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said shall vest in and may be exercised by the Governor of the said Colony of New Zealand from and after the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this fourth day of August, 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!

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Authorising further issue of Treasury Bills.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, on the 15th day of June, 1863.

Present: His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the “Loan Act, 1862,” power is given to raise in Great Britain a Loan of £500,000 for the Public Service of the Colony, and it is enacted that, until the aforesaid sum of Five hundred thousand pounds shall be raised in Great Britain, it shall be lawful for the Colonial Treasurer, if thereunto authorised by an Order of the Governor in Council, from time to time to borrow and take up at Interest at a rate not exceeding six pounds per centum per annum, payable out of the Ordinary Revenue, any sums of money not exceeding in the whole One hundred thousand pounds, on the security of Treasury Bills payable at the expiration of a term not exceeding twelve months from the date thereof. And whereas the sums of £25,000 and £30,000 have already been raised in manner above prescribed in virtue of Orders in Council dated 21st November, 1862, and 17th January, 1863, respectively, and it has become necessary to borrow a further sum of £45,000 in anticipation of the said Loan:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby authorise the Honorable Reader Gilson Wood, Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand, to borrow and take up a further sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of forty-five thousand pounds sterling, and to issue Treasury Bills therefor on the terms and subject to the conditions before recited.

Foster Goring,
Clerk of Executive Council.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Act of the General Assembly which Her Majesty has not been advised to disallow.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 5th August, 1863.

THE following Acts, passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, in the Session held the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, “An Act for establishing Postal Communication with Great Britain by way of Panama,” — having been laid before the Queen in conformity with the Provisions of the Constitution Act, His Excellency the Governor has been informed by the Secretary of State that Her Majesty will not be advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to that Act.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Robert Henry Forman, Esq., J.P., Otago, appointed R.M.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 7th August, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT HENRY FORMAN, Esquire, J.P., Dunedin, to be a Resident Magistrate.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Native Office,
Auckland, 4th August, 1863.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the “Native Reserves Act, 1856,” the following report and the adoption thereof is published for general information.

F. D. BELL.

Report under the “Native Reserves Act, 1856.”

I, Alfred Chetham Strode, a person duly appointed in this behalf under the provisions of the New Zealand Native Reserves Act, 1856, do hereby certify and report that I have ascertained that the Aboriginal Inhabitants entitled to a certain piece or parcel of land described in the Schedule hereunder written have assented that the said piece or parcel of land shall be subject to the provisions of the said Act,