OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Vol. XVII. Dunedin: Friday, June 27, 1873. No. 857

SPECIAL GAZETTE.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS a Writ was issued by the Governor of New Zealand to the Principal Returning Officer for the Electoral District of the Province of Otago, commanding him to cause to proceed according to law to the election of a Superintendent for the said Province of Otago: And whereas (after a nomination on the fourth, and a poll on the eighteenth days of June instant) the said Principal Returning Officer did upon this twenty-sixth day of June instant, at a meeting fixed and notified by him for that purpose, at the Provincial Buildings, Dunedin, openly declare and publicly notify that I, James Macandrew, was duly elected to be Superintendent of the Province of Otago:

Now therefore I do hereby proclaim and declare that I have assumed the Office of Superintendent of the Province of Otago accordingly; and I hereby call upon the inhabitants of the said Province to be aiding and assisting me therein.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

(L.S.) J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

PROCLAMATION.

Prorogation of the Provincial Council to the first day of July next.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Session thereof, held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it was inter alia enacted that for each of the Provinces established in the said Colony by the said Act there should be a Superintendent and a Provincial Council, to be elected and constituted under and subject to the provisions in that behalf therein contained, and that it should be lawful for the Superintendent to prorogue the Provincial Council thereof from time to time whenever he shall deem it expedient to do so: And whereas by a proclamation bearing date the 25th day of June 1873, I fixed and proclaimed that the thirty-second Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago should be held within the Provincial Council Hall, Dunedin, and should commence on Monday, the thirtieth day of June aforesaid, at twelve o’clock noon.

Now therefore I, the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do proclaim and declare that I do hereby, in exercise of the power vested in me in this behalf by the said Act, Prorogue the Provincial Council of the said Province of Otago, and that the said Provincial Council is Prorogued until the first day of July, 1873.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, the 27th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

(L.S.) J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION.

Meeting of the Provincial Council.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, I do hereby fix and proclaim that the Thirty-second Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, shall be held within the Provincial Council Hall, Dunedin, in the said Province, and shall commence upon Tuesday the first day of July, 1873, at 12 o’clock noon; and the Members of the said Council are hereby warned to give their attendance at such time and place accordingly.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

(L.S.) J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.