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(From the New Zealand Gazette, March 26.)

A 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 its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by virtue of an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the Session 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," I do hereby summon and call together the General Assembly of New Zealand to meet, for the Dispatch of Business, on Thursday, the Thirtieth day of May next, at two of the clock in the afternoon, at the City of Auckland; and you and each of you, the Honourable Legislative Councillors, and the Members elected to serve in the House of Representatives, are hereby enjoined to give your attendance at the said time and place accordingly.

Given under my hand, at the Government House at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-one.

T. GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(From the New Zealand Gazette, March 27.)

Order in Council establishing Province of "Southland."

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND THE 25TH DAY OF MARCH, 1861.

Present:—

His Excellency the Governor,

Mr. STAFFORD, | Mr. RICHMOND,

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, | Mr. TANCRED,

| Mr. WELD.

WHEREAS, by the "New Provinces Act, 1858," it is enacted that whenever not less than 3-5ths of the registered electors entitled to vote in the election of Members of the House of Representatives resident within any district whereof the area shall not be less than 500,000 acres, shall petition the Governor in Council to establish a New Province comprising such district, the Governor by Order in Council, published in the New Zealand Gazette, shall with all convenient speed establish such Province accordingly, subject

nevertheless to the fulfilment of certain conditions in the said Act specified. And whereas a petition has been duly presented praying for the establishment of a New Province at Murihiku in the Province of Otago, and whereas the several requirements and conditions of the said Act have been duly complied with and fulfilled:

Now, therefore, his Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers in this behalf vested in him by the said recited Act, doth by this present Order establish a New Province, to be called and known by the name of "Southland," and doth define the limits of the said Province to be as follows, that is to say,—all that district, being heretofore parcel of the Province of Otago, which lies, or is comprised within the boundary following, that is to say, a line commencing at the mouth of the river Mataura and continued along the right bank of the Mataura River to its source in the Eyre mountains, thence to the summit of Eyre Peak, thence in a south-westerly direction to the junction of the Windley with the Oreti or New River, thence due west to the River Waiau, thence along the left bank of the Waiau to the sea, thence by the coast line to the mouth of the Mataura.

And the Governor, by and with the advice and consent aforesaid, doth hereby, in further pursuance of the said Act, constitute the Town of Invercargill to be the capital of the said "Province of Southland."

And doth declare that this Order shall take effect on the first day of April 1861. And the honourable Edward William Stafford, Colonial Secretary, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

F. G. STEWARD,

Clerk of Executive Council.

This Order in Council is republished in consequence of a misprint of the word "East" in the 38th line instead of "West," in the publication of the Order in Gazette No. 16.

MILITIA.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Auckland, 27th March, 1861.

THE Governor has been pleased to approve the following Regulations, Rules, and Orders, respecting the Militia and Volunteer Militia Service of New Zealand, and directs that they be strictly observed throughout the Colony.

These Regulations, Rules, and Orders, are applicable to all Stations at which Militia or Volunteers may be serving; and the Officers employed on the Staff, and the respective Commanding Officers are responsible that they be invariably adhered to.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Command and Rank of Officers.

1. Colonels in Her Majesty's Regular Forces will take rank, precedence, and