G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1870.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the Gold Fields Act 1866, it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by an Order in Council, from time to time to constitute for any Gold Field, or for any part thereof, Wardens’ Courts, for the administration of justice therein, and to appoint Wardens of such Courts, with power to act alone or with assessors, and in such manner, and to exercise all or any of the powers therein after mentioned, as the Governor shall think fit to direct:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him for this purpose, appoint

JOSEPH BARNES BORTON, Esq.,

to be a Warden of all Wardens’ Courts now constituted or hereafter to be constituted within the Gold Fields of the Province of Otago, with power to him to act alone or with assessors, and to exercise all or any of the powers vested in or imposed on Judges of Wardens’ Courts.

HENRY D. PITT, Capt., R.A.,
Private Secretary
(for Clerk of the Executive Council.)

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1870.

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 Education Reserves Management and Leasing Ordinance (No. 2), 1869," having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch)
Wellington, 1st March, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint JOSEPH BARNES BORTON, Esq., J.P., to be a Resident Magistrate, under "The Resident Magistrates Act 1867," for the district of Otago Gold Fields, and as such to exercise the extended jurisdiction conferred on the Courts of the said district.

W. GISBORNE.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st March, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Medical Referees under "The Government Annuities Act 1869" :

THOMAS M. HOCKEN, Esq., Dunedin.

W. GISBORNE
(for the Postmaster General).

Treasury,
Wellington, 4th March, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint JOSEPH BARNES BORTON, Esq.,

to be a Receiver of Gold Revenue at Roxburgh, in the Province of Otago.

W. GISBORNE,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, 12th March, 1870, No. 18).

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1870.

REWARDS for the Discovery of Offences against the Arms Acts.—It is hereby notified that a Reward of £100 will be paid to any one giving such information as will lead to the conviction of any person guilty of the capital offence of Supplying Arms and Ammunition to Rebels, under the thirty-third section of "The Arms Act Amendment Act 1869."

A Reward of £50 will be paid to any one giving such information as will lead to the conviction of any person guilty of a Felony or Misdemeanour under any of the following sections of "The Arms Act 1860," that is to say, sections twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-six, thirty-eight,—or any amendment or alteration thereof.

The above Rewards will be paid only after conviction. The Informant’s name will not be divulged without his own consent, except where it is necessary that he should give evidence in Court.

In the case of Accomplices giving information leading to conviction, a Free Pardon will be granted in addition to the Reward.

W. GISBORNE
(In the absence of Mr M’Lean).

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1870.

THE following Ordinances, passed by the Provincial Council, and assented to by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, intituled "The Appropriation Ordinance (No. 2), 1869-70;" "The Cattle Trespass Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1869;" "The University of Otago Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1869;" "The Moeraki Lands Sale Ordinance 1869;" having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance in respect of them.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM GABRIEL FILLEUL, Esq.,

to be Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Oamaru, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 21st day of January, 1870, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 5, of 22nd January, 1870.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th March, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS PATERSON, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Kaihiku, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 14th day of May, 1867, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 29, of 1st May, 1867, vice Edward Ings, Esq.