Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 19th June, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint William Hunter Reynolds, Esquire, to be Acting Provincial Treasurer for the Province of Otago, during the absence from the Province of Frederick Joseph Moss, Esquire.

Thomas Dick,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 16th June, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint the following Gentlemen, namely:—

• Daniel Grove,
• Edward Herbert,
• John Mouat,
• Peter Robertson,
• Edward Walsh,

to be Managers under the “Cemetery Reserves Management Ordinance, 1864,” of the Reserves set aside for the purpose of a Public Cemetery by the “Cemetery Reserves Ordinance, 1864,” in the Town of Lawrence, in the Province of Otago.

Thomas Dick,
Provincial Secretary.

(From New Zealand Gazette, May 31, 1865, No. 18.)

PROCLAMATION,
Declaring Detonating Caps, Powder, &c., Warlike Stores.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable 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 “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 purpose above mentioned, that is to say—

Detonating Caps, Powder, and all other articles capable of being used for the discharging of fire-arms.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Wellington, this eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

G. Grey.
By His Excellency’s command,
William Fitzherbert.

POSTAL.
Appointment of Postmasters.
General Post Office,
Wellington, 11th May, 1865.

IN virtue of the powers delegated to the Postmaster-General by His Excellency the Governor, the following appointments have been made in the postal service of the Colony:

J. L. C. Richardson,
Postmaster-General.

Otago.

• James Ormond, to be Postmaster at Hindon, from 1st March, 1865.
• J. F. White, to be Postmaster at Mataura Gold-field.
• Richard Canovan, to be Postmaster at Twelve-mile Creek, from 1st March, 1865.
• Allan McIntosh, to be Postmaster at Munro’s Gully, from 1st April, 1865.
• John Perriam, to be Postmaster at Kawarau, from 1st April, 1865.
• Henry Heyman, to be Postmaster at Hyde, from 20th April, 1865.

RETURN of the Quantity and Value of Gold Exported from New Zealand from 1st April, 1857, to 31st December, 1864.

| Totals | | 3 | 29,697 | 63,627 | 93,532 | 362,230 | 1,655,979 | 6,409,088 | 1,749,611 | 6,771,318 |

W.M. France,
Pro Secretary and Inspector of Customs.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, April 18th, 1865.

Note.—This Return is republished in consequence of errors in that published in Gazette No. 13, of 25th April, folio 128.