THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

of the said Province has concurred in such recom-
mendation:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Colony, and in exercise and pursuance of
the power and authority conferred upon me by the
said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
said Act shall be, and the same is hereby, brought into
operation within the said Province of Nelson.

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 March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

"Bridges, Roads, and other Works Appropriation
Act, 1874," disallowed.

(l.s.) JAMES FERGUSSON, 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 grant a
Representative Constitution to the Colony of New
Zealand," it is, amongst other things, enacted that
whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the
Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the
Superintendent 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 subse-
quent day to be named therein:

And whereas the Act hereinafter specified has been
enacted by the Superintendent of Wellington, with
the advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof, and the said Act was received by the
Governor on the nineteenth day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Act
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 Act, passed by the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington,
namely,—

"The Bridges, Roads, and other Works Appropria-
tion Act, 1874."

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

185

Colony, at the Government House, Wel-
ington, this eleventh day of March,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Districts under "The Marriage Act Amendment
Act, 1858."

(l.s.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Marriage Act Amendment
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 July, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, the Governor,
in pursuance of the said recited power and authority,
did, amongst others, constitute a district for the pur-
poses of the said Act, called the "Stewart's Island
District," the boundaries whereof were therein set
forth, which said Proclamation came into operation
and took effect on the first day of October, one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty-nine:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said Proclamation as relates to the said district,
and to divide anew the territory formerly comprised
within such district:

Now therefore, I, the Right Honorable Sir James
Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the said Colony,
in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the said recited Act, do hereby
revoke the said Proclamations so far as relates to
the "Stewart's Island District," and do proclaim
and declare that the territory formerly comprised
within such district shall be and is hereby divided,
for the purposes of the said Act, into two districts,
the names and boundaries whereof shall be as
follows:—

RUAPUKE DISTRICT.

The Island of Ruapuke.

STEWART'S ISLAND DISTRICT.

Stewart's Island, Sclanders' Island, and adjacent
Islands, excepting the Island of Ruapuke.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall
come into operation and take effect on the eighth
day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.

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 twelfth
day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!