ORDER IN COUNCIL,

Suspending the operation of certain provisions of the "Arms Act, 1860."

G. Grey, Governor.

At the Government House at Wellington, the first day of April, 1865.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the "Arms Act, Continuance Act 1861," it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor by an Order in Council, to be published in the Government Gazette, from time to time to suspend or relax the operation of any of the provisions of the said Act, or any part of any such provisions, and either for a limited time or without any limit of time, and either as regards the whole Colony, or any district thereof to be defined in any such Order in Council; and either generally or in favour of any person or persons specifically, or any class of persons, and subject to any regulations or conditions which may be in any such Order in Council expressed; but so far only as such provisions may prevent or interfere with the sale or purchase of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, lead, caps, or shot, for mining, sporting, or any useful or harmless purpose, and no further, or otherwise anything in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided also that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by any further Order in Council, to be published as aforesaid, from time to time to rescind any such Order;

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B., the Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby order and declare that the provisions relative to the sale and disposal of arms and ammunition for sporting purposes, and no further or otherwise, in the said in part recited Act contained, shall be and the same are hereby suspended in the case of certain Aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand residing within the Provinces of Canterbury, Otago, and Southland: that is to say, in the case of such Native Assessors only as shall produce a License authorising the purchase of such arms and ammunition as aforesaid, signed either by the Civil Commissioner of the district, or by such other person as shall be duly authorised in that behalf by the Minister for Native Affairs for the time being.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of Executive Council.

A. J. Burns, Esq., elected to House of Representatives.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1865.

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

Arthur John Burns, Esq.,
has been duly elected.

FRED. A. WELD.

Bills (Otago) assented to.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1865.

THE following Bills, passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled—

"Tokomairiro District Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864,"
"Caversham and Green Island Districts Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864,"
"Medical Practitioners’ Ordinance, 1864,"
"Education Reserves Ordinance, 1864,"
"Education Reserves Management and Leasing Ordinance, 1864,"
"Otago Provincial Representation Ordinance, 1864,"
"Port Chalmers Municipal Estate Ordinance, 1864,"

which Bills were reserved for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

FRED. A. WELD.

Further Notice to Provincial Auditors, under "Provincial Audit Act, 1861."

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1865.

In reference to a Notice published in the Government Gazette, at Wellington, dated January 9th, 1865, which directs the Provincial Auditors appointed under the "Provincial Audit Act, 1861," to forward their returns "for the future to the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, Wellington, notice is hereby given that the above-mentioned Accountants will be required, from the date of this present Notice, to forward their quarterly statements and balance-sheets to the Office of the Colonial Secretary.

FRED. A. WELD.

Appointing Revising Officer.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1865.

HIS EXCELLENCY the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to be Revising Officers for the Electoral Districts specified opposite their names:

• Alfred William Smith, Esq. – Wallace, Bruce, Hampden, Dunedin and Suburbs North, Dunedin and Suburbs South.

FRED. A. WELD.

REVISED SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR PORT PHILLIP.

(From the Victorian Gazette.)

THE following Sailing Directions for Port Phillip, including the Ports of Melbourne and Geelong, are published for general information in lieu of those published at page 407 of the Government Gazette of 1861, which are hereby cancelled.

JAS. G. FRANCIS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Department of Trade and Customs,
Melbourne 24th February, 1865.

APPROACHING THE PORT FROM THE WESTWARD.

Vessels bound to Port Phillip from the westward usually make the land about Moonlight Head or Cape Otway. Moonlight Head lies about W. by N. seventeen miles from Cape Otway. It is a dark looking cliffy headland, about 200 feet high. Immediately behind the Head, and at about right angles with the coast, the back land forms a high and well timbered ridge, running far inland, and sloping down to the N.W. and S.E.

From Moonlight Head the coast-line falls back a little, and continues high and rocky for about eight miles, when the land becomes lower, and a sandy