Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 27th January, 1862.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
The Public Gaol of the Town of Dunedin,
to be a place for the execution of Criminals,
under the “Execution of Criminals Act, 1858.”

WILLIAM FOX.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, Feb. 3, 1862.)

A PROCLAMATION.

The General Assembly of New Zealand further Prorogued.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander 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.

WHEREAS the General Assembly of New Zealand has been and now stands
prorogued to Wednesday, the Fifth day of February now next ensuing:
And whereas it is expedient further to prorogue the same:
Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby further
prorogue the said General Assembly until Monday, the Seventh day of April, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal
of the Colony of New Zealand, this thirty-first day of January, in the year of Our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 1st February, 1862.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the following arrangements be published for general information:—

The services of the following number of Troops and Companies of Volunteers in New Zealand will be accepted under the new Regulations, dated 16th January, 1862.

2 Troops, 31 Companies.

WILLIAM FOX.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, Feb. 7, 1862.)

A PROCLAMATION

Disallowing Certain Ordinances of the Province of Otago.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander 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.

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 Ordinances hereinafter specified have been enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, and the said Ordinances were received by the Governor on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one:
And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinances 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 Ordinances passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, such disallowance to take effect on and from the 1st day of March next, viz.:

“The Port Chalmers’ Municipal Estate Ordinance, 1861.”
“The Water Police Ordinance, 1861.”
“The Criminals Ordinance, 1861.”

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this sixth day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 6th February 1862.

The following Bills passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled,—

“An Ordinance for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,”
“The Licensing Ordinance 1861,”
“The Vagrant Ordinance 1861,”
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.

WILLIAM FOX.

Printed for the Provincial Government by D. Campbell, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.