be Deputy Sheriff.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st August, 1866.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to make the undermentioned appointments,
viz.:-

In the Auckland Militia.
Christopher Maclean, to be Ensign. Date of
Commission, 9th August, 1866.

In the Wanganni Yeomanry Cavalry.
Charles Hirtzell, to be Cornet. Date of Com--
mission, 16th August, 1866.

T. M. HAULTAIN.