Numb. 60.
667

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1875.

"The Otago Gold Bonus Ordinance, 1875,"
disallowed.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, 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 Otago, with the
advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof,
and the said Act was received by the Governor on
the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five:

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 Otago, namely,-

"The Otago Gold Bonus Ordinance, 1875."

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 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 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 Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at
Wellington, this fifteenth day of October,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.

DANIEL POLLEN.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Time when Oysters are not to be taken for Sale.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Oyster Fisheries Act Amend-
ment Act, 1874," it is enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette, declare that, within such
district of the colony as shall therein be described,
and during such consecutive months as shall therein
be named, not exceeding four, it shall not be lawful
to take or catch for sale any rock oysters, whether
between high and low watermarks or not; and if
any person shall within such district, and during
such months as shall be named in any such Procla-
mation, take or catch for sale, or sell or expose for
sale, or buy, any such rock oysters, he shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds for any
one offence, to be recovered in a summary way before
any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace:

And further that the Governor may from time to
time revoke or alter any such Proclamation :

And whereas by Proclamation made under the said
Act, bearing date the twenty-first day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-
fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four, it was proclaimed and declared