11. What is the whole number of persons now ill on board your vessel?

Answer.

12. If there be no sickness now on board, when did the last attack of disease appear, and when did it entirely disappear?

Answer.

Fergusson Gorton,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, July 1, No. 36.)

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty’s reign, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted that no Bill which shall be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon shall have any force or authority within the Colony of New Zealand until the Governor of the said Colony shall signify by speech or message to the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, or by proclamation, that such Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

And whereas a certain Bill passed by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, intituled “An Act to constitute in New Zealand a Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes,” was presented to the Governor of the said Colony, for Her Majesty’s assent, and the said Bill was reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said in part recited Act, do by this proclamation signify and proclaim to all to whom it may concern, that the said Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. Stafford.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

TO ALL 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 therefore, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in him vested by the said Act, doth hereby appoint the following places to be polling places for the electoral district hereinafter specified, for the election of Members of the House of Representatives; namely:—

For the District of Manuherikia:

• The Court House, Mount Benger.
• The Police Station, Black’s, No. 1.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. Stafford.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, July 4, No. 37.)

General Post Office,

Wellington, 29th June, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

William Thomson
to be Harbour Master for the several Ports in the Province of Otago;

David Dickie
to be Deputy Harbour Master for the Port of Dunedin;

John Hall.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, July 7, 1868, No. 39.)

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

In exercise of the power in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Regulation Act, 1858,” I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the Port of Molyneux, in the Province of Otago, shall be no longer a Port of Entry for the purposes of “The Customs Regulation Act, 1858.”

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

J. C. Richmond,
Governor’s Order, No. 88.

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