THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 479

Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; 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 Auckland, this
eighteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.
J. MACANDREW.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

"The Protection of Animals Act, 1873."

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

WHEREAS by section ten of "The Protection of
Animals Act, 1873," it is enacted that no game
(in the said Act defined as including the birds and
animals particularized in the Fourth Schedule thereto,
and such other imported animals and birds as should
from time to time be proclaimed to come within the
operation of the said Act) shall be hunted, shot, taken,
or killed in any province until the same shall have been
proclaimed as open for that purpose by a Procla-
mation in that behalf to be made and published in
the Gazette; and that no game shall be hunted, shot,
taken, or killed except within a consecutive period
not exceeding three months of any year, to be fixed
by the Superintendent by Proclamation as aforesaid,
between the first day of May and the thirty-first day
of July, both inclusive, in any year, and only between
the hours of sunrise and sunset: And whereas by
"The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," it is en-
acted that all powers, duties, and functions which
immediately before the date of the abolition there-
under of any province were vested in or to be
exercised or performed by the Superintendent of such
abolished province should, on the day of the date of
the abolition of such province, and for the purposes
of the district included within such abolished pro-
vince, vest in and be exercised and performed by the
Governor:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and
authorities conferred on me by the said recited
Acts, and in exercise of any other power enabling
me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare
that hares, pheasants, and Californian quail shall
be open to be hunted, shot, taken, or killed within
the Provincial District of Auckland, between the
twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-eight, and the thirty-first day of
July in the same year, both inclusive, but only
between the hours of sunrise and sunset.

And I do further proclaim and declare that
pheasants shall be open to be hunted, shot, taken, or
killed within the Provincial District of Taranaki,
between the first day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, and the thirty-first day
of July in the same year, both inclusive, but only
between the hours of sunrise and sunset.

And I do further proclaim and declare that cock
pheasants only shall be open to be hunted, shot,
taken, or killed within the Provincial District of
Hawke's Bay, between the first day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and the
thirty-first day of July in the same year, both in-
clusive, but only between the hours of sunrise and
sunset.

And I do further proclaim and declare that cock
pheasants and Californian quail shall be open to be
hunted, shot, taken, or killed within the Provincial
District of Wellington, between the first day of
May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight, and the thirty-first day of July in the
same year, both inclusive, but only between the
hours of sunrise and sunset: Provided that this
Proclamation shall not apply to the district com-
prised within the County of Hutt, within which dis-
trict no kind of game shall be open to be hunted,
shot, taken, or killed.

And I do further proclaim and declare that hares,
pheasants, and Californian quail shall be open to
be hunted, shot, taken, or killed within the Provincial
District of Nelson, between the thirteenth day of
May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight,
and the thirty-first day of July in the same year,
both inclusive, but only between the hours of sunrise
and sunset: Provided that within the district com-
prised within the County of Grey, cock pheasants
only shall be hunted, shot, taken, or killed, and only
between the first day of June and the fifteenth day
of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight, both inclusive.

And I do further proclaim and declare that
pheasants shall be open to be hunted, shot, taken, or
killed within the Provincial District of Canterbury,
between the first day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, and the thirtieth day of
June in the same year, both inclusive, but only be-
tween the hours of sunrise and sunset: Provided
that this Proclamation shall not apply to the district
comprised within the Counties of Waimate and
Geraldine, within which district no kind of game
shall be hunted, shot, taken, or killed.

And I do further proclaim and declare that cock
pheasants, Californian quail, and hares shall be
open to be hunted, shot, taken, or killed within the
Provincial District of Otago, between the first day of
June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight,
and the thirty-first day of July in the same year,
both inclusive, and that hares shall be open to
be hunted (coursed) between the first day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and
the thirty-first day of July in the same year, both
inclusive, but only between the hours of sunrise and
sunset: Provided that no hares shall be shot within
the district comprised within the County of Waitaki.

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
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 Auckland, this
eighteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.
G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!