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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament
passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of
the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. seventy-two,
intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Consti-
tution to the Colony of New Zealand," the several
Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington,
Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago, are thereby estab-
lished; 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:
hundred and fifty-eight, the Province of Hawke's
Bay was constituted and established under "The
New Provinces Act, 1858," and it is provided by the
Constitution Act, that it shall be lawful for the
Governor of New Zealand, by proclamation or other-
wise, to dissolve the Provincial Council of any
Province, whenever he shall think it expedient so to
do:
Now therefore, I, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in exercise of the said power, do, by
this proclamation, dissolve the Provincial Council of
the said Province of Hawke's Bay.
Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this proclamation
dissolve the Provincial Council of the said Province
-of Otago 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
Zealand and its Dependencies, at the
Government House at Wellington, and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony
this tenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven.
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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 tenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven.
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Order in Council made on the
first day of November, one thousand eight
G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is
amongst other things enacted, that the fifth
part of the said Act, including sections thirty-three,
thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-
eight, and thirty-nine, and that section fifty-two, shall
have no force or effect upon any Gold Field until
after the Governor shall, by proclamation in the New
Zealand Gazette, have proclaimed and extended the
operation of the said part and sections to the Province
wherein such Gold Field shall be situate. And
further that such proclamation shall only be made
upon the application of the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of a Province, and the said part
and sections of this Act shall thereafter be of force
and effect within such Province only.