Numb. 106.

1475

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1878.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1878.

Her Majesty’s Assent to certain Reserved Bills.

(l.s.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS 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 signification 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 set at rest Doubts on the Law relating to Wills and other Testamentary Instruments affecting Personal Estate executed by Persons without the Colony of New Zealand,” and “An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to Shipping and Seamen,” 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, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony 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 Constantine, 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 Council; Knight Grand Cross 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-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Despatches from the Secretary of State.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th October, 1878.

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

G. S. WHITMORE.

No. 32. Downing Street, 23rd August, 1878.

MY LORD,—I have the honor to transmit to your Lordship herewith two Orders of Her Majesty in Council, dated the 14th instant, declaring Her assent, respectively, to the under-mentioned reserved Bills of the Legislature of New Zealand, transcripts of which accompanied your Despatch No. 4, of January last, viz.:

41 Victoria, No. 53.—“An Act to set at rest Doubts on the Law relating to Wills and other Testamentary Instruments affecting Personal Estate executed by persons without the Colony of New Zealand.”

41 Victoria, No. 54.—“An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to Shipping and Seamen.”

I have, &c.,

M. E. HICKS-BEACH.

Governor the Most Hon. the Marquis of Normanby, G.C.M.G., &c.