G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of December, 1870.

Present:
The Honorable Donald M’Lean, Native and Defence Minister, Presiding, and Members of the Executive Council.

WHEREAS by “The Protection of Animals Act 1867,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council published in the New Zealand Gazette, delegate to the Superintendent of any Province all or any of the powers by the said Act vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council, subject to such regulations as he may think fit, and may from time to time rescind such delegation:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby delegate unto

James Macandrew, Esquire,

Superintendent of the Province of Otago, so long as he shall continue and remain Superintendent of the said Province, all the powers vested by the said Act in the Governor or the Governor in Council, to be exercised only in respect of the said Province.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1870.

It is hereby notified, that the Governor has delegated to His Honor the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, within that Province, His Excellency’s powers under “The Prisoners’ Removal Act 1865.”

W. Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1870.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to delegate, under “The Waste Lands Act 1858,” to the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, the powers vested in the Governor by section 14 of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act provided.

W. Gisborne.

TENDERS are invited for the Erection of a Post Office and Telegraph Station at Naseby, in the Province of Otago.

General conditions, specifications, and drawings may be seen at the Offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington, and at the Telegraph Office in Dunedin.

Tenders will be received by the undersigned up to noon on Monday, the 16th day of January next.

The lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted.

W. H. Clayton,
Colonial Architect.

15th December, 1870.

TENDERS are invited for the Erection of a Post Office and Telegraph Station at Riverton, in the Province of Otago.

General conditions, specifications, and drawings may be seen at the Offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington, and at the Post Offices of Invercargill and Riverton.

Tenders will be received by the Postmaster at Invercargill up to noon on Monday, the 11th of January, 1871.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

W. H. Clayton,
Colonial Architect.

21st December, 1870.

From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 75, Dec. 31, 1870.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” the several Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago are thereby established, and it is enacted that for each of the said Provinces there shall be a Superintendent and Provincial Council:

And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that every Provincial Council shall continue for the period of four years from the day of return of the Writs for choosing the same, and no longer: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor of New Zealand, by Proclamation or otherwise, to dissolve the same whenever he shall think it expedient to do so:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do, by this Proclamation, dissolve the Provincial Council of the said Province of Otago accordingly.

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; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. Gisborne.

God Save the Queen!

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS by “The Regulation of Elections Act 1870,” 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 one mile of the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such polling places to be the principal polling place for the district, and all or any of such polling places from time to time to abolish, and, if he think fit, to appoint other polling places in lieu of those abolished, and that every such Warrant shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette: Provided always that no polling place shall be appointed by the Governor under the said Act unless he shall be first satisfied that the place to be appointed is more convenient than any other for at least twenty electors to record their votes thereat.

And whereas by Warrants under the hand of the Governor, certain places were appointed polling places for the Province of Otago, for the election of Superintendent thereof:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:

Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish all existing polling places for the Province of Otago, for election of Superintendent thereof, and do appoint in lieu thereof:

The Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin.
The School House, North-East Valley.
The Court House, Port Chalmers.
The Drill Shed, Kaikorai.
The School House, Green Island.