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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

levied and taken at the Port of Shortland; and as to be exercised only within and in respect to the
to the said license fees, His Excellency the Governor, said County.
with the advice and consent aforesaid, consents to
the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland
levying the same.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance of the power vested in me by the
vention Act, 1870:"

I, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do,
by this Warrant under my hand, appoint
JOHN CHILTON LAMBTON CARTER, of Napier, Esq.,
to be a Trust Commissioner for the Hawke's Bay
District, under the said Act.

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, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twentieth day of September, in the year
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy.

DONALD MCLEAN.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th September, 1870.

THE following Despatches, with Enclosures, from
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies, together with Warrant under the
hand of His Excellency, are published for general
information.

W. GISBORNE.

[CIRCULAR.]
Downing Street, 19th July, 1870.
SIR,-I enclose for your guidance a copy of a letter
which I have received from Earl Granville, from
which you will learn Her Majesty's pleasure on
various matters connected with the hostilities which
have broken out between France and Prussia. You
will not fail to conform to Her Majesty's commands,
and to give them publicity throughout the Colony
under your government.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

Earl Granville to the Earl of Kimberley.
Foreign Office, 19th July, 1870.

MY LORD,-Her Majesty being fully determined to
observe the duties of neutrality during the existing
state of war between the Emperor of the French and
the King of Prussia, and being moreover resolved to
prevent, as far as possible, the use of Her Majesty's
harbours, ports, and coasts, and the waters within
Her Majesty's territorial jurisdiction, in aid of the
warlike purposes of either belligerent, has commanded
me to communicate to your Lordship, for your
guidance, the following rules, which are to be treated
and enforced as Her Majesty's orders and directions.

Her Majesty is pleased further to command that
these rules shall be put in force in the United King-
dom and in the Channel Islands on and after the
26th day of July instant, and in Her Majesty's
territories and possessions beyond the seas six days
after the day when the Governor or other chief
authority of each of such territories or possessions
respectively shall have notified and published the
same; stating in such notification that the said rules
are to be obeyed by all persons within the same
territories and possessions.

SCHEDULE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
seventeenth day of September, 1870.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Protection of Animals Act,
1867," it is enacted that the Governor may,
by Order in Council published in the New Zealand
Gazette, delegate to the Superintendent of any Pro-
vince, or to any other person or persons, all or any
of the powers by the said Act vested in the Governor
or the Governor in Council, subject to such regula-
tions as he may think fit, and may from time to time
rescind such delegation:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, doth hereby delegate unto

CONRAD HOOS, Esq.,

Chairman of the County Council of Westland, so
long as he shall continue and remain Chairman of
the said County Council, all the powers vested by
the said Act in the Governor or Governor in Council,