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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 to Alter the Civil List," 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 has been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

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

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,
WILLIAM FOX.

Appointment of Coroners.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 19th July, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN GIBSON SMITH, Esq., M.D., Clutha,
JAMES DOUGLAS, Esq., Arrow,
HENRY JACKSON, Esq., Dunstan,
HENRY WILLIAMS, Esq., Hawksbury,
EDWARD CROKER, Esq., Tuapeka,
CHARLES WORTHINGTON, Esq., Waitahuna, and
WILLIAM ROBERT GILLING SAMUELS, Esq., Wakatipu,

to be Coroners, having jurisdiction within the Province of Otago.

FREDK. WHITAKER.

Act of the Assembly which Her Majesty will not be advised to disallow.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 26th July, 1864.

THE following Act, passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, in the session held in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled

An Act to incorporate the shareholders of a certain Banking Company, called the Bank of Otago (Limited), and to enable the said Company to carry on its business and to issue notes in New Zealand,

having been laid before the Queen, in conformity with 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.

WILLIAM FOX.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 26th July, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD THOMAS GILLON, Esq.,

to be Deputy to the Returning Officer for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Bruce.

WILLIAM FOX.

Note.—This appointment is in substitution of that published in New Zealand Gazette No. 23, page 275, where Tokomairiro was erroneously printed for Bruce.

A. W. Smith appointed Registrar under “Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860.”

Treasury, Auckland,
21st July, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALFRED WILLIAM SMITH, Esq.,

of Dunedin, Solicitor, to be Registrar under the “Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860,” for the Provinces of Otago and Southland. This appointment dates from the 1st July, 1864.

THOS. RUSSELL,
In the absence of the Colonial Treasurer.

POSTAL.

Appointment of an Engineer Surveyor, under the “Steam Navigation Act, 1862.”

General Post Office,
Auckland, 18th July, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

RICHARD AYLMER

to be an Engineer Surveyor.

THOMAS BANNATYNE GILLIES,
Postmaster-General.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

ROCK IN HAWKE’S BAY.

THE Harbour-Master at Napier has reported to the Marine Board, that he has discovered a rock in Hawke’s Bay, having a depth of only 12½ feet on it at low water spring tides. He gives the following bearings:

From rock to east end of Ahuriri Bluff S. by E.
From rock to west point of Bluff S.W. by S.
From rock to Cape Kidnappers S.E.½ E.

The above bearings place the rock on the inner or southern portion of the shoal marked in Captain Drury’s charts with 4½ and 4 fathoms on it bearing N. by W. from Ahuriri Bluff, about five cable lengths distance.