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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1868.

Left Column:

G. F. Bowen, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHER EAS 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 pro-
clamation, or any subsequent day to be named therein.

And whereas the Ordinances hereinafter specified
have been enacted by the Superintendent of Otago,
with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof, and the said Ordinances were received by
the Governor on the twenty-first day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinances
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 Ordinances passed by the Superintendent
and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago,
namely:-

"The Inflammable Oil Ordinance, 1868;" and
"The Fencing 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
Government House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Right Column:

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

WHER EAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election and of the person
elected, and it shall be lawful for the Governor if he
shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be a
Justice of the Peace, by warrant under his hand
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony, and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is made
under the one hundred and thirty-third section of
the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during
the mayoralty of such person, and the person so
appointed shall not by virtue of such appointment
be authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough.

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

SAMUEL HEWLINGS, Esq.,
the person elected to be Mayor of the borough of
Timaru, to be a Justice of the Peace, under the one
hundred and thirty-third section of "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1867."

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 Government
House, at Wellington, this twelfth day
of August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

WHER EAS by "The Otago Municipal Corpora-
tions Empowering Act, 1865," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint