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 thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one:

And whereas it is expedient that the said 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.:—

"Harbour Endowment Ordinance, 1861."

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

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,

Henry Sewell.

God Save The Queen!

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 6th March, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

James Maitland, Esq., Otago
Donald Hawkinson, Esq., Southland
FitzWilliam Wentworth, Esq., Southland
Theophilus Heale, Esq., Invercargill
Alexander M’Nab, Esq., Southland
Daniel Shea Lawlor, Esq., Riverton
Freeman Jackson, Esq., Southland
Peter McKellar, Esq., Southland
Robert Smart, Esq., Southland
Henry Young, Esq., Southland
Charles Christopher Bowen, Esq., Christchurch
George Law, Esq., Otawhao
Charles Canning, Esq., Waiopai, Marlborough
Henry Godfrey, Esq., Wairau, Marlborough
Bryan Sneyd Herbert Broughton, Esq., Marlborough
Frederick William Trolove, Esq., Marlborough
Philip McRae, Esq., Marlborough
Charles P. Baker, Esq., Poverty Bay
Thomas Anstey Mansford, Esq., Auckland

to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony.

Henry Sewell.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Auckland, 6th March, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Mr. James Maitland

to be Sub-Collector of Customs at the Port of Molyneux, in the Province of Otago.

Reader Wood.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 21st March, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Patrick Jameson

to be a Pilot at the Port of Otago.

H. Sewell.
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 21st March, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

James Maitland, Esq., J.P.,

to be a Resident Magistrate.

Henry Sewell.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 21st March, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Michael Creagh, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Deeds, at Dunedin.

Henry Sewell.

CUSTOMS.

Governor’s Order No. 20.

Establishing Port of Taieri.

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.

In exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested by the “Customs Regulations,”