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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
James Innes met Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "An Act to provide
for the Establishment and Maintenance of an Armed
Constabulary," it is enacted that the said Act shall
come into operation on and after a day to be fixed
by the Governor by proclamation in the Government
Gazette:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare
the said "Act to provide for the Establishment and
Maintenance of an Armed Constabulary" shall come
into operation on and after the first day of November
next.

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 nineteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1867.

THE following Order is published for general
information.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Militia General Order.

1. The following Corps will be disbanded on the
   31st October next, viz. :-

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Regiments of Waikato
Militia.
The 1st and 2nd Companies of Forest Rangers.
The 10 (ten) Companies of Taranaki Military
Settlers.

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The Hawke's Bay Military Settlers.
The Patea Rangers.
The Wanganui Rangers.
The Wanganui Yeomanry Cavalry.

2. The commissions of all Officers of the above
   Corps, who are absent from the Colony without leave
   on the 31st instant, will lapse, as will also the com-
   missions of those who do not, before the 31st
   December next, send in to the Defence Office a
   certificate of their residence within the Colony.

3. The names of Officers who comply with the
   abora Ordor
   battalion or company of Militia, will be retained on
   the unattached list of the New Zealand Militia.

By command of His Excellency the Governor,
T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1867.

ARTICLES of AGREEMENT made this sixteenth
day of August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, between the
New Zealand Steam Navigation Company (Limited)
who are hereinafter styled "the contractors," of the
one part, and Her Majesty's Postmaster-General of
the Colony of New Zealand, on behalf of the said
Colony, in pursuance of the provisions of "The
New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858," of the other
part, WITNESS, that for the considerations hereinafter
mentioned, the said contractors, for themselves, their
successors and limited. assigns, covenant with the
said Postmaster-General, and his successors in office,
as follows:

1. That at all times during the continuance of this
   agreement, or so long as the services hereby agreed
   to be performed between Manukau and the Bluff,
   and between Auckland and Port Chalmers, ought to
   be performed in pursuance thereof, the contractors
   will, for the purpose of conveying, as hereinafter
   provided, all Her Majesty's Mails (in which term
   "Mails" all letters, boxes, bags or packets of letters,
   newspapers, books or printed papers, sent by the
   Post to whatever country or place they may be
   addressed, or in whatever country or place they may
   have originated; and all empty bags and other stores,
   used or to be used in carrying on the Post Office