THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 757

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this fourth day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Attorney-General appointed.

Private Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has this day been
pleased to appoint

The Hon. FREDERICK WHITAKER
to be Attorney-General of the Colony of New Zea-
land under "The Attorney-General's Act, 1876."
By command.
IRWIN C. MALING, 35th Regt.,
Private Secretary.

Time when Oysters are not to be taken for Sale.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1876.

THE following Proclamation relating to time when
Oysters are not to be taken for sale is re-published
for general information.
DANIEL POLLEN.

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
that during the consecutive months commencing,on
the first day of January in each year, and ending on
the thirty-first day of March in each year, it shall
not be lawful to take or catch for sale any rock
oysters as in the said Proclamation mentioned:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said
Proclamation, and to make another Proclamation in
lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me under the said Act,
do hereby revoke the said in part recited Proclama-
tion, and in lieu thereof do hereby proclaim and
declare that during the four consecutive months com-
mencing on the first day of December in each year,
and ending on the thirty-first day of March in each
year, it shall not be lawful to take or catch for sale
any rock oysters, whether between high and low
watermarks or not, within the district comprised
within the Province of Auckland, the boundaries of
which are set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

BOUNDED on the North by the coast line, including
the islands adjacent thereto; on the East by the
coast line, including the islands adjacent thereto; on
the West by the coast line, including the islands
adjacent thereto; on the South by the River Mokau
to its source; thence by a right line running from
the source of the Mokau to the point where the Nga-
huinga or Tuhua, the principal tributary of the
Wanganui River, is intersected by the thirty-ninth
parallel of south lattitude; thence eastward by the
thirty-ninth parallel of south latitude to the point
where that parallel of latitude cuts the east coast of
the Northern Island of New Zealand.

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 the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Despatches from the Secretary of State.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1876.

THE following despatches from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,
with their enclosures, are published for general
information.
DANIEL POLLEN.