ADDRESS

OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
ON PROROGUING
THE TWENTY-FIRST SESSION
OF THE PROVINCIAL
COUNCIL OF THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO, FRIDAY,
FIFTH JANUARY, 1866.

Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council,—At the close of a lengthened Session, I have to congratulate you on the results of your labors, and to thank you for the consideration you have given to the various matters brought under your notice.

The resolutions passed by you embrace subjects of considerable importance to the Province, and will receive the most careful attention during the recess. I have to thank you for the liberal supplies you have voted for the public service, which will be administered with a due regard to the wishes of the Council.

The following Bills which you have passed I now assent to on behalf of the Governor, namely:—

• Superintendent’s Indemnity Ordinance, No. 2, 1865.
• Medical Practitioners’ Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1865.
• Roads Diversion Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1865.
• Bridge Ordinance 1864 Amendment Ordinance 1865.
• Town and Country Police Ordinance Extension Ordinance, 1865.
• An Ordinance to Repeal an Ordinance to reserve from Sale certain Waste Lands of the Crown, and to set the same aside as a place for Acclimatisation, Domestication and Propagation of Animals, Birds, Fishes, and Insects.
• Otago Roads Ordinance 1865 Extension and Amendment Ordinance, 1865.
• Licensing Ordinance, 1865.
• Fencing Ordinance 1856 Amendment Ordinance, 1865.
• Birds Protection Ordinance, 1865.
• The Turnpikes Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1865.
• Education Reserves Ordinance, 1865.
• Sheep Ordinance, 1856 Amendment Ordinance, 1865.
• Education Ordinance 1864 Amendment Ordinance, 1865.
• Otago Provincial Representation Ordinance 1864 Amendment Ordinance, 1866.
• An Ordinance to Amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865.
• Appropriation Ordinance, 1865-6.

The following Bills, which you have passed, I now reserve for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon:—

• Oamaru Reserves Bill, 1865.
• Oamaru Town Reserves Management Bill, 1865.
• Oamaru Mechanics’ Institute Reserve Management Bill, 1865.
• Frankton Mill Reserves Bill, 1865.
• Roads Diversion Bill No. 2, 1865.
• Interpretation Bill, 1865.
• The Education Reserves Management and Leasing Bill, 1865.
• Otago Dock Trust Bill, 1865.
• Southern Trunk Railway Guaranteed Interest Bill, 1865.
• Dunedin Reserves Management Bill, 1865.
• Road Districts Loan Bill, 1863.

I have now the pleasure to relieve you from your legislative duties, and declare this Council prorogued until Thursday, the 13th day of September, 1866.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF DUNEDIN.—This is to give notice, that the Council of the City of Dunedin has empowered John Lazar, Esquire, Town Clerk of the City of Dunedin, to be an Officer for Licensing Public Conveyances, Waggons, and other Vehicles, Bazaars, and Weighbridges, within the Municipality of Dunedin, under the Bye-laws now about to be in force for that purpose.

W. MASON,
Mayor.
City Council, Dunedin,
Dated this 6th day of January, 1866.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of Gordon Hughan, of Taieri Beach, Farmer, and in the matter of the “Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Judge has appointed Monday, the 5th day of February, 1866, at Ten o’clock in the forenoon, for the hearing of the said Petition.

Dated this 3rd day of January, 1866.

MATT. V. HODGE,
Petitioner’s Solicitor, Princes-street.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Petition of John McKellar, of Dunedin, Lithographer; and in the matter of the “Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862.”

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Judge has appointed Monday, the 5th day of February, 1866, at Ten o’clock in the forenoon, for the hearing of the said Petition.

Dated this 3rd day of January, 1866.

MATT. V. HODGE,
Petitioner’s Solicitor, Princes-street.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, December 22, 1865, No. 49.]

Alfred Domett, Esq., appointed Registrar-General of Land, vice H. Sewell, Esq., resigned.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Alfred Domett, Esq., to be Registrar-General of Land, in place of H. Sewell, Esq., resigned. This appointment to date from the 1st instant.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Coroner appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch)
Wellington, 8th December, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Richard Beetham, of Queenstown, in the Province of Otago, Esquire, to be a Coroner within the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

W. Mason, Esq., J.P., the Mayor of Dunedin, appointed a Resident Magistrate.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch)
Wellington, 13th December, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint William Mason, Esq., the Mayor of Dunedin, and one of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand, to be a Resident Magistrate, under the provisions of “The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865.”

E. W. STAFFORD.