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Appointment of Registrar of Marriages, &c.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Thomas Windele Parker, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Oamaru, as the same is defined in a Proclamation bearing date the 16th day of July, 1863, and published in Gazette of 22nd July, 1863.

J. C. Richmond.

Appointment of Deputy-Registrar of Marriages.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

James Ashcroft, Esq.,

to be Deputy-Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Oamaru, as the same is defined in a Proclamation bearing date the 16th day of July, 1863, and published in Gazette of 22nd July, 1863.

J. C. Richmond.

Customs Notice.

LL Articles imported for the public uses of the Colony, either by the General or Provincial Governments, shall be admitted to entry at the various Custom Houses, free of duty.

(By order of the Commissioner of Customs.)

S. Carkeek,
Secretary.

Office of Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 31st July, 1865.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, August 17, 1865, No. 32.)

A PROCLAMATION

Revoking portions of Proclamations delegating to Superintendents certain powers under the “Gold Fields Act, 1862.”

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 Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the said Act, except the powers conferred by sections nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, and sixty-one thereof, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit, and in like manner to alter or revoke any such powers:

And whereas by certain Proclamations, bearing date respectively the 15th day of September, 1863, the 15th day of September, 1863, the 16th day of June, 1864, and the 29th day of December, 1864, the Governor did, in pursuance of the above recited powers, delegate to the Superintendents of Otago, Nelson, Marlborough, and Auckland, all the powers vested in him under the said in part recited Act, except the powers contained in sections Nos. nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, and sixty-one of the said Act; to have, hold, and exercise the same within the aforesaid Provinces of Otago, Nelson, Marlborough, and Auckland respectively:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of the said Proclamations as delegate the powers under sections forty-two and forty-three of the said Act to the Superintendents of the aforesaid Provinces:

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor aforesaid, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose in me vested, do hereby revoke so much of the aforesaid Proclamations of the 15th day of September, 1863, the 16th day of June, 1864, and the 29th day of December, 1864, as delegates to the said Superintendents the powers set forth in sections Nos. forty-two and forty-three of the “Gold Fields Act 1862.”

And I declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect from the day of the date hereof.

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

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,
H. Sewell.

Approved in Council.
Featherston Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

God save the Queen!

A PROCLAMATION

Declaring the exceptions to be made and the clauses, provisos, conditions, and agreements to be implied in “Gold Mining Leases” under the “Gold Fields Act, 1862.”

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 of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” it was provided that it should be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make such regulations, not being contrary to the provisions of the said Act, as he should think fit, for the regulating the granting of leases for mining purposes, and the terms and conditions on which such leases shall be granted, and such regulation from time to time to alter and abolish:

And whereas by the said Act it is further provided that the Governor may by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Colony proclaim and declare the exceptions to be made from leases and licenses granted under the said Act, and also proclaim and declare the covenants, clauses, provisos, conditions, and agreements applicable to such leases, and may in like manner from time to time rescind, alter, or vary the same:

And whereas by an Order in Council, dated at the Government House, at Wellington, the fifth day of August, 1865, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid, in pursuance and in exercise of the firstly hereinbefore recited power and authority, did, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, make the regulations hereunder written for regulating the granting of leases for mining purposes, and the terms and conditions on which such leases shall be granted:

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in furtherance of the said recited Order in Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in that behalf conferred on me as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim that the following exemptions, covenants, clauses, provisos, conditions, and agreements shall be applicable...