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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22d April, 1861.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
JAMES MILLS,
to be an Inspector of Weights and Mea-
sures, and to be a person with whom shall
be deposited certain Copies or Models of
the Standard Weights and Measures of the
Colony.

E. W. STAFFORD.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, May 3.)
A PROCLAMATION,
For bringing Weights and Measures Ordi-
nance into operation within a portion of
the Province of Otago.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zea-
land and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.,
&c., &c.

WHEREAS it is expedient to bring
into operation within a portion of
the Province of Otago the Ordinance for
establishing standard Weights and Mea-
sures, and for the prevention of the use of
such as are false and deficient, Session vii.,
No. 10.

Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne,
the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise
of the power and authority in me vested in
that behalf, do hereby proclaim and ap-
point that from the twenty-second day of
June, One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, the operation of the said Ordi-
nance shall extend to all that territory,
situate in the Province of Otago, in the
said colony, bounded on the North-west by
a right line from the North Trigonometrical
Station, Blueskin Bay, to the Trigonomo-
trical Station on Double Hill, thence by a
right line to the Trigonometrical Station on
Swampy Hill, thence by a right line to the
Trigonometrical Station on Flagstaff Hill,
Wakari, thence by a right line to the North-
west corner of Suburban Section No. 41,
Wakari District, thence by the surveyed
lands to the south-west corner of Suburban
Section No. 155, Wakari District, thence
by Abbot's Creek and the Kaikorai River
to the Ocean, and thence on the South and
East by the Ocean.

Given under my hand, at the
Government House at Auck-
land, and issued under the
Seal of the Colony of New
Zealand, this twenty-fifth
day of April, 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!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 1st May, 1861.
THE following Despatches from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Colonies, are published for general
information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Downing Street, 5th Feb., 1861.
SIR—I transmit to you a copy of a letter
from Lord Elcho, the Chairman of the
Council of the National Rifle Association,
informing me that, in accordance with Her
Majesty's desire, Colonial Volunteers will
be entitled to compete for the Queen's
Prize at their Annual Prize Meeting upon
the same terms as the Volunteers of Great
Britain, and that the Association will give
one Silver Medal to Colonial Rifle Associ-
ations.

I transmit to you for general information,
Copies of the Association's proceedings,
containing their rules, &c.

I have to request that you will make
Her Majesty's gracious desire publicly
known in the Colony under your Govern-
ment. You will at the same time take such
steps as may appear to you best adapted
for giving effect to the intentions of the
Association, and will make application
through me for their Silver Medal when
any organised body or bodies exist in the
Colony under your Government who are
desirous of competing for it.
I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.
Governor Gore Browne, C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.

National Rifle Association,
11, Pall Mall East,
January 25, 1861.
My Lord Duke—I have the honour to
inform your Grace that, in accordance with
Her Majesty's desire, Colonial Volunteers
will be entitled to compete for "The
Queen's Prize" at our annual Prize Meet-
ting on the same terms as the Volunteers
of Great Britain; and I have further the
honour to inform your Grace that, with a
Rifle Association have resolved to give one
Silver Medal to Colonial Rifle Associations.

These medals will be allotted in the pro-
portion of one to each Colony on appli-
cation from the Colonial Authorities,
sanctioned by the Colonial Office.

The "History and Proceedings of the
National Rifle Association, 1860," contain-
ing our Rules, &c., and the Statistics of
the Wimbledon Prize Meeting being now
published, I should be glad to know if
your Grace would wish to send any copies
to the Colonies, as they might perhaps be