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thereby, and punctually on my part to fulfil all the terms thereof.

Note.—The pay of the Militia and Volunteers serving in the Province of Auckland, is as follows:—

Captains, ... 11s. 7d. per diem.
Lieutenants, ... 6s. 6d. "
Ensigns, ... 5s. 3d. "
Sergeants, ... 3s. 6d. "
Corporals, ... 3s. "
Privates, ... 2s. 6d.

—With Rations and other Allowances.

(From New Zealand Gazette, August 6, 1863.)

A PROCLAMATION
Declaring certain articles Contraband of War.

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.

WHEREAS by the "Arms Act, 1860," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette from time to time to declare what articles shall be considered as warlike stores for the purposes of the said Act, and also for the purposes of an Ordinance of the Lieutenant-Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand passed in the sixth session of the said Council, intituled "An Ordinance to empower the Governor of New Zealand to regulate the Importation and Sale of Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores."

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, do hereby proclaim and declare that the undermentioned articles shall (amongst others) be considered as Warlike stores for the purposes above-mentioned, that is to say:—

Firearms of every description
Accoutrements for such arms
Gunpowder of every description in cartridge or otherwise
Percussion caps, Flints
Lead, Zinc, and Copper, manufactured or otherwise
Shot, Ball, Bullets, Marbles
Saltpetre
Bayonets, Pikes, Hay-forks, Scythes, Swords, Tomahawks, Adzes, and all other edged tools of whatsoever description

Iron of all kinds capable of being converted into weapons.

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

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

God Save The Queen!

A PROCLAMATION
Intimating Her Majesty’s assent to a certain Bill passed by the General Assembly.

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 passed in the Session of Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty’s reign, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted that no Bill which shall be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon, shall have any force or authority within the Colony of New Zealand, until the Governor of the said Colony shall signify by speech or message to the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same:

And whereas a certain Bill passed by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, intituled "An Act for facilitating the issue of Crown Grants," was presented to the Governor of the said Colony for Her Majesty’s assent, and the said Bill was reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon:

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said in part recited Act, do by this Proclamation signify and proclaim to all whom it may concern, that the said Bill