[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 19, June 7, 1865.]

PROCLAMATION

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 Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to “The Native Lands Act, 1862,” and by Proclamation of the Governor, dated the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, the operation of that Act has been extended over the whole Colony of New Zealand;

And whereas the operation of this law renders unnecessary the continuance of the Native Land Purchase Department by which, prior to its enactment, the cession of Native Lands to the Crown has heretofore been conducted;

And whereas other provisions will from time to time be made for any future cessions of land to Her Majesty which the Governor may permit to be made under clause thirty-two of the said Native Land Act, 1862:

Now therefore I, the Governor, do hereby revoke all commissions authorising the purchase of lands on behalf of the Crown from the aboriginal inhabitants of the Colony of New Zealand, and do proclaim that the Native Land Purchase Department will from and after the date hereof be done away with and cease to exist.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s Command,
WALTER MANTELL.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,

Suspending the operation of certain provisions of “The Arms Act, 1860.”

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House at Auckland, on the sixteenth day of May, 1864.

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 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, and 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 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 any aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand residing within the Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay, or Wellington, who shall possess a license authorising the purchase of such ammunition as aforesaid, signed by the Minister for Native Affairs for the time being.

FRED THATCHER,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Recognition of E. Quick, Esq., as Danish Vice-Consul.

Colonel Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1865.

It is hereby notified, that the Consul at Auckland for Denmark having reported that the Royal Danish Ministry have authorised him to recognise E. Quick, Esq., of Dunedin, as Vice-Consul, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept such recognition provisionally.

FRED. A. WELD.

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Colonial Defence Office,

Wellington, May 27th, 1865.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments, viz.:—

In the Dunedin Rifle Volunteers.
(High School Company.)

Major the Honourable John Larkins Cheese Richardson, to be Honorary Captain. Date of Commission, 4th May, 1865.

H. A. ATKINSON.

MARINE BOARD.

Sunken Reef.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Shipmasters and others navigating in the vicinity of Foveaux Strait are warned not to approach Waipapapa and Slope Points nearer than a league, as several vessels have struck on a Sunken Reef, but have not been able to give the exact bearings.

The place has been twice examined by the Board, but they have been unsuccessful in finding it. Shipmasters are requested to keep a good look-out for the danger, and, if seen, report to the Marine Board, giving correct bearings.

By order of the Board.
THOMAS ROBERTSON,
Secretary.

Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 29th May, 1865.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 20, June 22, 1865.]

A PROCLAMATION.

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.

In pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by virtue of an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the session holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” I do hereby summon and call together the General Assembly of New Zealand, to meet for the despatch of business, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of July next, at two of the clock in the Afternoon, at the Parliament Houses, situate in Molesworth-street, in the City of Wellington; and the Honourable Members of the Legislative Council and Members of the House of Representatives, respectively, are hereby required to give their attendance at the said time and place accordingly.

Given under my hand, at the Government House at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

By His Excellency’s Command,
G. GREY.

FRED. A. WELD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by DANIEL CAMPBELL, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Printer to the said Provincial Government for the time being.