From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 86, Sept. 11, 1865.

DELEGATION.

Delegating certain powers to Superintendent of Otago, under Gold Fields Acts.

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 Acts, 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 the fifth section of an Act of the General Assembly, intituled “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1863,” it is enacted, 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 he shall think fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by section nineteen of “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” and to alter or revoke any such delegation.

And whereas by section fourteen of an Act of the General Assembly, intituled “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, and subject to the provision of that Act, to make rules and regulations relating to the terms and conditions upon which Miners’ Rights shall be granted, and the forms of such Miners’ Rights, and of licences and leases to be issued under that Act, and the modes, terms, and places of the issue thereof; and also touching the extent and condition of any claim, and the conditions under which it shall be worked, held, assigned, or forfeited; the application and use of machinery, and all such other rules or regulations relating to mining under Miners’ Rights or otherwise on any gold field as he may deem most beneficial.

And whereas by section four of an Act of the General Assembly, intituled “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1863,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to alter, amend, and revoke, all or any rules and regulations made or to be made under the said section fourteen of the said first recited Act. And whereas by section five of the said last recited Act it is further enacted 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, and under such restrictions as he shall think fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by the said last recited Act, and to alter or revoke any such delegation.

And whereas it is expedient to except sections forty-one, forty-two, and forty-three of “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” from the delegation now issued, so far as the same affect leases to dig or work for gold within any gold field.

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor aforesaid of the said Colony, do hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, and in exercise of the power and authority for this purpose in me vested, delegate unto Thomas Dick, Esquire, as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, all the powers vested in me under and by virtue of “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” and under the fourth section of “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1863,” except sections thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, forty-one, forty-two, and forty-three (so far as sections forty-one, forty-two, and forty-three affect leases to dig or work for gold within any gold fields); and sixty-one of “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” to have, hold, and exercise, within the Province of Otago, the said powers hereby given the said Thomas Dick, so long as he shall continue and remain Superintendent of the said Province, and no longer, subject to the regulations hereunder written, namely,—

Copies of all rules and regulations made under the delegation aforesaid shall be forthwith transmitted to the Colonial Secretary, in order that the same may be laid before the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of the sixty-third section of “The Gold Fields Act, 1862.”

All acts and appointments done and made under the nineteenth section of “The Gold Fields Acts, 1862,” shall be provisional, until the same shall have been confirmed and allowed by the Governor. And the Governor shall have power to disallow the same. The Superintendent shall report without delay to the Governor all such acts and appointments.

The Superintendent shall lay before the Provincial Council of the said Province every such act and appointment, at the session of the said Council next following.

The Provincial Council of the said Province may, through their Speaker, transmit to the Governor any resolutions respecting any such act or appointment.

No Proclamation excluding from a gold field any land comprised within the boundaries thereof shall be issued until the same shall have been approved by the Governor; nor unless notice of the intention to apply to the Governor for such approval shall have been conspicuously posted, for the period of six weeks prior to such application, in the office of the Warden of the gold field to be affected by such Proclamation; and also advertised three times not less than a month previously to the said application, in one newspaper in circulation on the said gold fields.

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

By His Excellency’s command,

G. Grey.

J. C. Richmond,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Warrant appointing Polling Places.

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.

To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:—

WHEREAS by the “Regulation of Elections Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Warrant under his hand, from time to time to appoint polling places for each electoral district, within or without the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the principal polling place for the district, and all or any of such polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint other polling places in lieu thereof:

Now know ye, that I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby appoint the following places to be polling places for the electoral district hereinafter...