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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 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 graht 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 Otago,
with the advice and consent of the Provincial
Council thereof, and the said Ordinance was received
by the Governor on the eighth day of August, 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 Otago,
namely:-

"The Education Reserves Abandonment 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 thirty-
first day of August, 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 Registration Act, 1858," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor at any time, by proclamation in the New
Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of New Zealand
for the purposes of the said Act into such and so
many districts as he may think fit, and that every
such district shall be called by a distinct name, and
shall be a Registrar's district; and it is provided that
the Governor may at any time revoke the whole or
any part of such proclamation, and issue a new
proclamation dividing the Colony or any part of it
anew into districts, or increasing the number or
altering the boundaries of districts, as from time to
time he may think requisite:

And whereas by a proclamation duly made and
issued, bearing date the sixth day of August, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the Governor,
in pursuance of the said recited power and authority,
did constitute two districts for the purposes of the
said Act, called the "Brighton "District and the
"Charleston" District, the boundaries whereof were
therein set forth, which said proclamation is to come
into operation and take effect on the first day of
September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said proclamation as relates to the said districts,
and to include and comprise the territory included