Jumb. 47. 355

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the
Imperial Parliament holden in the fifteenth
and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a
Representative Constitution to the Colony of New
Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted, that
whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the
Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the
Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the
Governor an authentic copy thereof and it shall be
lawful for the Governor at any time within three
months after any such Bill shall have been received
by him, to declare by proclamation his disallowance
of such Bill; and that any such disallowance shall
make void and annul the same from and after the
day of the date of such proclamation, or any subse-
quent day to be named therein.

And whereas the Ordinance hereinafter specified
has been enacted by the Superintendent of Otago,
with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof, and the said Ordinance was received by the
Governor on the nineteenth day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinance
should be disallowed:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that
behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do
hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the
following Ordinance passed by the Superintendent
and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago,
namely:-
"The Neglected and Criminal Children Ordi-
nance, 1867."

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 issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at
Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of
September, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Executive Council Chambers,
Wellington, 26th September, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

The Hon. JOHN HYDE HARRIS, M.L.C.,
to be a Member of the Executive Council, and His
Excellency directs it to be notified that this gentle-
man, on the 9th instant, took the necessary oath.
(By command)
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1867.

THE following Ordinances passed by the Provincial
Council the Province Otago, intituled-
"The Oamaru Town Board Ordinance 1862
Repeal Ordinance, 1867;" and
"The Port Chalmers Town Board Ordinance
Repeal Ordinance, 1867;"
which Ordinances were reserved for the signification
of the Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid
before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased
to withhold his assent to the same.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1867.

THE following Ordinance passed by the Provincial
Council of the Province of Otago, intituled-
"The Dunedin Reserves Management Ordinance,
1867;"
which Ordinance was 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, 26th September, 1867.

IT is hereby notified that the United States
Minister having nominated

W. G. WRIGHT, Esq.,
to be Commercial Agent, at the Bay of Islands, for
the United States, His Excellency the Governor has
been pleased to accept such nomination provisionally.
E. W. STAFFORD.