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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Commander 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 Christchurch, this first
day of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notifying Her Majesty's Assent to certain Reserved
Bills.

(L.S.)

NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

W HEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of
Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth
years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to
grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of
New Zealand," it is, amongst other things, enacted
that no Bill which shall be reserved for the signifi-
cation of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon shall have
any force or authority within the Colony of New
Zealand until the Governor of the said Colony shall
signify by Speech or Message to the Legislative
Council and House of Representatives of the said
colony, or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been
laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her
Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same :

And whereas certain Bills passed by the Legislative
Council and House of Representatives of the said
Colony, intituled "An Act to provide for the more
equitable Disposal in certain cases of the Real Estate
of Persons dying Intestate," and "An Act to author-
ize the Legislatures of Provinces in New Zealand
to empower Courts of Law to hear and determine
questions arising under the Laws of such Provinces
providing for the Construction and Maintenance of
Dividing Fences," were presented to the Governor of
the said colony for Her Majesty's assent, and the
said Bills were reserved for the signification of Her
Majesty's pleasure thereon:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the provisions of the said in part
recited Act, do by this Proclamation signify and
proclaim to all whom it may concern, that the said
Bills have been laid before Her Majesty in Council,
and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to
the same.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Pecrage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander 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 Depend-
encies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at Christchurch, this twenty-
eighth day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Registrar of Marriages &c. appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th May, 1875.

IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HASTINGS LEE, Esq.,
to be the Registrar of Marriages, and of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, and also Vaccination In-
spector, for the District of Ellesmere, as the same is
defined in Proclamation of the 8th day of May, 1873,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 28,
of the 9th day of May, 1873.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Emigration Officer appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th May, 1875.

IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM JAMES RODGERSON
to be an Emigration Officer under "The Passengers
Act, 1855."

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

Members of Licensing Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th May, 1875.

IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

FRANCIS SCOTT PILLANS, Esq., J.P.,
ROBERT GRIGOR, Esq., and
JOHN GIBSON SMITH, Esq.,
to be the Members of the Licensing Courts for the
Licensing Districts of Kaitangata, Matau, South
Molyneux, Clutha, Clinton, Popotuna, Clydevale,
Wendon, and Catlin's, vice A. Jones, Esq., J.P., F.
Wayne, Esq., J.P., T. Murray, Esq. ; and

FORSTER YELVERTON GORING, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Licensing Court for the
Licensing District of Opotiki, vice F. Simpson, Esq.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Provincial Auditor, Nelson, appointed.

Treasury,
Wellington, 29th April, 1875.

IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ALFRED GREENFIELD, Esq.,
to be Auditor of the Public Accounts of the Province
of Nelson, vice H. D. Jackson, Esq., resigned.

Appointment to date from 27th instant.

DANIEL POLLEN,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.