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the Colony in which he was enlisted, the Government will undertake to make the remittance free of charge and postage.

CHARLES KNIGHT,
Comptroller of Militia and Volunteer Pay, Auckland, N.Z.,
September 22nd, 1863.

A PROCLAMATION
For the Naturalisation of certain persons.

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 "Naturalisation Act, 1862," it is enacted that every person who shall be declared to come within the operation of that Act by any Proclamation to be issued in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor shall as from the time in such Proclamation specified be deemed and taken until the termination of the next Session of the General Assembly to be and to have been from such specified time a natural born subject of Her Majesty within the Colony of New Zealand as fully to all intents and purposes as if his name had been inserted in the Schedule to that Act annexed. Provided always that every such Proclamation shall contain the description, occupation, or calling of every person therein named, and his place of residence, at the date of such Proclamation.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the persons hereinafter mentioned shall come within the operation of the said Act, from the dates hereinafter specified, viz.:

LOUIS EHRENFRIED,
From the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, native of Hamburg, storekeeper; residence, Waikouaiti, in the Province of Otago.

JOHAN CHRISTIAN GERHARD CRONE,
From the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, native of Denmark, master mariner; residence, Dunedin, in the Province of Otago.

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 September, 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!

Julius Vogel, Esq., elected to House of Representatives.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 29th September, 1863.

It is hereby notified that a Writ, issued for the election of a Member of the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Dunedin and Suburbs North has been returned with a certificate to the effect that

Julius Vogel, Esq.,
has been duly elected.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 25th September, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that the following gentlemen are duly recognised as Consuls for the Countries set opposite their names respectively:—

Louis Bucholz, Esq., of Auckland—Denmark.

Henry Driver, Esq., of Dunedin—United States of America.

ALFRED DOMETT.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that the following gentleman is duly recognised as Consular Agent for the country set opposite his name.

Henry Driver, Esq., of Dunedin—United States of America.

ALFRED DOMETT.

NOTE.—This notice is republished in consequence of an error in the one published in Gazette No. 51, of the 30th ultimo, page 433, where Mr Driver is Gazetted as Consul instead of Consular Agent.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 9th October, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs the publication, for general information, of the following Dispatch, with its enclosure: