day of the date of such proclamation, or any subsequent day to be named therein.

And whereas the Ordinances hereafter 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 eighth day of July, 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 Administration of Justice Ordinance, 1867."
"The Provincial Wardens Courts Jurisdiction Extension Ordinance, 1867."
"The Fencing Ordinance, 1867."

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 seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.

In exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf by "The Foreign Seaman’s Act, 1860," I, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby notify that from and after the first day of October, 1867, the provisions of the above-mentioned Act will be enforced in respect of the Masters and seamen of all vessels sailing under the French flag, and the Tahiti Protectorate flag, in New Zealand ports.

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, at the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th August, 1867.

THE following Ordinance passed by the Provincial Council of Otago, and reserved by the Superintendent for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, intituled—"The Southern Trunk Railway Guaranteed Interest Ordinance (No. 2), 1867"—having been laid before the Governor, his Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

NOTICE is hereby given, that application has been made by Marmaduke Constable, of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago and Colony of New Zealand, gentleman, Thomas Fraser, of the same place, captain in the Indian Army, and John Thomas Wright, and Robert Miller Robertson, both of the same place, merchants, in accordance with "The Patents Act, 1860," for the issue to them of Letters Patent, to be called "Constable’s Patent," for the exclusive right within the said Colony of New Zealand to the use of an invention or discovery for the preparation of Phormium tenax or New Zealand flax, as well as of the ordinary cultivated flax, and also of hemp and other similar vegetable fibres for use in the manufacture of rope, yarn, cloth, paper, and other articles, by boiling, steeping, or steaming the same in gas-water or ammoniacal liquor, being the refuse water produced by the dry distillation of coal for gas purposes, fuller particulars of which can be obtained from the specification deposited in the Patent Office at Wellington; and any person who may wish to prefer any objection to the granting of such Letters Patent, is hereby required to send the same within four calendar months from the publication hereof to John B. Bennett, Esq., Registrar-General, at Wellington (being the person appointed for that purpose under the provisions of the said Act), with a statement in writing setting forth the grounds of such objection, and subscribed with his proper name and address.

HAGGITT AND HAGGITT,
Solicitors, Dunedin.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th August, 1867.

THE following Ordinances, passed by the Provincial Council and assented to by the Superintendent of Otago, intituled—
"The Turnpikes Ordinance 1866 Amendment Ordinance, 1867;"
"The Appropriation Ordinance, 1867-8;"
"The Sheep Ordinance, 1867;"
"The Immigration and British Agents Ordinance 1854 Amendment Ordinance 1867;"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th August, 1867.

IT is hereby notified that the Italian Consul-General at Melbourne, having reported that the following gentlemen have been appointed Italian Consular Agents at the places set opposite their names respectively, viz.:
ERNEST LOUIS BUCHOLZ, Esq., Auckland,
FREDERICK THOMSON, Esq., Christchurch,
EDWARD BOWES CARGILL, Esq., Dunedin,
his Excellency the Governor has been pleased to recognize such appointments.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, July 26, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the undermentioned officer, viz.:
Lieutenant James E. Hannah, Dunedin Artillery Volunteers.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, July 26, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the undermentioned promotions and appointments, viz.:

In the Dunedin Artillery Volunteers.
Archibald Hill Jack to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, June 7, 1867.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

NOTICE.—The undermentioned persons have been duly licensed to act as Custom House Agents at this Port for the year ending July 25, 1868:
Frederick Coxhead
John Bell Mudie
Alexander Conick
Keith Ramsay
John Jones
Edward Bowes Cargill
Percival Clay Neill
James Barr.

THOMAS HILL,
Deputy Commissioner.

Custom House, Dunedin,
July 26, 1867.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by MILLS, DICK & Co, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.