Numb. 16.

143

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by Proclamations bearing date the
twentieth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight; the third day of
July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine;
and the ninth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine respectively; the limits of
certain Ports in the Colony of New Zealand were,
for the purposes of "The Marine Act, 1867," defined:
And whereas it is expedient to define the Ports in
the Schedule hereto described:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by virtue
of the powers vested in me in this behalf by "The
Marine Act, 1867," do hereby proclaim the places
mentioned in the second column of the Schedule
hereto to be Ports within the meaning of the said
Act, and do order that, for the purposes of the said
Act, the limits of the said Ports shall be the limits
defined in the third column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

nautic mile radius from
the West Head. |
| Taranaki... | Opunake | A circle of one and a half
nautic mile radius from
the Head on the North-
West boundary of the
Township. |

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 Auckland,
this ninth day of March, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parlia-
ment, passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth
years of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72,
intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Con-
stitution to the Colony of New Zealand," the several
Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington,
Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago are thereby
established, and it is enacted that for each of the
said Provinces there shall be a Superintendent and
Provincial Council:

And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted
that every Provincial Council shall continue for the
period of four years from the day of return of the
Writs for choosing the same and no longer: Provided
always that it shall be lawful for the Governor of
New Zealand, by Proclamation or otherwise, to dis-
solve the same whenever he shall think it expedient
so to do:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do, by this
Proclamation, dissolve the Provincial Council of the
said Province of Canterbury accordingly.

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 Wellington,
this twenty-fourth day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!