EAST TAIERI.

At the School-house, on Monday, the 21st February, at 12 o’clock noon.

WEST TAIERI.

At the School-house, on Monday, the 21st February, at 12 o’clock noon.

WAIHOLA.

At Mr. Dewe’s Barn, on Monday, the 28th February, at Half-past 1 o’clock p.m.

NORTH TOKOMAIRIRO.

At Mr. McGill’s Flour Mill, on Tuesday, 1st March, at 12 o’clock noon.

SOUTH TOKOMAIRIRO.

At the Premises of Mr. J. L. Gillies, Riversdale, on Wednesday, 2nd March, at Half-past 1 o’clock p.m.

EAST CLUTHA.

At the Ferry-house, Clutha, on Thursday, the 3rd March, at 11 o’clock a.m.

WEST CLUTHA.

At the Premises of Mr. Peter Ayson, Wai-repa, on Friday, the 4th March, at 12 o’clock noon.

None but personal attendants, being License holders, at these Meetings will be allowed to vote. Every such voter will be entitled to one vote for each of the Wardens to be elected for the Hundred for which he holds a License. Parties are requested to bring their Licenses with them for production if required.

W. H. CUTTEN,
Chief Commissioner.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 28th January 1859.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the republication of the following Proclamation and Notifications from the “General Government Gazette,” Nos. 2 and 3.

By order,
JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Imperial Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted that whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent as in the said Act provided, the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him, to declare, by Proclamation, his disallowance of such Bill, and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same from and after the day of the date of such Proclamation, or any subsequent day to be named therein.

And whereas the Ordinance hereinafter specified has been enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, and the said Ordinance was received by the Governor on the eighth day of December 1858.

And whereas it is expedient that the said recited Ordinance should be disallowed;

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the following Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, viz:—

“The Otago Pastoral Districts Ordinance, 1858.”

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, in the Colony aforesaid, this twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

God Save The Queen!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 12th January 1859.

THE following Bill, passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled,

“Loan Ordinance, 1858,”

which Bill was reserved for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, having been laid before the Governor in conformity with the provisions of the said Constitution Act, His Excellency has been pleased to withhold his assent from the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 12th January 1859.

THE following Ordinances, passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled,

“Cattle Trespass Ordinance, 1858,”

“Appropriation Ordinance, 1858,” No. 1,

“The Immigration Fund Ordinance, 1858,”

“Leases of Jetty Reserves Ordinance, 1858,”

“Jetties and Wharves Ordinance, 1858,”

“Appropriation Ordinance, 1858,” No. 2,

having been laid before the Governor in