APRIL 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 475

The above allotments shall be offered for sale for cash at £5 per acre.

SCHEDULE II.

The above allotments shall be offered for sale for cash at the rate of £1 per acre.

SCHEDULE III.

The above allotments shall be offered on deferred payments at the rate of £1 5s. per acre.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Wellington Ladies' Christian Association incorporated.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of April, 1886.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS a petition in terms of section thirty-eight of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” has been presented to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand from the Committee of Management of the Wellington Ladies’ Christian Association, praying that the said association may be incorporated as a separate institution under the said Act:

And whereas the substance of the said petition was gazetted on the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and no counter-petition has been received by the Colonial Secretary, or objection lodged with him by the District Board, within one month from the date of such publication:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise and in pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” doth hereby declare the contributors for the time being to the said association to be a body politic and corporate, by the style and title of “The Wellington Ladies’ Christian Association Contributors.”

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amendment of Regulations under “The Post Office Act, 1881.”

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of April, 1886.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Post Office Act, 1881” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to make, alter, and revoke rules and regulations for the managing of the several post offices, for the receiving, despatching, conveying, and delivering of letters, and for the several other purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke the rules and regulations made by Order in Council dated the fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and the regulations hereinafter specified, made by Order in Council of the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and to make other regulations in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the regulations made by the Order in Council of the fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, published in the New Zealand Gazette on the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and the regulations numbered seventy-four, ninety, and one hundred and eleven, and made by Order in Council dated the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the rules and regulations specified in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby declare that this Order shall take effect as from the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

SCHEDULE.

RATES OF POSTAGE AND CONDITIONS OF TRANSMISSION.

HALFPENNY CIRCULAR POST WITHIN TOWN DELIVERIES.

Circulars under these regulations shall not exceed half an ounce in weight.

The postage shall be one halfpenny on each circular, to be prepaid in stamps.

Delivery shall be restricted to delivery from the same post office at which posted (including delivery through a branch suburban office, or by letter-carrier, if any).

A circular shall be held to be a communication intended for transmission in identical terms to several persons, and