APRIL 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 871

His late Majesty King William the Fourth, now intituled “The Colonial Offices Act, 1830,” it was enacted that no Patent, Commission, Warrant, or other authority for the exercise of any office or employment, civil or military, within any of His Majesty’s plantations or possessions abroad, determinable at the pleasure of His Majesty, or of any of His Majesty’s heirs and successors, shall by reason of any future demise of the Crown be vacated or become void until the expiration of eighteen calendar months next after any such demise of the Crown as aforesaid: We, therefore, with the advice of our Privy Council, declare our Royal will and pleasure to be, and do hereby direct and command, that all and every person and persons who, at the time of the demise of our late Royal Mother, of glorious memory, duly and lawfully held, or were duly and lawfully possessed of or invested in, any office, place, or employment, civil or military, within our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Dominion of Wales, Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Isles of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, or any of our foreign possessions or colonies, or our Empire of India, do severally, according to their places, offices, or charges, proceed in the performance and execution of all duties belonging to their respective offices whilst they shall hold the same respectively during our pleasure; and We do hereby require and command all our loving subjects to be aiding, helping, and assisting, at the commandment of the said officers and Ministers, in the performance and execution of their respective offices and places, as they and every of them tender our utmost displeasure and will answer the contrary at their peril.

Given at our Court at Saint James’s, this twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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[Extract from London Gazette, 25th January, 1901.]

At the Court at St. James’s, the 23rd day of January, 1901.

Present:

The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

His Majesty, being this day present in Council, was pleased to make the following Declaration:—

“Your Royal Highnesses, my Lords, and Gentlemen, this is the most painful occasion on which I shall ever be called upon to address you.

“My first and melancholy duty is to announce to you the death of my beloved mother the Queen, and I know how deeply you, the whole nation, and I think I may say the whole world, sympathize with me in the irreparable loss we have all sustained.

“I need hardly say that my constant endeavour will be always to walk in her footsteps. In undertaking the heavy load which now devolves upon me, I am fully determined to be a constitutional sovereign in the strictest sense of the word, and as long as there is breath in my body to work for the good and amelioration of my people.

“I have resolved to be known by the name of Edward, which has been borne by six of my ancestors. In doing so I do not undervalue the name of Albert, which I inherit from my ever-to-be-lamented, great, and wise father, who by universal consent is, I think, deservedly known by the name of Albert the Good, and I desire that his name should stand alone.

“In conclusion, I trust to Parliament and the nation to support me in the arduous duties which now devolve upon me by inheritance, and to which I am determined to devote my whole strength during the remainder of my life.”

Whereupon the Lords of the Council made it their humble request to His Majesty that His Majesty’s most gracious Declaration to their Lordships might be made public, which His Majesty was pleased to order accordingly.

A. W. FITZROY.

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Despatch.—Certain Acts of the Year 1900 of New Zealand Legislature assented to.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Wellington, 4th April, 1901.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

J. G. WARD.

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(New Zealand.—No. 15.)

Downing Street, 8th February, 1901.

My Lord,—I have the honour to inform you that His Majesty will not be advised to exercise his powers of disallowance with respect to the following Acts of the Legislature of New Zealand, copies of which were forwarded in Sir R. Stout’s despatch, No. 81, of the 26th of October last:—

Public Acts.

No. 10. An Act to prevent the Spread of Noxious Weeds, and to enforce the Trimming of Hedges.

No. 11. An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Public Account and other Accounts to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, One thousand nine hundred and one.

No. 12. An Act to provide for Shorthand Reporting in the Supreme Court and Elsewhere.

No. 13. An Act to amend “The Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act, 1877.”

No. 14. An Act to alter certain Duties of Customs, and to amend the Law relating thereto, and to the Importation of Goods.

No. 15. An Act to provide for the Permanent Appointment of an Additional Judge of the Supreme Court.

No. 16. An Act to make Better Provision for the Election of Members of Education Boards.

No. 17. An Act to amend “The Government Valuation of Land Act, 1896.”

No. 18. An Act to amend “The Rating on Unimproved Value Act, 1896.”

No. 19. An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Public Account and other Accounts to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, One thousand nine hundred and one.

No. 20. An Act to insure Provision for Testators’ Families.

No. 21. An Act to consolidate the Law regulating the Postal Service.

No. 22. An Act to amend “The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1882.”

No. 23. An Act to amend the Law relating to Summary Jurisdiction with respect to Indictable Offences.

No. 24. An Act to amend “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

No. 25. An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Public Health.

No. 26. An Act to amend “The Criminal Code Act, 1893.”

No. 27. An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Maintenance and Management of Government Railways.

No. 28. An Act to amend “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898.”

No. 29. An Act to amend “The New Zealand Consols Act, 1894.”

No. 30. An Act to amend “The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892.”

No. 31. An Act to amend “The Fisheries Encouragement Act, 1885.”

No. 32. An Act to make Provision respecting the Settlement of the Unsettled Portion of the Land known as the Midland Authorised Area.

No. 33. An Act to amend “The Sale of Poisons Act, 1871.”

No. 34. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Examinations in the case of Cadets in the Public Service.

No. 35. An Act to Provide for Better Representation on Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards in certain Cases.

No. 36. An Act to amend “The Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act, 1874.”

No. 37. An Act to amend “The Pacific Cable Authorisation Act, 1899.”

No. 38. An Act to regulate the Slaughtering and Inspection of Stock, and the Inspection of Meat for Consumption in the Colony and for Export.

No. 39. An Act to make Better Provision for Manual, Technical, and Commercial Education.

No. 40. An Act to amend “The Companies Act, 1882.”

No. 41. An Act to amend the Law relating to Government Loans to Local Bodies.

No. 42. An Act to amend the Law relating to Foreign Insurance Companies.

No. 43. An Act to amend the Law with respect to Compensation to Workers for Accidental Injuries suffered in the Course of their Employment.

No. 44. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Representation of the People in the House of Representatives.

No. 45. An Act to amend the Animals Protection Acts.

No. 46. An Act to further amend the Law relating to the Election of Members of the House of Representatives.

No. 47. An Act to further amend “The Public Works Act, 1894.”

No. 48. An Act to confer a Limited Measure of Local Self-government upon Her Majesty’s Subjects of the Maori Race in the Colony.

No. 49. An Act to consolidate and amend the Law regulating the Assessment of Land and Income for the Purposes of Taxation.

No. 50. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relative to Municipal Corporations.

No. 51. An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Settlement of Industrial Disputes by Conciliation and Arbitration.