NOTICE is hereby given that Charles Stewart, of Dunedin, Manager of the Bank of New South Wales, at Dunedin, has applied to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Province of Otago, to have issued to him under the provisions of the "Lost Licenses and Leases Act, 1865," a certified copy of the Depasturing License for Run 326 (three hundred and twenty-six), of the Province of Otago aforesaid: And notice is hereby further given that all objections to the issue of the said certified copy license, must be lodged with the said Commissioner of Crown Lands, at Dunedin aforesaid, before Tuesday, the 30th April next.

7s. 6d.

CHARLES STEWART.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, March 6, 1867. No. 13.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 20th February, 1867.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOSEPH BARNES BORTON, Esq.,

to be Clerk, at Lawrence, of the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, vice Richard Edward Field.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 28th February, 1867.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ARTHUR DAVID HARVEY, Esq.,

to be Clerk, at Clyde, of the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 2nd March, 1867.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN NUGENT WOOD,

of Hamilton’s, in the Province of Otago, Esquire, to be a Coroner for the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

PILOTAGE Rates.—Masters of Vessels not exempt from pilotage are warned that the Collectors of Customs have been instructed to enforce the law, and withhold clearance from all vessels in respect of which any pilotage rates are payable under "The Marine Act, 1866," until such rates have been paid; if the Master of any such vessel attempts to take the same to sea without clearance, the vessel will be detained.

Only such vessels are free from pilotage as are exempted by certificate of exemption granted by the Superintendents of the Provinces, who have for the ports within their respective Provinces authority to grant certificates of exemption, or of James Melville Balfour, Esquire, Marine Engineer, who is authorised to grant such certificates for any ports in the Colony. Application to the Marine Engineer must be made to his office at Wellington.

E. W. STAFFORD,

(in the absence of the Postmaster-General.)

General Post Office,
Wellington, 4th March, 1867.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, March 20, 1867, No. 16.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, March 19, 1867.

It is hereby notified that

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Esq.,

has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council, and that His Excellency the Governor has accepted such resignation.

E. W. STAFFORD.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, March 28, 1867, No. 18.)

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Imperial Parliament 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," it is amongst other things enacted, that whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him, to declare by proclamation his disallowance of such Bill; and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same from and after the day of the date of such proclamation, or any subsequent day to be named therein.

And whereas the Ordinances hereinafter specified have been enacted by the Superintendent of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, and the said Ordinances were received by the Governor on the twenty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinances should be disallowed:

Now therefore I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the following Ordinances passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, namely:—

"The Southern Trunk Railway Guaranteed Interest Ordinance, 1865, Extension and Amendment Ordinance, 1866."

"The Port Chalmers Town Board Ordinance Repeal Ordinance, 1866."

"The Oamaru Town Board Ordinance, 1862, Repeal Ordinance, 1866."

Given under the hand of 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 issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1867.

The following Ordinance passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, and reserved by the Superintendent for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, intituled—

"The Dunedin Reserves Management Ordinance, 1866,"

having been laid before the Governor, his Excellency has been pleased to withhold his assent from the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1867.

The following Ordinances passed by the Provincial Council of Otago, and reserved by the Superintendent for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, intituled—

"The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1866;"

"The Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1866;"

having been laid before the Governor, his Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.