DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.—Notice is

hereby given, that the Co-partnership hitherto
existing between us, the undersigned, as Cabinetmakers
and Upholsterers, and carried on in Princes street,
Dunedin, under the style or firm of Cull n and Key,
has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

All accounts due to the late firm will be received by
Cullen and Key in liquidation.

Dated at Dunedin this first day of September, 1868.

ANTHONY CULLEN,
WILLIAM KEY.

Witness to both signatures—
ANDREW TURNBULL,
Clerk to Kenyon and Maddock,
6s.
Solicitors, Dunedin.

From the New Zealand Gazette, August 31, 1868, No. 51.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted 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 disallow-
ance shall make void and annul the same from and
after 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 eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight:

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 pro-
claim and declare my disallowance of the following
Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of the Province of Otago, namely—

"The Education Reserves Abandonment Ordinance,
1868."

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

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of August, 1868.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Medical Practitioners Act,
1867," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, by Order in Council, to nominate and
appoint a Board consisting of not less than five nor
more than ten members, of whom not less than two-
thirds shall be members of the medical profession, and
qualified to be registered under the said Act, and that
such Board shall be called "The Medical Board," and
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council, at any time, and
from time to time, to remove the said members or any
of them, and, upon the removal, death, or resignation
of the said members or any of them, to appoint such
other person or persons as he shall think fit: And
whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that the
members of the said Board shall be nominated for a
term of five years, and shall be capable of re-appoi-
ment, and that any member may at any time resign his
appointment by letter addressed to the Governor, and
upon the death, resignation, or removal as aforesaid,
of any member of the said Board, some other person
shall be nominated and appointed as aforesaid a member
of the said Board in his place: And whereas Edward
Hulme, M.D., one of the members of the Medical
Board, nominated and appointed by Order in Council
bearing date the seventh day of December, 1867, has
resigned his said appointment.

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the power vested
in him as aforesaid, doth hereby nominate and appoint
THOMAS MORLAND HOCKEN, Esq., M.R.C.S.E.,
to be a member of the Medical Board aforesaid, in the
place of the said Edward Hulme, M.D., resigned.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st August, 1868.

THE following Act passed by the Provincial Council
and assented to by the Superintendent of the
Province of Otago, intituled—

"The Appropriation Act (No. 2), 1868,"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been advised not to exercise his power of disallow-
ance in respect of it.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st August, 1868.

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

"The Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1868," and
"The Port Chalmers Reserves Management Ordi-
nance, 1868,"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.