THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
181.

ment in the following terms:--"Ministers desire to
take this opportunity of representing to the Imperial
Government that, in the increase which Her Majesty
is humbly recommended to sanction in the salary of
the Governor, it has by no means been the intention
of the General Assembly to measure the personal
and pecuniary sacrifices he (Sir George Grey) made
in obeying Her Majesty's commands to assume the
government of New Zealand, but simply to fix such
an official income for the Queen's representative as
the circumstances of the Colony justify."

This salary has continued to be paid accordingly,
without remark, and notwithstanding that the late
Governor was receiving a supplementary payment of
£1,500 per annum, in addition, from Her Majesty's
Government. I find no facts set forth in the
Ministers' report on the proposed Act to show that
the Colony is of less importance than it was five
years since, that the duties of a Governor are less,
the expenses of living so materially reduced, or the
circumstances of the Colony so altered, as to render
such a modification as proposed consistent with the
due maintenance of the status of a Governor of so
important a Colony.

It is no doubt possible that such reasons, or some
of them, may exist or be anticipated as likely to
occur, but I have no reason for supposing such to be
the case. I have entered at some length upon the
question in order to show that there exists no indis-
position on my part to consider fully any suggestion
on this, a subject of as much importance to the
Colony as to the Empire; although the peculiar
circumstances of the case render it impossible that I
can advise Her Majesty to assent to the present Act.

I have, &c.,

BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.

The Officer administering
the Government of New Zealand.

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street,
14th March, 1867.

SIR,-In consequence of a correspondence which
has recently passed with the Foreign Office, I think
it may be convenient to inform the Governors of
Colonies generally, in a circular despatch, of the
following principles relative to the appointment of
Consuls and Consular Officers.

The appointment of a Consul, Vice-Consul, or
Consular Agent in any British Colony, intended to be
permanent, must, in order to be recognized as
permanent, be submitted for the sanction of Her
Majesty's Government. But an appointment made
by a Foreign Consul of a temporary character, such
for instance as that of a person to discharge the
duties of a Consular Officer, deceased, or going away
on leave, may, if there is no obvious colonial objection
to the individual proposed to be appointed, be
accepted by the British authorities in the Colony,
pending the result of a reference to Her Majesty's
Government as to whether such temporary appoint-
ment may be recognized.

I have, &c.,

BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.

The Officer administering
the Government of New Zealand.

IT is hereby notified that a writ issued for the
election of a Member of the House of Representa-

tives for the Electoral District of Collingwood, has
been returned with a certificate to the effect that

ARTHUR SHUCKBURGH COLLINS,
of Nelson, freeholder, has been duly elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.

THE following Bill passed by the Provincial Council,
and assented to by the Superintendent of the
Province of Auckland, intituled

"An Act to Appropriate the Grammar School
Trust Funds,"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been advised not to exercise his power of
disallowance in respect of it.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favor of the undermentioned
persons, viz. :--

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.

NOTICE. - It is hereby notified that in conformity
with the 37th section of "The Crown Grants
Act, 1866," the Commissioner of Crown Lands for
the County of Westland, has been appointed to
receive the fees chargeable on Crown Grants.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Registrars
of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
for the districts set opposite their names res-
pectively, as defined in proclamation of eighteenth
instant, and published in this Gazette, viz.:--

ROBERT CLAPHAM BARSTOW, Esq., Bay of Islands.
EDWARD MARSH WILLIAMS, Esq., Waimate.

The above appointments to take effect on the first
day of July, 1868.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JAMES HAMLYN GREENWAY, Esq.,
to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages, and
of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District