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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1874.

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 delivery of
letters as therein mentioned, and any such rules and
regulations at any time in force to alter, vary, or
revoke: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing
date the tenth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three, regulations were made
permitting telegraphic messages originating in the
Colony of Victoria to be transmitted through the
Post Office in this Colony without prepayment of
postage, as therein mentioned: And whereas it is
now expedient that regulations should be made
whereby telegraphic messages originating in the
Colonies of New South Wales, Tasmania, and
Queensland should be transmitted through the Post
Office in this Colony, without prepayment of postage,
as hereinafter mentioned:

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 June,
be in force within the Colony of New Zealand for
the purposes therein particularly set forth.

SCHEDULE.

1. Telegraphic messages originating in the Colonies
   of New South Wales, Tasmania, and Queensland 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 trans-
mission, with no writing other than the necessary
directions for transmission, may be transmitted 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 post-
   ing such letter, subscribe his usual signature across
   the face of the cover of such letter or telegraphic
   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 Auckland, this
tenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

JULIUS VOGEL, Presiding.
Approved in Council, 5th June, 1874.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk to Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Delegation of Governor's Powers under "The Gold
Fields Act Amendment Act, 1868," to the Superin-
tendent of the Province of Nelson.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1874.
Present:
THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act Amend-
ment Act, 1868," it is enacted that it shall