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 fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,

Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Amending Regulations for Appointment of Pupil-teachers.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of September, 1890.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by "The Education Act, 1877," His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulation set forth hereunder, amending the regulations for the appointment of pupil-teachers.

REGULATION.

NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Order in Council made on the 5th day of July, 1887, and notwithstanding anything contained in any regulations made by any Education Board, any Education Board may appoint any person who is of suitable character, of good health, and free from defect and infirmity detrimental to usefulness or efficiency as a teacher, and who has passed the examination for Class D, as that examination is defined in the regulations relating to teachers' certificates, to be a pupil-teacher with position and emolument equal to those of a third-year pupil-teacher, and under agreement to serve a second year as a fourth-year pupil-teacher, or, under such agreement, with further agreement to serve a third year as a fifth-year pupil-teacher.

ALEX. WILLIS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting Control of the Otakeho Bridge in Hawera County Council.

(L.S.)

ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section four of "The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1887" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may, upon the terms and conditions in the said section mentioned, by Proclamation publicly notified, direct that any bridge already constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, over or across any river or arm of the sea respectively, shall, from and after a date to be fixed in such Proclamation, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of such local authority as shall be mentioned in that behalf in such Proclamation:

And whereas it is expedient that the control and management of the bridge described in the Schedule hereto should be vested in the manner hereinafter described:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by the said Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and known as the Otakeho Bridge, shall, from and after the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Hawera County Council; and I do hereby fix and determine that the Hawera County Council shall itself provide out of its own funds the total cost of managing and maintaining the said bridge.

SCHEDULE.

That bridge over the Otakeho Stream known as the Otakeho Traffic-bridge, and the approaches on each side thereof, situated in Block X., Kaupokonui Survey District, on the line of road known as the Eltham Road, in the County of Hawera, Provincial District of Taranaki; as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 6573, deposited in the General Survey Office at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon marked in red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley, of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint