Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 24th January, 1857.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

has been pleased to appoint

Mr. Robert Chapman

to be Deputy-Registrar of the Supreme Court, Otago.

By his Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 24th January, 1857.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

has been pleased to appoint

Mr. Lewis Acker

to be Pilot for the New River Harbour and Foveaux Straits; and

Mr. James Smith

to be Pilot for the Bluff Harbour.

By his Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor William Cargill,
Esquire, Superintendent of the
Province of Otago.

WHEREAS in the Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, held in the twentieth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Ordinances were passed, intituled respectively the “Land Sales and Leases Ordinance 1856,” and the “Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1856;” And Whereas the said Ordinances were presented to me for the assent of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand on the 11th December, 1856, and were then reserved by me for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon: And Whereas His Excellency has been pleased to assent to the said Ordinances;

Now therefore I, the said William Cargill, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim that His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of New Zealand, has assented to the said Ordinances, and that I received the signification of his Excellency’s assent on the 25th day of February, 1857.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Government House, Dunedin, this twenty-fifth day of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-seven.

W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

God Save the Queen!

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor William Cargill,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled “An Ordinance to establish and regulate Ferries, Session I., No. 8,” it is among other things enacted that “It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to authorise Ferries to be established and erected at convenient places on the rivers, creeks, and lakes within the Province of Otago, for the conveyance of passengers, animals, and goods across the same;” and whereas by section 3 of the “Ferries Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1856,” passed by the said Superintendent and Council, it is enacted that “Every Ferry shall be deemed to be a Public Ferry within the meaning of this Ordinance, which shall be proclaimed to be such by the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, by proclamation to be inserted in the Provincial Government Gazette;” and whereas it is expedient that the Ferry established on the Taieri River at or near the Native Village, East Taieri, at the place marked as reserved for a Ferry on the map of the district, and known by the name of the Lower Taieri Ferry, should be proclaimed to be a public Ferry;

Now therefore I, the said Superintendent, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, do hereby, in virtue of the powers vested in me by the said Ordinances, proclaim the said Ferry called the Lower Taieri Ferry to be a Public Ferry within the meaning of the before recited “Ferries Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1856.”

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Government House, Dunedin, this twenty-sixth day of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-seven.

W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

God Save the Queen!

NOTICE.

LOWER TAIERI FERRY.

BY virtue of the powers in me vested by the “Ferries Ordinance, 1856,” I, the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, do hereby proclaim the said Ferry called the Lower Taieri Ferry to be a Public Ferry.