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Municipal boundary, shall be liable to pay, upon conviction of such offence before one or more Justices of the Peace, a sum or penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

I hereby certify that the above are a correct copy of the Bye-laws passed by the Municipal Council of Lawrence.

H. Bastings, Mayor.

November 18, 1866.

The foregoing Bye-laws having been laid before the Provincial Council of this Province for fourteen days, have been submitted to me for confirmation, and it having been made to appear to me that none of the said Bye-laws are repugnant to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865,” or to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” or to the “Otago Municipal Councils Empowering Act, 1865 Amendment Act, 1866,” or to an Ordinance intituled “An Ordinance to Amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” or to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1866,” or to the general spirit and intendment of the laws in force within the Colony and the Province, I do hereby, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, confirm the said Bye-laws.

As witness my hand, at Dunedin, this eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

(L.S.) JAMES MACANDREW,

Superintendent.

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

In the matter of the petition of Lewis Miller, of Arrow Flat, in the Province of Otago, Cattle Dealer, a bankrupt, and David Clark, of the Kawarau, in the Province of Otago aforesaid, Contractor, a creditor of the said Lewis Miller to the extent of not less than fifty pounds, and in the matter of “The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862,” “The Debtors and Creditors Act Amendment Act, 1865,” and “The Debtors and Creditors Acts Amendment Act, 1866.”

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman has accepted the petition of the above-named bankrupt, and has appointed Monday, the eleventh day of November next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the Supreme Court House, Dunedin, for the hearing of the said petition. And further take notice that a meeting of the Creditors of the said Bankrupt will be held at the office of George Brodie, Esquire, the Inspector in Bankruptcy, at the Custom-house, Dunedin, on Saturday, the twelfth day of October instant, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of investigating the affairs of the bankrupt, and for recommending a Trustee to the Court.

Dated at Dunedin, this fourth day of October, 1867.

HARRIS, MACASSEY, & TRIPP,
Solicitors for the Bankrupt.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, September 27, No. 47.)

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 Ordinance hereinafter specified has been enacted by the Superintendent of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, and the said Ordinance was received by the Governor on the 19th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinance 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 Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, namely:—

“The Neglected and Criminal Children 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 twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Executive Council Chambers,
Wellington, 26th September, 1867.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint The Hon. John Hyde Harris, M.L.C., to be a Member of the Executive Council, and His Excellency directs it to be notified that this gentleman, on the 9th instant, took the necessary oath.

(By command)

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1867.

The following Ordinances passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled—

“The Oamaru Town Board Ordinance 1862, Repeal Ordinance, 1867;” and
“The Port Chalmers Town Board Ordinance Repeal Ordinance, 1867;”

which Ordinances were reserved for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to withhold his assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1867.

The following Ordinance passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled—

“The Dunedin Reserves Management Ordinance, 1867;”

which Ordinance was reserved for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1867.

It is hereby notified that in conformity with Clause 3 of “The Otago Municipal Corporation Act, 1865,” the name of the following person has been sent into this office by the Town Clerk as having been elected Mayor of Queenstown, viz.:—

James William Robertson, Esq., J.P.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 25th September, 1867.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint John Smith Hickson, of Mount Benger, in the Province of Otago, Esquire, to be a Coroner within the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.