Numb. 35.

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, 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 Repre-
sentative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,"
it is amongst other things enacted, that whenever any
Bill shall have been assented to by the Superin-
tendent, as in the said Act provided, the Superin-
tendent 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 subsequent day to be named
therein.

And whereas the Ordinance hereinafter specified
has been enacted by the Superintendent of Canter-
bury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial
Council thereof, and the said Ordinance was received
by the Governor on the eighth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

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 Canterbury,
namely:-

"The Interpretation Ordinance, 1868."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, and issued under the
Seal of the said Colony, at the Govern-
ment House, at Wellington, this twenty-
fourth day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates Act
1867," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, from time to time, by proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette, to declare that, from a day
to be in such proclamation fixed, sections one hundred
and five to one hundred and fifteen of the said Act
(both inclusive), or such of those sections as shall in
such proclamation be specified shall come into opera-
tion in such districts of the Colony as shall be in
such proclamation specified, and until so proclaimed,
and in places not included in any such district, such
sections shall not be in force; and, by like proclama-
tion, to alter or re-define any such districts or cancel
any proclamation so declaring such sections or any
of them to have come into force. And whereas by
a proclamation bearing date the twelfth day of
February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight, His Excellency the Governor did proclaim
and declare that the sections therein mentioned
should, from the seventh day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, come
into operation in the district hereinafter mentioned,
as also in certain other districts therein men-
tioned. And whereas it is expedient that section
one hundred and eleven of the said Act should also
be brought into operation within the district herein-
after named:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority
vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and