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571

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1873.

Telegraph Regulations.
(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Post Office
Act, 1858," it is, among other things, enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to
time, by Proclamation to be published in the New
Zealand Gazette, to fix, alter, and abolish the rates of
postage at any time payable within the Colony for
the transmission of letters by post either between
places within New Zealand, or to or from places
beyond seas, as therein provided; and by the said
Act it is also enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to make
rules and regulations for the managing of the several
Post Offices for the receiving, conveying, or delivering
of letters as therein mentioned, and any such rules
and regulations at any time in force to alter, vary,
or revoke: And whereas it is expedient that regu-
lations should be made whereby telegraphic messages
originating in the Colony of Victoria should be
transmitted through the Post Office in this Colony,
without prepayment of postage, as hereinafter men-
tioned:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the said Act, and of every power
and authority enabling me in that behalf, and by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Colony, do hereby order, proclaim, and
declare that the regulations set forth in the Schedule
hereto shall, from and after the tenth day of
October instant, be in force within the Colony of
New Zealand for the purposes therein particularly
set forth.

SCHEDULE.

1. Telegraphic messages originating in the Colony
   of Victoria may be transmitted by post as letters for
   delivery in New Zealand, without any payment for
   postage; and letters addressed to any officer of the
   Telegraph Department in charge of the Telegraph
   Office at any port or place in the Colony of New
   Zealand, containing any such telegraphic messages
   for transmission, with no writing other than the
   necessary directions for transmission, may be trans-
   mitted free of postage.

2. Every such message or letter shall bear, on the
   outside of the cover above the address, the words
   "Telegraphic Message only," and shall be posted to
   its place of destination by the officer in charge of the
   Telegraph Department by whom it shall be received;
   and every such officer shall, immediately before
   posting such letter, subscribe his usual signature
   across the face of the cover of such letter or tele-
   graphic message.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 tenth
day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Dissolution of Provincial Council.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament,
passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of
the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72, intituled
"An Act to grant a Representative Constitution 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: